Alexander McLeod

9.6k citations

71 papers · 7.1k · 4 hit papers · h-index 32

Impact in

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials top 0.5%
- Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
Biomedical Engineering top 0.2%
- Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Near-Field Optical Microscopy

Papers in

Materials Chemistry 37
- Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides 13
- Graphene research and applications 10
- 2D Materials and Applications 8
Biomedical Engineering 34
- Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research 22
- Near-Field Optical Microscopy 9

Co-authors: D. N. Basov (44 shared papers)M. M. Fogler (26 shared papers)F. Keilmann (11 shared papers)Zhe Fei (12 shared papers)M. H. Thiemens (11 shared papers)A. H. Castro Neto (8 shared papers)Martin Wagner (7 shared papers)Aleksandr Rodin (6 shared papers)
Journals: Nano Letters (15 papers)Nature Communications (6 papers)Applied Physics Letters (3 papers)Physical review. B. (3 papers)ACS Nano (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Japan

In The Last Decade

Alexander McLeod

68 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Alexander McLeod's Hit Papers

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Fundamental limits to graphene plasmonics 2018 · 444 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 Nature
2014 Science
2012 Nature
2011 Nano Letters

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1	Gate-tuning of graphene plasmons revealed by infrared nano-imaging Nature ·Zhe Fei, Aleksandr Rodin, Gregory Andreev, Wenzhong Bao, Alexander McLeod, Martin Wagner, L. M. Zhang, Zhenyu Zhao, M. H. Thiemens, G. Dominguez, M. M. Fogler, A. H. Castro Neto, Chun Ning Lau, F. Keilmann, D. N. Basov Hit paper breakdown →	2012	1685
2	Tunable Phonon Polaritons in Atomically Thin van der Waals Crystals of Boron Nitride Science ·Siyuan Dai, Zhe Fei, Q. Ma, Aleksandr Rodin, Markus R. Wagner, Alexander McLeod, M. K. Liu, Will Gannett, William Regan, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, M. H. Thiemens, G. Domínguez, A. H. Castro Neto, Alex Zettl, F. Keilmann, Pablo Jarillo‐Herrero, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov Hit paper breakdown →	2014	978
3	Infrared Nanoscopy of Dirac Plasmons at the Graphene–SiO₂ Interface Nano Letters ·Zhe Fei, Gregory Andreev, Wenzhong Bao, Lingfeng M. Zhang, Alexander McLeod, Chen Wang, M. K. Stewart, Zeng Zhao, G. Domínguez, M. H. Thiemens, M. M. Fogler, Michael J. Tauber, A. H. Castro Neto, Chun Ning Lau, F. Keilmann, Dimitri Basov Hit paper breakdown →	2011	468
4	Fundamental limits to graphene plasmonics Nature ·Guangxin Ni, Alexander McLeod, Zhiyuan Sun, Lei Wang, Lin Xiong, K. W. Post, Sai Sunku, Bor‐Yuan Jiang, James Hone, Cory R. Dean, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov Hit paper breakdown →	2018	444
5	Subdiffractional focusing and guiding of polaritonic rays in a natural hyperbolic material Nature Communications ·Siyuan Dai, Q. Ma, Trond I. Andersen, Alexander McLeod, Zhe Fei, M. K. Liu, Martin Wagner, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, M. H. Thiemens, F. Keilmann, Pablo Jarillo‐Herrero, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov	2015	348
6	Ultrafast optical switching of infrared plasmon polaritons in high-mobility graphene Nature Photonics ·Guangxin Ni, Lei Wang, Michael Goldflam, Martin Wagner, Z. Fei, Alexander McLeod, M. K. Liu, F. Keilmann, Barbaros Özyilmaz, A. H. Castro Neto, James Hone, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov	2016	327
7	Photonic crystals for nano-light in moiré graphene superlattices Science ·Sai Sunku, Guangxin Ni, Bor‐Yuan Jiang, Hyobin Yoo, Aaron Sternbach, Alexander McLeod, Tobias Stauber, Lin Xiong, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Philip Kim, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov	2018	300
8	Electronic and plasmonic phenomena at graphene grain boundaries Nature Nanotechnology ·Zhe Fei, Aleksandr Rodin, Will Gannett, Siyuan Dai, William Regan, Markus R. Wagner, M. K. Liu, Alexander McLeod, G. Domínguez, M. H. Thiemens, A. H. Castro Neto, F. Keilmann, Alex Zettl, Rainer Hillenbrand, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov	2013	217
9	Active Optical Metasurfaces Based on Defect-Engineered Phase-Transition Materials Nano Letters ·Jura Rensberg, Shuyan Zhang, You Zhou, Alexander McLeod, Christian Schwarz, Michael Goldflam, Mengkun Liu, Jochen Kerbusch, Ronny Nawrodt, Shriram Ramanathan, D. N. Basov, Federico Capasso, Carsten Ronning, Mikhail A. Kats	2015	186
