2026 Costas M. Soukoulis: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	133	511	285	703	74057

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Physics

133

511

285

703

74057

Costas M. Soukoulis publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Costas M. Soukoulis sits on this spectrum.

103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 703 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Costas M. Soukoulis D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Costas M. Soukoulis sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 133 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
2003 - OSA Fellows For outstanding and pioneering contributions to the understanding of disordered and periodic systems, particularly the physics of photonic bandgap materials and random lasers.
2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Costas M. Soukoulis was affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research spanned various topics related to materials science, engineering, and physics, with particular emphasis on metamaterials and metasurfaces applications.

Their research contributions covered several main fields of study, including:

Engineering
Materials Science
Physics and Astronomy

Within these fields, the following subfields were prominent:

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

The main research topics addressed by Soukoulis included:

Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
Photonic Crystals and Applications
Antenna Design and Analysis
Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics
Topological Materials and Phenomena

Frequent collaborators in their work were:

Maria Kafesaki
E. N. Economou
Anna C. Tasolamprou
Thomas Koschny
Odysseas Tsilipakos

Soukoulis published extensively in several prominent venues, with notable publication counts in:

Advanced Optical Materials
Physical Review B
ACS Photonics
2021 Fifteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials)
Physical Review Applied

Selected recent papers included:

"Toward Intelligent Metasurfaces: The Progress from Globally Tunable Metasurfaces to Software-Defined Metasurfaces with an Embedded Network of Controllers" (2020) in Advanced Optical Materials
"Multifunctional Metasurface Architecture for Amplitude, Polarization and Wave-Front Control" (2022) in Physical Review Applied
"Experimental Implementation of Achromatic Multiresonant Metasurface for Broadband Pulse Delay" (2021) in ACS Photonics
"Local density of optical states in the three-dimensional band gap of a finite photonic crystal" (2020) in Physical Review B
"Strong and Broadband Pure Optical Activity in 3D Printed THz Chiral Metamaterials" (2023) in Advanced Optical Materials

Throughout their career, they received several awards, including:

Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2018)
OSA Fellow (2003) for contributions to the understanding of disordered and periodic systems, particularly in photonic bandgap materials and random lasers
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2002)

Best Publications

Determination of effective permittivity and permeability of metamaterials from reflection and transmission coefficients

D. R. Smith;S. Schultz;P. Markoš;C. M. Soukoulis

3685
Citations
Electromagnetic parameter retrieval from inhomogeneous metamaterials

D. R. Smith;D. R. Smith;D. C. Vier;Th. Koschny;Th. Koschny;C. M. Soukoulis;C. M. Soukoulis

3584
Citations
Existence of a Photonic Gap in Periodic Dielectric Structures

Kaiming Ho;Che Ting Chan;Costas M. Soukoulis

3565
Citations
Magnetic Response of Metamaterials at 100 Terahertz

Stefan Linden;Christian Enkrich;Martin Wegener;Jiangfeng Zhou

2030
Citations
Past achievements and future challenges in the development of three-dimensional photonic metamaterials

Costas M. Soukoulis;Costas M. Soukoulis;Martin Wegener

1986
Citations
Direct laser writing of three-dimensional photonic-crystal templates for telecommunications

Markus Deubel;Georg von Freymann;Martin Wegener;Suresh Pereira

1370
Citations
Negative Refractive Index at Optical Wavelengths

Costas M. Soukoulis;Stefan Linden;Martin Wegener

1267
Citations
Photonic band gaps in three dimensions: New layer-by-layer periodic structures

Km Ho;Che Ting Chan;CM Soukoulis;R. Biswas

1072
Citations
Negative-index metamaterial at 780 nm wavelength.

Gunnar Dolling;Martin Wegener;Costas M. Soukoulis;Stefan Linden

1040
Citations
Magnetic Metamaterials at Telecommunication and Visible Frequencies

C. Enkrich;M. Wegener;S. Linden;S. Burger

1032
Citations
Simultaneous Negative Phase and Group Velocity of Light in a Metamaterial

Gunnar Dolling;Christian Enkrich;Martin Wegener;Costas M. Soukoulis;Costas M. Soukoulis

1015
Citations
Metamaterial with negative index due to chirality

E. Plum;J. Zhou;J. Dong;J. Dong;V. A. Fedotov

902
Citations
Saturation of the Magnetic Response of Split-Ring Resonators at Optical Frequencies

J. Zhou;Th. Koschny;M. Kafesaki;E. N. Economou

848
Citations
Electromagnetic waves: Negative refraction by photonic crystals.

Ertugrul Cubukcu;Koray Aydin;Ekmel Ozbay;Stavroula Foteinopoulou

824
Citations
Low-loss metamaterials based on classical electromagnetically induced transparency.

Philippe Tassin;Lei Zhang;Thomas Koschny;Thomas Koschny;E. N. Economou

761
Citations
Low-loss negative-index metamaterial at telecommunication wavelengths

Gunnar Dolling;Christian Enkrich;Martin Wegener;Costas M Soukoulis

671
Citations
Electric coupling to the magnetic resonance of split ring resonators

N. Katsarakis;T. Koschny;M. Kafesaki;E. N. Economou

621
Citations
Photonic Band Gap Materials

Costas M. Soukoulis

618
Citations
Wave Propagation: From Electrons to Photonic Crystals and Left-Handed Materials

Peter Markos;Costas M. Soukoulis

605
Citations
Cut-wire pairs and plate pairs as magnetic atoms for optical metamaterials

G. Dolling;C. Enkrich;M. Wegener;J. F. Zhou

586
Citations