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2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
101
Citations
35043
World Ranking
172
National Ranking
83

Materials Science

D-Index
105
Citations
37740
World Ranking
853
National Ranking
284

Chemistry

D-Index
95
Citations
29936
World Ranking
1643
National Ranking
630

Larry R. Dalton 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 Larry R. Dalton sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 690 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Larry R. Dalton 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 Larry R. Dalton sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% 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 United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • 2008 - SPIE Fellow
  • 1974 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Larry R. Dalton is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and physics, with significant contributions to electrical and electronic engineering as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Engineering
  • Physics and Astronomy

Within these fields, their work is focused on several subfields such as:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Artificial Intelligence

The research topics covered by Larry R. Dalton involve:

  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Nonlinear Optical Materials Research
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics

They have published extensively in several key venues including:

  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Nature Communications
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Optics Express
  • Optica

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Larry R. Dalton include:

  • Delwin L. Elder
  • Juerg Leuthold
  • Wolfgang Heni
  • Yuriy Fedoryshyn
  • Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

Examples of recent publications are:

  • "Gigahertz free-space electro-optic modulators based on Mie resonances", 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Ultrahigh Electro-Optic Coefficients, High Index of Refraction, and Long-Term Stability from Diels-Alder Cross-Linkable Binary Molecular Glasses", 2020, Chemistry of Materials
  • "A monolithic bipolar CMOS electronic-plasmonic high-speed transmitter", 2020, Nature Electronics
  • "Electro-optic spatial light modulator from an engineered organic layer", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulators for 100 GBd PAM4 signaling with sub-1 dB phase-shifter loss", 2020, Optics Express

Larry R. Dalton has been recognized with several fellowships throughout their career, including:

  • Fellow of the Materials Research Society (2010)
  • SPIE Fellow (2008)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1974)

Best Publications

  • Polymer-based optical waveguides: Materials, processing, and devices

    Hong Ma;Alex K.-Y. Jen;Larry R. Dalton

  • Low (Sub-1-Volt) Halfwave Voltage Polymeric Electro-optic Modulators Achieved by Controlling Chromophore Shape

    Yongqiang Shi;Cheng Zhang;Hua Zhang;James H. Bechtel

  • Electric field poled organic electro-optic materials: state of the art and future prospects.

    Larry R Dalton;Philip A Sullivan;Denise H Bale

  • Polymer micro-ring filters and modulators

    P. Rabiei;W.H. Steier;Cheng Zhang;L.R. Dalton

  • Demonstration of 110 GHz electro-optic polymer modulators

    Datong Chen;Harold R. Fetterman;Antao Chen;William H. Steier

  • Synthesis and Processing of Improved Organic Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Materials for Applications in Photonics

    L. R. Dalton;A. W. Harper;R. Ghosn;W. H. Steier

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

    Christian Haffner;Wolfgang Heni;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Jens Niegemann

  • From molecules to opto-chips: organic electro-optic materials

    Larry R. Dalton;William H. Steier;Bruce H. Robinson;Chang Zhang

  • Rotational diffusion studied by passage saturation transfer electron paramagnetic resonance

    David D. Thomas;David D. Thomas;Larry R. Dalton;James S. Hyde;James S. Hyde

  • Low-loss plasmon-assisted electro-optic modulator

    Christian Haffner;Daniel Chelladurai;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Arne Josten

  • Nonlinear Optical Polymeric Materials: From Chromophore Design to Commercial Applications

    Larry Dalton

  • Recent progress in second-order nonlinear optical polymers and dendrimers

    Min Ju Cho;Dong Hoon Choi;Philip A. Sullivan;Andrew J.P. Akelaitis

  • Integration of photonic and silver nanowire plasmonic waveguides

    Anna L. Pyayt;Benjamin Wiley;Younan Xia;Antao Chen

  • Low Vπ electrooptic modulators from CLD-1 : Chromophore design and synthesis, material processing, and characterization

    Cheng Zhang;Larry R. Dalton;Min-Cheol Oh;Hua Zhang

  • Optical modulation and detection in slotted Silicon waveguides

    Tom Baehr-Jones;Michael Hochberg;Guangxi Wang;R. Lawson

  • Ultralarge and thermally stable electro-optic activities from supramolecular self-assembled molecular glasses.

    Tae-Dong Kim;Jae-Wook Kang;Jingdong Luo;Sei-Hum Jang

  • Terahertz all-optical modulation in a silicon–polymer hybrid system

    Michael Hochberg;Tom Baehr-Jones;Guangxi Wang;Michael Shearn

  • Monte Carlo Statistical Mechanical Simulations of the Competition of Intermolecular Electrostatic and Poling-Field Interactions in Defining Macroscopic Electro-Optic Activity for Organic Chromophore/Polymer Materials†

    B. H. Robinson;L. R. Dalton

  • Highly Efficient and Thermally Stable Nonlinear Optical Dendrimer for Electrooptics

    Hong Ma;Baoquan Chen;Takafumi Sassa;Larry R. Dalton

  • Rational design of organic electro-optic materials

    L R Dalton

Frequent Co-Authors

Delwin L. Elder
Delwin L. Elder University of Washington
William H. Steier
William H. Steier University of Southern California
Alex K.-Y. Jen
Alex K.-Y. Jen City University of Hong Kong
Juerg Leuthold
Juerg Leuthold ETH Zurich
Wolfgang Heni
Wolfgang Heni ETH Zurich
Bruce H. Robinson
Bruce H. Robinson University of Washington
Jingdong Luo
Jingdong Luo City University of Hong Kong
Christian Koos
Christian Koos Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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