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D-Index
58
Citations
15026
World Ranking
7585
National Ranking
1879

Joshua D. Caldwell publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joshua D. Caldwell sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 294 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Joshua D. Caldwell D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joshua D. Caldwell sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Joshua D. Caldwell is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science, encompassing a total of 287 publications. They focus on subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their main research topics include Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies, Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, Strong Light-Matter Interactions, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications, Photonic and Optical Devices, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, and Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence.

Joshua D. Caldwell has published in several frequent venues, most notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advanced Materials
  • Nano Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • ACS Photonics

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Hyperbolic shear polaritons in low-symmetry crystals, 2022, Nature
  • Infrared Permittivity of the Biaxial van der Waals Semiconductor α-MoO3 from Near- and Far-Field Correlative Studies, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Ultrastrong plasmon-phonon coupling via epsilon-near-zero nanocavities, 2020, Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium)
  • Manipulating polaritons at the extreme scale in van der Waals materials, 2022, Nature Reviews Physics
  • Real-space nanoimaging of hyperbolic shear polaritons in a monoclinic crystal, 2022, Nature Nanotechnology

Frequent collaborators in their work include Thomas G. Folland, Mingze He, Joseph R. Matson, Alexander Paarmann, and Guanyu Lu, with collaboration counts ranging from 17 to 42 shared publications.

Best Publications

  • Polaritons in layered two-dimensional materials

    Tony Low;Andrey Chaves;Joshua D. Caldwell;Anshuman Kumar;Anshuman Kumar

  • Sub-diffractional volume-confined polaritons in the natural hyperbolic material hexagonal boron nitride

    Joshua D. Caldwell;Andrey V. Kretinin;Yiguo Chen;Vincenzo Giannini

  • Polaritons in layered 2D materials

    Tony Low;Andrey Chaves;Joshua D. Caldwell;Anshuman Kumar

  • Photonics with hexagonal boron nitride

    Joshua David Caldwell;Igor Aharonovich;Guillaume Cassabois;James H. Edgar

  • Two-dimensional gallium nitride realized via graphene encapsulation

    Zakaria Y. Al Balushi;Ke Wang;Ram Krishna Ghosh;Rafael A. Vilá

  • Low-loss, infrared and terahertz nanophotonics using surface phonon polaritons

    Joshua D. Caldwell;Lucas Lindsay;Vincenzo Giannini;Igor Vurgaftman

  • Hyperbolic phonon-polaritons in boron nitride for near-field optical imaging and focusing

    Peining Li;Martin Lewin;Andrey V. Kretinin;Joshua D. Caldwell

  • Ultralow-loss polaritons in isotopically pure boron nitride

    Alexander J. Giles;Siyuan Dai;Igor Vurgaftman;Timothy Hoffman

  • Low-Loss, Extreme Subdiffraction Photon Confinement via Silicon Carbide Localized Surface Phonon Polariton Resonators

    Joshua D. Caldwell;Orest J. Glembocki;Yan Francescato;Nicholas Sharac

  • Ultra-low-loss Polaritons in Isotopically Pure Materials: A New Approach

    Alexander J. Giles;Siyuan Dai;Igor Vurgaftman;Timothy Hoffman

  • Technique for the dry transfer of epitaxial graphene onto arbitrary substrates.

    Caldwell Jd;Anderson Tj;Culbertson Jc;Jernigan Gg

  • Technique for the Dry Transfer of Epitaxial Graphene onto Arbitrary Substrates

    Joshua D. Caldwell;Travis J. Anderson;James C. Culbertson;Glenn G. Jernigan

  • Plasmonic Nanopillar Arrays for Large-Area, High-Enhancement Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Sensors

    Joshua D. Caldwell;Orest Glembocki;Francisco J. Bezares;Nabil D. Bassim

  • Role of epsilon-near-zero substrates in the optical response of plasmonic antennas

    Jongbum Kim;Aveek Dutta;Gururaj V. Naik;Alexander J. Giles

  • Atomic-scale photonic hybrids for mid-infrared and terahertz nanophotonics

    Joshua D. Caldwell;Igor Vurgaftman;Joseph G. Tischler;Orest J. Glembocki

  • Reconfigurable infrared hyperbolic metasurfaces using phase change materials.

    T. G. Folland;A. Fali;S. T. White;J. R. Matson

  • Quantifying pulsed laser induced damage to graphene

    Marc Currie;Joshua D. Caldwell;Francisco J. Bezares;Jeremy Robinson

  • Chemical gradients on graphene to drive droplet motion.

    Sandra C. Hernández;Charlee J. C. Bennett;Chad E. Junkermeier;Stanislav D. Tsoi

  • Spectral Tuning of Localized Surface Phonon Polariton Resonators for Low-Loss Mid-IR Applications

    Yiguo Chen;Yiguo Chen;Yan Francescato;Joshua D. Caldwell;Vincenzo Giannini

  • Reduced Self-Heating in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Using Nanocrystalline Diamond Heat-Spreading Films

    M. J. Tadjer;T. J. Anderson;K. D. Hobart;T. I. Feygelson

  • Mie resonance-enhanced light absorption in periodic silicon nanopillar arrays.

    Francisco J. Bezares;James P. Long;Orest J. Glembocki;Junpeng Guo

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl D. Hobart
Karl D. Hobart United States Naval Research Laboratory
Charles R. Eddy
Charles R. Eddy United States Naval Research Laboratory
James H. Edgar
James H. Edgar Kansas State University
Jeffrey C. Owrutsky
Jeffrey C. Owrutsky United States Naval Research Laboratory
Stefan A. Maier
Stefan A. Maier Monash University
Marko J. Tadjer
Marko J. Tadjer United States Naval Research Laboratory
Igor Vurgaftman
Igor Vurgaftman United States Naval Research Laboratory
Dimitri Basov
Dimitri Basov Columbia University
Jon-Paul Maria
Jon-Paul Maria Pennsylvania State University
D. Kurt Gaskill
D. Kurt Gaskill United States Naval Research Laboratory

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