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Steven G. Johnson

Steven G. Johnson

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
96
Citations
56085
World Ranking
1842
National Ranking
956

Steven G. Johnson publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Steven G. Johnson sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 460 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Steven G. Johnson D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Steven G. Johnson sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 96 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Overview

Steven G. Johnson is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has an extensive research profile in engineering and physics. Their work spans 108 publications in engineering and 82 in physics and astronomy, with a focus on several subfields including atomic and molecular physics, optics, electrical and electronic engineering, and biomedical engineering.

Their research prominently addresses topics such as metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, photonic crystals and applications, photonic and optical devices, advanced antenna and metasurface technologies, random lasers and scattering media, plasmonic and surface plasmon research, and orbital angular momentum in optics.

Johnson's recent papers include:

  • Inverse design enables large-scale high-performance meta-optics reshaping virtual reality (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Empowering Metasurfaces with Inverse Design: Principles and Applications (2022, ACS Photonics)
  • A framework for scintillation in nanophotonics (2022, Science)
  • Notes on Perfectly Matched Layers (PMLs) (2021, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Multifidelity deep neural operators for efficient learning of partial differential equations with application to fast inverse design of nanoscale heat transport (2022, Physical Review Research)

Frequent co-authors working with Johnson include Zin Lin, Raphaël Pestourie, Marin Soljačić, Charles Roques-Carmes, and Arka Majumdar.

Johnson's work has appeared in several publication venues, with the most frequent being arXiv (Cornell University), ACS Photonics, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Optics Express, and Physical Review Applied.

Best Publications

  • Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light

    John D. Joannopoulos;Steven G. Johnson;Joshua N. Winn;Robert D. Meade

  • Block-iterative frequency-domain methods for Maxwell’s equations in a planewave basis

    Steven G. Johnson;John D. Joannopoulos

  • Meep: A flexible free-software package for electromagnetic simulations by the FDTD method

    Ardavan F. Oskooi;David Roundy;Mihai Ibanescu;Peter Bermel

  • Guided modes in photonic crystal slabs

    Steven G. Johnson;Shanhui Fan;Pierre R. Villeneuve;J. D. Joannopoulos

  • Observation of trapped light within the radiation continuum

    Chia Wei Hsu;Bo Zhen;Jeongwon Lee;Song-Liang Chua

  • All-angle negative refraction without negative effective index

    Chiyan Luo;Steven G. Johnson;J. D. Joannopoulos;J. B. Pendry

  • Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light - Second Edition

    John D. Joannopoulos;Steven G. Johnson;Joshua N. Winn;Robert D. Meade

  • Photonic Crystals: The Road from Theory to Practice

    John D. Joannopoulos;Steven G. Johnson

  • Photonic-crystal slow-light enhancement of nonlinear phase sensitivity

    Marin Soljačić;Steven G. Johnson;Shanhui Fan;Mihai Ibanescu

  • Linear waveguides in photonic-crystal slabs

    Steven G. Johnson;Pierre R. Villeneuve;Shanhui Fan;J. D. Joannopoulos

  • A three-dimensional optical photonic crystal with designed point defects.

    Minghao Qi;Elefterios Lidorikis;Peter T. Rakich;Steven G. Johnson

  • Improving accuracy by subpixel smoothing in the finite-difference time domain.

    A. Farjadpour;David Roundy;Alejandro Rodriguez;M. Ibanescu

  • Perturbation theory for Maxwell's equations with shifting material boundaries

    Steven G. Johnson;M. Ibanescu;M. A. Skorobogatiy;O. Weisberg

  • Three-dimensional control of light in a two-dimensional photonic crystal slab

    Edmond Chow;S.Y. Lin;S.G. Johnson;P.R. Villeneuve

  • Subwavelength imaging in photonic crystals

    Chiyan Luo;Steven G. Johnson;J. D. Joannopoulos;J. B. Pendry

  • The Casimir effect in microstructured geometries

    Alejandro W. Rodriguez;Alejandro W. Rodriguez;Federico Capasso;Steven G. Johnson

  • Low-loss asymptotically single-mode propagation in large-core OmniGuide fibers.

    Steven G. Johnson;Mihai Ibanescu;M. Skorobogatiy;Ori Weisberg

  • Evanescent-wave bonding between optical waveguides

    Michelle L. Povinelli;Marko Lončar;Mihai Ibanescu;Elizabeth J. Smythe

  • High-density integrated optics

    C. Manolatou;S.G. Johnson;S. Fan;P.R. Villeneuve

  • Physics-informed neural networks with hard constraints for inverse design

    Lu Lu;Raphaël Pestourie;Wenjie Yao;Zhicheng Wang

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