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Edmund H. Linfield

Edmund H. Linfield

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
82
Citations
30259
World Ranking
450
National Ranking
19

Physics

D-Index
84
Citations
32052
World Ranking
2658
National Ranking
236

Overview

Edmund H. Linfield is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and has a substantial body of research primarily within the fields of engineering, physics and astronomy, and chemistry. Their work has a strong focus on electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and spectroscopy.

The scientist's research topics concentrate on spectroscopy and laser applications, photonic and optical devices, terahertz technology and applications, advanced fiber laser technologies, semiconductor lasers and optical devices, strong light-matter interactions, as well as plasmonic and surface plasmon research.

Linfield has contributed to multiple publication venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • Optics Express
  • ACS Photonics
  • 2022 47th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz)

Frequent co-authors working with Linfield include Lianhe Li, A. G. Davies, Paul Dean, Miriam S. Vitiello, and Joshua R. Freeman.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Linfield are:

  • Electrically pumped topological laser with valley edge modes, 2020, Nature
  • The 2023 terahertz science and technology roadmap, 2023, Journal of Physics D Applied Physics
  • 10 Gbit s−1 Free Space Data Transmission at 9 µm Wavelength With Unipolar Quantum Optoelectronics, 2021, Laser & Photonics Review
  • Short pulse generation from a graphene-coupled passively mode-locked terahertz laser, 2023, Nature Photonics
  • Millimeter wave photonics with terahertz semiconductor lasers, 2021, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Terahertz semiconductor-heterostructure laser

    Rüdeger Köhler;Alessandro Tredicucci;Fabio Beltram;Harvey E. Beere

  • The 2017 terahertz science and technology roadmap

    S S Dhillon;M S Vitiello;E H Linfield;A G Davies

  • Terahertz pulse imaging in reflection geometry of human skin cancer and skin tissue

    Ruth M Woodward;Bryan E Cole;Vincent P Wallace;Richard J Pye

  • Terahertz spectroscopy of explosives and drugs

    A. Giles Davies;Andrew D. Burnett;Wenhui Fan;Edmund H. Linfield

  • Terahertz pulse imaging of ex vivo basal cell carcinoma.

    Ruth M Woodward;Vincent P Wallace;Richard J Pye;Bryan E Cole

  • Electrically pumped topological laser with valley edge modes.

    Yongquan Zeng;Udvas Chattopadhyay;Bofeng Zhu;Bo Qiang

  • Simulation of terahertz generation at semiconductor surfaces

    M. B. Johnston;D. M. Whittaker;A. Corchia;A. G. Davies

  • Terahertz Pulsed Imaging of Skin Cancer in the Time and Frequency Domain

    R.M. Woodward;Vincent Wallace;D.D. Arnone;E.H. Linfield

  • The 2016 terahertz science and technology roadmap

    S. S. Dhillon;Vitiello;E. H. Linfield;A. G. Davies

  • Electrically pumped photonic-crystal terahertz lasers controlled by boundary conditions

    Y. Chassagneux;R. Colombelli;W. Maineult;S. Barbieri

  • Designer spoof surface plasmon structures collimate terahertz laser beams

    Nanfang Yu;Qi Jie Wang;Qi Jie Wang;Mikhail A. Kats;Jonathan A. Fan

  • Metal-Insulator Transition at B = 0 in a Dilute Two Dimensional GaAs-AlGaAs Hole Gas

    M. Y. Simmons;A. R. Hamilton;M. Pepper;E. H. Linfield

  • Spin-valve effects in a semiconductor field-effect transistor: A spintronic device

    S. Gardelis;C. G. Smith;C. H. W. Barnes;E. H. Linfield

  • Low-threshold terahertz quantum-cascade lasers

    Michel Rochat;Lassaad Ajili;Harald Willenberg;Jérôme Faist

  • 2.9THz quantum cascade lasers operating up to 70K in continuous wave

    S. Barbieri;J. Alton;H. E. Beere;J. Fowler

  • SINGLE-ELECTRON TRANSPORT IN A ONE-DIMENSIONAL CHANNEL BY HIGH-FREQUENCY SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES

    V. I. Talyanskii;J. M. Shilton;M. Pepper;C. G. Smith

  • Terahertz quantum cascade lasers with >1 W output powers

    Lianhe Li;Li Chen;Jingxuan Zhu;J. Freeman

  • Far-infrared (λ≃87 μm) bound-to-continuum quantum-cascade lasers operating up to 90 K

    Giacomo Scalari;Lassaad Ajili;Jérôme Faist;Harvey Beere

  • Ultrabroadband terahertz radiation from low-temperature-grown GaAs photoconductive emitters

    Y. C. Shen;P. C. Upadhya;E. H. Linfield;H. E. Beere

  • Terahertz quantum cascade lasers with copper metal-metal waveguides operating up to 178 K

    Mikhail A. Belkin;Jonathan A. Fan;Sahand Hormoz;Federico Capasso

  • Terahertz quantum cascade lasers

    A Tredicucci;R Köhler;F Beltram;H.E Beere

  • Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers

    JérÔme Faist;Lassaad Ajili;Giacomo Scalari;Marcella Giovannini

Frequent Co-Authors

Lianhe Li
Lianhe Li University of Leeds
David A. Ritchie
David A. Ritchie University of Cambridge
Suraj P. Khanna
Suraj P. Khanna National Physical Laboratory
Michael Pepper
Michael Pepper University College London
Raffaele Colombelli
Raffaele Colombelli University of Paris-Saclay
Carlo Sirtori
Carlo Sirtori École Normale Supérieure
Alessandro Tredicucci
Alessandro Tredicucci University of Pisa
Qi Jie Wang
Qi Jie Wang Nanyang Technological University
Andrea Fiore
Andrea Fiore Eindhoven University of Technology
Fabio Beltram
Fabio Beltram Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

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