Deborah L. Sivco

15.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
159 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Deborah L. Sivco is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Spectroscopy and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah L. Sivco has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 117 papers in Spectroscopy and 61 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Deborah L. Sivco's work include Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (117 papers), Laser Design and Applications (60 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (51 papers). Deborah L. Sivco is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (117 papers), Laser Design and Applications (60 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (51 papers). Deborah L. Sivco collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. Deborah L. Sivco's co-authors include Alfred Y. Cho, Federico Capasso, Albert L. Hutchinson, Jérôme Faist, Carlo Sirtori, Claire Gmachl, James N. Baillargeon, Sung-Nee G. Chu, Alessandro Tredicucci and Evgenii E. Narimanov and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Deborah L. Sivco

147 papers receiving 11.0k citations

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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.

Quantum Cascade Laser

1994 3.3k citations Jérôme Faist, Federico Capasso et al. Science profile →
Negative refraction in semiconductor metamaterials

2007 647 citations Anthony J. Hoffman, Leonid Alekseyev et al. Nature Materials profile →
High-Power Directional Emission from Microlasers with Chaotic Resonators

1998 535 citations Claire Gmachl, Federico Capasso et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Deborah L. Sivco United States	51	7.5k	7.4k	5.8k	3.0k	1.3k	159	11.7k
Claire Gmachl United States	56	7.6k 1.0×	7.1k 1.0×	4.7k 0.8×	3.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	381	11.7k
Carlo Sirtori France	59	9.2k 1.2×	8.7k 1.2×	8.3k 1.4×	3.0k 1.0×	1.8k 1.4×	328	14.6k
Alfred Y. Cho United States	54	8.0k 1.1×	7.6k 1.0×	6.5k 1.1×	3.0k 1.0×	990 0.8×	154	12.1k
Harvey E. Beere United Kingdom	51	8.6k 1.1×	6.0k 0.8×	5.1k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	389	11.1k
Alessandro Tredicucci Italy	51	6.5k 0.9×	4.7k 0.6×	4.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	2.1k 1.6×	262	10.1k
John L. Reno United States	48	6.0k 0.8×	5.0k 0.7×	3.8k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	745 0.6×	293	8.1k
Albert L. Hutchinson United States	51	6.7k 0.9×	6.9k 0.9×	4.8k 0.8×	2.9k 1.0×	733 0.6×	142	9.9k
G. Strasser Austria	47	5.8k 0.8×	3.2k 0.4×	5.5k 1.0×	987 0.3×	1.9k 1.5×	505	10.2k
Jérôme Faist Switzerland	84	19.6k 2.6×	17.2k 2.3×	14.6k 2.5×	6.5k 2.2×	3.4k 2.7×	650	28.5k
Benjamin S. Williams United States	38	4.7k 0.6×	4.3k 0.6×	2.1k 0.4×	1.7k 0.6×	629 0.5×	134	6.2k

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Pires, M. P., et al.. (2019). High performance dual-mode operation asymmetric superlattice infrared photodetector using leaky electronic states. Journal of Applied Physics. 125(20). 7 indexed citations

Pires, M. P., et al.. (2018). Leaky electronic states for photovoltaic photodetectors based on asymmetric superlattices. Applied Physics Letters. 112(3). 11 indexed citations

Sivco, Deborah L., et al.. (2017). Subdiffraction Confinement in All-Semiconductor Hyperbolic Metamaterial Resonators. ACS Photonics. 4(7). 1621–1626. 23 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaojun, et al.. (2015). Ultra-Broadband (3.3 – 12.5μm) Single Stack Quantum Cascade Gain Medium. STu2G.4–STu2G.4. 1 indexed citations

Hoffman, Anthony J., Leonid Alekseyev, Scott S. Howard, et al.. (2007). Negative refraction in semiconductor metamaterials. Nature Materials. 6(12). 946–950. 647 indexed citations breakdown →

Roller, Chad, Anatoliy A. Kosterev, Frank K. Tittel, et al.. (2003). Carbonyl sulfide detection with a thermoelectrically cooled midinfrared quantum cascade laser. Optics Letters. 28(21). 2052–2052. 28 indexed citations

Owschimikow, Nina, Claire Gmachl, Alexey Belyanin, et al.. (2003). Resonant Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Processes in Quantum Cascade Lasers. Physical Review Letters. 90(4). 43902–43902. 84 indexed citations

Kosterev, Anatoliy A., R. F. Curl, Frank K. Tittel, et al.. (2002). Transportable automated ammonia sensor based on a pulsed thermoelectrically cooled quantum-cascade distributed feedback laser. Applied Optics. 41(3). 573–573. 35 indexed citations

Kosterev, Anatoliy A., Frank K. Tittel, Rüdeger Köhler, et al.. (2002). Thermoelectrically cooled quantum-cascade-laser-based sensor for the continuous monitoring of ambient atmospheric carbon monoxide. Applied Optics. 41(6). 1169–1169. 54 indexed citations

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Sonnenfroh, David M., Mark G. Allen, W. T. Rawlins, et al.. (2001). Pollutant emission monitoring using QC laser-based mid-IR sensors. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4199. 86–86. 6 indexed citations

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Sonnenfroh, David M., W. T. Rawlins, Mark G. Allen, et al.. (2001). Application of balanced detection to absorption measurements of trace gases with room-temperature, quasi-cw quantum-cascade lasers. Applied Optics. 40(6). 812–812. 66 indexed citations

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Kosterev, Anatoliy A., R. F. Curl, Frank K. Tittel, et al.. (2000). Effective utilization of quantum-cascade distributed-feedback lasers in absorption spectroscopy. Applied Optics. 39(24). 4425–4425. 66 indexed citations

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Tredicucci, Alessandro, Claire Gmachl, Michael C. Wanke, et al.. (2000). Surface plasmon quantum cascade lasers at λ∼19 μm. Applied Physics Letters. 77(15). 2286–2288. 28 indexed citations

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Williams, Richard M., James Floyd Kelly, Steven W. Sharpe, et al.. (1999). Spectral and modulation performance of quantum cascade lasers with application to remote sensing. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 3758. 11–22. 1 indexed citations

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Sharpe, Steven W., James Floyd Kelly, Richard M. Williams, et al.. (1999). Rapid scan (Doppler-limited) absorption spectroscopy using mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 3758. 23–33. 1 indexed citations

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Paiella, Roberto, Federico Capasso, Claire Gmachl, et al.. (1999). High-speed operation of gain-switched midinfrared quantum cascade lasers. Applied Physics Letters. 75(17). 2536–2538. 27 indexed citations

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Gmachl, Claire, Deborah L. Sivco, Alfred Y. Cho, et al.. (1998). Microlasers with Chaotic Resonators and Bow-tie Lasers. Optics and Photonics News. 9(12). 26–26. 1 indexed citations

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Scamarcio, Gaetano, Federico Capasso, Jérôme Faist, et al.. (1997). Tunable interminiband infrared emission in superlattice electron transport. Applied Physics Letters. 70(14). 1796–1798. 19 indexed citations

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Faist, Jérôme, Carlo Sirtori, Federico Capasso, et al.. (1997). Mid-IR room temperature quantum cascade lasers. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3001. 264–264. 1 indexed citations

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Faist, Jérôme, Federico Capasso, Deborah L. Sivco, et al.. (1994). Quantum Cascade Laser. Science. 264(5158). 553–556. 3339 indexed citations breakdown →

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