2026 Nikolay I. Zheludev: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	119	844	799	84	79	1362	54506

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Research.com Recognitions

2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2019 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For leadership and technical contributions to optical metamaterials and nanophotonics.
2018 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions and international leadership in nanophotonics and metamaterials
2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
2005 - OSA Fellows For contributions to the nonlinear optics of solids and to nanophotonics

Overview

Nikolay I. Zheludev is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research profile spans extensive contributions to physics, engineering, and particularly the intersection of optics and nanophotonics.

Their work covers several main fields of study including:

Physics and Astronomy
Engineering

Within these broader fields, they focus on subfields such as:

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

The main topics of their research include:

Photonic and Optical Devices
Mechanical and Optical Resonators
Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications

Notable recent publications by Nikolay I. Zheludev and their collaborators are:

Optical superoscillation technologies beyond the diffraction limit, 2021, Nature Reviews Physics
Roadmap for Optical Metasurfaces, 2024, ACS Photonics
Supertoroidal light pulses as electromagnetic skyrmions propagating in free space, 2021, Nature Communications
Observation of toroidal pulses of light, 2022, Nature Photonics
Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields, 2023, Journal of Optics

They frequently collaborate with several researchers in their field, including:

Kevin F. MacDonald
Jun-Yu Ou
Nikitas Papasimakis
Eric Plum
Giorgio Adamo

Their research has been published in a range of venues, with multiple papers featured in:

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
arXiv (Cornell University)
ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)
APL Photonics
Applied Physics Letters

Nikolay I. Zheludev has been recognized with a number of awards and honors, including:

Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2019) for leadership and technical contributions to optical metamaterials and nanophotonics
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2018) for seminal contributions and international leadership in nanophotonics and metamaterials
Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2018)
OSA Fellow (2005) for contributions to the nonlinear optics of solids and to nanophotonics

Best Publications

The Fano resonance in plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials

Boris Luk'yanchuk;Nikolay I. Zheludev;Stefan A. Maier;Naomi J. Halas

4440
Citations
From metamaterials to metadevices.

Nikolay I. Zheludev;Yuri S. Kivshar;Yuri S. Kivshar

2244
Citations
Sharp trapped-mode resonances in planar metamaterials with a broken structural symmetry

V. A. Fedotov;M. Rose;S. L. Prosvirnin;N. Papasimakis

1371
Citations
Optically reconfigurable metasurfaces and photonic devices based on phase change materials

Qian Wang;Qian Wang;Edward T. F. Rogers;Behrad Gholipour;Behrad Gholipour;Chih-Ming Wang

1239
Citations
Metamaterial analog of electromagnetically induced transparency.

N. Papasimakis;V. A. Fedotov;N. I. Zheludev;S. L. Prosvirnin

1016
Citations
Ultrafast active plasmonics

Kevin F. MacDonald;Zsolt L. Sámson;Mark I. Stockman;Nikolay I. Zheludev

987
Citations
Asymmetric propagation of electromagnetic waves through a planar chiral structure.

Vassili A. Fedotov;P.L. Mladyonov;S.L. Prosvirnin;A.V. Rogacheva

938
Citations
Toroidal Dipolar Response in a Metamaterial

T. Kaelberer;V.A. Fedotov;N. Papasimakis;Din-ping Tsai

921
Citations
Coherent meta-materials and the lasing spaser

Nikolay I. Zheludev;S.L. Prosvirnin;N. Papasimakis;V.A. Fedotov

914
Citations
Metamaterial with negative index due to chirality

E. Plum;J. Zhou;J. Dong;J. Dong;V. A. Fedotov

902
Citations
The road ahead for metamaterials

Nikolay I. Zheludev

810
Citations
A super-oscillatory lens optical microscope for subwavelength imaging

Edward T. F. Rogers;Jari Lindberg;Tapashree Roy;Salvatore Savo

768
Citations
Giant Gyrotropy due to Electromagnetic-Field Coupling in a Bilayered Chiral Structure

A. V. Rogacheva;V. A. Fedotov;A. S. Schwanecke;N. I. Zheludev

726
Citations
Optical Manifestations of Planar Chirality

A. Papakostas;A. Potts;D. M. Bagnall;S. L. Prosvirnin

653
Citations
Metamaterials : Optical Activity without Chirality

E. Plum;X.-X. Liu;X.-X. Liu;V.A. Fedotov;Y. Chen

652
Citations
Electromagnetic toroidal excitations in matter and free space

N. Papasimakis;V. A. Fedotov;V. Savinov;T. A. Raybould

616
Citations
An All‐Optical, Non‐volatile, Bidirectional, Phase‐Change Meta‐Switch

Behrad Gholipour;Jianfa Zhang;Kevin F. MacDonald;Daniel W. Hewak

579
Citations
Reconfigurable photonic metamaterials

Jun-Yu Ou;Eric Plum;Liudi Jiang;Nikolay I. Zheludev

500
Citations
The life and times of the LED — a 100-year history

Nikolay Zheludev

448
Citations
An electromechanically reconfigurable plasmonic metamaterial operating in the near-infrared.

Jun-Yu Ou;Eric Plum;Jianfa Zhang;Nikolay I. Zheludev;Nikolay I. Zheludev

424
Citations