Thomas Taubner

9.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
100 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Taubner is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Taubner has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 45 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 41 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Thomas Taubner's work include Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (37 papers), Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (30 papers) and Near-Field Optical Microscopy (25 papers). Thomas Taubner is often cited by papers focused on Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (37 papers), Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (30 papers) and Near-Field Optical Microscopy (25 papers). Thomas Taubner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Thomas Taubner's co-authors include Matthias Wuttig, Rainer Hillenbrand, F. Keilmann, Harish Bhaskaran, Ann‐Katrin U. Michel, Peining Li, Jon A. Schuller, Mark L. Brongersma, Xinghui Yin and Tobias W. W. Maß and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Taubner

97 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Phase-change materials for non-volatile photonic applications

2017 1.0k citations Matthias Wuttig, Thomas Taubner et al. profile →
Phonon-enhanced light–matter interaction at the nanometre scale

2002 650 citations Rainer Hillenbrand, Thomas Taubner et al. profile →
A Switchable Mid‐Infrared Plasmonic Perfect Absorber with Multispectral Thermal Imaging Capability

2015 496 citations Ann‐Katrin U. Michel, Xinghui Yin et al. profile →
Near-Field Microscopy Through a SiC Superlens

2006 466 citations Thomas Taubner, Rainer Hillenbrand et al. profile →
Hyperbolic phonon-polaritons in boron nitride for near-field optical imaging and focusing

2015 430 citations Peining Li, Martin Lewin et al. Nature Communications profile →
Reversible optical switching of highly confined phonon–polaritons with an ultrathin phase-change material

