David R. Smith

104.2k total citations · 34 hit papers
451 papers, 81.3k citations indexed

About

David R. Smith is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David R. Smith has authored 451 papers receiving a total of 81.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 293 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 227 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 172 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in David R. Smith's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (255 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (166 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (121 papers). David R. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (255 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (166 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (121 papers). David R. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. David R. Smith's co-authors include S. Schultz, J. B. Pendry, David Schurig, Jack J. Mock, Willie J. Padilla, R. A. Shelby, D. C. Vier, Nathan Landy, Costas M. Soukoulis and Sia Nemat‐Nasser and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David R. Smith

439 papers receiving 76.9k citations

Hit Papers

Experimental Verification of a Negative Index of Refraction 1995 2026 2005 2015 2001 2000 2006 2008 2006 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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. Experimental Verification of a Negative Index of Refraction
    2001 7.0k citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  2. Composite Medium with Simultaneously Negative Permeability and Permittivity
    2000 6.6k citations David R. Smith et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Controlling Electromagnetic Fields
    2006 6.3k citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  4. Perfect Metamaterial Absorber
    2008 6.0k citations Jack J. Mock, David R. Smith et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  5. Metamaterial Electromagnetic Cloak at Microwave Frequencies
    2006 5.8k citations Jack J. Mock, Steven A. Cummer et al. profile →
  6. Metamaterials and Negative Refractive Index
    2004 3.4k citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  7. Electromagnetic parameter retrieval from inhomogeneous metamaterials
    2005 2.5k citations David R. Smith et al. Physical Review E profile →
  8. Determination of effective permittivity and permeability of metamaterials from reflection and transmission coefficients
    2002 2.3k citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  9. An Overview of the Theory and Applications of Metasurfaces: The Two-Dimensional Equivalents of Metamaterials
    2012 1.6k citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  10. Shape effects in plasmon resonance of individual colloidal silver nanoparticles
    2002 1.5k citations Jack J. Mock, David R. Smith et al. profile →
  11. Interparticle Coupling Effects on Plasmon Resonances of Nanogold Particles
    2003 1.3k citations Jack J. Mock, David R. Smith et al. profile →
  12. Terahertz Magnetic Response from Artificial Materials
    2004 1.2k citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  13. Broadband Ground-Plane Cloak
    2009 1.2k citations Jack J. Mock, Tie Jun Cui et al. profile →
  14. Probing the Ultimate Limits of Plasmonic Enhancement
    2012 934 citations Cristian Ciracì, Jack J. Mock et al. profile →
  15. Negative Refractive Index in Left-Handed Materials
    2000 897 citations David R. Smith et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  16. Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Media with Indefinite Permittivity and Permeability Tensors
