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Arka Majumdar is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science. Within these broad areas, their work engages subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Artificial Intelligence, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work prominently covers a range of topics related to photonics and materials science. Key research topics include Photonic and Optical Devices, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Phase-change Materials and Chalcogenides, Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies, and Strong Light-Matter Interactions.

Arka Majumdar has a record of publications across various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • ACS Photonics
  • Nature Communications
  • Optical Materials Express

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Arka Majumdar include:

  • Roadmap for Optical Metasurfaces, 2024, ACS Photonics
  • Nonvolatile Electrically Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Switch Enabled by a Silicon PIN Diode Heater, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Ultra-low-energy programmable non-volatile silicon photonics based on phase-change materials with graphene heaters, 2022, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Non-Volatile Reconfigurable Integrated Photonics Enabled by Broadband Low-Loss Phase Change Material, 2021, Advanced Optical Materials
  • Myths and truths about optical phase change materials: A perspective, 2021, Applied Physics Letters

Frequent collaborators in Arka Majumdar's research include Johannes E. Fröch, Zhuoran Fang, Rui Chen, Shane Colburn, and K. F. Böhringer. These coauthors have partnered on numerous publications, with the highest collaboration count being 65 with Johannes E. Fröch.

Best Publications

  • Monolayer semiconductor nanocavity lasers with ultralow thresholds

    Sanfeng Wu;Sonia Buckley;John R. Schaibley;Liefeng Feng

  • Low contrast dielectric metasurface optics

    Alan Zhan;Shane Colburn;Rahul Trivedi;Taylor K. Fryett

  • Ultra-low energy programmable non-volatile silicon photonics based on phase-change materials with graphene heaters

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  • Roadmap for Optical Metasurfaces

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  • Low Contrast Dielectric Metasurface Optics

    Alan Zhan;Shane Colburn;Rahul Trivedi;Chris Dodson

  • Resonant excitation of a quantum dot strongly coupled to a photonic crystal nanocavity.

    Dirk Englund;Arka Majumdar;Andrei Faraon;Mitsuru Toishi

  • GST-on-silicon hybrid nanophotonic integrated circuits: a non-volatile quasi-continuously reprogrammable platform

    Jiajiu Zheng;Amey Khanolkar;Peipeng Xu;Shane Colburn

  • Ultrafast Photon-Photon Interaction in a Strongly Coupled Quantum Dot-Cavity System

    Dirk Englund;Dirk Englund;Arka Majumdar;Michal Bajcsy;Andrei Faraon

  • Nonvolatile Electrically Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Switch Enabled by a Silicon PIN Diode Heater.

    Jiajiu Zheng;Zhuoran Fang;Changming Wu;Shifeng Zhu

  • Low-Loss and Broadband Nonvolatile Phase-Change Directional Coupler Switches

    Peipeng Xu;Peipeng Xu;Jiajiu Zheng;Jonathan K. Doylend;Arka Majumdar

  • Electrical Control of Silicon Photonic Crystal Cavity by Graphene

    Arka Majumdar;Jonghwan Kim;Jelena Vuckovic;Feng Wang;Feng Wang

  • Loss-enabled sub-poissonian light generation in a bimodal nanocavity.

    Arka Majumdar;Michal Bajcsy;Armand Rundquist;Jelena Vučković

  • Varifocal zoom imaging with large area focal length adjustable metalenses

    Shane Colburn;Alan Zhan;Arka Majumdar

  • Neural nano-optics for high-quality thin lens imaging.

    Ethan Tseng;Shane Colburn;James Whitehead;Luocheng Huang

  • Single-photon blockade in doubly resonant nanocavities with second-order nonlinearity

    Arka Majumdar;Dario Gerace

  • Metasurface optics for full-color computational imaging.

    Shane Colburn;Alan Zhan;Arka Majumdar

  • Control of Two-Dimensional Excitonic Light Emission via Photonic Crystal

    Sanfeng Wu;Sonia Buckley;Aaron Jones;Jason Ross

  • Non‐Volatile Reconfigurable Integrated Photonics Enabled by Broadband Low‐Loss Phase Change Material

    Zhuoran Fang;Jiajiu Zheng;Abhi Saxena;James Whitehead

  • Nanocavity Integrated van der Waals Heterostructure Light-Emitting Tunneling Diode

    Chang Hua Liu;Genevieve Clark;Taylor Fryett;Sanfeng Wu

  • Ultrafast direct modulation of a single-mode photonic crystal nanocavity light-emitting diode

    Gary Shambat;Bryan Ellis;Arka Majumdar;Jan Petykiewicz

  • Ultrafast direct modulation of a single-mode photonic crystal nanocavity light-emitting diode

    Gary Shambat;Bryan Ellis;Arka Majumdar;Jan Petykiewicz

  • Integrated quantum optical networks based on quantum dots and photonic crystals

    Andrei Faraon;Arka Majumdar;Dirk Englund;Erik Kim

  • Metasurface Freeform Nanophotonics

    Alan Zhan;Shane Colburn;Christopher M. Dodson;Arka Majumdar

  • Non-volatile electrically programmable integrated photonics with a 5-bit operation

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  • Fast Electrical Control of a Quantum Dot Strongly Coupled to a Photonic-Crystal Cavity

    Andrei Faraon;Andrei Faraon;Arka Majumdar;Hyochul Kim;Pierre Petroff

Frequent Co-Authors

Jelena Vuckovic
Jelena Vuckovic Stanford University
Andrei Faraon
Andrei Faraon California Institute of Technology
Xiaodong Xu
Xiaodong Xu University of Washington
Pierre Petroff
Pierre Petroff University of California, Santa Barbara
Jiaqiang Yan
Jiaqiang Yan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Eugene E. Haller
Eugene E. Haller Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Eric Pop
Eric Pop Stanford University
James S. Harris
James S. Harris Stanford University

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