2026 Di Liang: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	42	4063	3901	1453	1358	267	8241

Di Liang 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 Di Liang sits on this spectrum.

34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 267 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Di Liang 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 Di Liang sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - OSA Fellows Di Liang Hewlett Packard Labs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA For seminal contributions to innovative photonic material and device integration for energy-efficient optical communication and volume production

Overview

Di Liang is affiliated with Hewlett-Packard in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a specialization in electrical and electronic engineering. Their work also spans subfields such as atomic and molecular physics and optics, artificial intelligence, instrumentation, and materials chemistry.

The main topics of their research include photonic and optical devices, optical network technologies, neural networks and reservoir computing, advanced photonic communication systems, advanced fiber laser technologies, semiconductor lasers and optical devices, and advanced memory and neural computing.

Recent publications by Di Liang include:

Recent Progress in Heterogeneous III-V-on-Silicon Photonic Integration, 2021, Light Advanced Manufacturing

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Raymond G. Beausoleil, Yuan Yuan, Stanley Cheung, Géza Kurczveil, and Marco Fiorentino.

Di Liang has published multiple papers in notable venues such as the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Photonics Research, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress 2021, and Nature Communications.

In 2020, Di Liang was recognized as an OSA Fellow for contributions to photonic material and device integration aimed at energy-efficient optical communication and scalable production.

Best Publications

Recent progress in lasers on silicon

Di Liang;John E. Bowers

1272
Citations
III‐V/silicon photonics for on‐chip and intra‐chip optical interconnects

Günther Roelkens;Liu Liu;Di Liang;Richard Jones

661
Citations
Hybrid Integrated Platforms for Silicon Photonics

Di Liang;Gunther Roelkens;Roel Baets;John E. Bowers

371
Citations
A distributed feedback silicon evanescent laser

Alexander W Fang;Erica Lively;Ying-Hao Kuo;Di Liang

324
Citations
Hybrid Silicon Photonics for Optical Interconnects

Martijn J R Heck;Hui-Wen Chen;Alexander W Fang;Brian R Koch

279
Citations
Electrically-pumped compact hybrid silicon microring lasers for optical interconnects.

Di Liang;Marco Fiorentino;Tadashi Okumura;Hsu-Hao Chang

228
Citations
1.3 μm submilliamp threshold quantum dot micro-lasers on Si

Yating Wan;Justin Norman;Qiang Li;M. J. Kennedy

194
Citations
Hybrid silicon evanescent devices

Alexander W. Fang;Hyundai Park;Ying-hao Kuo;Richard Jones

194
Citations
A Distributed Bragg Reflector Silicon Evanescent Laser

A.W. Fang;B.R. Koch;R. Jones;E. Lively

182
Citations
25 Gbps low-voltage waveguide Si–Ge avalanche photodiode

Zhihong Huang;Cheng Li;Di Liang;Kunzhi Yu

178
Citations
Highly efficient vertical outgassing channels for low-temperature InP-to-silicon direct wafer bonding on the silicon-on-insulator substrate

D. Liang;J. E. Bowers

175
Citations
Recent Progress in Heterogeneous III-V-on-Silicon Photonic Integration

Di Liang;John E. Bowers

170
Citations
High-performance silicon photonics using heterogeneous integration

Chao Xiang;Warren Jin;Duanni Huang;Minh Anh Tran

151
Citations
Integrated finely tunable microring laser on silicon

D. Liang;X. Huang;G. Kurczveil;M. Fiorentino

150
Citations
Low-Temperature, Strong SiO 2 -SiO 2 Covalent Wafer Bonding for III–V Compound Semiconductors-to-Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits

Di Liang;Alexander W. Fang;Hyundai Park;Tom E. Reynolds

144
Citations
Device and Integration Technology for Silicon Photonic Transmitters

Hyundai Park;M N Sysak;Hui-Wen Chen;A W Fang

143
Citations
Realization of an ultra-short silicon polarization beam splitter with an asymmetrical bent directional coupler.

Jian Wang;Di Liang;Yongbo Tang;Daoxin Dai

133
Citations
Photonic integration: Si or InP substrates?

D. Liang;J.E. Bowers

110
Citations
Hybrid Silicon Laser Technology: A Thermal Perspective

M. N. Sysak;Di Liang;R. Jones;G. Kurczveil

103
Citations
III/V-on-Si MQW lasers by using a novel photonic integration method of regrowth on a bonding template.

Yingtao Hu;Di Liang;Kunal Mukherjee;Youli Li

102
Citations
Low Threshold Electrically-Pumped Hybrid Silicon Microring Lasers

Di Liang;M. Fiorentino;S. Srinivasan;J. E. Bowers

100
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond G. Beausoleil Hewlett-Packard (United States)

John E. Bowers University of California, Santa Barbara

Marco Fiorentino Hewlett Packard Enterprise (United States)

Zhihong Huang Hewlett-Packard (United States)

Wayne V. Sorin Hewlett-Packard (United States)

Richard Jones Old Dominion University

Daoxin Dai Zhejiang University

Samuel Palermo Texas A&M University

Yating Wan King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Arthur C. Gossard University of California, Santa Barbara

External Links

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