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David A. B. Miller

David A. B. Miller

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
113
Citations
54635
World Ranking
88
National Ranking
43

Physics

D-Index
116
Citations
56498
World Ranking
943
National Ranking
501

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

Overview

David A. B. Miller is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans across multiple fields of study, primarily in Engineering and Computer Science. Within these broad categories, Miller focuses significantly on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Acoustics and Ultrasonics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include Photonic and Optical Devices, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, Optical Network Technologies, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, Random Lasers and Scattering Media, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, and Advanced Photonic Communication Systems.

David A. B. Miller has a notable record of publications in various venues. Frequent publication outlets include arXiv (Cornell University) with 20 publications, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics with 8, Optica with 5, Nature Photonics with 4, and Nature with 2. Their body of work features papers such as:

  • "Programmable photonic circuits," 2020, Nature
  • "Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics," 2020, Nature
  • "Experimentally realized in situ backpropagation for deep learning in photonic neural networks," 2023, Science
  • "Multi-dimensional data transmission using inverse-designed silicon photonics and microcombs," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Why optics needs thickness," 2023, Science

Their frequent co-authors include Francesco Morichetti, Andrea Melloni, Shanhui Fan, Maziyar Milanizadeh, and Olav Solgaard, among others.

Best Publications

  • Electric field dependence of optical absorption near the band gap of quantum-well structures.

    D. A. B. Miller;D. S. Chemla;T. C. Damen;A. C. Gossard

  • Device Requirements for Optical Interconnects to Silicon Chips

    D. Miller

  • Band-Edge Electroabsorption in Quantum Well Structures: The Quantum-Confined Stark Effect

    D. A. B. Miller;D. S. Chemla;T. C. Damen;A. C. Gossard

  • Rationale and challenges for optical interconnects to electronic chips

    D.A.B. Miller

  • Theory of the linear and nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor microcrystallites

    S. Schmitt-Rink;D. A. B. Miller;D. S. Chemla

  • Linear and nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor quantum wells

    S. Schmitt-Rink;D.S. Chemla;D.A.B. Miller

  • Programmable photonic circuits.

    Wim Bogaerts;Daniel Pérez;José Capmany;David A. B. Miller

  • Theory of transient excitonic optical nonlinearities in semiconductor quantum-well structures.

    S. Schmitt-Rink;D. S. Chemla;D. A. B. Miller

  • Strong quantum-confined Stark effect in germanium quantum-well structures on silicon

    Yu-Hsuan Kuo;Yong Kyu Lee;Yangsi Ge;Shen Ren

  • Solid-state low-loss intracavity saturable absorber for Nd:YLF lasers : an antiresonant semiconductor Fabry-Perot saturable absorber

    U. Keller;D. A. B. Miller;G. D. Boyd;T. H. Chiu

  • Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics.

    Gordon Wetzstein;Aydogan Ozcan;Sylvain Gigan;Shanhui Fan

  • Nanometre-scale germanium photodetector enhanced by a near-infrared dipole antenna

    Liang Tang;Sukru Ekin Kocabas;Salman Latif;Ali K. Okyay

  • Room temperature excitonic nonlinear absorption and refraction in GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum well structures

    D. Chemla;D. Miller;P. Smith;A. Gossard

  • Optical investigation of Bloch oscillations in a semiconductor superlattice.

    J. Feldmann;K. Leo;J. Shah;D. A. B. Miller

  • Novel hybrid optically bistable switch: The quantum well self‐electro‐optic effect device

    D. A. B. Miller;D. S. Chemla;T. C. Damen;A. C. Gossard

  • Are optical transistors the logical next step

    David A. B. Miller

  • Attojoule Optoelectronics for Low-Energy Information Processing and Communications

    David A. B. Miller

  • Attojoule Optoelectronics for Low-Energy Information Processing and Communications: a Tutorial Review

    David A. B. Miller

  • The quantum well self-electrooptic effect device: Optoelectronic bistability and oscillation, and self-linearized modulation

    D. Miller;D. Chemla;T. Damen;T. Wood

  • Room-temperature excitonic nonlinear-optical effects in semiconductor quantum-well structures

    Daniel S. Chemla;David A. B. Miller

  • Coherent submillimeter-wave emission from charge oscillations in a double-well potential.

    H. G. Roskos;M. C. Nuss;Jagdeep Shah;K. Leo

Frequent Co-Authors

James S. Harris
James S. Harris Stanford University
Daniel S. Chemla
Daniel S. Chemla Nokia (United States)
Keith W. Goossen
Keith W. Goossen University of Delaware
Shanhui Fan
Shanhui Fan Stanford University
Wayne H. Knox
Wayne H. Knox University of Rochester
Thomas H. Wood
Thomas H. Wood Alcatel Lucent (Germany)
Theodore I. Kamins
Theodore I. Kamins Stanford University
Hilmi Volkan Demir
Hilmi Volkan Demir Bilkent University
Anthony L. Lentine
Anthony L. Lentine Sandia National Laboratories
James A. Walker
James A. Walker Harvard University

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