Walter R. C. Somerville

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 871 citations indexed

About

Walter R. C. Somerville is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter R. C. Somerville has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 871 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 9 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Walter R. C. Somerville's work include Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis (6 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (6 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (6 papers). Walter R. C. Somerville is often cited by papers focused on Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis (6 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (6 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (6 papers). Walter R. C. Somerville collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and France. Walter R. C. Somerville's co-authors include Eric C. Le Ru, Baptiste Auguié, Sally Gaw, Laura E. Revell, Peter Kuma, P. Etchegoin, Gaëlle Charron, Georges Lévi, Mona Tréguer‐Delapierre and Nordin Félidj and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nano Letters and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Walter R. C. Somerville

22 papers receiving 850 citations

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Direct radiative effects of airborne microplastics

2021 262 citations Laura E. Revell, Peter Kuma et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Walter R. C. Somerville New Zealand	14	342	329	220	194	151	24	871
Florent Colas France	15	312 0.9×	217 0.7×	198 0.9×	248 1.3×	151 1.0×	38	879
В. А. Лебедев Russia	20	174 0.5×	361 1.1×	49 0.2×	743 3.8×	40 0.3×	89	1.3k
Fernando V. Molina Argentina	20	306 0.9×	103 0.3×	99 0.5×	167 0.9×	26 0.2×	66	1.2k
Shimin Xu China	15	88 0.3×	51 0.2×	54 0.2×	342 1.8×	29 0.2×	46	884
Barbora Bártová Switzerland	19	110 0.3×	91 0.3×	43 0.2×	599 3.1×	21 0.1×	48	1.0k
Martin Mandl Czechia	22	510 1.5×	227 0.7×	37 0.2×	435 2.2×	34 0.2×	66	1.1k
David M. A. Mackenzie Denmark	26	649 1.9×	173 0.5×	590 2.7×	1.1k 5.7×	531 3.5×	49	2.2k
Keana Scott United States	16	191 0.6×	47 0.1×	115 0.5×	294 1.5×	54 0.4×	37	829
Wang Guang China	19	182 0.5×	141 0.4×	174 0.8×	645 3.3×	24 0.2×	48	1.3k

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Somerville, Walter R. C., et al.. (2022). Mean path length in refractive regular polygons and prisms. Physical review. A. 105(2). 1 indexed citations

Somerville, Walter R. C., et al.. (2022). Exploiting billiard theory to calculate the mean path length of light in refractive spheroids. Physical review. A. 106(1).

Revell, Laura E., Peter Kuma, Eric C. Le Ru, Walter R. C. Somerville, & Sally Gaw. (2021). Direct radiative effects of airborne microplastics. Nature. 598(7881). 462–467. 262 indexed citations breakdown →

Somerville, Walter R. C., et al.. (2020). Quasicrystal formation in binary soft matter mixtures. Physical Review Research. 2(3). 8 indexed citations

Somerville, Walter R. C., Adam D. Law, Marcel Rey, et al.. (2020). Pattern formation in two-dimensional hard-core/soft-shell systems with variable soft shell profiles. Soft Matter. 16(14). 3564–3573. 22 indexed citations

Pratley, Luke, et al.. (2019). Approximate T matrix and optical properties of spheroidal particles to third order with respect to size parameter. Physical review. A. 99(1). 14 indexed citations

Somerville, Walter R. C., Baptiste Auguié, & Eric C. Le Ru. (2016). SMARTIES: Spheroids Modelled Accurately with a Robust T-matrix Implementation for Electromagnetic Scattering. ascl.

Somerville, Walter R. C., Baptiste Auguié, & Eric C. Le Ru. (2016). smarties: User-friendly codes for fast and accurate calculations of light scattering by spheroids. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 174. 39–55. 49 indexed citations

Auguié, Baptiste, et al.. (2016). Numerical investigation of the Rayleigh hypothesis for electromagnetic scattering by a particle. Journal of Optics. 18(7). 75007–75007. 21 indexed citations

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Somerville, Walter R. C., Baptiste Auguié, & Eric C. Le Ru. (2015). Accurate and convergent T-matrix calculations of light scattering by spheroids. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 160. 29–35. 30 indexed citations

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Lerstrup, Knud, Walter R. C. Somerville, József Spéder, et al.. (2015). Gold nanoparticles assembled with dithiocarbamate-anchored molecular wires. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 15273–15273. 11 indexed citations

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Raziman, T. V., Walter R. C. Somerville, Olivier J. F. Martin, & Eric C. Le Ru. (2015). Accuracy of surface integral equation matrix elements in plasmonic calculations. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 32(3). 485–485. 30 indexed citations

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Schebarchov, D., et al.. (2013). Filling a nanoporous substrate by dewetting of thin films. Nanoscale. 5(5). 1949–1949. 11 indexed citations

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Somerville, Walter R. C., Baptiste Auguié, & Eric C. Le Ru. (2013). A new numerically stable implementation of the T-matrix method for electromagnetic scattering by spheroidal particles. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 123. 153–168. 28 indexed citations

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Somerville, Walter R. C., Baptiste Auguié, & Eric C. Le Ru. (2012). Distribution of the SERS enhancement factor on the surface of metallic nano-particles. 63. 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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Gill, Ron, Lijin Tian, Walter R. C. Somerville, et al.. (2012). Silver Nanoparticle Aggregates as Highly Efficient Plasmonic Antennas for Fluorescence Enhancement. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 116(31). 16687–16693. 82 indexed citations

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Somerville, Walter R. C., Baptiste Auguié, & Eric C. Le Ru. (2012). Severe loss of precision in calculations of T-matrix integrals. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 113(7). 524–535. 33 indexed citations

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Ru, Eric C. Le, Johan Grand, Walter R. C. Somerville, et al.. (2011). A Scheme for Detecting Every Single Target Molecule with Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Nano Letters. 11(11). 5013–5019. 175 indexed citations

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Somerville, Walter R. C., David A. Powell, & Ilya V. Shadrivov. (2011). Second harmonic generation with zero phase velocity waves. Applied Physics Letters. 98(16). 6 indexed citations

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Somerville, Walter R. C., Baptiste Auguié, & Eric C. Le Ru. (2011). Simplified expressions of the T-matrix integrals for electromagnetic scattering. Optics Letters. 36(17). 3482–3482. 16 indexed citations

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