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Juerg Leuthold

Juerg Leuthold

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Switzerland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
94
Citations
32755
World Ranking
254
National Ranking
8

Physics

D-Index
95
Citations
32772
World Ranking
1932
National Ranking
43

Juerg Leuthold publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Juerg Leuthold sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 837 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Juerg Leuthold D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Juerg Leuthold sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to high-speed optical communications
  • 2009 - OSA Fellows For pioneering contributions in the field of all-optical communications and optical processing made consistently, over many years, which have had a clear and lasting impact.

Overview

Juerg Leuthold is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and conducts research primarily in engineering, with a specialization in electrical and electronic engineering. Their work further extends to subfields such as atomic and molecular physics, optics, biomedical engineering, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and materials chemistry.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including photonic and optical devices, advanced memory and neural computing, advanced photonic communication systems, optical network technologies, plasmonic and surface plasmon research, photonic crystals and applications, and photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Leuthold has published extensively in several key venues, with frequent contributions to the Journal of Lightwave Technology, Optics Express, and arXiv. Other common publication venues include Advanced Electronic Materials and the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics.

Selected recent papers by Juerg Leuthold include:

  • Compact Mid-Infrared Gas Sensing Enabled by an All-Metamaterial Design, 2020, Nano Letters
  • Metamaterial graphene photodetector with bandwidth exceeding 500 gigahertz, 2023, Science
  • A monolithic bipolar CMOS electronic-plasmonic high-speed transmitter, 2020, Nature Electronics
  • Waveguide-integrated van der Waals heterostructure photodetector at telecom wavelengths with high speed and high responsivity, 2020, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • Waveguide coupled III-V photodiodes monolithically integrated on Si, 2022, Nature Communications

Their frequent coauthors include Yuriy Fedoryshyn, Ueli Koch, Wolfgang Heni, Yannik Horst, and Benedikt Baeuerle, reflecting sustained collaborations over numerous publications.

Juerg Leuthold has been recognized as an IEEE Fellow since 2013, for contributions to high-speed optical communications. They were also named an OSA Fellow in 2009, for pioneering contributions in all-optical communications and optical processing that have had a lasting impact.

Best Publications

  • Wireless sub-THz communication system with high data rate

    S. Koenig;D. Lopez-Diaz;J. Antes;J. Antes;F. Boes;F. Boes

  • Nonlinear silicon photonics

    J. Leuthold;C. Koos;W. Freude

  • All-optical high-speed signal processing with silicon–organic hybrid slot waveguides

    C. Koos;C. Koos;P. Vorreau;T. Vallaitis;P. Dumon

  • Coherent terabit communications with microresonator Kerr frequency combs.

    Joerg Pfeifle;Victor Brasch;Matthias Lauermann;Yimin Yu

  • Error Vector Magnitude as a Performance Measure for Advanced Modulation Formats

    R. Schmogrow;B. Nebendahl;M. Winter;A. Josten

  • High-speed plasmonic phase modulators

    A. Melikyan;L. Alloatti;A. Muslija;D. Hillerkuss

  • 26 Tbit s-1 line-rate super-channel transmission utilizing all-optical fast Fourier transform processing

    D. Hillerkuss;R. Schmogrow;T. Schellinger;M. Jordan

  • All-plasmonic Mach–Zehnder modulator enabling optical high-speed communication at the microscale

    Christian Haffner;Wolfgang Heni;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Jens Niegemann

  • Large Pockels effect in micro- and nanostructured barium titanate integrated on silicon

    Stefan Abel;Felix Eltes;J. Elliott Ortmann;Andreas Messner

  • Nonlinear silicon-on-insulator waveguides for all-optical signal processing

    C Koos;L Jacome;C Poulton;J Leuthold

  • Photonic wire bonding: a novel concept for chip-scale interconnects

    N. Lindenmann;G. Balthasar;D. Hillerkuss;R. Schmogrow

  • Low-loss plasmon-assisted electro-optic modulator

    Christian Haffner;Daniel Chelladurai;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Arne Josten

  • High-speed low-voltage electro-optic modulator with a polymer-infiltrated silicon photonic crystal waveguide

    Jan-Michael Brosi;Christian Koos;Lucio Claudio Andreani;Michael Waldow

  • 2.5 Tb/s (64/spl times/42.7 Gb/s) transmission over 40/spl times/100 km NZDSF using RZ-DPSK format and all-Raman-amplified spans

    A.H. Gnauck;G. Raybon;S. Chandrasekhar;J. Leuthold

  • 100 GHz silicon-organic hybrid modulator

    Luca Alloatti;Robert Palmer;Sebastian Diebold;Kai Philipp Pahl

  • High-speed plasmonic modulator in a single metal layer

    Masafumi Ayata;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Wolfgang Heni;Benedikt Baeuerle

  • Waveguide-integrated van der Waals heterostructure photodetector at telecom wavelengths with high speed and high responsivity.

    Nikolaus Flöry;Ping Ma;Yannick Salamin;Alexandros Emboras

  • Surface plasmon polariton absorption modulator

    A. Melikyan;N. Lindenmann;S. Walheim;P. M. Leufke

  • Femtojoule electro-optic modulation using a silicon–organic hybrid device

    Sebastian Koeber;Robert Palmer;Matthias Lauermann;Wolfgang Heni;Wolfgang Heni

  • 500 GHz plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling sub-THz microwave photonics

    Maurizio Burla;Claudia Hoessbacher;Wolfgang Heni;Christian Haffner

  • Real-time Nyquist pulse generation beyond 100 Gbit/s and its relation to OFDM

    R. Schmogrow;M. Winter;M. Meyer;D. Hillerkuss

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Freude
Wolfgang Freude Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christian Koos
Christian Koos Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Wolfgang Heni
Wolfgang Heni ETH Zurich
Larry R. Dalton
Larry R. Dalton University of Washington
Delwin L. Elder
Delwin L. Elder University of Washington
David Hillerkuss
David Hillerkuss Nokia (Germany)
Luca Alloatti
Luca Alloatti ETH Zurich
Wim Bogaerts
Wim Bogaerts Ghent University

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