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Lionel C. Kimerling

Lionel C. Kimerling

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Materials Science

D-Index
106
Citations
44751
World Ranking
812
National Ranking
277

Physics

D-Index
106
Citations
44535
World Ranking
1329
National Ranking
697

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1987 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For fundamental contributions to the measurement and understanding of the electrical properties of defects in semiconductors and the role of charge state and electronic stimulation in their structure and reactivity

Overview

Lionel C. Kimerling is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. Their research primarily focuses on Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, with additional work in Artificial Intelligence, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics covered in Kimerling's work include Photonic and Optical Devices, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, Optical Network Technologies, Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors, and Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices.

Frequent coauthors in Lionel C. Kimerling's research include:

  • Anu Agarwal
  • Samuel Serna
  • Luigi Ranno
  • Jürgen Michel
  • Dawn T. H. Tan

Kimerling has published repeatedly in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Applied Optics
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • Photonics Research

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Kimerling include:

  • Highly efficient fiber to Si waveguide free-form coupler for foundry-scale silicon photonics, 2024, Photonics Research
  • Integrated Photonics Packaging: Challenges and Opportunities, 2022, ACS Photonics
  • High spectro-temporal compression on a nonlinear CMOS-chip, 2021, Light Science & Applications
  • High efficiency four wave mixing and optical bistability in amorphous silicon carbide ring resonators, 2020, APL Photonics
  • Dynamic Complex Emulsions as Amplifiers for On-Chip Photonic Cavity-Enhanced Resonators, 2020, ACS Sensors

Throughout their career, Lionel C. Kimerling has been recognized with fellowships including Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1987, noted for contributions to understanding electrical properties of defects in semiconductors. They were also named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1992 and Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2012.

Best Publications

  • High-performance Ge-on-Si photodetectors

    Jurgen Michel;Jifeng Liu;Lionel C. Kimerling

  • Photonic-bandgap microcavities in optical waveguides

    J. S. Foresi;P. R. Villeneuve;J. Ferrera;E. R. Thoen

  • Ge-on-Si laser operating at room temperature.

    Jifeng Liu;Xiaochen Sun;Rodolfo Camacho-Aguilera;Lionel C. Kimerling

  • On-chip optical isolation in monolithically integrated non-reciprocal optical resonators

    Lei Bi;Juejun Hu;Peng Jiang;Dong Hun Kim

  • An electrically pumped germanium laser

    Rodolfo E. Camacho-Aguilera;Yan Cai;Neil Patel;Jonathan T. Bessette

  • Improving thin-film crystalline silicon solar cell efficiencies with photonic crystals

    Peter Bermel;Chiyan Luo;Lirong Zeng;Lionel C. Kimerling

  • High-quality Ge epilayers on Si with low threading-dislocation densities

    Hsin-Chiao Luan;Desmond R. Lim;Kevin K. Lee;Kevin M. Chen

  • Fabrication of ultralow-loss Si/SiO(2) waveguides by roughness reduction.

    Kevin K. Lee;Desmond R. Lim;Lionel C. Kimerling;Jangho Shin

  • Ultra-compact Si-SiO 2 microring resonator optical channel dropping filters

    B.E. Little;J.S. Foresi;G. Steinmeyer;E.R. Thoen

  • Tensile-strained, n-type Ge as a gain medium for monolithic laser integration on Si

    Jifeng Liu;Xiaochen Sun;Dong Pan;Xiaoxin Wang

  • Capacitance Transient Spectroscopy

    G. L. Miller;D. V. Lang;L. C. Kimerling

  • Effect of size and roughness on light transmission in a Si/SiO2 waveguide: Experiments and model

    Kevin K. Lee;Desmond R. Lim;Hsin-Chiao Luan;Anuradha Agarwal

  • Waveguide-integrated, ultralow-energy GeSi electro-absorption modulators

    Jifeng Liu;Mark Beals;Andrew Pomerene;Sarah Bernardis

  • Impurity enhancement of the 1.54‐μm Er3+ luminescence in silicon

    J. Michel;J. L. Benton;R. F. Ferrante;D. C. Jacobson

  • High performance, waveguide integrated Ge photodetectors

    Donghwan Ahn;Ching-yin Hong;Jifeng Liu;Wojciech Giziewicz

  • Recombination enhanced defect reactions

    L.C. Kimerling

  • Strain-induced band gap shrinkage in Ge grown on Si substrate

    Yasuhiko Ishikawa;Kazumi Wada;Douglas D. Cannon;Jifeng Liu

  • Room‐temperature sharp line electroluminescence at λ=1.54 μm from an erbium‐doped, silicon light‐emitting diode

    B. Zheng;J. Michel;F. Y. G. Ren;L. C. Kimerling

  • A roadmap for nanophotonics

    Randolph Kirchain;Lionel Kimerling

  • Efficiency enhancement in Si solar cells by textured photonic crystal back reflector

    L. Zeng;Y. Yi;C. Hong;J. Liu

  • Mid-infrared integrated photonics on silicon: a perspective

    Hongtao Lin;Zhengqian Luo;Zhengqian Luo;Tian Gu;Lionel C Kimerling

Frequent Co-Authors

Jifeng Liu
Jifeng Liu Dartmouth College
Kathleen Richardson
Kathleen Richardson University of Central Florida
Lin Zhang
Lin Zhang Tianjin University
Guifang Li
Guifang Li University of Central Florida
Dawn T. H. Tan
Dawn T. H. Tan Singapore University of Technology and Design
Francesco Morichetti
Francesco Morichetti Polytechnic University of Milan
Igor Luzinov
Igor Luzinov Clemson University

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