2026 Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	105	1362	1290	24	24	373	50324

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Research.com Recognitions

2021 - OSA Fellows Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain For fundamental contributions to nanophotonics and plasmonics

Overview

Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. Their research spans multiple fields, predominantly focusing on Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions also within Engineering.

Their work includes a strong emphasis on the subfields of Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Key topics addressed in their research are:

Strong Light-Matter Interactions
Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
Quantum Information and Cryptography
Photonic Crystals and Applications
Photonic and Optical Devices
Quantum and electron transport phenomena

Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal has published frequently in various scientific venues. The most common venues for their publications include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ACS Photonics
Physical Review Letters
Nanophotonics
Nature

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Garcia-Vidal include:

"Manipulating matter by strong coupling to vacuum fields" (2021, Science)
"Theoretical Challenges in Polaritonic Chemistry" (2022, ACS Photonics)
"Spoof surface plasmon photonics" (2022, Reviews of Modern Physics)
"Magneto-optics in a van der Waals magnet tuned by self-hybridized polaritons" (2023, Nature)
"A plasmonic route for the integrated wireless communication of subdiffraction-limited signals" (2020, Light Science & Applications)

The scientist has worked extensively with collaborators including Johannes Feist, Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez, Ching Eng Png, Yu Luo, and Guangwei Hu.

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to academic books, notably publishing with Cambridge University Press, including the book "Spoof Surface Plasmon Metamaterials" released in 2020.

Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal was recognized as an OSA Fellow in 2021 for contributions to nanophotonics and plasmonics.

Best Publications

Mimicking Surface Plasmons with Structured Surfaces

J. B. Pendry;L. Martín-Moreno;F. J. Garcia-Vidal

3663
Citations
Beaming light from a subwavelength aperture.

H. J. Lezec;A. Degiron;E. Devaux;R. A. Linke

2365
Citations
Theory of extraordinary optical transmission through subwavelength hole arrays.

L. Martín-Moreno;F. J. García-Vidal;H. J. Lezec;K. M. Pellerin

2174
Citations
Fornel, Frédérique de

T. W. Ebbesen;F. J. García-Vidal;H. J. Lezec;L. Martín-Moreno

1862
Citations
Transmission Resonances on Metallic Gratings with Very Narrow Slits

J. A. Porto;F. J. García-Vidal;J. B. Pendry

1718
Citations
Light passing through subwavelength apertures

F. J. García-Vidal;Luis Martín-Moreno;T. W. Ebbesen;L. Kuipers

1491
Citations
Surfaces with holes in them: new plasmonic metamaterials

F J Garcia-Vidal;L Martín-Moreno;J B Pendry

1252
Citations
Collective Theory for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering.

F. J. García-Vidal;J. B. Pendry

1141
Citations
Terahertz surface plasmon-polariton propagation and focusing on periodically corrugated metal wires

Stefan A. Maier;Steve R. Andrews;L. Martín-Moreno;F. J. García-Vidal

885
Citations
Conformal surface plasmons propagating on ultrathin and flexible films

Xiaopeng Shen;Tie Jun Cui;Diego Martin-Cano;Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal;Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal

873
Citations
Theory of highly directional emission from a single subwavelength aperture surrounded by surface corrugations.

L. Martín-Moreno;F. J. García-Vidal;H. J. Lezec;A. Degiron

759
Citations
A holey-structured metamaterial for acoustic deep-subwavelength imaging

Jie Zhu;Johan Christensen;Jesper Jung;Luis Martin-Moreno

742
Citations
Highly confined guiding of terahertz surface plasmon polaritons on structured metal surfaces

Christopher R Williams;Steven R Andrews;S A Maier;A I Fernández-Domínguez

697
Citations
Evanescently coupled resonance in surface plasmon enhanced transmission

A Krishnan;T Thio;T.J Kim;H.J Lezec

670
Citations
Multiple paths to enhance optical transmission through a single subwavelength slit.

F. J. García-Vidal;H. J. Lezec;T. W. Ebbesen;L. Martín-Moreno

661
Citations
Entanglement of Two Qubits Mediated by One-Dimensional Plasmonic Waveguides

A. González-Tudela;Diego Martín-Cano;Esteban Moreno;Luis Martín-Moreno

620
Citations
Edge and waveguide terahertz surface plasmon modes in graphene microribbons

A. Yu. Nikitin;A. Yu. Nikitin;F. Guinea;F. J. García-Vidal;L. Martín-Moreno

587
Citations
Efficient unidirectional nanoslit couplers for surface plasmons

F. López-Tejeira;Sergio G. Rodrigo;Luis Martín-Moreno;F. J. García-Vidal

586
Citations
Transmission and focusing of light in one-dimensional periodically nanostructured metals

F. J. García-Vidal;L. Martín-Moreno

522
Citations
Radiative Heat Transfer

Juan Carlos Cuevas;Francisco J. García-Vidal;Francisco J. García-Vidal

217
Citations