10	Nanotextured phase coexistence in the correlated insulator V2O3 Nature Physics ·Alexander McLeod, Erik van Heumen, Juan Gabriel Ramírez, S. Wang, Thomas Saerbeck, Stefan Guénon, Michael Goldflam, Loïc Anderegg, P. Kelly, A. Mueller, M. K. Liu, Iván K. Schuller, D. N. Basov	2016	177
11	Edge and Surface Plasmons in Graphene Nanoribbons Nano Letters ·Zhe Fei, Michael Goldflam, James Swi‐Bea Wu, S. Dai, Martin Wagner, Alexander McLeod, M. K. Liu, K. W. Post, Shou-En Zhu, G. C. A. M. Janssen, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov	2015	156
12	Model for quantitative tip-enhanced spectroscopy and the extraction of nanoscale-resolved optical constants Physical Review B ·Alexander McLeod, P. Kelly, Michael Goldflam, Z. Gainsforth, A. J. Westphal, G. Domínguez, M. H. Thiemens, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov	2014	147
13	Dissolved methane recovery from anaerobic effluents using hollow fibre membrane contactors Journal of Membrane Science ·Joanna Cookney, Alexander McLeod, V. Mathioudakis, Philani Ncube, Ana Soares, Bruce Jefferson, E.J. McAdam	2015	144
14	Anisotropic Electronic State via Spontaneous Phase Separation in Strained Vanadium Dioxide Films Physical Review Letters ·M. K. Liu, Martin Wagner, Elsa Abreu, Salinporn Kittiwatanakul, Alexander McLeod, Zhe Fei, Michael Goldflam, S. Dai, M. M. Fogler, Jiwei Lu, S. Wolf, Richard D. Averitt, D. N. Basov	2013	126
15	Ultrafast Dynamics of Surface Plasmons in InAs by Time-Resolved Infrared Nanospectroscopy Nano Letters ·Martin Wagner, Alexander McLeod, Scott J. Maddox, Zhe Fei, Mengkun Liu, Richard D. Averitt, M. M. Fogler, Seth R. Bank, F. Keilmann, D. N. Basov	2014	94
16	Near-field spectroscopy of silicon dioxide thin films Physical Review B ·L. M. Zhang, Gregory Andreev, Zhe Fei, Alexander McLeod, G. Dominguez, M. H. Thiemens, A. H. Castro Neto, D. N. Basov, M. M. Fogler	2012	87
17	Graphene-Based Platform for Infrared Near-Field Nanospectroscopy of Water and Biological Materials in an Aqueous Environment ACS Nano ·Omar Khatib, Joshua D. Wood, Alexander McLeod, Michael Goldflam, Martin Wagner, Gregory L. Damhorst, Justin Koepke, Gregory P. Doidge, Aniruddh Rangarajan, Rashid Bashir, Eric Pop, Joseph W. Lyding, M. H. Thiemens, F. Keilmann, D. N. Basov	2015	76
18	IR Near-Field Spectroscopy and Imaging of Single Li_xFePO₄ Microcrystals Nano Letters ·Ivan T. Lucas, Alexander McLeod, Jarosław Syzdek, Derek S. Middlemiss, Clare P. Grey, D. N. Basov, Robert Kostecki	2014	76
19	Charge-Transfer Plasmon Polaritons at Graphene/α-RuCl₃ Interfaces Nano Letters ·Daniel J. Rizzo, Bjarke S. Jessen, Zhiyuan Sun, Francesco L. Ruta, Jin Zhang, Jiaqiang Yan, Lede Xian, Alexander McLeod, Michael Berkwits, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, S. E. Nagler, David Mandrus, Ángel Rubio, M. M. Fogler, Andrew J. Millis, James Hone, Cory R. Dean, D. N. Basov	2020	71
20	Voltage switching of a VO2 memory metasurface using ionic gel Applied Physics Letters ·Michael Goldflam, (unknown), B. C. Chapler, H. T. Stinson, Aaron Sternbach, Alexander McLeod, (unknown), Kun Geng, (unknown), Bong Jun Kim, Richard D. Averitt, N.M. Jokerst, David R. Smith, (unknown), D. N. Basov	2014	67

About Alexander McLeod

Alexander McLeod is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, having authored 71 papers that have together received 7.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (22 papers), Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (13 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (12 papers), Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials (11 papers), Graphene research and applications (10 papers), Near-Field Optical Microscopy (9 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (8 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (2.6k citations), Biomedical Engineering (4.5k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (2.9k citations), Civil and Structural Engineering (1.5k citations) and Materials Chemistry (2.2k citations). Alexander McLeod has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Frequent co-authors include D. N. Basov, M. M. Fogler, F. Keilmann, Zhe Fei, M. H. Thiemens, A. H. Castro Neto, Martin Wagner, Aleksandr Rodin, M. K. Liu and Gregory Andreev. Their work appears in journals such as Nano Letters, Nature Communications, Applied Physics Letters, Physical review. B. and ACS Nano.

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