Stephan Link

36.8k total citations · 12 hit papers
217 papers, 31.1k citations indexed

About

Stephan Link is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephan Link has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 31.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 121 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 82 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Stephan Link's work include Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (145 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (81 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (38 papers). Stephan Link is often cited by papers focused on Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (145 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (81 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (38 papers). Stephan Link collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Stephan Link's co-authors include Mostafa A. El‐Sayed, Naomi J. Halas, Wei‐Shun Chang, Surbhi Lal, Peter Nordlander, Mohamed Taha, Zhong Lin Wang, Clemens Burda, Babak Nikoobakht and Christy F. Landes and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stephan Link

210 papers receiving 30.5k citations

Hit Papers

Spectral Properties and Relaxation Dynamics of Surface Pl... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 2011 1999 2000 2007 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

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. Spectral Properties and Relaxation Dynamics of Surface Plasmon Electronic Oscillations in Gold and Silver Nanodots and Nanorods
    1999 3.3k citations Stephan Link, Mostafa A. El‐Sayed The Journal of Physical Chemistry B profile →
  2. Plasmons in Strongly Coupled Metallic Nanostructures
    2011 2.6k citations Naomi J. Halas, Wei‐Shun Chang et al. profile →
  3. Size and Temperature Dependence of the Plasmon Absorption of Colloidal Gold Nanoparticles
    1999 2.2k citations Stephan Link, Mostafa A. El‐Sayed The Journal of Physical Chemistry B profile →
  4. Shape and size dependence of radiative, non-radiative and photothermal properties of gold nanocrystals
    2000 1.9k citations Stephan Link, Mostafa A. El‐Sayed profile →
  5. Nano-optics from sensing to waveguiding
    2007 1.7k citations Stephan Link, Naomi J. Halas et al. profile →
  6. Simulation of the Optical Absorption Spectra of Gold Nanorods as a Function of Their Aspect Ratio and the Effect of the Medium Dielectric Constant
    1999 1.3k citations Stephan Link, Mostafa A. El‐Sayed et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B profile →
  7. Alloy Formation of Gold−Silver Nanoparticles and the Dependence of the Plasmon Absorption on Their Composition
    1999 1.2k citations Stephan Link, Mostafa A. El‐Sayed et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B profile →
  8. Optical Properties and Ultrafast Dynamics of Metallic Nanocrystals
    2003 1.2k citations Stephan Link, Mostafa A. El‐Sayed profile →
  9. The `lightning' gold nanorods: fluorescence enhancement of over a million compared to the gold metal
    2000 685 citations Stephan Link, Mostafa A. El‐Sayed et al. profile →
  10. Laser-Induced Shape Changes of Colloidal Gold Nanorods Using Femtosecond and Nanosecond Laser Pulses
    2000 674 citations Stephan Link, Mostafa A. El‐Sayed et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B profile →
  11. Plasmonic colour generation
    2016 645 citations Stephan Link, Peter Nordlander et al. profile →
  12. Nanophotonic Approaches for Chirality Sensing
    2021 227 citations Lauren A. McCarthy, Qingfeng Zhang et al. ACS Nano profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephan Link United States 70 20.2k 16.3k 13.3k 5.0k 4.8k 217 31.1k
Alexander O. Govorov United States 85 13.3k 0.7× 10.9k 0.7× 10.8k 0.8× 5.7k 1.1× 4.9k 1.0× 320 27.6k
Prashant K. Jain United States 63 15.5k 0.8× 12.1k 0.7× 14.4k 1.1× 5.3k 1.1× 4.6k 0.9× 212 28.7k
Isabel Pastoriza‐Santos Spain 80 12.8k 0.6× 9.1k 0.6× 11.4k 0.9× 3.4k 0.7× 3.5k 0.7× 212 22.0k
Paul Mulvaney Australia 100 18.5k 0.9× 14.9k 0.9× 23.2k 1.7× 10.9k 2.2× 5.4k 1.1× 373 42.7k
Bin Ren China 86 19.2k 1.0× 12.5k 0.8× 12.8k 1.0× 6.1k 1.2× 7.4k 1.5× 448 32.2k
Jianfang Wang Hong Kong 92 15.0k 0.7× 17.0k 1.0× 20.8k 1.6× 9.9k 2.0× 4.7k 1.0× 405 39.1k
Martin Moskovits United States 89 18.4k 0.9× 14.4k 0.9× 17.7k 1.3× 9.9k 2.0× 6.5k 1.3× 345 37.3k
Jorge Pérez‐Juste Spain 79 11.0k 0.5× 7.2k 0.4× 10.3k 0.8× 2.8k 0.6× 3.4k 0.7× 223 19.4k
Jason H. Hafner United States 50 7.3k 0.4× 9.3k 0.6× 12.3k 0.9× 3.8k 0.8× 3.1k 0.6× 99 21.2k
Jochen Feldmann Germany 91 9.0k 0.4× 9.0k 0.6× 17.9k 1.3× 14.7k 3.0× 4.0k 0.8× 369 31.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephan Link

