Shai Tsesses

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 988 citations indexed

About

Shai Tsesses is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Shai Tsesses has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 988 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Shai Tsesses's work include Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (17 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (10 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (10 papers). Shai Tsesses is often cited by papers focused on Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (17 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (10 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (10 papers). Shai Tsesses collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Albania. Shai Tsesses's co-authors include Guy Bartal, Kobi Cohen, Evgeny Ostrovsky, Bergin Gjonaj, Ido Kaminer, Netanel H. Lindner, Ady Arie, Aviv Karnieli, Raphael Dahan and Kangpeng Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Shai Tsesses

40 papers receiving 926 citations

Hit Papers

Optical skyrmion lattice in evanescent electromagnetic fi... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Optical skyrmion lattice in evanescent electromagnetic fields
    2018 302 citations Shai Tsesses, Evgeny Ostrovsky et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shai Tsesses Israel 13 734 409 264 220 154 41 988
Aviv Karnieli Israel 16 517 0.7× 137 0.3× 189 0.7× 82 0.4× 140 0.9× 40 660
Raphael Dahan Israel 14 655 0.9× 201 0.5× 383 1.5× 48 0.2× 291 1.9× 34 902
K. E. Echternkamp Germany 5 452 0.6× 195 0.5× 225 0.9× 57 0.3× 340 2.2× 8 689
Kobi Cohen Israel 14 611 0.8× 265 0.6× 192 0.7× 167 0.8× 30 0.2× 32 792
Bergin Gjonaj Israel 13 674 0.9× 612 1.5× 212 0.8× 346 1.6× 15 0.1× 18 1.0k
Kenneth J. Leedle United States 14 486 0.7× 183 0.4× 385 1.5× 58 0.3× 185 1.2× 28 830
Luis Grave de Peralta United States 16 457 0.6× 367 0.9× 387 1.5× 187 0.8× 63 0.4× 85 885
Martin Kozák Czechia 18 526 0.7× 170 0.4× 326 1.2× 54 0.2× 238 1.5× 68 921
Hanan Herzig Sheinfux Israel 14 395 0.5× 174 0.4× 110 0.4× 117 0.5× 48 0.3× 30 548
Noa Voloch‐Bloch Israel 8 981 1.3× 355 0.9× 281 1.1× 126 0.6× 37 0.2× 13 1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shai Tsesses

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shai Tsesses. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shai Tsesses based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Shai Tsesses. Shai Tsesses is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tsesses, Shai, Pascal Dreher, David Janoschka, et al.. (2025). Four-dimensional conserved topological charge vectors in plasmonic quasicrystals. Science. 387(6734). 644–648. 7 indexed citations
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Tsesses, Shai, Kobi Cohen, Yaakov Lumer, et al.. (2025). Near-field photon entanglement in total angular momentum. Nature. 640(8059). 634–640. 2 indexed citations
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Cohen, Kobi, et al.. (2024). Dynamic control and manipulation of near-fields using direct feedback. Light Science & Applications. 13(1). 298–298. 3 indexed citations
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Karnieli, Aviv, et al.. (2024). Coherent radiation at visible wavelengths from sub-keV electron beams. Optics Letters. 49(8). 2013–2013. 3 indexed citations
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Karnieli, Aviv, et al.. (2024). All-optical spin valve effect in nonlinear optics. Optics Letters. 49(4). 1025–1025. 4 indexed citations
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Adiv, Yuval, Hao Hu, Shai Tsesses, et al.. (2023). Observation of 2D Cherenkov Radiation. Physical Review X. 13(1). 34 indexed citations
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Tsesses, Shai, Raphael Dahan, Kangpeng Wang, et al.. (2023). Tunable photon-induced spatial modulation of free electrons. Nature Materials. 22(3). 345–352. 34 indexed citations
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Cohen, Kobi, et al.. (2023). Topological Transitions and Surface Umklapp Scattering in Weakly Modulated Periodic Metasurfaces. Nano Letters. 23(22). 10243–10250. 2 indexed citations
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Karnieli, Aviv, Shai Tsesses, Renwen Yu, et al.. (2023). Quantum sensing of strongly coupled light-matter systems using free electrons. Science Advances. 9(1). eadd2349–eadd2349. 20 indexed citations
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Tsesses, Shai, et al.. (2023). Free-electron Ramsey-type interferometry for enhanced amplitude and phase imaging of nearfields. Science Advances. 9(51). eadi5729–eadi5729. 11 indexed citations
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Karnieli, Aviv, et al.. (2022). Cylindrical Metalens for Generation and Focusing of Free-Electron Radiation. Nano Letters. 22(14). 5641–5650. 26 indexed citations
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Karnieli, Aviv, Shai Tsesses, Renwen Yu, et al.. (2022). Probing strongly coupled light-matter interactions using quantum free electrons. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1. FTh5L.4–FTh5L.4. 2 indexed citations
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Tsesses, Shai, et al.. (2022). Inverse design of broadband, strongly-coupled plexcitonic nonlinear metasurfaces. New Journal of Physics. 24(9). 95003–95003. 3 indexed citations
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Karnieli, Aviv, Shai Tsesses, Guy Bartal, & Ady Arie. (2021). Emulating spin transport with nonlinear optics, from high-order skyrmions to the topological Hall effect. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1092–1092. 82 indexed citations
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Adiv, Yuval, Hao Hu, Shai Tsesses, et al.. (2021). Observation of 2D Cherenkov radiation and its Quantized Photonic Nature Using Free-Electrons. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 2. FM1L.6–FM1L.6. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Kangpeng, Raphael Dahan, Michael Shentcis, et al.. (2020). Coherent interaction between free electrons and a photonic cavity. Nature. 582(7810). 50–54. 141 indexed citations
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Tsesses, Shai, et al.. (2019). Optical skyrmions: A new topological state of light. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1–2. 1 indexed citations
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Tsesses, Shai, Kobi Cohen, Evgeny Ostrovsky, Bergin Gjonaj, & Guy Bartal. (2019). Spin–Orbit Interaction of Light in Plasmonic Lattices. Nano Letters. 19(6). 4010–4016. 69 indexed citations
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Ostrovsky, Evgeny, Kobi Cohen, Shai Tsesses, Bergin Gjonaj, & Guy Bartal. (2018). Nanoscale control over optical singularities. Optica. 5(3). 283–283. 41 indexed citations
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Tsesses, Shai, Guy Bartal, & Ido Kaminer. (2017). Light generation via quantum interaction of electrons with periodic nanostructures. Physical Review Letters. 1 indexed citations

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