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Ortwin Hess publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ortwin Hess sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 437 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Ortwin Hess D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ortwin Hess sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ortwin Hess is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and has a significant body of research spanning Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. Their work emphasizes applied and theoretical aspects of light-matter interactions and nanophotonics in various technological and scientific domains.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the fields of Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Research topics are focused on plasmonic and surface plasmon phenomena, photonic and optical devices, synthesis and applications of gold and silver nanoparticles, quantum information and cryptography, strong light-matter interactions, mechanical and optical resonators, and photonic crystals and their uses.

Ortwin Hess's frequent co-authors include Nuttawut Kongsuwan, Daniel D. A. Clarke, Frank Bello, Jeremy J. Baumberg, and Rohit Chikkaraddy, reflecting collaboration across multiple studies.

Typical venues for publishing this research include arXiv (Cornell University), Nano Letters, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Physical Review Research, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Significant recent papers by the scientist include:

  • Gate-Tunable Plasmon-Enhanced Photodetection in a Monolayer MoS2 Phototransistor with Ultrahigh Photoresponsivity, 2021, Nano Letters
  • Gapless unidirectional photonic transport using all-dielectric kagome lattices, 2020, Physical Review Research
  • Nature of topological protection in photonic spin and valley Hall insulators, 2020, Physical Review B
  • Cascaded nanooptics to probe microsecond atomic-scale phenomena, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Room-temperature plexcitonic strong coupling: Ultrafast dynamics for quantum applications, 2021, Applied Physics Letters

Best Publications

  • Single-molecule strong coupling at room temperature in plasmonic nanocavities

    Rohit Chikkaraddy;Bart de Nijs;Felix Benz;Steven J. Barrow

  • ‘Trapped rainbow’ storage of light in metamaterials

    Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis;Allan D. Boardman;Ortwin Hess

  • Active nanoplasmonic metamaterials

    O. Hess;J. B. Pendry;S. A. Maier;R. F. Oulton

  • Intermediate band solar cells: Recent progress and future directions

    Y. Okada;N. J. Ekins-Daukes;T. Kita;R. Tamaki

  • Overcoming Losses with Gain in a Negative Refractive Index Metamaterial

    Sebastian Wuestner;Andreas Pusch;Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis;Joachim M. Hamm

  • Ultrafast plasmonic nanowire lasers near the surface plasmon frequency

    Themistoklis P. H. Sidiropoulos;Robert Röder;Sebastian Geburt;Ortwin Hess

  • Near-field strong coupling of single quantum dots

    Heiko Groß;Joachim M. Hamm;Tommaso Tufarelli;Ortwin Hess

  • Chiral metamaterials: enhancement and control of optical activity and circular dichroism

    Sang Soon Oh;Ortwin Hess

  • Maxwell-Bloch equations for spatially inhomogeneous semiconductor lasers. I. Theoretical formulation.

    Ortwin Hess;Tilmann Kuhn

  • Suppressed Quenching and Strong-Coupling of Purcell-Enhanced Single-Molecule Emission in Plasmonic Nanocavities

    Nuttawut Kongsuwan;Angela Demetriadou;Rohit Chikkaraddy;Felix Benz

  • Massively parallel ultrafast random bit generation with a chip-scale laser

    Kyungduk Kim;Stefan Bittner;Stefan Bittner;Yongquan Zeng;Stefano Guazzotti;Stefano Guazzotti

  • Silicon-based two-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides

    C. Jamois;R.B. Wehrspohn;R.B. Wehrspohn;L.C. Andreani;C. Hermann

  • Mapping Nanoscale Hotspots with Single-Molecule Emitters Assembled into Plasmonic Nanocavities Using DNA Origami

    Rohit Chikkaraddy;Vladimir Turek;Nuttawut Kongsuwan;Felix Benz

  • High-dimensional chaotic dynamics of an external cavity semiconductor laser.

    I I Fischer;O Hess;W Elsa;E Göbel

  • Complex spatio-temporal dynamics in the near-field of a broad-area semiconductor laser

    I. Fischer;O. Hess;W. Elsäßer;E. Göbel

  • Dirac-like plasmons in honeycomb lattices of metallic nanoparticles.

    Guillaume Weick;Claire Woollacott;William L. Barnes;Ortwin Hess

  • Electrical access to critical coupling of circularly polarized waves in graphene chiral metamaterials.

    Teun-Teun Kim;Teun-Teun Kim;Sang Soon Oh;Hyeon-Don Kim;Hyun Sung Park

  • Filamentation and beam propagation in broad-area semiconductor lasers

    O. Hess;S.W. Koch;J.V. Moloney

  • Cavity-free plasmonic nanolasing enabled by dispersionless stopped light

    Tim Pickering;Joachim M. Hamm;A. Freddie Page;Sebastian Wuestner

  • Ultraslow waves on the nanoscale

    Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis;Ortwin Hess;Robert W. Boyd;Xiang Zhang;Xiang Zhang;Xiang Zhang

  • Existence of Temperature on the Nanoscale

    Michael Hartmann;Günter Mahler;Ortwin Hess

  • Trapped rainbow storage of light in metamaterials

    Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis;Edmund I. Kirby;Joachim Hamm;Ortwin Hess

  • Ultrafast plasmonic nanowire lasers near the surface plasmon frequency (Presentation Recording)

    Themistoklis P. H. Sidiropoulos;Robert Roder;Sebastian Geburt;Ortwin Hess

  • Chiral metamaterials: enhancement and control of optical activity and circular

    Ortwin Hess

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy J. Baumberg
Jeremy J. Baumberg University of Cambridge
Stefan A. Maier
Stefan A. Maier Monash University
Ingo Fischer
Ingo Fischer Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems
Qi Jie Wang
Qi Jie Wang Nanyang Technological University
Siegfried Hess
Siegfried Hess Technical University of Berlin
Javier Aizpurua
Javier Aizpurua University of the Basque Country
Ulrich F. Keyser
Ulrich F. Keyser University of Cambridge
Ulrich Wiesner
Ulrich Wiesner Cornell University
Hui Cao
Hui Cao Yale University
Rupert F. Oulton
Rupert F. Oulton Imperial College London

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