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We thank P. S. Carney, A. Kuzmenko, I. Nechaev, and F. Guinea for stimulating discussions. Supported by the European Union through ERC starting grants (TERATOMO, SPINTROS and CarbonLight), NMP (HINTS and Grafol), Marie Curie Career Integration Grants (ITAMOSCINOM and GRANOP); the European Commission under Graphene Flagship (contract no. CNECT-ICT-604391); the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (National Projects MAT2012-36580 and MAT2012-37638) and from the Basque Government (Project PI2011-1). F. K. acknowledges support from the Fundacio Cellex Barcelona. R. H. is co-founder of Neaspec GmbH, a company producing scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscope systems such as the one used in this study. All other authors declare no competing financial interests.

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Controlling graphene plasmons with resonant metal antennas and spatial conductivity patterns

Publicated to:SCIENCE. 344 (6190): 1369-1373 - 2014-01-01 344(6190), DOI: 10.1126/science.1253202

Authors: Alonso-Gonzalez, P.; Nikitin, A. Y.; Golmar, F.; Centeno, A.; Pesquera, A.; Velez, S.; Chen, J.; Navickaite, G.; Koppens, F.; Zurutuza, A.; Casanova, F.; Hueso, L. E.; Hillenbrand, R.;

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‎ Basque Fdn Sci, IKERBASQUE, Bilbao 48011, Spain - Author
‎ CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia San Sebastian 20018, Spain - Author
‎ ECyT UNSAM, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina - Author
‎ Graphenea SA, Donostia San Sebastian 20018, Spain - Author
‎ ICFO Inst Ciencies Foton, Barcelona 08860, Spain - Author
‎ INTI CONICET, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina - Author
‎ Univ Basque Country, Donostia San Sebastian 20018, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Graphene plasmons promise unique possibilities for controlling light in nanoscale devices and for merging optics with electronics. We developed a versatile platform technology based on resonant optical antennas and conductivity patterns for launching and control of propagating graphene plasmons, an essential step for the development of graphene plasmonic circuits. We launched and focused infrared graphene plasmons with geometrically tailored antennas and observed how they refracted when passing through a two-dimensional conductivity pattern, here a prism-shaped bilayer. To that end, we directly mapped the graphene plasmon wavefronts by means of an imaging method that will be useful in testing future design concepts for nanoscale graphene plasmonic circuits and devices.

Keywords
ExcitationMetamaterialsOpticsPolarizationSurface-plasmons

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal SCIENCE due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2014, it was in position 2/57, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Multidisciplinary Sciences.

This publication has been distinguished as a “Highly Cited Paper” by the agencies WoS (ESI, Clarivate) and ESI (Clarivate), meaning that it ranks within the top 1% of the most cited articles in its thematic field during the year of its publication. In terms of the observed impact of the contribution, this work is considered one of the most influential worldwide, as it is recognized as highly cited. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

And this is evidenced by the extremely high normalized impacts through some of the main indicators of this type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of calculation, already indicate that they are well above the average in different agencies:

  • Normalization of citations relative to the expected citation rate (ESI) by the Clarivate agency: 7.48 (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)
  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 18.08 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)
  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 50.97 (source consulted: Dimensions May 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-05-10, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 301
  • Scopus: 320
  • OpenCitations: 302
Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-05-10:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 472.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 476 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 112.168.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 12 (Altmetric).
Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Argentina.