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Photonics Research receives its first Impact Factor: 3.179
Photonics Research is glad to announce its first Impact Factor of 3.179 according to the latest Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters 2016). The Journal is ranked 13 among 90 journals in the optics category.

Photonics Research will continue to provide the optics and photonics community with high impact research results. The journal would like to extend sincere thanks to all the authors, reviewers, and editors for their contributions and hard work.

Top 10 Cited Papers from Photonics Research
Stay current on Photonics Research by reviewing the top 10 cited articles during 2014-2015. The journal is open-access so the articles below are freely accessible.

*Source for top cited articles is Thomson Reuters Web of Science™.

Group-IV Photonics
Direct bandgap germanium-on-silicon inferred from 5.7% 〈100〉 uniaxial tensile strain [Invited]
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Photon. Res. 2(3), A8-A13 (2014)
David S. Sukhdeo, Donguk Nam, Ju-Hyung Kang, Mark L. Brongersma, and Krishna C. Saraswat
Photonics Based on 2D Materials
Few-layer MoS2 saturable absorbers for short-pulse laser technology: current status and future perspectives [Invited] (2015 Editor-in-Chief Choice Awarded Paper)
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Photon. Res. 3(2), A30-A42 (2015)
R. I. Woodward, R. C. T. Howe, G. Hu, F. Torrisi, M. Zhang, T. Hasan, and E. J. R. Kelleher
Mode-locking of fiber lasers using novel two-dimensional nanomaterials: graphene and topological insulators [Invited]
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Photon. Res. 3(2), A56-A63 (2015)
Grzegorz Sobon
Photovoltaics
Perovskite-based low-cost and high-efficiency hybrid halide solar cells
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Photon. Res. 2(5), 111-120 (2014)
Jiandong Fan, Baohua Jia, and Min Gu
Plasmonics
Attribution of Fano resonant features to plasmonic particle size, lattice constant, and dielectric wavenumber in square nanoparticle lattices
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Photon. Res. 2(1), 15-23 (2014)
Drew DeJarnette, Justin Norman, and D. Keith Roper
Photonics Based on 2D Materials
Nonlinear optical absorption of few-layer molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) for passively mode-locked soliton fiber laser [Invited]
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Photon. Res. 3(3), A79–A86 (2015)
Zhengqian Luo, Yingyue Li, Min Zhong, Yizhong Huang, Xiaojiao Wan, Jian Peng, and Jian Weng
Metamaterials
Ultra-thin, planar, broadband, dual-polarity plasmonic metalens
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Photon. Res. 3(3), Vol, 68-71 (2015)
Wei Wang, Zhongyi Guo, Rongzhen Li, Jingran Zhang, Yi Liu, Xinshun Wang, and Shiliang Qu
Integrated Optics
Mid-infrared 2 × 2 electro-optical switching by silicon and germanium three-waveguide and four-waveguide directional couplers using free-carrier injection
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Photon. Res. 2(5), 102-110 (2014)
Richard Soref
Image Processing
Enhanced depth resolution in optical scanning holography using a configurable pupil
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Photon. Res. 2(2), 64-70 (2014)
Haiyan Ou, Ting-Chung Poon, Kenneth K. Y. Wong, and Edmund Y. Lam
Optical Vortices
Arbitrary and reconfigurable optical vortex generation: a high-efficiency technique using director-varying liquid crystal fork gratings
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Photon. Res. 3(4), 133-139 (2015)
Peng Chen, Bing-Yan Wei, Wei Ji, Shi-Jun Ge, Wei Hu, Fei Xu, Vladimir Chigrinov, and Yan-Qing Lu
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