2026 Markus Walther: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	45	11686	11296	641	622	180	8537

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Overview

Markus Walther is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with specific focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their work addresses several key topics, including:

Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
Optical Coatings and Gratings
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
Terahertz Technology and Applications
Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis
Advanced Surface Polishing Techniques

Markus Walther has contributed to multiple publications in well-regarded venues, with frequent appearances in:

EPJ Web of Conferences
ACS Photonics
Nanotechnology
Journal of the European Optical Society Rapid Publications

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Walther include:

"Metasurface-Based Optical Liquid Crystal Cell as an Ultrathin Spatial Phase Modulator for THz Applications," 2020, ACS Photonics
"Fabrication of shallow EUV gratings on silicon by irradiation with helium ions," 2025, Nanotechnology
"Switchable optics based on guided mode resonance in lithographically patterned vanadium dioxide with integrated heating layer," 2023, Journal of the European Optical Society Rapid Publications
"Switchable optics based on guided mode resonance in lithographically patterned vanadium dioxide," 2022, EPJ Web of Conferences
"Fabrication influences on a miniaturised stokes polarimeter consisting of stacked nano-optical wire grid polarizer and retarders," 2022, EPJ Web of Conferences

Their frequent co-authors include:

Uwe D. Zeitner
Thomas Siefke
Kristin Gerold
Oleksandr Buchnev
Nina Podoliak

Best Publications

Far-infrared vibrational modes of DNA components studied by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

B M Fischer;M Walther;P Uhd Jepsen

830
Citations
Terahertz conductivity of thin gold films at the metal-insulator percolation transition

M. Walther;David Cooke;C. Sherstan;M. Hajar

545
Citations
Noncovalent intermolecular forces in polycrystalline and amorphous saccharides in the far infrared

Markus Walther;Bernd M. Fischer;P. Uhd Jepsen

485
Citations
Far-infrared vibrational spectra of all-trans, 9-cis and 13-cis retinal measured by THz time-domain spectroscopy

M. Walther;B. Fischer;M. Schall;H. Helm

468
Citations
Collective vibrational modes in biological molecules investigated by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

M. Walther;P. Plochocka;B. Fischer;H. Helm

447
Citations
Suspended core subwavelength fibers: towards practical designs for low-loss terahertz guidance

Mathieu Rozé;Bora Ung;Anna Mazhorova;Markus Walther

321
Citations
High performance InAs/Ga1-xInxSb superlattice infrared photodiodes

F. Fuchs;U. Weimer;W. Pletschen;J. Schmitz

293
Citations
Dynamics of Imidazolium Ionic Liquids from a Combined Dielectric Relaxation and Optical Kerr Effect Study: Evidence for Mesoscopic Aggregation

David A. Turton;Johannes Hunger;Alexander Stoppa;Glenn Hefter

290
Citations
Fundamental and second-order phonon processes in CdTe and ZnTe

M. Schall;M. Walther;P. Uhd Jepsen

240
Citations
THz-to-optical conversion in wireless communications using an ultra-broadband plasmonic modulator

S. Ummethala;T. Harter;K. Koehnle;Z. Li

239
Citations
Spectral Collapse in Ensembles of Metamolecules

V.A. Fedotov;N. Papasimakis;E. Plum;A. Bitzer;A. Bitzer

223
Citations
Nanostructured gold films as broadband terahertz antireflection coatings

Andreas Thoman;Andreas Kern;Hanspeter Helm;Markus Walther

201
Citations
Chemical sensing and imaging with pulsed terahertz radiation

Markus Walther;Bernd M. Fischer;Alex Ortner;Andreas Bitzer

201
Citations
Metamaterial fibres for subdiffraction imaging and focusing at terahertz frequencies over optically long distances

Alessandro Tuniz;Korbinian J. Kaltenecker;Bernd M. Fischer;Markus Walther

162
Citations
Far-infrared properties of DAST.

Markus Walther;Kasper Jensby;Søren Rud Keiding;Hidenori Takahashi

157
Citations
Terahertz metamaterials fabricated by inkjet printing

Markus Walther;Alex Ortner;Henning Meier;Ute Löffelmann

141
Citations
Terahertz near-field imaging of electric and magnetic resonances of a planar metamaterial.

Andreas Bitzer;Hannes Merbold;Andreas Thoman;Thomas Feurer

134
Citations
Lattice modes mediate radiative coupling in metamaterial arrays.

Andreas Bitzer;Jan Wallauer;Hanspeter Helm;Hannes Merbold

129
Citations
Photovoltaic quantum well infrared photodetectors: The four-zone scheme

H. Schneider;C. Schönbein;M. Walther;K. Schwarz

114
Citations
Terahertz near-field microscopy of complementary planar metamaterials: Babinet’s principle

Andreas Bitzer;Alex Ortner;Hannes Merbold;Thomas Feurer

101
Citations