2026 Kathleen Richardson: 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	68	4860	4704	1288	1209	468	16394

Research.com Recognitions

2010 - OSA Fellows For contributions to the advancement of glass science in optics through teaching and research across institutions and international boundaries.
2008 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Kathleen Richardson is affiliated with the University of Central Florida in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of materials science and engineering. Their work spans several interdisciplinary subfields, with significant contributions in materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, ceramics and composites, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Research topics frequently addressed by Richardson include:

Phase-change materials and chalcogenides
Glass properties and applications
Photonic and optical devices
Metamaterials and metasurfaces applications
Chalcogenide semiconductor thin films
Neural networks and reservoir computing
Advanced antenna and metasurface technologies

Their recent scholarly output comprises papers published between 2020 and 2023. Selected recent publications are:

"Ultra-compact nonvolatile phase shifter based on electrically reprogrammable transparent phase change materials," 2022, PhotoniX
"Deep learning modeling approach for metasurfaces with high degrees of freedom," 2020, Optics Express
"The past, present and future of photonic glasses: A review in homage to the United Nations International Year of glass 2022," 2023, Progress in Materials Science
"Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Predict Mutual Coupling Effects in Metasurfaces," 2021, Advanced Optical Materials
"Roadmap for phase change materials in photonics and beyond," 2023, iScience

Frequent coauthors of Richardson include:

Myungkoo Kang
Juejun Hu
Tian Gu
Mikhail Y. Shalaginov
Clara Rivero-Baleine

The venues where Richardson has most regularly published are:

Optical Materials Express
arXiv (Cornell University)
Advanced Optical Materials
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Surface Science Spectra

In addition to articles, Richardson has published a book titled Manmade woman - a feminist study of sex robots (2021) with Palgrave Macmillan.

Awards received include recognition as an OSA Fellow in 2010 for contributions to glass science in optics and designation as a SPIE Fellow in 2008.

Best Publications

Broadband transparent optical phase change materials for high-performance nonvolatile photonics.

Yifei Zhang;Jeffrey B. Chou;Junying Li;Huashan Li

813
Citations
Extreme Broadband Transparent Optical Phase Change Materials for High-Performance Nonvolatile Photonics

Yifei Zhang;Jeffrey B. Chou;Junying Li;Huashan Li

586
Citations
Electrically Reconfigurable Nonvolatile Metasurface Using Low-Loss Optical Phase Change Material

Yifei Zhang;Clayton Fowler;Junhao Liang;Bilal Azhar

501
Citations
Electrically reconfigurable non-volatile metasurface using low-loss optical phase-change material.

Yifei Zhang;Clayton Fowler;Junhao Liang;Bilal Azhar

457
Citations
High-efficiency bragg gratings in photothermorefractive glass.

Oleg M. Efimov;Leonid B. Glebov;Larissa N. Glebova;Kathleen C. Richardson

401
Citations
Integrated flexible chalcogenide glass photonic devices

Lan Li;Hongtao Lin;Shutao Qiao;Yi Zou

379
Citations
Reconfigurable all-dielectric metalens with diffraction-limited performance

Mikhail Y. Shalaginov;Sensong An;Yifei Zhang;Fan Yang

375
Citations
A Deep Learning Approach for Objective-Driven All-Dielectric Metasurface Design

Sensong An;Clayton Fowler;Bowen Zheng;Mikhail Y. Shalaginov

368
Citations
Chalcogenide glass-on-graphene photonics

Hongtao Lin;Yi Song;Yizhong Huang;Yizhong Huang;Derek Kita

325
Citations
Non-linear optical properties of chalcogenide glasses in the system As S Se

T Cardinal;K.A Richardson;H Shim;A Schulte

296
Citations
Chalcogenide Glass-on-Graphene Photonics

Hongtao Lin;Yi Song;Yizhong Huang;Derek Kita

263
Citations
Fabrication and characterization of integrated optical waveguides in sulfide chalcogenide glasses

J.-F. Viens;C. Meneghini;A. Villeneuve;T.V. Galstian

260
Citations
Direct femtosecond laser writing of waveguides in As2S3 thin films.

Arnaud Zoubir;Martin Richardson;Clara Rivero;Alfons Schulte

245
Citations
Waveguide writing in chalcogenide glasses by a train of femtosecond laser pulses

O.M Efimov;L.B Glebov;K.A Richardson;E Van Stryland

245
Citations
Mid-infrared materials and devices on a Si platform for optical sensing

Vivek Singh;Pao Tai Lin;Neil Patel;Hongtao Lin

218
Citations
Fabrication and testing of planar chalcogenide waveguide integrated microfluidic sensor

Juejun Hu;Vladimir Tarasov;Anu Agarwal;Lionel Kimerling

218
Citations
Femtosecond laser fabrication of tubular waveguides in poly(methyl methacrylate)

Arnaud Zoubir;Cedric Lopez;Martin Richardson;Kathleen Richardson

216
Citations
Multifunctional Metasurface Design with a Generative Adversarial Network

Sensong An;Bowen Zheng;Hong Tang;Mikhail Y. Shalaginov

180
Citations
On-chip mid-infrared gas detection using chalcogenide glass waveguide

Z. Han;P. Lin;V. Singh;L. Kimerling

177
Citations
Tellurite glasses with peak absolute Raman gain coefficients up to 30 times that of fused silica.

Robert Stegeman;Ladislav Jankovic;Hongki Kim;Clara Rivero

175
Citations
Heterogeneous microring and Mach-Zehnder modulators based on lithium niobate and chalcogenide glasses on silicon.

Ashutosh Rao;Aniket Patil;Jeff Chiles;Marcin Malinowski

175
Citations
Physical and optical properties of sol-gel nano-silver doped silica film on glass substrate as a function of heat-treatment temperature

Wenyan Li;Sudipta Seal;Edward Megan;Jeff Ramsdell

167
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