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Raffaele Colombelli

Raffaele Colombelli

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
39
Citations
7457
World Ranking
4635
National Ranking
85

Raffaele Colombelli 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 Raffaele Colombelli sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 297 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Raffaele Colombelli 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 Raffaele Colombelli sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Overview

Raffaele Colombelli is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering, with a particular focus in the subfields of Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's work involves several core topics, including:

  • Strong Light-Matter Interactions
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
  • Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena

Raffaele Colombelli has published in a range of scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • 2022 47th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz)
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review B

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Colombelli include:

  • "Ultrafast response of harmonic modelocked THz lasers," 2020, Light Science & Applications
  • "Ultrafast Quantum-Well Photodetectors Operating at 10 μm with a Flat Frequency Response up to 70 GHz at Room Temperature," 2021, ACS Photonics
  • "Millimeter wave photonics with terahertz semiconductor lasers," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Intersubband Polariton-Polariton Scattering in a Dispersive Microcavity," 2022, Physical Review Letters
  • "Realization of Harmonic Oscillator Arrays with Graded Semiconductor Quantum Wells," 2020, Physical Review Letters

The scientist collaborates regularly with several researchers, most frequently with:

  • Mathieu Jeannin
  • Jean-Michel Manceau
  • Adel Bousseksou
  • Paul Goulain
  • Mario Malerba

Best Publications

  • Ultrastrong light-matter coupling regime with polariton dots.

    Y. Todorov;A. M. Andrews;R. Colombelli;S. De Liberato;S. De Liberato

  • Quantum cascade lasers: ultrahigh-speed operation, optical wireless communication, narrow linewidth, and far-infrared emission

    F. Capasso;R. Paiella;R. Martini;R. Colombelli

  • Quantum cascade surface-emitting photonic crystal laser.

    Raffaele Colombelli;Raffaele Colombelli;Kartik Srinivasan;Mariano Troccoli;Oskar Painter

  • Electrically pumped photonic-crystal terahertz lasers controlled by boundary conditions

    Y. Chassagneux;R. Colombelli;W. Maineult;S. Barbieri

  • Ultra-broadband semiconductor laser.

    Claire F. Gmachl;Deborah L. Sivco;Raffaele Colombelli;Federico Capasso

  • Far-infrared surface-plasmon quantum-cascade lasers at 21.5 μm and 24 μm wavelengths

    Raffaele Colombelli;Federico Capasso;Claire Gmachl;Albert L. Hutchinson

  • Optical properties of metal-dielectric-metal microcavities in the THz frequency range.

    Y. Todorov;L. Tosetto;J. Teissier;A. M. Andrews

  • Strong light-matter coupling in subwavelength metal-dielectric microcavities at terahertz frequencies.

    Y. Todorov;Y. Todorov;A. M. Andrews;I. Sagnes;R. Colombelli

  • Phase-locking of a 2.7-THz quantum cascade laser to a mode-locked erbium-doped fibre laser

    Stefano Barbieri;Pierre Gellie;Giorgio Santarelli;Lu Ding

  • Wave engineering with THz quantum cascade lasers

    Carlo Sirtori;Stefano Barbieri;Raffaele Colombelli

  • Efficient power extraction in surface-emitting semiconductor lasers using graded photonic heterostructures

    Gangyi Xu;Raffaele Colombelli;Suraj P. Khanna;Ali Belarouci

  • Resonant second-order nonlinear optical processes in quantum cascade lasers.

    Nina Owschimikow;Claire F. Gmachl;Alexey Belyanin;Vitaly Kocharovsky

  • Quantum cascade lasers with double metal-semiconductor waveguide resonators

    Karl Unterrainer;Raffaele Colombelli;Claire F. Gmachl;Federico Capasso

  • Single-mode, tunable distributed-feedback and multiple-wavelength quantum cascade lasers

    C. Gmachl;A. Straub;R. Colombelli;F. Capasso

  • Terahertz intersubband absorption in GaN/AlGaN step quantum wells

    H. Machhadani;Y. Kotsar;S. Sakr;M. Tchernycheva

  • Electrically injected cavity polaritons

    A. Vasanelli;Y. Todorov;R. Colombelli;C. Ciuti

  • Perfect energy-feeding into strongly coupled systems and interferometric control of polariton absorption

    Simone Zanotto;Simone Zanotto;Francesco P. Mezzapesa;Federica Bianco;Giorgio Biasiol

  • Short Terahertz Pulse Generation from a Dispersion Compensated Modelocked Semiconductor Laser

    Feihu Wang;Hanond Nong;Tobias Fobbe;Valentino Pistore

  • Antenna-coupled microcavities for enhanced infrared photo-detection

    Yuk Nga Chen;Yanko Todorov;Benjamin Askenazi;Angela Vasanelli

  • Nonlinear semiconductor light sources

    Federico Capasso;Alfred Yi Cho;Raffaele Colombelli;Claire F Gmachl

Frequent Co-Authors

Edmund H. Linfield
Edmund H. Linfield University of Leeds
Lianhe Li
Lianhe Li University of Leeds
Isabelle Sagnes
Isabelle Sagnes Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
Carlo Sirtori
Carlo Sirtori École Normale Supérieure
Federico Capasso
Federico Capasso Harvard University
Claire F. Gmachl
Claire F. Gmachl Princeton University
Suraj P. Khanna
Suraj P. Khanna National Physical Laboratory
Deborah L. Sivco
Deborah L. Sivco Princeton University
David A. Ritchie
David A. Ritchie University of Cambridge
Alfred Y. Cho
Alfred Y. Cho Nokia (United States)

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