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Steven A. Cummer

Steven A. Cummer

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Physics

D-Index
92
Citations
40454
World Ranking
2084
National Ranking
1066

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2011 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to lightning remote sensing and artificial electromagnetic materials

Overview

Steven A. Cummer is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research spans a broad range of topics primarily within the fields of physics, astronomy, and engineering. The scientist's work includes significant contributions to areas such as lightning and electromagnetic phenomena, acoustic wave phenomena research, ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, and applications of metamaterials and metasurfaces.

They have published extensively on topics that include:

  • Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena
  • Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
  • Ionosphere and Magnetosphere Dynamics
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • High Voltage Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Steven A. Cummer include:

  • "Dispersion tuning and route reconfiguration of acoustic waves in valley topological phononic crystals," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Sound vortex diffraction via topological charge in phase gradient metagratings," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Acoustofluidic Holography for Micro- to Nanoscale Particle Manipulation," 2020, ACS Nano
  • "Emerging topics in nanophononics and elastic, acoustic, and mechanical metamaterials: an overview," 2023, Nanophotonics
  • "Achromatic metasurfaces by dispersion customization for ultra-broadband acoustic beam engineering," 2022, National Science Review

The scientist often collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Junfei Li
  • Yunjiao Pu
  • Chen Shen
  • Fanchao Lyu
  • Xiuyuan Peng

Steven A. Cummer's work has appeared repeatedly in major scientific publication venues such as:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Applied Physics Letters

Within their main fields of study, the scientist has made 96 publications related to physics and astronomy and 84 related to engineering. Their subfield expertise includes astronomy and astrophysics, biomedical engineering, electronic, optical, and magnetic materials, electrical and electronic engineering, and global and planetary change.

Steven A. Cummer has been recognized by their peers through awards such as being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2016 and an IEEE Fellow in 2011, citing contributions to lightning remote sensing and artificial electromagnetic materials.

Best Publications

  • Metamaterial Electromagnetic Cloak at Microwave Frequencies

    D. Schurig;J. J. Mock;B. J. Justice;S. A. Cummer

  • Controlling sound with acoustic metamaterials

    Steven A. Cummer;Johan Christensen;Andrea Alù

  • One path to acoustic cloaking

    Steven A Cummer;David Schurig

  • Full-wave simulations of electromagnetic cloaking structures.

    Steven A. Cummer;Bogdan Ioan Popa;David Schurig;David R. Smith

  • Wavefront modulation and subwavelength diffractive acoustics with an acoustic metasurface

    Yangbo Xie;Wenqi Wang;Huanyang Chen;Adam Konneker

  • Design of electromagnetic cloaks and concentrators using form-invariant coordinate transformations of Maxwell’s equations

    Marco Rahm;David Schurig;Daniel A. Roberts;Steven A. Cummer

  • Three-dimensional broadband omnidirectional acoustic ground cloak

    Lucian Zigoneanu;Bogdan Ioan Popa;Steven A. Cummer

  • Scattering Theory Derivation of a 3D Acoustic Cloaking Shell

    Steven A. Cummer;Bogdan Ioan Popa;David Schurig;David R. Smith

  • Optical design of reflectionless complex media by finite embedded coordinate transformations.

    Marco Rahm;Steven A. Cummer;David Schurig;John B. Pendry

  • Experimental demonstration of electromagnetic tunneling through an epsilon-near-zero metamaterial at microwave frequencies.

    Ruopeng Liu;Qiang Cheng;Thomas Hand;Jack J. Mock

  • Experimental Acoustic Ground Cloak in Air

    Bogdan Ioan Popa;Lucian Zigoneanu;Steven A. Cummer

  • Non-reciprocal and highly nonlinear active acoustic metamaterials.

    Bogdan Ioan Popa;Steven A. Cummer

  • Measurement of a broadband negative index with space-coiling acoustic metamaterials.

    Yangbo Xie;Bogdan Ioan Popa;Lucian Zigoneanu;Steven A. Cummer

  • High-Energy Atmospheric Physics: Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes and Related Phenomena

    Joseph R. Dwyer;David M. Smith;Steven A. Cummer

  • Tunable Asymmetric Transmission via Lossy Acoustic Metasurfaces.

    Yong Li;Chen Shen;Chen Shen;Yangbo Xie;Junfei Li

  • Ionospheric D region remote sensing using VLF radio atmospherics

    S. A. Cummer;U. S. Inan;T. F. Bell

  • Modeling electromagnetic propagation in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide

    S.A. Cummer

  • Systematic design and experimental demonstration of bianisotropic metasurfaces for scattering-free manipulation of acoustic wavefronts.

    Junfei Li;Chen Shen;Ana Díaz-Rubio;Sergei A. Tretyakov

  • A sound absorbing metasurface with coupled resonators

    Junfei Li;Wenqi Wang;Yangbo Xie;Bogdan Ioan Popa

  • Submillisecond imaging of sprite development and structure

    Steven A. Cummer;Nicolas Jaugey;Jingbo Li;Walter A. Lyons

Frequent Co-Authors

Bogdan Ioan Popa
Bogdan Ioan Popa University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Walter A. Lyons
Walter A. Lyons American Meteorological Society
Umran S. Inan
Umran S. Inan Stanford University
Nikolai Østgaard
Nikolai Østgaard University of Bergen
David R. Smith
David R. Smith Duke University
Michael S. Briggs
Michael S. Briggs University of Alabama in Huntsville
Timothy J. Lang
Timothy J. Lang Marshall Space Flight Center
Richard J. Blakeslee
Richard J. Blakeslee Marshall Space Flight Center
Steven A. Rutledge
Steven A. Rutledge Colorado State University
Paul R. Krehbiel
Paul R. Krehbiel New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

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