Carl Pfeiffer

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Carl Pfeiffer is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Carl Pfeiffer has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 22 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Carl Pfeiffer's work include Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (31 papers), Antenna Design and Analysis (29 papers) and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (21 papers). Carl Pfeiffer is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (31 papers), Antenna Design and Analysis (29 papers) and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (21 papers). Carl Pfeiffer collaborates with scholars based in United States. Carl Pfeiffer's co-authors include Anthony Grbic, Vishva Ray, L. Jay Guo, Cheng Zhang, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Amr M. Shaltout, Naresh Kumar Emani, Xin Xu and Stephen R. Forrest and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Carl Pfeiffer

45 papers receiving 3.5k citations

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Metamaterial Huygens’ Surfaces: Tailoring Wave Fronts with Reflectionless Sheets

2013 1.3k citations Carl Pfeiffer, Anthony Grbic Physical Review Letters profile →

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Bo Zhu China

Lucio Vegni Italy

E. Shamonina United Kingdom

Mei Qing Qi China

J. D. Baena Colombia

A. de Lustrac France

Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri United States

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All Works

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Pfeiffer, Carl & Bae‐Ian Wu. (2024). Updates to the Chu-Harrington Limit. 791–792.

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Pfeiffer, Carl & Bae‐Ian Wu. (2024). New Bounds on Spherical Antenna Bandwidth and Directivity: Updates to the Chu-Harrington Limits. Electromagnetic waves. 180. 61–78.

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Pfeiffer, Carl & Bae‐Ian Wu. (2023). Channel Capacity of Resonant Antennas. 1–2.

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Pfeiffer, Carl, et al.. (2022). A UWB Low-Profile Hemispherical Array for Wide Angle Scanning. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 71(1). 508–517. 8 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Carl, et al.. (2022). An UWB Hemispherical Vivaldi Array. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 70(10). 9214–9224. 11 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Carl, et al.. (2021). Virtual Impedance Method for Mutual Coupling Compensation. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 69(8). 4569–4579. 4 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Carl, et al.. (2019). Free-Space Wide-Aperture Sheet-Isolator Based on a Multilayered Resonant Cavity. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Carl, Di Wang, Alexandra Boltasseva, et al.. (2018). Synchrotron radiation from an accelerating light pulse. Science. 362(6413). 439–442. 32 indexed citations

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Vangala, Shivashankar, et al.. (2017). High extinction ratio terahertz wire-grid polarizers with connecting bridges on quartz substrates. Optics Letters. 42(5). 955–955. 6 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Carl & Anthony Grbic. (2016). Emulating Nonreciprocity with Spatially Dispersive Metasurfaces Excited at Oblique Incidence. Physical Review Letters. 117(7). 77401–77401. 28 indexed citations

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Zhang, Cheng, Carl Pfeiffer, Taehee Jang, et al.. (2016). Breaking Malus’ law: Highly efficient, broadband, and angular robust asymmetric light transmitting metasurface. Laser & Photonics Review. 10(5). 791–798. 39 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Carl & Anthony Grbic. (2015). Wavefront and Polarization Control with Metasurfaces. AIT4E.2–AIT4E.2.

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Pfeiffer, Carl & Anthony Grbic. (2014). Metasurfaces for phase and polarization control. 34–35. 1 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Carl & Anthony Grbic. (2014). Bianisotropic Metasurfaces for Optimal Polarization Control: Analysis and Synthesis. Physical Review Applied. 2(4). 331 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Carl, Cheng Zhang, Vishva Ray, L. Jay Guo, & Anthony Grbic. (2014). High Performance Bianisotropic Metasurfaces: Asymmetric Transmission of Light. Physical Review Letters. 113(2). 23902–23902. 310 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Carl, Naresh Kumar Emani, Amr M. Shaltout, et al.. (2014). Efficient Light Bending with Isotropic Metamaterial Huygens’ Surfaces. Nano Letters. 14(5). 2491–2497. 289 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Carl & Anthony Grbic. (2013). Metamaterial Huygens’ Surfaces: Tailoring Wave Fronts with Reflectionless Sheets. Physical Review Letters. 110(19). 197401–197401. 1265 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pfeiffer, Carl & Anthony Grbic. (2013). Metamaterial Huygens' surfaces. 1–4. 3 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Carl, Xin Xu, Stephen R. Forrest, & Anthony Grbic. (2012). Direct Transfer Patterning of Electrically Small Antennas onto Three‐Dimensionally Contoured Substrates. Advanced Materials. 24(9). 1166–1170. 34 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Carl & Anthony Grbic. (2010). A Printed, Broadband Luneburg Lens Antenna. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 58(9). 3055–3059. 192 indexed citations

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