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78
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46206
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2897
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Michael L. Roukes 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 Michael L. Roukes sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 244 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael L. Roukes 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 Michael L. Roukes sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% 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 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
  • 1999 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For studies at low temperature of electronic, mechanical, and thermal phenomena on the nanometer scale

Overview

Michael L. Roukes is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, primarily focusing on neuroscience and physics and astronomy. The scientist's body of work incorporates cellular and molecular neuroscience, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, spectroscopy, and cognitive neuroscience.

The research topics covered by Michael L. Roukes include photoreceptor and optogenetics research, neuroscience and neural engineering, mechanical and optical resonators, advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques, neural dynamics and brain function, mass spectrometry techniques and applications, and force microscopy techniques and applications.

Michael L. Roukes has contributed to a variety of scientific publications in several venues. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Neuron, and Neurophotonics.

Some recent papers published by Michael L. Roukes are:

  • Integrated Neurophotonics: Toward Dense Volumetric Interrogation of Brain Circuit Activity-at Depth and in Real Time, 2020, Neuron
  • Implantable photonic neural probes for light-sheet fluorescence brain imaging, 2021, Neurophotonics
  • Tidyproteomics: an open-source R package and data object for quantitative proteomics post analysis and visualization, 2023, BMC Bioinformatics
  • Fully Integrated Time-Gated 3D Fluorescence Imager for Deep Neural Imaging, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
  • Harnessing fluctuations in thermodynamic computing via time-reversal symmetries, 2021, Physical Review Research

Frequent collaborators include Laurent Moreaux, Kenneth L. Shepard, John E. Sader, Jaebin Choi, and Adam P. Neumann.

Michael L. Roukes has received recognition in their field, including the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award in 2010 and induction as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999, noted for research on low temperature electronic, mechanical, and thermal phenomena at the nanometer scale.

Best Publications

  • Spintronics: a spin-based electronics vision for the future.

    S. A. Wolf;S. A. Wolf;D. D. Awschalom;R. A. Buhrman;J. M. Daughton

  • Thermoelastic damping in micro- and nanomechanical systems

    Ron Lifshitz;M. L. Roukes

  • Zeptogram-Scale Nanomechanical Mass Sensing

    Y. T. Yang;C. Callegari;X. L. Feng;K. L. Ekinci

  • Ultra-sensitive NEMS-based cantilevers for sensing, scanned probe and very high-frequency applications.

    Mo Li;H. X. Tang;H. X. Tang;M. L. Roukes

  • Nanoelectromechanical systems

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  • Measurement of the quantum of thermal conductance

    K. Schwab;E. A. Henriksen;J. M. Worlock;J. M. Worlock;M. L. Roukes

  • Comparative advantages of mechanical biosensors

    J.L. Arlett;E.B. Myers;M.L. Roukes

  • Ultimate limits to inertial mass sensing based upon nanoelectromechanical systems

    K. L. Ekinci;Y. T. Yang;M. L. Roukes

  • Towards single-molecule nanomechanical mass spectrometry

    A. K. Naik;M. S. Hanay;W. K. Hiebert;W. K. Hiebert;X. L. Feng

  • Ultrasensitive nanoelectromechanical mass detection

    K. L. Ekinci;X. M. H. Huang;M. L. Roukes

  • Nanodevice motion at microwave frequencies

    Xue Ming Henry Huang;Christian A. Zorman;Mehran Mehregany;Michael L. Roukes

  • Fabrication of high frequency nanometer scale mechanical resonators from bulk Si crystals

    A. N. Cleland;M. L. Roukes

  • A nanometre-scale mechanical electrometer

    A. N. Cleland;M. L. Roukes

  • Putting mechanics into quantum mechanics

    Keith C. Schwab;Michael L. Roukes

  • Electron pinball and commensurate orbits in a periodic array of scatterers.

    D. Weiss;M. L. Roukes;A. Menschig;P. Grambow

  • Noise processes in nanomechanical resonators

    A. N. Cleland;M. L. Roukes

  • Single-protein nanomechanical mass spectrometry in real time

    Michael L. Roukes;Mehmet Selim Hanay;Scott Kelber;Akshay Naik

  • Nanoelectromechanical systems face the future

    Michael Roukes

  • Stiction, adhesion energy, and the Casimir effect in micromechanical systems

    E. Buks;M. L. Roukes

  • Giant Planar Hall Effect in Epitaxial (Ga,Mn)As Devices

    H. X. Tang;R. K. Kawakami;D. D. Awschalom;M. L. Roukes

  • Nanomechanical measurements of a superconducting qubit

    M. D. LaHaye;J. Suh;P. M. Echternach;K. C. Schwab

  • Very High Frequency Silicon Nanowire Electromechanical Resonators

    X. L. Feng;Rongrui He;Peidong Yang;M. L. Roukes

  • Hot electrons and energy transport in metals at millikelvin temperatures.

    M. L. Roukes;M. R. Freeman;R. S. Germain;R. C. Richardson

  • Nanowire-Based Very-High-Frequency Electromechanical Resonator

    Ali Husain;J. Hone;H. W. C. Postma;X. M. H. Huang

  • Intrinsic dissipation in high-frequency micromechanical resonators

    P. Mohanty;D. A. Harrington;K. L. Ekinci;Y. T. Yang

  • Thermoelastic Damping in Micro- and Nano-Mechanical Systems.

    Ron Lifshitz;Michael L. Roukes

Frequent Co-Authors

Axel Scherer
Axel Scherer California Institute of Technology
John E. Sader
John E. Sader California Institute of Technology
Hong X. Tang
Hong X. Tang Yale University
Scott E. Fraser
Scott E. Fraser University of Southern California
Kenneth L. Shepard
Kenneth L. Shepard Columbia University
Mo Li
Mo Li University of Washington
James P. Crutchfield
James P. Crutchfield University of California, Davis
Christian A. Zorman
Christian A. Zorman Case Western Reserve University
Harold G. Craighead
Harold G. Craighead Cornell University
A. Paul Alivisatos
A. Paul Alivisatos University of Chicago

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