    2003 830 citations David R. Smith et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  17. Probing the mechanisms of large Purcell enhancement in plasmonic nanoantennas
    2014 818 citations Cristian Ciracì, David R. Smith et al. profile →
  18. Single-target molecule detection with nonbleaching multicolor optical immunolabels
    2000 706 citations David R. Smith, Jack J. Mock et al. profile →
  19. Microwave transmission through a two-dimensional, isotropic, left-handed metamaterial
    2001 699 citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  20. Local Refractive Index Dependence of Plasmon Resonance Spectra from Individual Nanoparticles
    2003 675 citations Jack J. Mock, David R. Smith et al. profile →
  21. Electric-field-coupled resonators for negative permittivity metamaterials
    2006 662 citations Jack J. Mock, David R. Smith et al. profile →
  22. Terahertz compressive imaging with metamaterial spatial light modulators
    2014 662 citations Timothy Sleasman, David R. Smith et al. profile →
  23. Design, theory, and measurement of a polarization-insensitive absorber for terahertz imaging
    2009 659 citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  24. Full-wave simulations of electromagnetic cloaking structures
    2006 635 citations Steven A. Cummer, David R. Smith et al. Physical Review E profile →
  25. Subwavelength integrated photonics
    2018 627 citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  26. Controlled-reflectance surfaces with film-coupled colloidal nanoantennas
    2012 619 citations Cristian Ciracì, Jack J. Mock et al. profile →
  27. Extreme nanophotonics from ultrathin metallic gaps
    2019 610 citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  28. Extreme-angle broadband metamaterial lens
    2009 505 citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  29. User-configurable MAGIC for electromagnetic PIC calculations
    1995 472 citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  30. Homogenization of metamaterials by field averaging (invited paper)
    2006 456 citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  31. Metamaterial Apertures for Computational Imaging
    2013 451 citations Matthew S. Reynolds, David R. Smith et al. profile →
  32. Ultrafast spontaneous emission source using plasmonic nanoantennas
    2015 353 citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  33. Large‐Area Metasurface Perfect Absorbers from Visible to Near‐Infrared
    2015 306 citations David R. Smith et al. profile →
  34. Ultra-broadband metamaterial absorbers from long to very long infrared regime
    2021 242 citations David R. Smith et al. profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David R. Smith United States 101 63.0k 40.8k 28.8k 22.4k 19.2k 451 81.3k
Federico Capasso United States 127 39.5k 0.6× 20.1k 0.5× 25.9k 0.9× 35.1k 1.6× 30.4k 1.6× 832 79.4k
J. B. Pendry United Kingdom 97 50.5k 0.8× 27.7k 0.7× 29.4k 1.0× 34.1k 1.5× 17.4k 0.9× 458 77.6k
Andrea Alù United States 121 33.6k 0.5× 18.4k 0.5× 23.1k 0.8× 26.0k 1.2× 14.8k 0.8× 971 57.9k
Yuri S. Kivshar Australia 130 32.7k 0.5× 12.5k 0.3× 30.9k 1.1× 51.4k 2.3× 21.4k 1.1× 1.2k 82.5k
Cheng‐Wei Qiu Singapore 118 26.7k 0.4× 14.7k 0.4× 17.7k 0.6× 19.0k 0.8× 11.0k 0.6× 712 46.9k
Vladimir M. Shalaev United States 96 28.1k 0.4× 9.9k 0.2× 22.4k 0.8× 15.6k 0.7× 10.3k 0.5× 481 42.5k
Xiang Zhang China 128 34.9k 0.6× 10.7k 0.3× 38.6k 1.3× 28.6k 1.3× 27.5k 1.4× 1.1k 85.7k
Shuang Zhang China 92 27.6k 0.4× 13.5k 0.3× 15.8k 0.6× 16.1k 0.7× 9.8k 0.5× 769 42.6k
Nader Engheta United States 87 20.6k 0.3× 11.5k 0.3× 14.6k 0.5× 13.6k 0.6× 10.1k 0.5× 525 33.5k
Nikolay I. Zheludev United Kingdom 87 21.6k 0.3× 7.9k 0.2× 18.6k 0.6× 13.8k 0.6× 10.9k 0.6× 540 33.2k

