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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
USA
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
104
Citations
56585
World Ranking
147
National Ranking
72

Materials Science

D-Index
102
Citations
55656
World Ranking
938
National Ranking
308

Physics

D-Index
99
Citations
46993
World Ranking
1685
National Ranking
888

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

Overview

Axel Scherer is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a strong emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, biophysics, and surfaces, coatings, and films.

The scientist's work spans a range of topics including semiconductor materials and devices, photonic and optical devices, advancements in photolithography techniques, advancements in semiconductor devices and circuit design, spectroscopy techniques in biomedical and chemical research, diamond and carbon-based materials research, and nanofabrication and lithography techniques.

Axel Scherer has contributed to several recent publications that reflect these topics:

  • Tuning the Performance of Negative Tone Electron Beam Resists for the Next Generation Lithography, 2022, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Suspended Nanoscale Field Emitter Devices for High-Temperature Operation, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
  • Simulations of 3D-Printable biomimetic artificial muscles based on microfluidic microcapacitors for exoskeletal actuation and stealthy underwater propulsion, 2021, Sensors and Actuators A Physical
  • Development of a Compact and Robust Mid-Infrared Spectrometer by Using a Silicon/Air Hyperspectral Filter, 2021, ACS Photonics
  • Lateral nanoscale field emission comb for frequency mixing, 2023, Applied Physics Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Axel Scherer include:

  • Lucia De Rose
  • Changsoon Choi
  • Scott Lewis
  • Taeyoon Jeon
  • Guy A. DeRose

Research projects and publications have appeared in a diverse set of venues, illustrating the interdisciplinary nature of their work. These publication venues include:

  • Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Nanotechnology and Microelectronics Materials Processing Measurement and Phenomena
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
  • Sensors and Actuators A Physical
  • ACS Photonics

Axel Scherer was recognized as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2014, marking a noted point in their professional career.

Best Publications

  • Monolithic microfabricated valves and pumps by multilayer soft lithography

    Marc A. Unger;Hou-Pu Chou;Todd Thorsen;Axel Scherer

  • Two-Dimensional Photonic Band-Gap Defect Mode Laser

    Oskar Painter;R. K. Lee;Axel Scherer;A. Yariv

  • Vacuum Rabi splitting with a single quantum dot in a photonic crystal nanocavity

    Tomoyuki Yoshie;Axel Scherer;J. Hendrickson;G. Khitrova

  • Coupled-resonator optical waveguide:?a proposal and analysis

    Amnon Yariv;Yong Xu;Reginald K. Lee;Axel Scherer

  • From Micro- to Nanofabrication with Soft Materials

    Stephen R. Quake;Axel Scherer

  • Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced Light Emitters Based on InGaN Quantum Wells

    Koichi Okamoto;Isamu Niki;Isamu Niki;Alexander Shvartser;Yukio Narukawa

  • Experimental demonstration of a unidirectional reflectionless parity-time metamaterial at optical frequencies

    Liang Feng;Ye-Long Xu;William S. Fegadolli;William S. Fegadolli;Ming-Hui Lu

  • A microfabricated fluorescence-activated cell sorter

    Anne Y. Fu;Charles Spence;Axel Scherer;Frances H. Arnold

  • Vacuum Rabi splitting in semiconductors

    G. Khitrova;H. M. Gibbs;M. Kira;S. W. Koch

  • 30% external quantum efficiency from surface textured, thin‐film light‐emitting diodes

    I. Schnitzer;E. Yablonovitch;C. Caneau;T. J. Gmitter

  • Analysis of Radiation-Pressure Induced Mechanical Oscillation of an Optical Microcavity

    T. J. Kippenberg;H. Rokhsari;T. Carmon;Axel Scherer

  • Microfabricated elastomeric valve and pump systems

    Marc A. Unger;Hou-Pu Chou;Todd A. Thorsen;Axel Scherer

  • Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers: Design, growth, fabrication, characterization

    J.L. Jewell;J.P. Harbison;A. Scherer;Y.H. Lee

  • Nonreciprocal Light Propagation in a Silicon Photonic Circuit

    Liang Feng;Liang Feng;Maurice Ayache;Jingqing Huang;Ye-Long Xu

  • Defect Modes of a Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal in an Optically Thin Dielectric Slab

    Oskar Painter;Jelena Vuckovic;Axel Scherer

  • A Microfabricated Device for Sizing and Sorting DNA Molecules

    Hou-Pu Chou;Charles Spence;Axel Scherer;Stephen R. Quake

  • Low-Threshold Electrically Pumped Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Microlasers

    J. L. Jewell;Axel Scherer;S. L. McCall;Y. H. Lee

  • Waveguiding in Planar Photonic Crystals

    Marko Lončar;Dušan Nedeljković;Theodor Doll;Jelena Vučković

  • Quenching of the Hall effect in a one-dimensional wire.

    M. L. Roukes;A. Scherer;S. J. Allen;Harold G. Craighead

  • Design and fabrication of silicon photonic crystal optical waveguides

    M. Loncar;T. Doll;J. Vuckovic;A. Scherer

Frequent Co-Authors

Marko Loncar
Marko Loncar Harvard University
Amnon Yariv
Amnon Yariv California Institute of Technology
Oskar Painter
Oskar Painter California Institute of Technology
Stephen R. Quake
Stephen R. Quake Stanford University
Jelena Vuckovic
Jelena Vuckovic Stanford University
J. P. Harbison
J. P. Harbison Telcordia Technologies
Michael Hochberg
Michael Hochberg Luminous Computing
Michael L. Roukes
Michael L. Roukes California Institute of Technology
Demetri Psaltis
Demetri Psaltis École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Dennis G. Deppe
Dennis G. Deppe University of Central Florida

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