2026 Diana L. Huffaker: 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	62	1452	1389	598	558	472	14209
Materials Science	62	6456	6243	1641	1527	472	14338

Overview

Diana L. Huffaker is affiliated with The University of Texas at Arlington in the United States. Their research spans several fields, with a primary focus on engineering and physics and astronomy. The subfields in which they have published include atomic and molecular physics, and optics; electrical and electronic engineering; biomedical engineering; materials chemistry; and instrumentation.

The main topics covered in their work are diverse, reflecting an intersection of materials science and photonics. These topics include semiconductor quantum structures and devices, photonic and optical devices, advanced semiconductor detectors and materials, advanced optical sensing technologies, topological materials and phenomena, photonic crystals and applications, and semiconductor materials and devices.

Frequent coauthors in Huffaker's publications include Shiyu Xie, Baolai Liang, Hyunseok Kim, Yongkang Gong, and Sang Soon Oh. These collaborations indicate a research network spanning multiple experts in related areas.

The venues where Huffaker's research has been published reveal an engagement with high-impact journals and proceedings. Notable frequent publication venues include ACS Photonics, Advanced Functional Materials, Applied Physics Letters, Scientific Reports, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Huffaker are as follows:

Topological Insulator Laser Using Valley-Hall Photonic Crystals, 2020, ACS Photonics
Emerging Type-II Superlattices of InAs/InAsSb and InAs/GaSb for Mid-Wavelength Infrared Photodetectors, 2021, Advanced Photonics Research
Room-Temperature Quantum Emitter in Aluminum Nitride, 2020, ACS Photonics
Enhanced Optical Emission from 2D InSe Bent onto Si-Pillars, 2020, Advanced Optical Materials
Integrated and spectrally selective thermal emitters enabled by layered metamaterials, 2021, Nanophotonics

Best Publications

1.3 μm room-temperature GaAs-based quantum-dot laser

D. L. Huffaker;G. Park;Z. Zou;O. B. Shchekin

1088
Citations
Native-Oxide Defined Ring Contact for Low Threshold Vertical-Cavity Lasers

D. L. Huffaker;D. G. Deppe;K. Kumar;T. J. Rogers

844
Citations
Low-threshold oxide-confined 1.3-μm quantum-dot laser

Gyoungwon Park;O.B. Shchekin;D.L. Huffaker;D.G. Deppe

435
Citations
Strain relief by periodic misfit arrays for low defect density GaSb on GaAs

S. H. Huang;G. Balakrishnan;A. Khoshakhlagh;A. Jallipalli

322
Citations
GaAs nanopillar-array solar cells employing in situ surface passivation.

Giacomo Mariani;Adam C. Scofield;Chung-Hong Hung;Diana L. Huffaker

299
Citations
GaSb∕GaAs type II quantum dot solar cells for enhanced infrared spectral response

R. B. Laghumavarapu;A. Moscho;A. Khoshakhlagh;M. El-Emawy

282
Citations
Improved device performance of InAs∕GaAs quantum dot solar cells with GaP strain compensation layers

R. B. Laghumavarapu;M. El-Emawy;N. Nuntawong;A. Moscho

247
Citations
Electroluminescence efficiency of 1.3 μm wavelength InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots

D. L. Huffaker;D. G. Deppe

241
Citations
Room-temperature continuous-wave operation of a single-layered 1.3 μm quantum dot laser

Gyoungwon Park;Oleg B. Shchekin;Sebastion Csutak;Diana L. Huffaker

239
Citations
Topological Insulator Laser Using Valley-Hall Photonic Crystals

Yongkang Gong;Stephan Wong;Anthony J. Bennett;Diana L. Huffaker

187
Citations
Patterned radial GaAs nanopillar solar cells.

Giacomo Mariani;Ping-Show Wong;Aaron M. Katzenmeyer;Francois Léonard

185
Citations
Low threshold half-wave vertical-cavity lasers

D.L. Huffaker;Jeyong Shin;Dennis G. Deppe

178
Citations
Spontaneous Emission from Planar Microstructures

D.G. Deppe;C. Lei;C.C. Lin;D.L. Huffaker

174
Citations
Discrete energy level separation and the threshold temperature dependence of quantum dot lasers

Oleg B. Shchekin;Gyoungwon Park;Diana L. Huffaker;Dennis G. Deppe

171
Citations
Temperature dependence of lasing characteristics for long-wavelength (1.3-μm) GaAs-based quantum-dot lasers

G. Park;D.L. Huffaker;Z. Zou;O.B. Shchekin

157
Citations
Sub-40 μA continuous-wave lasing in an oxidized vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with dielectric mirrors

D.L. Huffaker;L.A. Graham;H. Deng;D.G. Deppe

150
Citations
Bottom-up Photonic Crystal Lasers

Adam C. Scofield;Se-Heon Kim;Joshua N. Shapiro;Andrew Lin

148
Citations
Surface plasmon-enhanced nanopillar photodetectors.

Pradeep Senanayake;Chung-Hong Hung;Joshua Shapiro;Andrew Lin

134
Citations
Interfacial misfit array formation for GaSb growth on GaAs

Shenghong Huang;Ganesh Balakrishnan;Diana L. Huffaker

132
Citations
Quantum dot vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with a dielectric aperture

D. L. Huffaker;O. Baklenov;L. A. Graham;B. G. Streetman

125
Citations
InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot lasers

D.L. Huffaker;G. Park;O. Shchekin;Z.Z. Zhou

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis G. Deppe University of Central Florida

Guillaume Huyet Université Côte d'Azur

Gregory J. Salamo University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Luke F. Lester Virginia Tech

Steven R. J. Brueck University of New Mexico

Yu-Hwa Lo University of California, San Diego

Axel Scherer California Institute of Technology

Weidong Zhou The University of Texas at Arlington

Sanjay K. Banerjee The University of Texas at Austin

Huifang Xu University of Wisconsin–Madison

External Links

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