Christopher Roberts

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 969 citations indexed

About

Christopher Roberts is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Roberts has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 969 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 15 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 15 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Christopher Roberts's work include Phase-change materials and chalcogenides (14 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (12 papers) and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (11 papers). Christopher Roberts is often cited by papers focused on Phase-change materials and chalcogenides (14 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (12 papers) and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (11 papers). Christopher Roberts collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Christopher Roberts's co-authors include Yifei Zhang, Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, Carlos Rı́os, Juejun Hu, Myungkoo Kang, Tian Gu, Viktor A. Podolskiy, Gael McDonald, Qingyang Du and Vladimir Liberman and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Roberts

40 papers receiving 911 citations

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Reconfigurable all-dielectric metalens with diffraction-limited performance

2021 297 citations Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, Sensong An et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Roberts United States	14	477	384	268	247	200	40	969
Jing Zhou China	17	406 0.9×	305 0.8×	314 1.2×	295 1.2×	241 1.2×	87	989
Yeseul Kim South Korea	26	453 0.9×	987 2.6×	162 0.6×	524 2.1×	564 2.8×	62	1.7k
Chia‐Yi Huang Taiwan	20	431 0.9×	640 1.7×	127 0.5×	223 0.9×	281 1.4×	75	1.1k
Ali Mir Iran	27	1.5k 3.2×	723 1.9×	188 0.7×	1.2k 5.0×	902 4.5×	99	2.3k
Yiyang Xie China	17	742 1.6×	490 1.3×	256 1.0×	392 1.6×	461 2.3×	145	1.4k
Anthony Centeno United Kingdom	18	471 1.0×	367 1.0×	424 1.6×	436 1.8×	155 0.8×	65	1.1k
Benjamin P. Cumming Australia	14	302 0.6×	276 0.7×	157 0.6×	473 1.9×	394 2.0×	28	953
Yi‐Teng Huang United Kingdom	12	531 1.1×	528 1.4×	361 1.3×	248 1.0×	265 1.3×	22	1.1k
Yisheng Gao China	17	559 1.2×	713 1.9×	305 1.1×	457 1.9×	531 2.7×	30	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Roberts

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Vitale, Steven A., Paul Miller, Paul D. Robinson, et al.. (2022). Phase Transformation and Switching Behavior of Magnetron Plasma Sputtered Ge₂Sb₂Se₄Te. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(10). 20 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yifei, Qihang Zhang, Carlos Rı́os, et al.. (2021). Transient Tap Couplers for Wafer-Level Photonic Testing Based on Optical Phase Change Materials. ACS Photonics. 8(7). 1903–1908. 28 indexed citations

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Rı́os, Carlos, Yifei Zhang, Qingyang Du, et al.. (2021). Electrically-switchable foundry-processed phase change photonic devices. 66–66. 6 indexed citations

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Shalaginov, Mikhail Y., Sensong An, Yifei Zhang, et al.. (2021). Reconfigurable all-dielectric metalens with diffraction-limited performance. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1225–1225. 297 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rı́os, Carlos, Qingyang Du, Yifei Zhang, et al.. (2021). Integrated Nonvolatile Phase-shifter Based on Electrically Reconfigurable Low-loss Phase-change Materials. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. JTu2P.2–JTu2P.2. 2 indexed citations

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Rı́os, Carlos, Yifei Zhang, Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, et al.. (2020). Multi‐Level Electro‐Thermal Switching of Optical Phase‐Change Materials Using Graphene. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 85 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yifei, Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, Skylar Deckoff–Jones, et al.. (2019). Electrically Reconfigurable Nonvolatile Metasurface Using Optical Phase Change Materials. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. JTh5B.3–JTh5B.3. 2 indexed citations

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Rı́os, Carlos, Yifei Zhang, Skylar Deckoff–Jones, et al.. (2019). Reversible Switching of Optical Phase Change Materials Using Graphene Microheaters. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. SF2H.4–SF2H.4. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yifei, Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, Skylar Deckoff–Jones, et al.. (2019). Electrically Reconfigurable Nonvolatile Metasurface Using Optical Phase Change Materials. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 8749455. 1 indexed citations

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Rı́os, Carlos, Yifei Zhang, Skylar Deckoff–Jones, et al.. (2019). Reversible Switching of Optical Phase Change Materials Using Graphene Microheaters. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1–2. 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yifei, Qihang Zhang, Jeffrey B. Chou, et al.. (2019). Designing nonvolatile integrated photonics with low-loss optical phase change materials. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 63–63. 3 indexed citations

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Nordin, Leland, Christopher Roberts, W. Streyer, et al.. (2017). Mid-infrared epsilon-near-zero modes in ultra-thin phononic films. Applied Physics Letters. 111(9). 47 indexed citations

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Liu, Richard, Ruochen Lu, Christopher Roberts, et al.. (2016). Multiplexed infrared photodetection using resonant radio-frequency circuits. Applied Physics Letters. 108(6). 5 indexed citations

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Roberts, Christopher, Sandeep Inampudi, & Viktor A. Podolskiy. (2015). Diffractive interface theory: nonlocal susceptibility approach to the optics of metasurfaces. Optics Express. 23(3). 2764–2764. 20 indexed citations

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Law, Stephanie, Christopher Roberts, Yu Lan, et al.. (2014). All-Semiconductor Negative-Index Plasmonic Absorbers. Physical Review Letters. 112(1). 17401–17401. 50 indexed citations

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Roberts, Christopher, Qimin Yan, Maosheng Miao, & Chris G. Van de Walle. (2012). Confinement effects on valence-subband character and polarization anisotropy in (112¯2) semipolar InGaN/GaN quantum wells. Journal of Applied Physics. 111(7). 15 indexed citations

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Roberts, Christopher. (2008). Grain growth and the Zener pinning phenomenon: A computational and experimental investigation. PhDT. 6 indexed citations

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Blair, Edward D., et al.. (1995). Expression of TAR RNA-binding protein in baculovirus and co-immunoprecipitation with insect cell protein kinase. Journal of Biomedical Science. 2(4). 322–329. 14 indexed citations

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Blair, Edward D., Christopher Roberts, & Ian Clark‐Lewis. (1995). A simple and rapid TAR-dependent in vitro transcription assay using T cell nuclear extracts and synthetictat1-86 protein. Journal of Biomedical Science. 2(2). 136–145. 12 indexed citations

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Roberts, Christopher & Edward D. Blair. (1990). Exploitation of a Rapid and Sensitive Assay to Analyse Transactivation of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) Long Terminal Repeat. Antiviral chemistry & chemotherapy. 1(2). 139–148. 4 indexed citations

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