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All Works

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Thoresen, Merrilee, et al.. (2026). Noninferiority of cycle threshold values from 0.9% sterile saline compared with PBS as a collection medium for Tritrichomonas foetus RT-rtPCR testing. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation. 3625757410–3625757410.
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Diebold, Aaron V., Michael Boyarsky, & David R. Smith. (2023). A K-band, varactor-tuned dynamic metasurface aperture for microwave computational imaging. 474–478. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Xiuqiang, Boran Ma, Chenxi Sui, et al.. (2021). Metalized polyamide heterostructure as a moisture-responsive actuator for multimodal adaptive personal heat management. Science Advances. 7(51). eabj7906–eabj7906. 119 indexed citations
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Stomeo, T., Cristian Ciracì, Roberto Fiammengo, et al.. (2020). Label-free biomechanical nanosensor based on LSPR for biological applications. Optical Materials Express. 10(5). 1264–1264. 4 indexed citations
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Imani, Mohammadreza F., Jonah N. Gollub, Okan Yurduseven, et al.. (2020). Review of Metasurface Antennas for Computational Microwave Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 68(3). 1860–1875. 154 indexed citations
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Sleasman, Timothy, Mohammadreza F. Imani, Michael Boyarsky, Kenneth P. Trofatter, & David R. Smith. (2019). Computational through-wall imaging using a dynamic metasurface antenna. OSA Continuum. 2(12). 3499–3499. 16 indexed citations
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Imani, Mohammadreza F., et al.. (2018). Enhancing Capacity of Spatial Multiplexing Systems Using Reconfigurable Cavity-Backed Metasurface Antennas in Clustered MIMO Channels. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 67(2). 1070–1084. 55 indexed citations
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Diebold, Aaron V., Mohammadreza F. Imani, Timothy Sleasman, & David R. Smith. (2018). Phaseless coherent and incoherent microwave ghost imaging with dynamic metasurface apertures. Optica. 5(12). 1529–1529. 44 indexed citations
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Zvolenský, Tomáš, Vinay R. Gowda, Jonah N. Gollub, Daniel L. Marks, & David R. Smith. (2018). W-Band Sparse Imaging System Using Frequency Diverse Cavity-Fed Metasurface Antennas. IEEE Access. 6. 73659–73668. 19 indexed citations
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Hougne, Philipp del, Mohammadreza F. Imani, Timothy Sleasman, et al.. (2018). Dynamic Metasurface Aperture as Smart Around-the-Corner Motion Detector. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 6536–6536. 22 indexed citations
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Imani, Mohammadreza F., Timothy Sleasman, & David R. Smith. (2018). Two-Dimensional Dynamic Metasurface Apertures for Computational Microwave Imaging. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. 17(12). 2299–2303. 46 indexed citations
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Pedross-Engel, Andreas, Daniel Arnitz, Jonah N. Gollub, et al.. (2018). Orthogonal Coded Active Illumination for Millimeter Wave, Massive-MIMO Computational Imaging With Metasurface Antennas. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. 4(2). 184–193. 38 indexed citations
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Diebold, Aaron V., Mohammadreza F. Imani, Timothy Sleasman, & David R. Smith. (2018). Phaseless computational ghost imaging at microwave frequencies using a dynamic metasurface aperture. Applied Optics. 57(9). 2142–2142. 44 indexed citations
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Gowda, Vinay R., Mohammadreza F. Imani, Timothy Sleasman, Okan Yurduseven, & David R. Smith. (2018). Focusing Microwaves in the Fresnel Zone With a Cavity-Backed Holographic Metasurface. IEEE Access. 6. 12815–12824. 16 indexed citations
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Zvolenský, Tomáš, Jonah N. Gollub, Daniel L. Marks, & David R. Smith. (2017). Design and Analysis of a W-Band Metasurface-Based Computational Imaging System. IEEE Access. 5. 9911–9918. 26 indexed citations
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Sleasman, Timothy, Michael Boyarsky, Laura Pulido-Mancera, et al.. (2017). Experimental Synthetic Aperture Radar With Dynamic Metasurfaces. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 65(12). 6864–6877. 79 indexed citations
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Sleasman, Timothy, Mohammadreza F. Imani, Okan Yurduseven, et al.. (2017). Near Field Scan Alignment Procedure for Electrically Large Apertures. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 65(6). 3257–3262. 12 indexed citations
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Smith, David R.. (2010). Analytic expressions for the constitutive parameters of magnetoelectric metamaterials. Physical Review E. 81(3). 36605–36605. 89 indexed citations
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Liu, Ruopeng, Qiang Cheng, Thomas H. Hand, et al.. (2008). Experimental Demonstration of Electromagnetic Tunneling Through an Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterial at Microwave Frequencies. Physical Review Letters. 100(2). 23903–23903. 388 indexed citations
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Smith, David R., et al.. (1978). Combined photovoltaic thermal collector testing. Photovoltaic Specialists Conference. 79. 1147–1152. 7 indexed citations

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