2026 Carsten Rockstuhl: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	80	3008	2858	283	270	622	24991

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Research.com Recognitions

2016 - OSA Fellows Carsten Rockstuhl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany For seminal contributions to the field of theoretical and computational nanophotonics and, in particular, for groundbreaking contributions to the theoretical understanding of metamaterials and for pioneering the field of amorphous nanophotonics.

Overview

Carsten Rockstuhl is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering, physics, and materials science, with a focus on nanoscale photonics and metamaterials.

The main fields of study for Carsten Rockstuhl include:

Engineering
Physics and Astronomy
Materials Science

Within these broader categories, they have contributed extensively to various subfields such as:

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Biomedical Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Aerospace Engineering

The research topics frequently addressed in their work cover:

Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
Photonic Crystals and Applications
Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
Photonic and Optical Devices
Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
Optical Coatings and Gratings

Carsten Rockstuhl has published numerous papers, with representative recent works including:

"All-Dielectric Crescent Metasurface Sensor Driven by Bound States in the Continuum," 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
"Metasurface-based realization of photonic time crystals," 2023, Science Advances
"Helicity-Preserving Optical Cavity Modes for Enhanced Sensing of Chiral Molecules," 2020, Physical Review Letters
"Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces," 2024, Applied Physics Letters
"Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Devices with Structural Integrity," 2020, ACS Photonics

Their work often appears in several frequently chosen publication venues, which include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Advanced Optical Materials
Physical Review A
ACS Photonics
Optics Express

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton
Dominik Beutel
Marjan Krstić
Christof Holzer
Benedikt Zerulla

Recognition of Carsten Rockstuhl's contributions includes their election as an OSA Fellow in 2016 for contributions in theoretical and computational nanophotonics, particularly in the theoretical understanding of metamaterials and pioneering work in amorphous nanophotonics.

Best Publications

A plasmonic photocatalyst consisting of silver nanoparticles embedded in titanium dioxide.

Koichi Awazu;Makoto Fujimaki;Carsten Rockstuhl;Junji Tominaga

1761
Citations
Asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized light at optical metamaterials.

C. Menzel;C. Helgert;C. Rockstuhl;E.-B. Kley

743
Citations
Advanced Jones calculus for the classification of periodic metamaterials

Christoph Menzel;Carsten Rockstuhl;Falk Lederer

618
Citations
A perfect absorber made of a graphene micro-ribbon metamaterial.

Rasoul Alaee;Mohamed Farhat;Carsten Rockstuhl;Falk Lederer

604
Citations
Coupling between a dark and a bright eigenmode in a terahertz metamaterial

Ranjan Singh;Carsten Rockstuhl;Falk Lederer;Weili Zhang

479
Citations
Analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency in a terahertz metamaterial

Sher-Yi Chiam;Ranjan Singh;Carsten Rockstuhl;Falk Lederer

465
Citations
Terahertz metamaterial with asymmetric transmission

R. Singh;E. Plum;C. Menzel;C. Rockstuhl

429
Citations
An electromagnetic multipole expansion beyond the long-wavelength approximation

Rasoul Alaee;Rasoul Alaee;Carsten Rockstuhl;Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton

394
Citations
Resonance shifts and spill-out effects in self-consistent hydrodynamic nanoplasmonics

Giuseppe Toscano;Jakob Straubel;Alexander Kwiatkowski;Carsten Rockstuhl

372
Citations
Fabry-Perot Resonances in One-Dimensional Plasmonic Nanostructures

Jens Dorfmüller;Ralf Vogelgesang;R. Thomas Weitz;Carsten Rockstuhl

364
Citations
On the reinterpretation of resonances in split-ring-resonators at normal incidence

Carsten Rockstuhl;Falk Lederer;Christoph Etrich;Thomas Zentgraf

362
Citations
Observing metamaterial induced transparency in individual Fano resonators with broken symmetry

Ranjan Singh;Ibraheem A. I. Al-Naib;Yuping Yang;Dibakar Roy Chowdhury

331
Citations
Retrieving effective parameters for metamaterials at oblique incidence

Christoph Menzel;Carsten Rockstuhl;Thomas Paul;Falk Lederer

289
Citations
Fully integrated quantum photonic circuit with an electrically driven light source

Svetlana Khasminskaya;Felix Pyatkov;Felix Pyatkov;Karolina Słowik;Karolina Słowik;Simone Ferrari;Simone Ferrari

265
Citations
Babinet’s principle for optical frequency metamaterials and nanoantennas

T. Zentgraf;T. P. Meyrath;A. Seidel;S. Kaiser

265
Citations
Direct near-field optical imaging of higher order plasmonic resonances.

R. Esteban;R. Vogelgesang;J. Dorfmüller;A. Dmitriev

263
Citations
Plasmonic Nanowire Antennas: Experiment, Simulation, and Theory

Jens Dorfmüller;Ralf Vogelgesang;Worawut Khunsin;Carsten Rockstuhl

260
Citations
A generalized Kerker condition for highly directive nanoantennas

R. Alaee;R. Filter;D. Lehr;F. Lederer

257
Citations
Absorption enhancement in solar cells by localized plasmon polaritons

Carsten Rockstuhl;Stephan Fahr;Falk Lederer

233
Citations
Resonances of split-ring resonator metamaterials in the near infrared

Carsten Rockstuhl;T. Zentgraf;H. Guo;N. Liu

210
Citations