Ben A. Munk

7.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Ben A. Munk is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben A. Munk has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 3 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films and 3 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Ben A. Munk's work include Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (5 papers), Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (3 papers) and Optical Coatings and Gratings (3 papers). Ben A. Munk is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (5 papers), Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (3 papers) and Optical Coatings and Gratings (3 papers). Ben A. Munk collaborates with scholars based in United States and Singapore. Ben A. Munk's co-authors include James E. Raynolds, R. J. Marhefka, J. Pryor, Glenn D. Boreman, Brian A. Lail, José M. López-Alonso, James C. Ginn, Yeow Beng Gan and Brian Monacelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Physics, Optics Letters and IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

In The Last Decade

Ben A. Munk

10 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Frequency Selective Surfaces

2000 3.0k citations Ben A. Munk profile →
Frequency Selective Surfaces: Theory and Design

2000 2.3k citations Ben A. Munk profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben A. Munk United States	8	5.6k	3.6k	1.5k	608	529	11	6.1k
José A. Encinar Spain	38	5.9k 1.1×	2.5k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	279 0.5×	790 1.5×	214	6.2k
Julien Perruisseau‐Carrier Switzerland	35	2.9k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	2.1k 1.5×	719 1.2×	233 0.4×	125	4.5k
R. Cahill United Kingdom	30	3.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	195 0.3×	256 0.5×	169	3.4k
Tong Cai China	39	3.7k 0.7×	3.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	593 1.0×	193 0.4×	143	4.6k
R.J. Langley United Kingdom	28	3.2k 0.6×	890 0.2×	1.6k 1.1×	106 0.2×	272 0.5×	179	3.5k
Jieqiu Zhang China	31	3.1k 0.6×	3.1k 0.9×	695 0.5×	379 0.6×	123 0.2×	191	3.8k
E. Shamonina United Kingdom	26	1.5k 0.3×	1.7k 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	985 1.6×	110 0.2×	132	3.0k
Zhang‐Cheng Hao China	45	4.2k 0.8×	754 0.2×	4.6k 3.2×	640 1.1×	45 0.1×	221	5.8k
Bo Zhu China	25	2.3k 0.4×	2.6k 0.7×	714 0.5×	428 0.7×	50 0.1×	77	3.2k
A. Ittipiboon Canada	27	7.2k 1.3×	594 0.2×	6.3k 4.3×	188 0.3×	85 0.2×	158	7.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben A. Munk

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All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Munk, Ben A.. (2009). Metamaterials : critique and alternatives. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 127 indexed citations

2.

Munk, Ben A.. (2008). Metamaterials. 192 indexed citations

3.

Lail, Brian A., et al.. (2007). Design and Demonstration of an Infrared Meanderline Phase Retarder. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 55(11). 2983–2988. 20 indexed citations

4.

Munk, Ben A.. (2007). Why Periodic Structures May Not Be Able to Synthesize Negative Indices of Refraction. 292. 305–312. 2 indexed citations

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López-Alonso, José M., et al.. (2006). Demonstration of a single-layer meanderline phase retarder at infrared. Optics Letters. 31(18). 2687–2687. 19 indexed citations

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Monacelli, Brian, et al.. (2004). Infrared frequency selective surfaces: design, fabrication, and measurement. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 5406. 879–879. 1 indexed citations

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Munk, Ben A., et al.. (2003). ON ABSORBERS. 163–169. 1 indexed citations

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Raynolds, James E., Ben A. Munk, J. Pryor, & R. J. Marhefka. (2003). Ohmic loss in frequency-selective surfaces. Journal of Applied Physics. 93(9). 5346–5358. 54 indexed citations

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Munk, Ben A.. (2003). Finite Antenna Arrays and FSS. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 266 indexed citations

10.

Munk, Ben A.. (2000). Frequency Selective Surfaces: Theory and Design. 2338 indexed citations breakdown →

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Munk, Ben A.. (2000). Frequency Selective Surfaces. 3040 indexed citations breakdown →

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