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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
USA
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
106
Citations
36745
World Ranking
133
National Ranking
65

Materials Science

D-Index
107
Citations
37369
World Ranking
792
National Ranking
271

Physics

D-Index
106
Citations
37614
World Ranking
1342
National Ranking
703

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
  • 2018 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
  • 2008 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • 2004 - OSA Fellows For pioneering work on optoelectronic quantum devices.
  • 2004 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For her pioneering work on optoelectronic quantum devices including quantum well infrared detectors, quantum cascade lasers, high power lasers, GaNGaAIN visible and UV emitters and detectors
  • 2000 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Manijeh Razeghi is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has an extensive publication record in the fields of engineering and physics and astronomy. Their research primarily focuses on electrical and electronic engineering, spectroscopy, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and materials chemistry.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
  • Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials
  • Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
  • Laser Design and Applications
  • Ga2O3 and related materials
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies

Some of the frequent publication venues for Razeghi's work are:

  • Photonics
  • IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
  • Infrared Physics & Technology
  • AIP Advances
  • Applied Physics Letters

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Razeghi include:

  • Mid-wavelength infrared high operating temperature pBn photodetectors based on type-II InAs/InAsSb superlattice, 2020, AIP Advances
  • Band-structure-engineered high-gain LWIR photodetector based on a type-II superlattice, 2021, Light Science & Applications
  • Multi-band SWIR-MWIR-LWIR Type-II superlattice based infrared photodetector, 2021, Results in Optics
  • Room temperature quantum cascade lasers with 22% wall plug efficiency in continuous-wave operation, 2020, Optics Express
  • Mid-wavelength infrared avalanche photodetector with AlAsSb/GaSb superlattice, 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Razeghi include:

  • Jiakai Li
  • Arash Dehzangi
  • Donghai Wu
  • S. Slivken
  • Lakshay Gautam

Throughout their career, Razeghi has received multiple recognitions and awards, such as:

  • Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute, 2018
  • Fellow of the Materials Research Society, 2008
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2004, citation for pioneering work on optoelectronic quantum devices including quantum well infrared detectors, quantum cascade lasers, high power lasers, GaNGaAIN visible and UV emitters and detectors
  • OSA Fellows, 2004, for pioneering work on optoelectronic quantum devices
  • SPIE Fellow, 2000

Best Publications

  • Semiconductor ultraviolet detectors

    M. Razeghi;A. Rogalski;A. Rogalski

  • Room temperature quantum cascade lasers with 27% wall plug efficiency

    Y. Bai;N. Bandyopadhyay;S. Tsao;S. Slivken

  • Optical and crystallographic properties and impurity incorporation of GaxIn1−xAs (0.44<x<0.49) grown by liquid phase epitaxy, vapor phase epitaxy, and metal organic chemical vapor deposition

    K.‐H. Goetz;D. Bimberg;H. Jürgensen;J. Selders

  • QEPAS based ppb-level detection of CO and N2O using a high power CW DFB-QCL

    Yufei Ma;Rafał Lewicki;Manijeh Razeghi;Frank K. Tittel

  • Short-wavelength solar-blind detectors-status, prospects, and markets

    M. Razeghi

  • Dark current suppression in type II InAs∕GaSb superlattice long wavelength infrared photodiodes with M-structure barrier

    Binh Minh Nguyen;Darin Hoffman;Pierre Yves Delaunay;Manijeh Razeghi

  • AlGaN ultraviolet photoconductors grown on sapphire

    D. Walker;X. Zhang;P. Kung;A. Saxler

  • Narrow-gap semiconductor photodiodes

    Antoni Rogalski;Manijeh Razeghi

  • High-speed, low-noise metal–semiconductor–metal ultraviolet photodetectors based on GaN

    D. Walker;E. Monroy;E. Monroy;P. Kung;J. Wu

  • High quality AIN and GaN epilayers grown on (00⋅1) sapphire, (100), and (111) silicon substrates

    P. Kung;A. Saxler;X. Zhang;D. Walker

  • Fundamentals of solid state engineering

    Manijeh Razeghi

  • Electroluminescence at 375nm from a ZnO∕GaN:Mg∕c-Al2O3 heterojunction light emitting diode

    D. J. Rogers;F. Hosseini Teherani;A. Yasan;K. Minder

  • Modeling of type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices using an empirical tight-binding method and interface engineering

    Yajun Wei;Manijeh Razeghi

  • High-power 280 nm AlGaN light-emitting diodes based on an asymmetric single-quantum well

    K. Mayes;A. Yasan;Ryan P McClintock;D. Shiell

  • The MOCVD Challenge: Volume 2: A Survey of GaInAsP-GaAs for Photonic and Electronic Device Applications

    Manijeh Razeghi

  • High-performance InAs quantum-dot infrared photodetectors grown on InP substrate operating at room temperature

    H. Lim;S. Tsao;W. Zhang;Manijeh Razeghi

  • Quantum cascade lasers: from tool to product.

    M. Razeghi;Q. Y. Lu;N. Bandyopadhyay;W. Zhou

  • Room temperature continuous wave operation of quantum cascade lasers with 12.5% wall plug efficiency

    Y. Bai;Steven Boyd Slivken;S. R. Darvish;Manijeh Razeghi

  • Solar-blind AlGaN photodiodes with very low cutoff wavelength

    D. Walker;V. Kumar;K. Mi;P. Sandvik

  • Quantum cascade lasers that emit more light than heat

    Yanbo Bai;Steven Slivken;Shigeyuki Kuboya;Shaban R. Darvish

  • Growth and characterization of InGaAs/InGaP quantum dots for midinfrared photoconductive detector

    S. Kim;H. Mohseni;M. Erdtmann;E. Michel

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Boyd Slivken
Steven Boyd Slivken Northwestern University
Patrick Kung
Patrick Kung University of Alabama
Donghai Wu
Donghai Wu Cornell University
Adam William Saxler
Adam William Saxler Wolfspeed, Inc.
Jae Su Yu
Jae Su Yu Kyung Hee University
Chennupati Jagadish
Chennupati Jagadish Australian National University
Young Hee Lee
Young Hee Lee Sungkyunkwan University
Oleg Mitrofanov
Oleg Mitrofanov University College London
Jie Xu
Jie Xu Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Ian T. Ferguson
Ian T. Ferguson Kennesaw State University

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