Andrei Faraon

17.4k total citations · 9 hit papers
156 papers, 12.6k citations indexed

About

Andrei Faraon is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrei Faraon has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 12.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 80 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 53 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Andrei Faraon's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (66 papers), Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (53 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (42 papers). Andrei Faraon is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (66 papers), Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (53 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (42 papers). Andrei Faraon collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Canada. Andrei Faraon's co-authors include Amir Arbabi, Yu Horie, Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, Mahmood Bagheri, Ehsan Arbabi, Jelena Vučković, Dirk Englund, Pierre M. Petroff, Ilya Fushman and Nick Stoltz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Andrei Faraon

148 papers receiving 11.9k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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.

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 →
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 →
MEMS-tunable dielectric metasurface lens

2018 593 citations Ehsan Arbabi, Amir Arbabi et al. Nature Communications profile →
A review of dielectric optical metasurfaces for wavefront control

2018 517 citations Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, Ehsan Arbabi et al. profile →
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 →
Controlling cavity reflectivity with a single quantum dot

2007 459 citations Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vučković et al. Nature profile →
Coherent generation of non-classical light on a chip via photon-induced tunnelling and blockade

2008 457 citations Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vučković et al. Nature Physics profile →
Planar metasurface retroreflector

2017 372 citations Amir Arbabi, Ehsan Arbabi et al. Nature Photonics profile →
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						Papers	Cites
Andrei Faraon United States	49	6.8k	6.5k	4.1k	3.8k	3.7k	156	12.6k
Dragomir N. Neshev Australia	71	11.4k 1.7×	9.5k 1.5×	5.5k 1.3×	3.9k 1.0×	8.7k 2.3×	372	19.2k
Shumin Xiao China	54	4.9k 0.7×	4.8k 0.7×	4.5k 1.1×	2.1k 0.5×	3.0k 0.8×	204	10.3k
Xiaocong Yuan China	54	9.9k 1.4×	4.6k 0.7×	4.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.3×	8.1k 2.2×	545	14.8k
Joel K. W. Yang Singapore	60	4.8k 0.7×	6.6k 1.0×	4.4k 1.1×	1.3k 0.3×	7.3k 2.0×	218	14.1k
Erez Hasman Israel	43	6.8k 1.0×	5.9k 0.9×	2.1k 0.5×	2.4k 0.6×	4.8k 1.3×	147	10.3k
Jason Valentine United States	34	3.7k 0.5×	7.9k 1.2×	2.7k 0.7×	3.7k 1.0×	5.0k 1.4×	68	10.6k
Zhaowei Liu United States	50	4.4k 0.6×	6.4k 1.0×	2.6k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	6.5k 1.8×	191	11.7k
Qinghai Song China	56	5.5k 0.8×	3.5k 0.5×	5.8k 1.4×	1.4k 0.4×	2.5k 0.7×	303	10.8k
Carsten Rockstuhl Germany	61	6.3k 0.9×	9.8k 1.5×	5.3k 1.3×	3.4k 0.9×	8.8k 2.4×	470	16.8k
Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad Canada	32	4.3k 0.6×	9.0k 1.4×	2.4k 0.6×	5.1k 1.3×	4.7k 1.3×	70	11.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Andrei Faraon

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Andrei Faraon's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Andrei Faraon with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Andrei Faraon more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Andrei Faraon

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Andrei Faraon. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Andrei Faraon. The network helps show where Andrei Faraon may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrei Faraon

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andrei Faraon. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andrei Faraon based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Andrei Faraon. Andrei Faraon is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Barnes, Edwin, et al.. (2025). Quantum thermalization and Floquet engineering in a spin ensemble with a clock transition. Nature Physics. 21(8). 1196–1202. 2 indexed citations

Faraon, Andrei, et al.. (2025). Scalable microwave-to-optical transducers at the single-photon level with spins. Nature Physics. 21(6). 931–937. 6 indexed citations

Hermans, Sophie, et al.. (2025). Multiplexed entanglement of multi-emitter quantum network nodes. Nature. 639(8053). 54–59. 15 indexed citations

Roberts, Gregory, et al.. (2025). Inverse-designed metasurfaces for multifunctional spatial frequency filtering. Optica. 12(7). 1090–1090. 1 indexed citations

Li, Bohan, Zhiquan Yuan, Warren Jin, et al.. (2025). Down-converted photon pairs in a high-Q silicon nitride microresonator. Nature. 639(8056). 922–927. 7 indexed citations

Kwon, Hyounghan, et al.. (2024). Nanoelectromechanically Tunable Dielectric Metasurfaces for Reconfigurable Wavefront Shaping. ACS Photonics. 11(9). 3585–3592. 1 indexed citations

Rochman, Jake, Tian Xie, John G. Bartholomew, Keith Schwab, & Andrei Faraon. (2023). Microwave-to-optical transduction with erbium ions coupled to planar photonic and superconducting resonators. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1153–1153. 24 indexed citations

Roberts, Greg, et al.. (2023). 3D-patterned inverse-designed mid-infrared metaoptics. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2768–2768. 48 indexed citations

Kwon, Hyounghan, et al.. (2023). Nanoelectromechanical Tuning of High-Q Slot Metasurfaces. Nano Letters. 23(12). 5588–5594. 8 indexed citations

10.

Kagias, Matias, et al.. (2023). Metasurface‐Enabled Holographic Lithography for Impact‐Absorbing Nanoarchitected Sheets. Advanced Materials. 35(13). 17 indexed citations

11.

Arbabi, Amir & Andrei Faraon. (2022). Advances in optical metalenses. Nature Photonics. 17(1). 16–25. 132 indexed citations

12.

Kwon, Hyounghan, et al.. (2022). Nano-electromechanical spatial light modulator enabled by asymmetric resonant dielectric metasurfaces. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5811–5811. 25 indexed citations

13.

Kindem, Jonathan M., et al.. (2020). Control and single-shot readout of an ion embedded in a nanophotonic cavity. Nature. 580(7802). 201–204. 158 indexed citations

14.

Kwon, Hyounghan, Ehsan Arbabi, Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, MohammadSadegh Faraji-Dana, & Andrei Faraon. (2019). Single-shot quantitative phase gradient microscopy using a system of multifunctional metasurfaces. Nature Photonics. 14(2). 109–114. 239 indexed citations

15.

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 →

16.

Arbabi, Ehsan, Amir Arbabi, Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, et al.. (2017). MEMS-tunable metasurface lens. arXiv (Cornell University).

17.

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 →

18.

Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa, Amir Arbabi, Ehsan Arbabi, Yu Horie, & Andrei Faraon. (2016). Decoupling optical function and geometrical form using conformal flexible dielectric metasurfaces. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11618–11618. 222 indexed citations

19.

Zhong, Tian, Jonathan M. Kindem, Evan Miyazono, & Andrei Faraon. (2015). Nanophotonic photon echo memory based on rare-earth-doped crystals. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2015. 1 indexed citations

20.

Majumdar, Arka, et al.. (2010). Theory of electro-optic modulation via a quantum dot coupled to a nano-resonator. Optics Express. 18(5). 3974–3974. 30 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact