2026 Jacob B. Khurgin: 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	79	561	537	252	234	808	19470
Materials Science	77	3181	3071	889	834	732	18271

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For diverse contributions to understanding the underlying physics and improving the performance of numerous electronic and optical devices, such as semiconductor secondorder nonlinear optical generators, intersubband semiconductor lasers and Raman oscillators, slow light, and plasmonic devices
2006 - OSA Fellows For outstanding original contributions to the physics of nonlinear optical and electro-optical properties of semiconductors, especially the low-dimensional semiconductor structures.

Overview

Jacob B. Khurgin is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and physics, focusing heavily on photonics and optical devices. Their contributions include work in electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, as well as electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scientist has published extensively, with key topics of work encompassing:

Photonic and Optical Devices
Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
Optical Network Technologies
Photonic Crystals and Applications
Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications

Jacob B. Khurgin's work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, particularly:

arXiv (Cornell University)
The Journal of Sexual Medicine
Laser & Photonics Review
The Journal of Urology
ACS Photonics

Recent significant publications include:

"Nonlinear optical properties of halide perovskites and their applications" (2020, Applied Physics Reviews)
"Adiabatic frequency shifting in epsilon-near-zero materials: the role of group velocity" (2020, Optica)
"Ultrafast quantum photonics enabled by coupling plasmonic nanocavities to strongly radiative antennas" (2020, Optica)
"Fast and Slow Nonlinearities in Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials" (2020, Laser & Photonics Review)
"Expanding the Photonic Palette: Exploring High Index Materials" (2022, ACS Photonics)

Frequent collaborators include Volker J. Sorger, Nathaniel Kinsey, Jacek Gosciniak, Rubab Amin, and Elie Kaplan-Marans. These coauthors have worked jointly on a variety of research projects, reflecting ongoing collaborative efforts in their areas of expertise.

Jacob B. Khurgin has received multiple recognitions within the scientific community. These include being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011 for diverse contributions to understanding and improving various electronic and optical devices, and being recognized as an OSA Fellow in 2006 for original contributions to the physics of nonlinear optical and electro-optical properties of semiconductors, especially in low-dimensional semiconductor structures.

Best Publications

How to deal with the loss in plasmonics and metamaterials

Jacob B. Khurgin

1180
Citations
Optical buffers based on slow light in electromagnetically induced transparent media and coupled resonator structures: comparative analysis

Jacob B. Khurgin

377
Citations
Locally Oxidized Silicon Surface-Plasmon Schottky Detector for Telecom Regime

Ilya Goykhman;Boris Desiatov;Jacob Khurgin;Joseph Shappir

366
Citations
On-Chip Integrated, Silicon–Graphene Plasmonic Schottky Photodetector with High Responsivity and Avalanche Photogain

Ilya Goykhman;Ugo Sassi;Boris Desiatov;Noa Mazurski

352
Citations
Reflecting upon the losses in plasmonics and metamaterials

Jacob B. Khurgin;Alexandra Boltasseva

311
Citations
High-Performance Single-Crystalline Perovskite Thin-Film Photodetector.

Zhenqian Yang;Yuhao Deng;Xiaowei Zhang;Suo Wang

308
Citations
Slow light : science and applications

Jacob B. Khurgin;Rodney S. Tucker

270
Citations
Slow light in various media: a tutorial

Jacob B. Khurgin

238
Citations
Highly power-efficient quantum cascade lasers

Peter Q. Liu;Anthony J. Hoffman;Matthew D. Escarra;Kale J. Franz

226
Citations
Second-order nonlinear effects in asymmetric quantum-well structures.

J. Khurgin

221
Citations
Fundamental limits of hot carrier injection from metal in nanoplasmonics

Jacob B. Khurgin

215
Citations
Fundamental limitations in spontaneous emission rate of single-photon sources

Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi;Jacob B. Khurgin

211
Citations
Wide-bandwidth continuously tunable optical delay line using silicon microring resonators

Jaime Cardenas;Mark A Foster;Nicolás Sherwood-Droz;Carl B Poitras

206
Citations
Waveguide based compact silicon Schottky photodetector with enhanced responsivity in the telecom spectral band

Ilya Goykhman;Boris Desiatov;Jacob Khurgin;Joseph Shappir

199
Citations
Practicable enhancement of spontaneous emission using surface plasmons

Greg Sun;Jacob B. Khurgin;Richard A. Soref

193
Citations
Nonlinear optical properties of halide perovskites and their applications

Yixuan Zhou;Yuanyuan Huang;Xinlong Xu;Zeyu Fan

182
Citations
Practical enhancement of photoluminescence by metal nanoparticles

Greg Sun;Jacob B. Khurgin;R. A. Soref

171
Citations
Comparative analysis of spasers, vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and surface-plasmon-emitting diodes

Jacob B. Khurgin;Greg Sun

170
Citations
Coherent frequency combs produced by self frequency modulation in quantum cascade lasers

J. B. Khurgin;Y. Dikmelik;A. Hugi;J. Faist

170
Citations
In search of the elusive lossless metal

Jacob B. Khurgin;Greg Sun

164
Citations
Phased-array cancellation of nonlinear FWM in coherent OFDM dispersive multi-span links

Moshe Nazarathy;Jacob Khurgin;Rakefet Weidenfeld;Yehuda Meiman

159
Citations
ITO-based Electro-absorption Modulator for Photonic Neural Activation Function

R. Amin;J. K. George;S. Sun;T. Ferreira de Lima

146
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Greg Sun University of Massachusetts Boston

Jin U. Kang Johns Hopkins University

Richard A. Soref University of Massachusetts Boston

Claire F. Gmachl Princeton University

Volker J. Sorger George Washington University

Din Ping Tsai City University of Hong Kong

John E. Bowers University of California, Santa Barbara

Debdeep Jena Cornell University

Siddharth Rajan The Ohio State University

Igor Vurgaftman United States Naval Research Laboratory

External Links

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