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ACS Photonics Template

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About the ACS Photonics format

ACS Photonics is a peer-reviewed journal published by American Chemical Society, covering Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, Photonic and Optical Devices, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications. Over its lifetime it has published 6,107 papers, which have received 203,579 citations.

PublisherAmerican Chemical Society
Reference styleSuperscript numbered (ACS)
Superscript — small raised numerals in the text
(1) Smith, A.; Jones, B.; Lee, C. A Representative Article Title. ACS Photonics 2023, 12, 45–58.

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Publishes research inPlasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research Photonic and Optical Devices Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications Photonic Crystals and Applications Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
ISSN2330-4022
Citation impact (2-yr)5.27
h-index166
i10-index3,734
Top institutions publishing hereCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Journal websitepubs.acs.org
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Papers published in ACS Photonics per year

201
2014
242
2015
366
2016
530
2017
600
2018
446
2019
429
2020
436
2021
505
2022
492
2023
660
2024
759
2025

Citation impact of ACS Photonics by publication year

15.1K
2014
18.6K
2015
21.3K
2016
33.2K
2017
31.4K
2018
20.3K
2019
17K
2020
12.5K
2021
14.2K
2022
8.1K
2023
6.6K
2024
2.5K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in ACS Photonics

Graphene Plasmonics: Challenges and Opportunities

F. Javier Garcı́a de Abajo · 11 Feb 2014

Graphene plasmons are rapidly emerging as a viable tool for fast electrical manipulation of light. The prospects for applications to electro-optical modulation, optical sensing, quantum plasmonics, light harvesting, spectral photometry, and tunable lighting at the nanoscale are further stimulated by the relatively low level of losses and high degree of spatial confinement that characterize these…

1,250 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Training Deep Neural Networks for the Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Structures

Dianjing Liu, Yixuan Tan, Erfan Khoram et al. · 25 Feb 2018

Data inconsistency leads to a slow training process when deep neural networks are used for the inverse design of photonic devices, an issue that arises from the fundamental property of nonuniqueness in all inverse scattering problems. Here we show that by combining forward modeling and inverse design in a tandem architecture, one can overcome this…

1,136 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Plasmonic Films Can Easily Be Better: Rules and Recipes

Kevin M. McPeak, Sriharsha V. Jayanti, Stephan J. P. Kress et al. · 3 Feb 2015

High-quality materials are critical for advances in plasmonics, especially as researchers now investigate quantum effects at the limit of single surface plasmons or exploit ultraviolet- or CMOS-compatible metals such as aluminum or copper. Unfortunately, due to inexperience with deposition methods, many plasmonics researchers deposit metals under the wrong conditions, severely limiting performance unnecessarily. This is…

1,027 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Daytime Radiative Cooling Using Near-Black Infrared Emitters

Jun-long Kou, Zoila Jurado, Zhen Chen et al. · 3 Feb 2017

Recent works have demonstrated that daytime radiative cooling under direct sunlight can be achieved using multilayer thin films designed to emit in the infrared atmospheric transparency window while reflecting visible light. Here, we demonstrate that a polymer-coated fused silica mirror, as a near-ideal blackbody in the mid-infrared and near-ideal reflector in the solar spectrum, achieves…

Total Absorption in a Graphene Monolayer in the Optical Regime by Critical Coupling with a Photonic Crystal Guided Resonance

Jessica Piper, Shanhui Fan · 3 Mar 2014

High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide We numerically demonstrate total absorption in graphene in the near-infrared and visible wavelength ranges by means of critical coupling with guided resonances of a photonic crystal slab. In this wavelength range, there is no plasmonic response in undoped graphene, so the critical coupling is entirely controlled by the…

ACS Photonics template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the ACS Photonics format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the ACS Photonics template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official American Chemical Society format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does ACS Photonics use?
ACS Photonics uses Superscript numbered (ACS) references, shown as superscript numerals in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: (1) Smith, A.; Jones, B.; Lee, C. A Representative Article Title. ACS Photonics 2023, 12, 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to ACS Photonics?
No. DocuGuru generates the achemso LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a American Chemical Society-ready ACS Photonics document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
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What is ACS Photonics?
ACS journal (achemso). It is a chemistry journal, published by American Chemical Society.
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