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Wolfgang Heni

Wolfgang Heni

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
36
Citations
5921
World Ranking
5323
National Ranking
83

Wolfgang Heni 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 Wolfgang Heni sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 162 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wolfgang Heni 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 Wolfgang Heni sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wolfgang Heni is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and works primarily in the field of Engineering. Their research focuses on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, with additional interests in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their main areas of study and research topics include:

  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications

Wolfgang Heni has published numerous papers in several prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2022
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Optica
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • IET conference proceedings.

Recent notable papers by Wolfgang Heni include:

  • A monolithic bipolar CMOS electronic-plasmonic high-speed transmitter, 2020, Nature Electronics
  • Resonant plasmonic micro-racetrack modulators with high bandwidth and high temperature tolerance, 2023, Nature Photonics
  • Ultrahigh-Net-Bitrate 363 Gbit/s PAM-8 and 279 Gbit/s Polybinary Optical Transmission Using Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder Modulator, 2022, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Electro-optic interface for ultrasensitive intracavity electric field measurements at microwave and terahertz frequencies, 2020, Optica
  • Design and synthesis of chromophores with enhanced electro-optic activities in both bulk and plasmonic-organic hybrid devices, 2021, Materials Horizons

Wolfgang Heni collaborates regularly with several researchers, often co-authoring publications. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Juerg Leuthold
  • Benedikt Baeuerle
  • Claudia Hoessbacher
  • Yuriy Fedoryshyn
  • Delwin L. Elder

Best Publications

  • All-plasmonic Mach–Zehnder modulator enabling optical high-speed communication at the microscale

    Christian Haffner;Wolfgang Heni;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Jens Niegemann

  • Large Pockels effect in micro- and nanostructured barium titanate integrated on silicon

    Stefan Abel;Felix Eltes;J. Elliott Ortmann;Andreas Messner

  • Low-loss plasmon-assisted electro-optic modulator

    Christian Haffner;Daniel Chelladurai;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Arne Josten

  • High-speed plasmonic modulator in a single metal layer

    Masafumi Ayata;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Wolfgang Heni;Benedikt Baeuerle

  • Femtojoule electro-optic modulation using a silicon–organic hybrid device

    Sebastian Koeber;Robert Palmer;Matthias Lauermann;Wolfgang Heni;Wolfgang Heni

  • 500 GHz plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling sub-THz microwave photonics

    Maurizio Burla;Claudia Hoessbacher;Wolfgang Heni;Christian Haffner

  • 100 GHz Plasmonic Photodetector

    Yannick Salamin;Ping Ma;Benedikt Baeuerle;Alexandros Emboras

  • Silicon–Organic and Plasmonic–Organic Hybrid Photonics

    Wolfgang Heni;Yasar Kutuvantavida;Christian Haffner;Heiner Zwickel

  • Plasmonic modulator with >170 GHz bandwidth demonstrated at 100 GBd NRZ.

    C Hoessbacher;A Josten;B Baeuerle;Y Fedoryshyn

  • High-Speed, Low Drive-Voltage Silicon-Organic Hybrid Modulator Based on a Binary-Chromophore Electro-Optic Material

    Robert A. Palmer;Sebastian Koeber;Delwin L. Elder;Markus Woessner

  • Plasmonic IQ modulators with attojoule per bit electrical energy consumption.

    Wolfgang Heni;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Benedikt Baeuerle;Arne Josten

  • Nonlinearities of organic electro-optic materials in nanoscale slots and implications for the optimum modulator design.

    Wolfgang Heni;Christian Haffner;Delwin L Elder;Andreas F Tillack

  • A monolithic bipolar CMOS electronic–plasmonic high-speed transmitter

    Ueli Koch;Christopher Uhl;Horst Hettrich;Yuriy Fedoryshyn

  • Electrically Controlled Plasmonic Switches and Modulators

    Alexandros Emboras;Claudia Hoessbacher;Christian Haffner;Wolfgang Heni

  • Compact and ultra-efficient broadband plasmonic terahertz field detector.

    Yannick Salamin;Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus;Yuriy M. Fedoryshyn;Wolfgang Heni

  • Plasmonic Organic Hybrid Modulators—Scaling Highest Speed Photonics to the Microscale

    Christian Haffner;Wolfgang Heni;Yuriy Fedoryshyn;Arne Josten

  • Direct Conversion of Free Space Millimeter Waves to Optical Domain by Plasmonic Modulator Antenna

    Yannick Salamin;Wolfgang Heni;Christian Haffner;Yuriy Fedoryshyn

  • Plasmonically enhanced graphene photodetector featuring 100 GBd, high-responsivity and compact size

    Ping Ma;Yannick Salamin;Benedikt Bäuerle;Arne Josten

  • Plasmonically Enhanced Graphene Photodetector Featuring 100 Gbit/s Data Reception, High Responsivity, and Compact Size

    Ping Ma;Yannick Salamin;Benedikt Baeuerle;Arne Josten

  • Low-Loss Silicon Strip-to-Slot Mode Converters

    R. Palmer;L. Alloatti;D. Korn;W. Heni

  • 108 Gbit/s Plasmonic Mach–Zehnder Modulator with > 70-GHz Electrical Bandwidth

    W. Heni;C. Haffner;B. Baeuerle;Y. Fedoryshyn

  • Microwave plasmonic mixer in a transparent fibre–wireless link

    Yannick Salamin;Benedikt Baeuerle;Wolfgang Heni;Felix C. Abrecht

Frequent Co-Authors

Juerg Leuthold
Juerg Leuthold ETH Zurich
Delwin L. Elder
Delwin L. Elder University of Washington
Larry R. Dalton
Larry R. Dalton University of Washington
Christian Koos
Christian Koos Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Wolfgang Freude
Wolfgang Freude Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Luca Alloatti
Luca Alloatti ETH Zurich
Wim Bogaerts
Wim Bogaerts Ghent University
Bruce H. Robinson
Bruce H. Robinson University of Washington

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