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gomez, Eric, Martin Gruebele, Benjamin G. Levine, et al.. (2025). Bottom-up carbon dots: purification, single-particle dynamics, and electronic structure. Chemical Science. 16(10). 4195–4212. 13 indexed citations
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Gomez, Eric, Hao Yang, Charles M. Schroeder, et al.. (2025). Ultrathin Atomically Flat Gold Film for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Single-Particle Fluorescence Spectroscopy. Langmuir. 41(25). 16000–16008.
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Adhikari, Subhasis, et al.. (2024). On-Chip Lock-In Detection for Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Single Particles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(21). 8708–8715. 1 indexed citations
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Al-Zubeidi, Alexander, Yufei Wang, Charlotte Flatebo, et al.. (2023). d-Band Holes React at the Tips of Gold Nanorods. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(23). 5297–5304. 19 indexed citations
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Chiang, Wei‐Yi, et al.. (2023). Electron–Phonon Relaxation Dynamics of Hot Electrons in Gold Nanoparticles Are Independent of Excitation Pathway. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(43). 21176–21185. 15 indexed citations
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Dionne, Jennifer A., et al.. (2023). High-Throughput Screening of Optical Properties of Glass-Supported Plasmonic Nanoparticles Fabricated by Polymer Pen Lithography. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(39). 19607–19619. 2 indexed citations
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Dai, Alan, Alexander Al-Zubeidi, Stephen Lee, et al.. (2023). Nanoscale and ultrafast in situ techniques to probe plasmon photocatalysis. Chemical Physics Reviews. 4(4). 10 indexed citations
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Lee, Stephen, et al.. (2023). Plasmon Energy Transfer Driven by Electrochemical Tuning of Methylene Blue on Single Gold Nanorods. ACS Nano. 17(18). 18280–18289. 14 indexed citations
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Al-Zubeidi, Alexander, Behnaz Ostovar, Stephen Lee, et al.. (2023). Mechanism for plasmon-generated solvated electrons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(3). e2217035120–e2217035120. 26 indexed citations
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Lee, Stephen, Behnaz Ostovar, Christy F. Landes, & Stephan Link. (2022). Spectroscopic signatures of plasmon-induced charge transfer in gold nanorods. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 156(6). 64702–64702. 19 indexed citations
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Cerjan, Benjamin, Burak Gerislioglu, Stephan Link, et al.. (2022). Towards scalable plasmonic Fano-resonant metasurfaces for colorimetric sensing. Nanotechnology. 33(40). 405201–405201. 28 indexed citations
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Al-Zubeidi, Alexander, Charlotte Flatebo, Christoph Rehbock, et al.. (2021). Single-Particle Hyperspectral Imaging Reveals Kinetics of Silver Ion Leaching from Alloy Nanoparticles. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2021-01(18). 793–793. 1 indexed citations
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Baiyasi, Rashad, Lauren A. McCarthy, Seyyed Ali Hosseini Jebeli, et al.. (2021). Coupled-Dipole Modeling and Experimental Characterization of Geometry-Dependent Trochoidal Dichroism in Nanorod Trimers. ACS Photonics. 8(4). 1159–1168. 2 indexed citations
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Baiyasi, Rashad, M. J. Gallagher, Lauren A. McCarthy, et al.. (2020). Quantitative Analysis of Nanorod Aggregation and Morphology from Scanning Electron Micrographs Using SEMseg. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 124(25). 5262–5270. 17 indexed citations
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Ostovar, Behnaz, Man-Nung Su, David Renard, et al.. (2020). Acoustic Vibrations of Al Nanocrystals: Size, Shape, and Crystallinity Revealed by Single-Particle Transient Extinction Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 124(19). 3924–3934. 23 indexed citations
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Velázquez‐Salazar, J. Jesús, Lourdes Bazán-Díaz, Qingfeng Zhang, et al.. (2019). Controlled Overgrowth of Five-Fold Concave Nanoparticles into Plasmonic Nanostars and Their Single-Particle Scattering Properties. ACS Nano. 13(9). 10113–10128. 55 indexed citations
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Kirchner, Silke R., Man-Nung Su, Joong Hwan Bahng, et al.. (2018). Scattering Properties of Individual Hedgehog Particles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(22). 12015–12021. 13 indexed citations
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Joplin, Anneli, Wei‐Shun Chang, & Stephan Link. (2017). Imaging and Spectroscopy of Single Metal Nanostructure Absorption. Langmuir. 34(13). 3775–3786. 22 indexed citations
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Olson, Jana, Pattanawit Swanglap, Wei‐Shun Chang, et al.. (2012). Detailed mechanism for the orthogonal polarization switching of gold nanorod plasmons. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(12). 4195–4204. 5 indexed citations
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Link, Stephan & Mostafa A. El‐Sayed. (1999). Size and Temperature Dependence of the Plasmon Absorption of Colloidal Gold Nanoparticles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 103(21). 4212–4217. 2239 indexed citations breakdown →

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