Amir Arbabi

12.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
122 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Amir Arbabi is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Amir Arbabi has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 55 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 53 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Amir Arbabi's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (52 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (36 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (35 papers). Amir Arbabi is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (52 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (36 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (35 papers). Amir Arbabi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iran and South Korea. Amir Arbabi's co-authors include Andrei Faraon, Yu Horie, Mahmood Bagheri, Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, Ehsan Arbabi, Lynford L. Goddard, Alexander Ball, Andrew McClung, MohammadSadegh Faraji-Dana and Mahdad Mansouree and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Amir Arbabi

117 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

Dielectric metasurfaces for complete control of phase and... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2015 2018 2018 2016 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Dielectric metasurfaces for complete control of phase and polarization with subwavelength spatial resolution and high transmission
    2015 2.1k citations Amir Arbabi, Yu Horie et al. profile →
  2. Subwavelength-thick lenses with high numerical apertures and large efficiency based on high-contrast transmitarrays
    2015 862 citations Amir Arbabi, Yu Horie et al. Nature Communications profile →
  3. MEMS-tunable dielectric metasurface lens
    2018 593 citations Ehsan Arbabi, Amir Arbabi et al. Nature Communications profile →
  4. A review of dielectric optical metasurfaces for wavefront control
    2018 517 citations Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, Ehsan Arbabi et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →
  5. Miniature optical planar camera based on a wide-angle metasurface doublet corrected for monochromatic aberrations
    2016 514 citations Amir Arbabi, Ehsan Arbabi et al. Nature Communications profile →
  6. Planar metasurface retroreflector
    2017 372 citations Amir Arbabi, Ehsan Arbabi et al. Nature Photonics profile →
  7. Highly tunable elastic dielectric metasurface lenses
    2016 304 citations Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, Ehsan Arbabi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Amir Arbabi United States 33 6.4k 3.9k 3.4k 3.1k 2.4k 122 8.8k
Robert C. Devlin United States 19 7.3k 1.1× 4.1k 1.1× 3.9k 1.1× 3.5k 1.1× 1.5k 0.6× 30 8.9k
Alexander Y. Zhu United States 31 8.0k 1.3× 4.5k 1.2× 3.7k 1.1× 4.0k 1.3× 2.2k 0.9× 56 9.9k
Xiaoliang Ma China 56 7.5k 1.2× 5.2k 1.3× 3.2k 0.9× 2.9k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 211 9.6k
Mingbo Pu China 59 10.1k 1.6× 6.2k 1.6× 4.7k 1.4× 4.6k 1.5× 2.5k 1.0× 332 12.7k
Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad Canada 32 9.0k 1.4× 5.1k 1.3× 4.3k 1.3× 4.7k 1.5× 2.4k 1.0× 70 11.4k
Pin Chieh Wu Taiwan 47 6.7k 1.0× 3.6k 0.9× 2.8k 0.8× 3.6k 1.2× 2.2k 0.9× 138 9.1k
Yu Horie United States 17 5.2k 0.8× 3.2k 0.8× 2.1k 0.6× 2.3k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 39 6.1k
Francesco Aieta United States 15 12.2k 1.9× 8.0k 2.1× 4.6k 1.4× 5.7k 1.8× 2.4k 1.0× 24 14.0k
Wei Ting Chen United States 42 11.1k 1.7× 6.3k 1.6× 4.9k 1.4× 5.4k 1.7× 2.9k 1.2× 78 13.4k
Erez Hasman Israel 43 5.9k 0.9× 2.4k 0.6× 6.8k 2.0× 4.8k 1.6× 2.1k 0.9× 147 10.3k

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All Works

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Malgras, Victor, et al.. (2025). Full Wafer Scale Manufacturing of Directly Printed TiO2 Metalenses at Visible Wavelengths with Outstanding Focusing Efficiencies. Advanced Materials. 37(30). e2500327–e2500327. 9 indexed citations
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Zou, Kaiheng, Kai Pang, Hao Song, et al.. (2022). High-capacity free-space optical communications using wavelength- and mode-division-multiplexing in the mid-infrared region. Nature Communications. 13(1). 111 indexed citations
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Arbabi, Amir & Andrei Faraon. (2022). Advances in optical metalenses. Nature Photonics. 17(1). 16–25. 132 indexed citations
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McClung, Andrew, et al.. (2020). Snapshot spectral imaging with parallel metasystems. Science Advances. 6(38). 104 indexed citations
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Mansouree, Mahdad, Hyounghan Kwon, Ehsan Arbabi, et al.. (2019). Multifunctional 2.5D metastructures enabled by adjoint optimization. Optica. 7(1). 77–77. 128 indexed citations
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Faraji-Dana, MohammadSadegh, Ehsan Arbabi, Hyounghan Kwon, et al.. (2019). Hyperspectral Imager with Folded Metasurface Optics. ACS Photonics. 6(8). 2161–2167. 91 indexed citations
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Mansouree, Mahdad & Amir Arbabi. (2019). Metasurface Design Using Level-Set and Gradient Descent Optimization Techniques. 1–2. 5 indexed citations
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Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa, Ehsan Arbabi, Amir Arbabi, & Andrei Faraon. (2018). A review of dielectric optical metasurfaces for wavefront control. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 517 indexed citations breakdown →
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Arbabi, Ehsan, Amir Arbabi, Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, et al.. (2018). MEMS-tunable dielectric metasurface lens. Nature Communications. 9(1). 812–812. 593 indexed citations breakdown →
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Arbabi, Amir, Ehsan Arbabi, Yu Horie, Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, & Andrei Faraon. (2017). Planar metasurface retroreflector. Nature Photonics. 11(7). 415–420. 372 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Christopher T., Rebecca Saive, Dennis Friedrich, et al.. (2017). Fabrication of Single Crystal Gallium Phosphide Thin Films on Glass. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 4643–4643. 23 indexed citations
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Arbabi, Ehsan, Amir Arbabi, Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, Yu Horie, & Andrei Faraon. (2017). Controlling the sign of chromatic dispersion in diffractive optics. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Arbabi, Ehsan, Amir Arbabi, Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, et al.. (2017). MEMS-tunable metasurface lens. arXiv (Cornell University).
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Backlund, Mikael P., Amir Arbabi, Petar N. Petrov, et al.. (2016). Removing orientation-induced localization biases in single-molecule microscopy using a broadband metasurface mask. Nature Photonics. 10(7). 459–462. 93 indexed citations
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Arbabi, Ehsan, Amir Arbabi, Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, Yu Horie, & Andrei Faraon. (2016). Dispersionless metasurfaces using dispersive meta-atoms. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. FM2D.4–FM2D.4. 7 indexed citations
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Arbabi, Amir, et al.. (2010). Analysis and design of a microring inline single wavelength reflector. 2 indexed citations
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Motlagh, Ali Ghanbari, et al.. (2006). Sphincter Preservation and Pathologic Response in Rectal Cancer Undergoing Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation with and without Oxaliplatin According to Thymidilate Synthase (TS) Expression. GOVARESH. 11(3). 182–190. 1 indexed citations

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