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68
Citations
16394
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4858
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1286

Kathleen Richardson 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 Kathleen Richardson sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 468 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kathleen Richardson 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 Kathleen Richardson sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

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

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

    Yifei Zhang;Clayton Fowler;Junhao Liang;Bilal Azhar

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

    Yifei Zhang;Clayton Fowler;Junhao Liang;Bilal Azhar

  • High-efficiency bragg gratings in photothermorefractive glass.

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

  • Integrated flexible chalcogenide glass photonic devices

    Lan Li;Hongtao Lin;Shutao Qiao;Yi Zou

  • Reconfigurable all-dielectric metalens with diffraction-limited performance

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

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

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

  • Chalcogenide glass-on-graphene photonics

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

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

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

  • Chalcogenide Glass-on-Graphene Photonics

    Hongtao Lin;Yi Song;Yizhong Huang;Derek Kita

  • Fabrication and characterization of integrated optical waveguides in sulfide chalcogenide glasses

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

  • Direct femtosecond laser writing of waveguides in As2S3 thin films.

    Arnaud Zoubir;Martin Richardson;Clara Rivero;Alfons Schulte

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

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

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

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

  • Fabrication and testing of planar chalcogenide waveguide integrated microfluidic sensor

    Juejun Hu;Vladimir Tarasov;Anu Agarwal;Lionel Kimerling

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

    Arnaud Zoubir;Cedric Lopez;Martin Richardson;Kathleen Richardson

  • Multifunctional Metasurface Design with a Generative Adversarial Network

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

  • On-chip mid-infrared gas detection using chalcogenide glass waveguide

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

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

    Robert Stegeman;Ladislav Jankovic;Hongki Kim;Clara Rivero

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

    Ashutosh Rao;Aniket Patil;Jeff Chiles;Marcin Malinowski

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Thierry Cardinal
Thierry Cardinal Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Michel Couzi
Michel Couzi University of Bordeaux
Igor Luzinov
Igor Luzinov Clemson University
Theresa S. Mayer
Theresa S. Mayer Purdue University West Lafayette
George I. Stegeman
George I. Stegeman University of Central Florida
Sasan Fathpour
Sasan Fathpour University of Central Florida
Sudipta Seal
Sudipta Seal University of Central Florida
Dawn T. H. Tan
Dawn T. H. Tan Singapore University of Technology and Design

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