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David Hillerkuss

David Hillerkuss

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
34
Citations
9870
World Ranking
5679
National Ranking
156

David Hillerkuss publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Hillerkuss sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 204 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

David Hillerkuss D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Hillerkuss sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Best Publications

  • Wireless sub-THz communication system with high data rate

    S. Koenig;D. Lopez-Diaz;J. Antes;J. Antes;F. Boes;F. Boes

  • Coherent terabit communications with microresonator Kerr frequency combs.

    Joerg Pfeifle;Victor Brasch;Matthias Lauermann;Yimin Yu

  • Error Vector Magnitude as a Performance Measure for Advanced Modulation Formats

    R. Schmogrow;B. Nebendahl;M. Winter;A. Josten

  • High-speed plasmonic phase modulators

    A. Melikyan;L. Alloatti;A. Muslija;D. Hillerkuss

  • 26 Tbit s-1 line-rate super-channel transmission utilizing all-optical fast Fourier transform processing

    D. Hillerkuss;R. Schmogrow;T. Schellinger;M. Jordan

  • All-plasmonic Mach–Zehnder modulator enabling optical high-speed communication at the microscale

    Christian Haffner;Wolfgang Heni;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Jens Niegemann

  • Photonic wire bonding: a novel concept for chip-scale interconnects

    N. Lindenmann;G. Balthasar;D. Hillerkuss;R. Schmogrow

  • Real-time Nyquist pulse generation beyond 100 Gbit/s and its relation to OFDM

    R. Schmogrow;M. Winter;M. Meyer;D. Hillerkuss

  • 42.7 Gbit/s electro-optic modulator in silicon technology

    L Alloatti;D Korn;R Palmer;D Hillerkuss

  • Quality metrics for optical signals: Eye diagram, Q-factor, OSNR, EVM and BER

    Wolfgang Freude;Rene Schmogrow;Bernd Nebendahl;Marcus Winter

  • Simple all-optical FFT scheme enabling Tbit/s real-time signal processing

    D. Hillerkuss;M. Winter;M. Teschke;A. Marculescu

  • Optical fiber solution for mobile fronthaul to achieve cloud radio access network

    Philippe Chanclou;Anna Pizzinat;Fabien Le Clech;To-Linh Reedeker

  • Plasmonic modulator with >170 GHz bandwidth demonstrated at 100 GBd NRZ.

    C Hoessbacher;A Josten;B Baeuerle;Y Fedoryshyn

  • Performance tradeoff between lateral and interdigitated doping patterns for high speed carrier-depletion based silicon modulators

    Hui Yu;Marianna Pantouvaki;Joris Van Campenhout;Dietmar Korn

  • Real-Time Software-Defined Multiformat Transmitter Generating 64QAM at 28 GBd

    R Schmogrow;D Hillerkuss;M Dreschmann;M Huebner

  • The plasmonic memristor: a latching optical switch

    Claudia Hoessbacher;Yuriy M. Fedoryshyn;Alexandros Emboras;Argishti Melikyan

  • Plasmonic Organic Hybrid Modulators—Scaling Highest Speed Photonics to the Microscale

    Christian Haffner;Wolfgang Heni;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Arne Josten

  • Direct Conversion of Free Space Millimeter Waves to Optical Domain by Plasmonic Modulator Antenna

    Yannick Salamin;Wolfgang Heni;Christian Haffner;Yuriy Fedoryshyn

  • 512QAM Nyquist sinc-pulse transmission at 54 Gbit/s in an optical bandwidth of 3 GHz

    R. Schmogrow;D. Hillerkuss;S. Wolf;B. Bäuerle

  • Toward the Integration of CV Quantum Key Distribution in Deployed Optical Networks

    Fotini Karinou;Hans H. Brunner;Chi-Hang Fred Fung;Lucian C. Comandar

Frequent Co-Authors

Juerg Leuthold
Juerg Leuthold ETH Zurich
Wolfgang Freude
Wolfgang Freude Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Wolfgang Heni
Wolfgang Heni ETH Zurich
Christian Koos
Christian Koos Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Delwin L. Elder
Delwin L. Elder University of Washington
Luca Alloatti
Luca Alloatti ETH Zurich
Larry R. Dalton
Larry R. Dalton University of Washington
Francesca Parmigiani
Francesca Parmigiani Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)
Francois Lelarge
Francois Lelarge Almae Technologies

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