2026 Joshua D. Caldwell: 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	58	7587	7336	1881	1743	294	15026

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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

1296
Citations
Sub-diffractional volume-confined polaritons in the natural hyperbolic material hexagonal boron nitride

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

992
Citations
Polaritons in layered 2D materials

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

931
Citations
Photonics with hexagonal boron nitride

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

861
Citations
Two-dimensional gallium nitride realized via graphene encapsulation

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

793
Citations
Low-loss, infrared and terahertz nanophotonics using surface phonon polaritons

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

788
Citations
Hyperbolic phonon-polaritons in boron nitride for near-field optical imaging and focusing

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

594
Citations
Ultralow-loss polaritons in isotopically pure boron nitride

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

434
Citations
Low-Loss, Extreme Subdiffraction Photon Confinement via Silicon Carbide Localized Surface Phonon Polariton Resonators

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

358
Citations
Ultra-low-loss Polaritons in Isotopically Pure Materials: A New Approach

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

271
Citations
Technique for the dry transfer of epitaxial graphene onto arbitrary substrates.

Caldwell Jd;Anderson Tj;Culbertson Jc;Jernigan Gg

256
Citations
Technique for the Dry Transfer of Epitaxial Graphene onto Arbitrary Substrates

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

252
Citations
Plasmonic Nanopillar Arrays for Large-Area, High-Enhancement Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Sensors

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

247
Citations
Role of epsilon-near-zero substrates in the optical response of plasmonic antennas

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

213
Citations
Atomic-scale photonic hybrids for mid-infrared and terahertz nanophotonics

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

196
Citations
Reconfigurable infrared hyperbolic metasurfaces using phase change materials.

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

187
Citations
Quantifying pulsed laser induced damage to graphene

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

184
Citations
Chemical gradients on graphene to drive droplet motion.

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

166
Citations
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

165
Citations
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

161
Citations
Mie resonance-enhanced light absorption in periodic silicon nanopillar arrays.

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

141
Citations