2016 335 citations Peining Li, Xiaosheng Yang et al. Nature Materials profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Toward Direct Laser Writing of Dual‐Layer Metasurfaces with the Plasmonic Phase‐Change Material In₃SbTe₂ 2025 ·Advanced Optical Materials ·(unknown), Marina Kreutz, (unknown), (unknown), Matthias Wuttig, Dmitry N. Chigrin, Thomas Taubner	1
2	Super‐Resolution Imaging of Nanoscale Inhomogeneities in hBN‐Covered and Encapsulated Few‐Layer Graphene 2025 ·Advanced Science ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Dante M. Kennes, Christoph Stampfer, Lutz Waldecker, Thomas Taubner	2
3	Real-space imaging of confined infrared surface plasmon polaritons on doped semiconductors covered with phase-change materials 2025 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Andreas Heßler, (unknown), Matthias Wuttig, Dmitry N. Chigrin, (unknown), Thomas Taubner	6
4	Low temperature near-field fingerprint spectroscopy of 2D electron systems in oxide heterostructures and beyond 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Richard Hentrich, (unknown), (unknown), Felix Gunkel, Thomas Taubner	0
5	3D Confinement Stabilizes the Metastable Amorphous State of Antimony Nanoparticles – A New Material for Miniaturized Phase Change Memories? 2024 ·Small ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Hongchu Du, Joachim Mayer, Maksym Yarema, Thomas Taubner, Ulrich Simon	2
6	Switchable Narrowband Diffuse Thermal Emission With an In₃SbTe₂‐Based Planar Structure 2024 ·Laser & Photonics Review ·Maxime Giteau, (unknown), (unknown), Robert Schmitt, Matthias Wuttig, Thomas Taubner, Georgia T. Papadakis	8
7	Direct programming of confined surface phonon polariton resonators with the plasmonic phase-change material In3SbTe2 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Matthias Wuttig, Thomas Taubner	18
8	Nanoscale Infrared Spectroscopic Characterization of Extended Defects in 4H-Silicon Carbide 2024 ·Nano Letters ·(unknown), Nadeemullah A. Mahadik, James C. Gallagher, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Nabil Bassim, Thomas Taubner, Joshua D. Caldwell	1
9	Reconfigurable and Polarization‐Dependent Grating Absorber for Large‐Area Emissivity Control Based on the Plasmonic Phase‐Change Material In₃SbTe₂ 2023 ·Advanced Optical Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Andreas Heßler, Robert Schmitt, Matthias Wuttig, Thomas Taubner	36
10	Infrared Resonance Tailoring of Individual Split‐Ring Resonators with Phase‐Change Materials by Locally Changing the Dielectric Surrounding of the Antenna Hotspots 2023 ·Advanced Optical Materials ·(unknown), Andreas Heßler, (unknown), (unknown), Matthias Wuttig, Dmitry N. Chigrin, Thomas Taubner	8
11	Tunable, Homoepitaxial Hyperbolic Metamaterials Enabled by High Mobility CdO 2022 ·Advanced Optical Materials ·(unknown), J. Ryan Nolen, (unknown), Mingze He, Evan L. Runnerstrom, Kyle P. Kelley, (unknown), Thomas Taubner, Thomas G. Folland, Jon‐Paul Maria, Joshua D. Caldwell	7
12	Far-Infrared Near-Field Optical Imaging and Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy of Laser-Crystallized and -Amorphized Phase Change Material Ge₃Sb₂Te₆ 2021 ·Nano Letters ·(unknown), Lukas Wehmeier, Andreas Heßler, Martin Lewin, Julian Pries, Matthias Wuttig, J. Michael Klopf, Susanne C. Kehr, Lukas M. Eng, Thomas Taubner	20
13	In3SbTe2 as a programmable nanophotonics material platform for the infrared 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Andreas Heßler, Sophia Wahl, (unknown), Antonios Antonopoulos, (unknown), Carl‐Friedrich Schön, (unknown), (unknown), Martin Lewin, Tobias W. W. Maß, Matthias Wuttig, Stefan Lindén, Thomas Taubner	94
14	Terahertz Nanoimaging and Nanospectroscopy of Chalcogenide Phase-Change Materials 2020 ·ACS Photonics ·Chao Chen, Shu Chen, R. P. S. M. Lobo, (unknown), Martin Lewin, Thomas Taubner, Wei Xiong, Ming Xu, Xinliang Zhang, Xiangshui Miao, Peining Li, Rainer Hillenbrand	35
15	Nanospectroscopy of Infrared Phonon Resonance Enables Local Quantification of Electronic Properties in Doped SrTiO₃ Ceramics 2018 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Martin Lewin, Christoph Baeumer, Felix Gunkel, Alexander Schwedt, (unknown), (unknown), P. Meuffels, Bernd Jungbluth, Joachim Mayer, Regina Dittmann, Rainer Waser, Thomas Taubner	35
16	Beam switching and bifocal zoom lensing using active plasmonic metasurfaces 2017 ·Light Science & Applications ·Xinghui Yin, Tobias Steinle, Lingling Huang, Thomas Taubner, Matthias Wuttig, Thomas Zentgraf, Harald Gießen	323
17	Reversible optical switching of highly confined phonon–polaritons with an ultrathin phase-change material breakdown → 2016 ·Nature Materials ·Peining Li, Xiaosheng Yang, Tobias W. W. Maß, (unknown), Martin Lewin, Ann‐Katrin U. Michel, Matthias Wuttig, Thomas Taubner	335
18	Surface enhanced infrared spectroscopy with gold strip gratings 2013 ·Optics Express ·Tao Wang, Vu Hoa Nguyen, (unknown), Uwe Schnakenberg, Thomas Taubner	51
19	Substrate-enhanced infrared near-field spectroscopy 2008 ·Optics Express ·Javier Aizpurua, Thomas Taubner, F. Javier Garcı́a de Abajo, Markus Brehm, Rainer Hillenbrand	99
20	Dielectric Metamaterials Based on Electric and Magnetic Resonances of Silicon Carbide Particles 2007 ·Physical Review Letters ·Jon A. Schuller, Rashid Zia, Thomas Taubner, Mark L. Brongersma	273

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