Willem L. Vos

13.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
185 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Willem L. Vos is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Willem L. Vos has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 95 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 57 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Willem L. Vos's work include Photonic Crystals and Applications (118 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (82 papers) and Random lasers and scattering media (36 papers). Willem L. Vos is often cited by papers focused on Photonic Crystals and Applications (118 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (82 papers) and Random lasers and scattering media (36 papers). Willem L. Vos collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and France. Willem L. Vos's co-authors include Judith E. G. J. Wijnhoven, Ad Lagendijk, Allard P. Mosk, Peter Lodahl, A. Femius Koenderink, Ivan S. Nikolaev, A. Floris van Driel, Mischa Megens, Jacopo Bertolotti and E.G. van Putten and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Willem L. Vos

179 papers receiving 9.4k citations

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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.

Preparation of Photonic Crystals Made of Air Spheres in Titania

1998 1.4k citations Judith E. G. J. Wijnhoven, Willem L. Vos profile →
Controlling the dynamics of spontaneous emission from quantum dots by photonic crystals

2004 965 citations Peter Lodahl, A. Floris van Driel et al. profile →
Non-invasive imaging through opaque scattering layers

2012 820 citations Christian Blum, Ad Lagendijk et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Willem L. Vos Netherlands	47	6.1k	3.9k	3.0k	2.9k	1.6k	185	9.9k
Cefe López Spain	48	7.1k 1.2×	4.1k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	3.2k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	188	10.2k
Sajeev John Canada	58	16.8k 2.8×	11.8k 3.0×	5.6k 1.9×	2.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.4×	216	20.5k
A. A. Maradudin United States	50	5.1k 0.8×	2.4k 0.6×	3.5k 1.2×	3.0k 1.0×	640 0.4×	260	10.6k
K. M. Ho United States	51	6.3k 1.0×	4.1k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	5.1k 1.8×	101 0.1×	141	11.4k
G. Maret Germany	52	3.0k 0.5×	1.0k 0.3×	2.7k 0.9×	3.5k 1.2×	2.5k 1.6×	168	10.0k
J. D. Joannopoulos United States	47	10.1k 1.7×	7.8k 2.0×	2.7k 0.9×	7.9k 2.7×	154 0.1×	132	18.6k
R. P. H. Chang United States	47	2.6k 0.4×	3.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	6.1k 2.1×	1.8k 1.1×	188	9.5k
Daniel M. Mittleman United States	64	6.3k 1.0×	14.0k 3.6×	4.2k 1.4×	1.2k 0.4×	536 0.3×	344	17.1k
R. Biswas United States	45	4.8k 0.8×	4.7k 1.2×	2.2k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	60 0.0×	189	8.2k
Hui‐Tian Wang China	57	5.9k 1.0×	2.6k 0.7×	3.7k 1.3×	4.8k 1.7×	161 0.1×	399	12.2k

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Tiggelen, B. A. van, Ad Lagendijk, & Willem L. Vos. (2025). Mesoscopic theory of wavefront shaping to focus waves deep inside disordered media. Physical review. A. 111(5). 1 indexed citations

Uppu, Ravitej, et al.. (2024). Observation of Cartesian light propagation through a three-dimensional cavity superlattice in a silicon photonic band gap crystal. Physical Review Research. 6(4). 2 indexed citations

Lagendijk, Ad, et al.. (2024). Symmetries and wave functions of photons confined in three-dimensional photonic band gap superlattices. Physical review. B.. 109(23). 1 indexed citations

Schulz, Α., et al.. (2024). Strongly Inhibited Spontaneous Emission of PbS Quantum Dots Covalently Bound to 3D Silicon Photonic Band Gap Crystals. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(22). 9142–9153. 1 indexed citations

Lagendijk, Ad, et al.. (2024). Probing the position-dependent optical energy fluence rate in three-dimensional scattering samples. Physical review. A. 110(3). 1 indexed citations

Lagendijk, Ad, et al.. (2023). Sensing the position of a single scatterer in an opaque medium by mutual scattering. Optics Express. 31(9). 15058–15058.

Vegt, J.J.W. van der, et al.. (2023). Unsupervised machine learning to classify the confinement of waves in periodic superstructures. Optics Express. 31(19). 31177–31177. 2 indexed citations

Hong, Peilong & Willem L. Vos. (2022). Controlled light scattering of a single nanoparticle by wave-front shaping. Physical review. A. 106(6). 3 indexed citations

Schulz, Α., et al.. (2022). Targeted Positioning of Quantum Dots Inside 3D Silicon Photonic Crystals Revealed by Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Tomography. ACS Nano. 16(3). 3674–3683. 10 indexed citations

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Lagendijk, Ad, et al.. (2022). Breakdown of light transport models in photonic scattering slabs with strong absorption and anisotropy. Physical review. A. 105(3). 4 indexed citations

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Lagendijk, Ad, et al.. (2021). Observation of mutual extinction and transparency in light scattering. Physical review. A. 104(4). 5 indexed citations

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Hasan, Shakeeb Bin, et al.. (2021). Enhanced absorption in thin and ultrathin silicon films by 3D photonic band gap back reflectors. Optics Express. 29(25). 41023–41023. 3 indexed citations

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Uppu, Ravitej, et al.. (2020). Deterministic and Controllable Photonic Scattering Media via Direct Laser Writing. Advanced Optical Materials. 8(24). 6 indexed citations

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Tasolamprou, Anna C., Shakeeb Bin Hasan, Thomas Koschny, et al.. (2020). Local density of optical states in the three-dimensional band gap of a finite photonic crystal. Physical review. B.. 101(23). 18 indexed citations

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Tajiri, Takeyoshi, et al.. (2020). Reflectivity of three-dimensional GaAs photonic band-gap crystals of finite thickness. Physical review. B.. 101(23). 8 indexed citations

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Pacureanu, Alexandra, et al.. (2019). X-ray Imaging of Functional Three-Dimensional Nanostructures on Massive Substrates. ACS Nano. 13(12). 13932–13939. 13 indexed citations

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Zijlstra, Niels, et al.. (2012). . arXiv (Cornell University). 121 indexed citations

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Stobbe, Søren, J. Johansen, Ivan S. Nikolaev, et al.. (2007). Accurate Measurement of the Transition Dipole Moment of Self-Assembled Quantum Dots. University of Twente Research Information. 1–1. 1 indexed citations

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Nikolaev, Ivan S., Peter Lodahl, A. Floris van Driel, & Willem L. Vos. (2005). Spontaneous-emission rate distributions in photonic crystals controlled by position-dependent local density of states. arXiv (Cornell University).

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Vos, Willem L., Judith E. G. J. Wijnhoven, & Mischa Megens. (1998). Experimental Probe of Gaps in Photonic Crystals. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe. 30. CFB6–CFB6. 1 indexed citations

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