2026 Heinz Kalt: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	54	8940	8635	499	484	503	10035

Overview

Heinz Kalt is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within physics, engineering, and materials science, with a strong emphasis on optics and photonic devices.

The main fields of study include:

Physics and Astronomy
Engineering
Materials Science

Within these broad fields, Heinz Kalt's work focuses on subfields such as:

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Materials Chemistry
Spectroscopy
Artificial Intelligence

Their primary topics of research cover:

Photonic and Optical Devices
Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
Mechanical and Optical Resonators
Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
Perovskite Materials and Applications
Spectroscopy and Laser Applications

Heinz Kalt has published a variety of research papers, including:

"Tunable photonic devices by 3D laser printing of liquid crystal elastomers" (2020), published in Optical Materials Express
"Tunable coupling of chip-scale photonic molecules via thermal actuation" (2021), published in Optical Materials Express
"Intrinsic mode coupling in mirror-symmetric whispering gallery resonators" (2022), published in Optics Express
"Cross-sectional Kelvin probe force microscopy on Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells: Influence of RbF and KF post-deposition treatment on the surface potential of the absorber layer" (2020), published in Applied Physics Letters
"Flexible Photonics Based on Whispering-Gallery-Mode Resonators and Liquid-Crystal-Elastomers" (2020), presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Frequent publication venues where Heinz Kalt has contributed include:

Optical Materials Express
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Optics Express
Applied Physics Letters
Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2021

Their repeated collaborations involve coauthors such as:

C. Klingshirn
Simon Woska
Pascal Rietz
Osman Karayel
Jannis Hessenauer

In addition to articles, Heinz Kalt has contributed to academic book publications, including a work titled Semiconductor Optics 2, published by Springer Nature in 2024.

Best Publications

ZnO-based hollow nanoparticles by selective etching: elimination and reconstruction of metal-semiconductor interface, improvement of blue emission and photocatalysis.

Haibo Zeng;Weiping Cai;Peisheng Liu;Xiaoxia Xu

628
Citations
65 years of ZnO research – old and very recent results

Claus Klingshirn;J. Fallert;H. Zhou;J. Sartor

494
Citations
Room-temperature stimulated emission of ZnO: Alternatives to excitonic lasing

Claus Klingshirn;Robert Hauschild;Johannes Fallert;Heinz Kalt

299
Citations
Co-existence of strongly and weakly localized random laser modes

Johannes Fallert;Roman J. B. Dietz;Janos Sartor;Daniel Schneider

283
Citations
Template-assisted large-scale ordered arrays of ZnO pillars for optical and piezoelectric applications.

Hong Jin Fan;Woo Lee;Robert Hauschild;Marin Alexe

259
Citations
Ordered, uniform-sized ZnO nanolaser arrays

Huijuan Zhou;Markus Wissinger;Johannes Fallert;Robert Hauschild

182
Citations
Direct observation of free-exciton thermalization in quantum-well structures

M. Umlauff;J. Hoffmann;H. Kalt;Wolfgang Werner Langbein

153
Citations
ZnO rediscovered — once again!?

C. Klingshirn;R. Hauschild;H. Priller;M. Decker

151
Citations
Surface-state related luminescence in ZnO nanocrystals

Johannes Fallert;Robert Hauschild;Felix Stelzl;Alex Urban

139
Citations
Intrinsic absorptive optical bistability in CdS

K. Bohnert;H. Kalt;C. Klingshirn

135
Citations
Energy-dependent Huang-Rhys factor of free excitons

Hui Zhao;H. Kalt

133
Citations
High-Q conical polymeric microcavities

Tobias Grossmann;Mario Hauser;Torsten Beck;Cristian Gohn-Kreuz

133
Citations
Quantum confined one-dimensional electron-hole plasma in semiconductor quantum wires

Cingolani R;Lage H;Tapfer L;Kalt H

125
Citations
Temperature dependent band gap and homogeneous line broadening of the exciton emission in ZnO

R. Hauschild;H. Priller;M. Decker;J. Brückner

114
Citations
Direct laser writing for active and passive high-Q polymer microdisks on silicon

Tobias Grossmann;Simone Schleede;Mario Hauser;Torsten Beck

112
Citations
Molecular beam epitaxy of phase pure cubic InN

J. Schörmann;D. J. As;K. Lischka;P. Schley

111
Citations
Low-threshold conical microcavity dye lasers

Tobias Grossmann;Simone Schleede;Mario Hauser;Mads Brøkner Christiansen

106
Citations
Polymeric photonic molecule super-mode lasers on silicon

Tobias Grossmann;Tobias Wienhold;Uwe Bog;Torsten Beck

106
Citations
Temperature-dependent studies of exciton binding energy and phase-transition suppression in (Cs,FA,MA)Pb(I,Br)3 perovskites

Fabian Ruf;Meltem F. Aygüler;Nadja Giesbrecht;Bettina Rendenbach

105
Citations
OPTICAL LINEWIDTHS OF INGAN LIGHT EMITTING DIODES AND EPILAYERS

K. P. O’Donnell;T. Breitkopf;H. Kalt;W. Van der Stricht

103
Citations
Guided modes in ZnO nanorods

Robert Hauschild;Heinz Kalt

99
Citations
Highly stable solution processed metal-halide perovskite lasers on nanoimprinted distributed feedback structures

Philipp Brenner;Mareike Stulz;Dorothee Kapp;Tobias Abzieher

93
Citations