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Svetlana V. Boriskina

Svetlana V. Boriskina

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
56
Citations
9286
World Ranking
8388
National Ranking
2060

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
57
Citations
11882
World Ranking
2655
National Ranking
812

Overview

Svetlana V. Boriskina is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a research profile primarily situated within the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. Their research work spans multiple subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their scientific output frequently addresses topics such as Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies, Photonic and Optical Devices, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications, Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence, and Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Tailoring the Desorption Behavior of Hygroscopic Gels for Atmospheric Water Harvesting in Arid Climates, 2022, Advanced Materials
  • Solar passive distiller with high productivity and Marangoni effect-driven salt rejection, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Sustainable polyethylene fabrics with engineered moisture transport for passive cooling, 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • Advancing life cycle sustainability of textiles through technological innovations, 2022, Nature Sustainability
  • Radiative heat and momentum transfer from materials with broken symmetries: opinion, 2021, Optical Materials Express

Svetlana has collaborated extensively with co-authors including Simo Pajovic, Morgan Blevins, Haejun Chung, Gang Chen, and Yoichiro Tsurimaki. Their work has appeared multiple times in prominent publication venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Optics Express, Nanophotonics, Nature Sustainability, and Optical Materials Express.

The distribution of their research publications highlights a focus on theoretical and applied aspects of photonics, materials science, and energy sustainability, often intersecting with emerging technologies and advanced materials for environmental and technological applications.

Best Publications

  • Steam generation under one sun enabled by a floating structure with thermal concentration

    George Ni;Gabriel Li;Svetlana V. Boriskina;Hongxia Li

  • A salt-rejecting floating solar still for low-cost desalination

    George Ni;Seyed Hadi Zandavi;Seyyed Morteza Javid;Svetlana V. Boriskina

  • Plasmonic materials for energy: From physics to applications

    Svetlana V. Boriskina;Hadi Ghasemi;Gang Chen

  • Volumetric solar heating of nanofluids for direct vapor generation

    George Ni;Nenad Miljkovic;Hadi Ghasemi;Xiaopeng Huang

  • Infrared-Transparent Visible-Opaque Fabrics for Wearable Personal Thermal Management

    Jonathan K. Tong;Xiaopeng Huang;Svetlana V. Boriskina;James Loomis

  • Roadmap on plasmonics

    Mark I. Stockman;Katrin Kneipp;Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi;Soham Saha

  • Contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination

    Thomas A Cooper;Seyed Hadi Zandavi;George Wei Ni;Yoichiro Tsurimaki

  • Deterministic aperiodic arrays of metal nanoparticles for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)

    Ashwin Gopinath;Svetlana V Boriskina;Björn M Reinhard;Luca Dal Negro

  • Deterministic aperiodic nanostructures for photonics and plasmonics applications

    L. Dal Negro;S.V. Boriskina

  • Plasmonic Nanogalaxies: Multiscale Aperiodic Arrays for Surface-Enhanced Raman Sensing

    Ashwin Gopinath;Svetlana V. Boriskina;W. Ranjith Premasiri;Lawrence Ziegler

  • Tailoring the Desorption Behavior of Hygroscopic Gels for Atmospheric Water Harvesting in Arid Climates

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  • Nanoparticle-based protein detection by optical shift of a resonant microcavity

    Miguel A. Santiago-Cordoba;Svetlana V. Boriskina;Frank Vollmer;Melik C. Demirel

  • Losses in plasmonics: from mitigating energy dissipation to embracing loss-enabled functionalities

    Svetlana Boriskina;Thomas A Cooper;Lingping Zeng;George Wei Ni

  • Photonic-Plasmonic Scattering Resonances in Deterministic Aperiodic Structures

    Ashwin Gopinath;Svetlana V. Boriskina;Ning-Ning Feng;Björn M. Reinhard

  • Plasmonic Nanoparticle-based Protein Detection by Optical Shift of a Resonant Microcavity

    Miguel A. Santiago-Cordoba;Svetlana V. Boriskina;Frank Vollmer;Melik C. Demirel

  • 15.7% Efficient 10-μm-Thick Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells Using Periodic Nanostructures

    Matthew S. Branham;Wei-Chun Hsu;Selcuk Yerci;Selcuk Yerci;James Loomis

  • Solar passive distiller with high productivity and Marangoni effect-driven salt rejection

    Matteo Morciano;Matteo Morciano;Matteo Fasano;Svetlana V. Boriskina;Eliodoro Chiavazzo

  • Accurate simulation of two-dimensional optical microcavities with uniquely solvable boundary integral equations and trigonometric Galerkin discretization.

    Svetlana V. Boriskina;Phillip Sewell;Trevor M. Benson;Alexander I. Nosich

  • Theoretical prediction of a dramatic Q-factor enhancement and degeneracy removal of whispering gallery modes in symmetrical photonic molecules

    Svetlana V Boriskina

  • Thin-film 'Thermal Well' Emitters and Absorbers for High-Efficiency Thermophotovoltaics

    Jonathan K. Tong;Wei-Chun Hsu;Yi Huang;Svetlana V. Boriskina

  • Singular optics and topological photonics

    Marat S. Soskin;Svetlana V. Boriskina;Yidong Chong;Mark R. Dennis

  • Optimizing Gold Nanoparticle Cluster Configurations (n ≤ 7) for Array Applications.

    Bo Yan;Svetlana V. Boriskina;Björn M. Reinhard

Frequent Co-Authors

Trevor M. Benson
Trevor M. Benson University of Nottingham
Luca Dal Negro
Luca Dal Negro Boston University
P. Sewell
P. Sewell Bournemouth University
Marisol Martín-González
Marisol Martín-González Spanish National Research Council
Ronan Sauleau
Ronan Sauleau University of Rennes
Nikolay I. Zheludev
Nikolay I. Zheludev University of Southampton
Hui Cao
Hui Cao Yale University
Andrey E. Miroshnichenko
Andrey E. Miroshnichenko University of New South Wales
Fiorenzo G. Omenetto
Fiorenzo G. Omenetto Tufts University
TieJun Zhang
TieJun Zhang Khalifa University

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