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Michel Orrit publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michel Orrit sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 237 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Michel Orrit D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michel Orrit sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2017 - Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council
  • 2010 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Michel Orrit is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science. Subfields of study for Orrit's work include Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biophysics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics covered in their publications address Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications, Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, as well as Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Orrit are:

  • Subhasis Adhikari
  • Martin D. Baaske
  • Robert Smit
  • Patrick Spaeth
  • Zoran Ristanović

Orrit's research has been published in several venues, notably:

  • ACS Nano
  • ACS Photonics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nano Letters
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Among recent papers are:

  • Photothermal Microscopy: Imaging the Optical Absorption of Single Nanoparticles and Single Molecules, 2020, ACS Nano
  • Effective Electron Temperature Measurement Using Time-Resolved Anti-Stokes Photoluminescence, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Quantum Yield Limits for the Detection of Single-Molecule Fluorescence Enhancement by a Gold Nanorod, 2020, ACS Photonics
  • Laser-induced frequency tuning of Fourier-limited single-molecule emitter, 2020, ACS Nano
  • Optically Probing the Chirality of Single Plasmonic Nanostructures and of Single Molecules: Potential and Obstacles, 2022, ACS Photonics

Orrit has received several recognitions, including:

  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018
  • Spinoza Prize awarded by the Dutch Research Council in 2017
  • Membership of Academia Europaea since 2010

Best Publications

  • Illuminating single molecules in condensed matter.

    W. E. Moerner;Michel Orrit

  • Single pentacene molecules detected by fluorescence excitation in a p-terphenyl crystal.

    M. Orrit;J. Bernard

  • Photothermal imaging of nanometer-sized metal particles among scatterers.

    David Boyer;Philippe Tamarat;Abdelhamid Maali;Brahim Lounis

  • Single-photon sources

    Brahim Lounis;Michel Orrit

  • Optical detection of single non-absorbing molecules using the surface plasmon resonance of a gold nanorod.

    Peter Zijlstra;Pedro M. R. Paulo;Michel Orrit

  • Photon antibunching in the fluorescence of a single dye molecule trapped in a solid

    Th. Basché;W. E. Moerner;M. Orrit;H. Talon

  • Triggered Source of Single Photons based on Controlled Single Molecule Fluorescence

    Christian Brunel;Brahim Lounis;Philippe Tamarat;Michel Orrit

  • Room-Temperature Detection of a Single Molecule’s Absorption by Photothermal Contrast

    A. Gaiduk;M. Yorulmaz;P. V. Ruijgrok;M. Orrit

  • Third-harmonic generation from single gold nanoparticles.

    Markus Lippitz;Meindert A. van Dijk;Michel Orrit

  • Ten Years of Single-Molecule Spectroscopy

    Ph. Tamarat;A. Maali;and B. Lounis;M. Orrit

  • Simple model for the power-law blinking of single semiconductor nanocrystals

    Rogier Verberk;Antoine M. van Oijen;Michel Orrit

  • Absorption and scattering microscopy of single metal nanoparticles

    M. A. van Dijk;A. L. Tchebotareva;M. Orrit;M. Lippitz

  • Power-law intermittency of single emitters

    F. Cichos;C. von Borczyskowski;M. Orrit

  • Photoblinking of Rhodamine 6G in Poly(vinyl alcohol): Radical Dark State Formed through the Triplet

    Rob Zondervan;Florian Kulzer;Sergei B. Orlinskii;Michel Orrit

  • Optical detection of magnetic resonance in a single molecule

    J. Wrachtrup;C. von Borczyskowski;J. Bernard;M. Orrit

  • Single metal nanoparticles: optical detection, spectroscopy and applications

    P Zijlstra;M Orrit

  • Single-molecule optics.

    Florian Kulzer;Michel Orrit

  • Resonant plasmonic enhancement of single-molecule fluorescence by individual gold nanorods

    Saumyakanti Khatua;Pedro M. R. Paulo;Haifeng Yuan;Ankur Gupta

  • Detection of Acoustic Oscillations of Single Gold Nanospheres by Time-Resolved Interferometry

    Meindert A. van Dijk;Markus Lippitz;Michel Orrit

  • Photon bunching in the fluorescence from single molecules: A probe for intersystem crossing

    J. Bernard;L. Fleury;H. Talon;M. Orrit

Frequent Co-Authors

Brahim Lounis
Brahim Lounis University of Bordeaux
Jörg Wrachtrup
Jörg Wrachtrup University of Stuttgart
W. E. Moerner
W. E. Moerner Stanford University
Matthew S. Platz
Matthew S. Platz University of Hawaii at Hilo
Vahid Sandoghdar
Vahid Sandoghdar Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Dietmar Möbius
Dietmar Möbius Max Planck Society
André Gourdon
André Gourdon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Frank H. L. Koppens
Frank H. L. Koppens Institute of Photonic Sciences
Andreas Zumbusch
Andreas Zumbusch University of Konstanz
Alfred J. Meixner
Alfred J. Meixner University of Tübingen

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