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Stefan A. Maier

Stefan A. Maier

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Materials Science
Germany
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
118
Citations
83405
World Ranking
515
National Ranking
24

Physics

D-Index
121
Citations
86541
World Ranking
766
National Ranking
18

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2011 - OSA Fellows For outstanding contributions to the fundamentals, technology, and applications of plasmonics from the terahertz to the visible.

Overview

Stefan A. Maier is affiliated with Monash University in Australia, focusing on research across engineering, materials science, and physics and astronomy. Their work extensively covers subfields including biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, electrical and electronic engineering, and materials chemistry.

The main topics of Stefan A. Maier's research include plasmonic and surface plasmon research, metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, photonic and optical devices, gold and silver nanoparticles synthesis and applications, photonic crystals and applications, advanced antenna and metasurface technologies, and orbital angular momentum in optics.

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are:

  • Andreas Tittl
  • Emiliano Cortés
  • Leonardo de S. Menezes
  • Haoran Ren
  • Riccardo Sapienza

Frequent publication venues where Stefan A. Maier's work appears include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACS Photonics
  • Nature Communications
  • Nano Letters
  • Light Science & Applications

Some recent publications by Stefan A. Maier are:

  • Advances and applications of nanophotonic biosensors, 2022, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Complex-amplitude metasurface-based orbital angular momentum holography in momentum space, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Accelerating CO2 Electroreduction to Multicarbon Products via Synergistic Electric-Thermal Field on Copper Nanoneedles, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • All-Dielectric Crescent Metasurface Sensor Driven by Bound States in the Continuum, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Giant second-harmonic generation in ferroelectric NbOI2, 2022, Nature Photonics

Stefan A. Maier was awarded the OSA Fellows honor in 2011 for contributions to the fundamentals, technology, and applications of plasmonics from the terahertz to the visible spectrum.

Best Publications

  • Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications

    Stefan Alexander Maier

  • The Fano resonance in plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials

    Boris Luk'yanchuk;Nikolay I. Zheludev;Stefan A. Maier;Naomi J. Halas

  • Present and Future of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

    Judith Langer;Dorleta Jimenez de Aberasturi;Javier Aizpurua;Ramon A. Alvarez-Puebla

  • Local detection of electromagnetic energy transport below the diffraction limit in metal nanoparticle plasmon waveguides.

    Stefan A. Maier;Pieter G. Kik;Harry A. Atwater;Sheffer Meltzer

  • Plasmonics: Localization and guiding of electromagnetic energy in metal/dielectric structures

    Stefan A. Maier;Harry A. Atwater

  • Plasmonics—A Route to Nanoscale Optical Devices

    Stefan A. Maier;Mark L. Brongersma;Pieter G. Kik;Sheffer Meltzer

  • Quantum Plasmonics

    M. S. Tame;K. R. McEnery;S. K. Ozdemir;J. Lee

  • Plasmonic nanoantennas: fundamentals and their use in controlling the radiative properties of nanoemitters.

    Vincenzo Giannini;Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez;Susannah C. Heck;Stefan A. Maier

  • Probing the Ultimate Limits of Plasmonic Enhancement

    C. Ciracì;R. T. Hill;J. J. Mock;Y. Urzhumov

  • Active control of electromagnetically induced transparency analogue in terahertz metamaterials

    Jianqiang Gu;Ranjan Singh;Xiaojun Liu;Xueqian Zhang

  • Symmetry breaking in plasmonic nanocavities: subradiant LSPR sensing and a tunable Fano resonance.

    Feng Hao;Yannick Sonnefraud;Pol Van Dorpe;Stefan A. Maier

  • Plasmon induced thermoelectric effect in graphene

    Viktoryia Shautsova;Viktoryia Shautsova;Themistoklis Sidiropoulos;Xiaofei Xiao;Nicholas A. Güsken

  • Sub-diffractional volume-confined polaritons in the natural hyperbolic material hexagonal boron nitride

    Joshua D. Caldwell;Andrey V. Kretinin;Yiguo Chen;Vincenzo Giannini

  • 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

  • Fano resonances in individual coherent plasmonic nanocavities.

    Niels Verellen;Yannick Sonnefraud;Heidar Sobhani;Feng Hao

  • Low-loss, infrared and terahertz nanophotonics using surface phonon polaritons

    Joshua D. Caldwell;Lucas Lindsay;Vincenzo Giannini;Igor Vurgaftman

  • Complex-amplitude metasurface-based orbital angular momentum holography in momentum space.

    Haoran Ren;Xinyuan Fang;Jaehyuck Jang;Johannes Bürger

  • 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

  • Active nanoplasmonic metamaterials

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

  • Observation of coupled plasmon-polariton modes in Au nanoparticle chain waveguides of different lengths: Estimation of waveguide loss

    Stefan A. Maier;Pieter G. Kik;Harry A. Atwater

  • Quantum Plasmonics

    Jamie M. Fitzgerald;Prineha Narang;Richard V. Craster;Stefan A. Maier

Frequent Co-Authors

Rupert F. Oulton
Rupert F. Oulton Imperial College London
Emiliano Cortés
Emiliano Cortés Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Dangyuan Lei
Dangyuan Lei City University of Hong Kong
John B. Pendry
John B. Pendry Imperial College London
Mohsen Rahmani
Mohsen Rahmani Nottingham Trent University
Minghui Hong
Minghui Hong National University of Singapore
Lesley F. Cohen
Lesley F. Cohen Imperial College London
Harry A. Atwater
Harry A. Atwater California Institute of Technology
Yu Luo
Yu Luo Nanyang Technological University
Joshua D. Caldwell
Joshua D. Caldwell Vanderbilt University

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