Tuomas Vallius

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 996 citations indexed

About

Tuomas Vallius is a scholar working on Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tuomas Vallius has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 996 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films, 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 16 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Tuomas Vallius's work include Optical Coatings and Gratings (23 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (14 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (14 papers). Tuomas Vallius is often cited by papers focused on Optical Coatings and Gratings (23 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (14 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (14 papers). Tuomas Vallius collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Switzerland and Germany. Tuomas Vallius's co-authors include Jari Turunen, Yuri Svirko, Konstantins Jefimovs, Martti Kauranen, Makoto Kuwata‐Gonokami, Nobuyoshi Saito, Y. Ino, Benfeng Bai, Pasi Vahimaa and Marko Honkanen and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Tuomas Vallius

29 papers receiving 950 citations

Hit Papers

Giant Optical Activity in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Planar Na... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 100 200 300 400
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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. Giant Optical Activity in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Planar Nanostructures
    2005 493 citations Makoto Kuwata‐Gonokami, Nobuyoshi Saito et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tuomas Vallius Finland 11 676 547 519 250 184 31 996
A. Potts United Kingdom 11 534 0.8× 371 0.7× 414 0.8× 147 0.6× 100 0.5× 18 737
A.S. Schwanecke United Kingdom 12 1.3k 1.9× 771 1.4× 676 1.3× 287 1.1× 98 0.5× 19 1.5k
Nina Meinzer United States 7 939 1.4× 777 1.4× 516 1.0× 208 0.8× 56 0.3× 11 1.2k
Brian K. Canfield United States 15 589 0.9× 748 1.4× 427 0.8× 242 1.0× 72 0.4× 59 1.0k
Teun-Teun Kim South Korea 18 579 0.9× 407 0.7× 433 0.8× 492 2.0× 53 0.3× 36 1.0k
M. L. Nesterov Germany 14 491 0.7× 540 1.0× 388 0.7× 207 0.8× 47 0.3× 20 799
Guofeng Song China 19 419 0.6× 655 1.2× 349 0.7× 612 2.4× 192 1.0× 99 1.1k
Q. H. Park South Korea 8 366 0.5× 840 1.5× 469 0.9× 584 2.3× 150 0.8× 11 1.1k
Stefan Mühlig Germany 20 657 1.0× 714 1.3× 428 0.8× 240 1.0× 66 0.4× 30 1.1k
Vladimir Volskiy Belgium 16 320 0.5× 420 0.8× 228 0.4× 279 1.1× 41 0.2× 38 671

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tuomas Vallius

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vallius, Tuomas. (2013). Tailored bandgaps: iterative algorithms of diffractive optics. Optics Express. 21(11). 13810–13810. 3 indexed citations
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Vallius, Tuomas, et al.. (2008). Double groove broadband gratings. Optics Express. 16(18). 13824–13824. 8 indexed citations
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Kuittinen, Markku, et al.. (2006). Producing illumination-independent additively mixed colors by diffractive optics. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 23(5). 981–981.
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Elfström, H., et al.. (2006). Fabrication of blazed gratings by area-coded effective medium structures. Optics Communications. 266(2). 697–703. 10 indexed citations
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Vallius, Tuomas, Jani Tervo, Pasi Vahimaa, & Jari Turunen. (2006). Electromagnetic field computation in semiconductor laser resonators. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 23(4). 906–906. 6 indexed citations
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Kuwata‐Gonokami, Makoto, Nobuyoshi Saito, Y. Ino, et al.. (2005). Giant Optical Activity in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Planar Nanostructures. Physical Review Letters. 95(22). 227401–227401. 493 indexed citations breakdown →
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Laakkonen, Pasi, Jari Turunen, Samuli Siitonen, et al.. (2005). Diffractive optics in industry and research: novel components for optical security systems. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5954. 595402–595402. 1 indexed citations
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Vallius, Tuomas, Jani Tervo, Pasi Vahimaa, & Jari Turunen. (2005). Electromagnetic approach to laser resonator analysis. Optics Express. 13(16). 5994–5994. 2 indexed citations
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Vallius, Tuomas, Jari Turunen, Masud Mansuripur, & Seppo Honkanen. (2004). Transmission through single subwavelength apertures in thin metal films and effects of surface plasmons. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 21(3). 456–456. 12 indexed citations
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Vallius, Tuomas, et al.. (2004). Diffractive elements with novel antireflection film stacks. Optics Express. 12(25). 6385–6385. 2 indexed citations
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Vallius, Tuomas, Pasi Vahimaa, & Marko Honkanen. (2004). Electromagnetic approach to the thin element approximation. Journal of Modern Optics. 51(14). 2079–2092.
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Canfield, Brian K., Sami Kujala, Martti Kauranen, et al.. (2004). Extraordinary polarization sensitivity of nanoparticle arrays to structural asymmetry. IWG6–IWG6. 1 indexed citations
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Vallius, Tuomas, Jari Turunen, & Pasi Vahimaa. (2004). Rigorous and approximate analysis of metallic gratings in soft X-ray and EUV regions. Journal of Modern Optics. 51(14). 2047–2057. 1 indexed citations
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Jefimovs, Konstantins, Tuomas Vallius, Ville Kettunen, et al.. (2004). Inductive grid filters for rejection of infrared radiation. Journal of Modern Optics. 51(11). 1651–1661. 8 indexed citations
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Vallius, Tuomas & Markku Kuittinen. (2003). Novel electromagnetic approach to photonic crystals with use of the C method. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 20(1). 85–85. 3 indexed citations
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Lajunen, Hanna, Jani Tervo, Jari Turunen, Tuomas Vallius, & Frank Wyrowski. (2003). Simulation of light propagation by local spherical interface approximation. Applied Optics. 42(34). 6804–6804. 8 indexed citations
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Vallius, Tuomas, Konstantins Jefimovs, Jari Turunen, Pasi Vahimaa, & Yuri Svirko. (2003). Optical activity in subwavelength-period arrays of chiral metallic particles. Applied Physics Letters. 83(2). 234–236. 81 indexed citations
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Vallius, Tuomas, Markku Kuittinen, Jari Turunen, & Ville Kettunen. (2002). Step-transition perturbation approach for pixel-structured nonparaxial diffractive elements. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 19(6). 1129–1129. 7 indexed citations
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Vallius, Tuomas. (2002). Comparing the Fourier modal method with the C method: analysis of conducting multilevel gratings in TM polarization. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 19(8). 1555–1555. 12 indexed citations
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Vallius, Tuomas, Konstantins Jefimovs, Ville Kettunen, et al.. (2001). Design of non-paraxial array illuminators by step-transition perturbation approach. Journal of Modern Optics. 48(12). 1869–1879. 2 indexed citations

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