Delwin L. Elder

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
141 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Delwin L. Elder is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Delwin L. Elder has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 46 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 32 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Delwin L. Elder's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (117 papers), Optical Network Technologies (61 papers) and Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (53 papers). Delwin L. Elder is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (117 papers), Optical Network Technologies (61 papers) and Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (53 papers). Delwin L. Elder collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Delwin L. Elder's co-authors include Larry R. Dalton, Juerg Leuthold, Wolfgang Heni, Yuriy Fedoryshyn, Christian Haffner, Benedikt Baeuerle, Arne Josten, Yannick Salamin, Claudia Hoessbacher and Bruce H. Robinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Delwin L. Elder

136 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

All-plasmonic Mach–Zehnder modulator enabling optical high-speed communication at the microscale

2015 426 citations Christian Haffner, Wolfgang Heni et al. profile →
Low-loss plasmon-assisted electro-optic modulator

2018 334 citations Christian Haffner, Yuriy Fedoryshyn et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Delwin L. Elder	3.6k	1.7k	1.4k	1.4k	432	141	4.6k
Wolfgang Heni	3.5k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	937 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	419 1.0×	116	4.1k
Yanko Todorov	1.4k 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	528 0.4×	935 0.7×	273 0.6×	103	2.8k
Yaping Yang	1.4k 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	892 0.6×	496 0.4×	412 1.0×	185	3.1k
Saül Vélez	1.1k 0.3×	2.0k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	1.8k 1.3×	867 2.0×	49	3.6k
Yang Luo	1.2k 0.3×	886 0.5×	394 0.3×	943 0.7×	738 1.7×	84	2.3k
Victor W. Brar	1.5k 0.4×	2.4k 1.4×	1.4k 1.0×	1.9k 1.4×	3.5k 8.1×	56	5.5k
Leonardo de S. Menezes	1.4k 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	458 0.3×	653 0.5×	1.1k 2.5×	109	2.7k
Dapeng Yu	1.4k 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	632 0.5×	521 0.4×	2.6k 5.9×	156	4.0k
Kangpeng Wang	1.4k 0.4×	1.7k 1.0×	264 0.2×	1.0k 0.8×	1.4k 3.1×	51	2.9k
Xiaowei He	985 0.3×	871 0.5×	365 0.3×	942 0.7×	1.5k 3.4×	58	2.6k

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Xu, Huajun, Delwin L. Elder, Lewis E. Johnson, et al.. (2025). Ultrahigh Performance Cross-Linkable Organic Electro-Optic Material for Hybrid Modulators. Chemistry of Materials. 37(12). 4301–4313. 3 indexed citations

Burla, Maurizio, Claudia Hoessbacher, Wolfgang Heni, et al.. (2023). Plasmonics for microwave photonics in the THz range. Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 4. 3 indexed citations

Dalton, Larry R., Juerg Leuthold, Bruce H. Robinson, et al.. (2023). Perspective: Nanophotonic electro-optics enabling THz bandwidths, exceptional modulation and energy efficiencies, and compact device footprints. APL Materials. 11(5). 22 indexed citations

Horst, Yannik, Tobias Blatter, Bertold Ian Bitachon, et al.. (2022). Transparent Optical-THz-Optical Link at 240/192 Gbit/s Over 5/115 m Enabled by Plasmonics. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 40(6). 1690–1697. 32 indexed citations

Xu, Huajun, Lewis E. Johnson, Yovan de Coene, et al.. (2021). Bis(4-dialkylaminophenyl)heteroarylamino donor chromophores exhibiting exceptional hyperpolarizabilities. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 9(8). 2721–2728. 35 indexed citations

Heni, Wolfgang, Benedikt Baeuerle, H. Mardoyan, et al.. (2020). Ultra-High-Speed 2:1 Digital Selector and Plasmonic Modulator IM/DD Transmitter Operating at 222 GBaud for Intra-Datacenter Applications. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 38(9). 2734–2739. 50 indexed citations

Xu, Huajun, Fenggang Liu, Delwin L. Elder, et al.. (2020). Ultrahigh Electro-Optic Coefficients, High Index of Refraction, and Long-Term Stability from Diels–Alder Cross-Linkable Binary Molecular Glasses. Chemistry of Materials. 32(4). 1408–1421. 115 indexed citations

Baeuerle, Benedikt, Claudia Hoessbacher, Wolfgang Heni, et al.. (2020). 100 GBd IM/DD transmission over 14 km SMF in the C-band enabled by a plasmonic SSB MZM. Optics Express. 28(6). 8601–8601. 17 indexed citations

Kingsbury, Jason S., et al.. (2019). Derivatives of DANPY (Dialkylaminonaphthylpyridinium), a DNA-Binding Fluorophore: Practical Synthesis of Tricyclic 2-Amino-6-bromonaphthalenes by Bucherer Reaction. ACS Omega. 5(1). 537–546.

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Johnson, Lewis E., Jason S. Kingsbury, Delwin L. Elder, et al.. (2019). DANPY (dimethylaminonaphthylpyridinium): an economical and biocompatible fluorophore. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 17(15). 3765–3780. 2 indexed citations

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Xu, Huajun, Delwin L. Elder, Lewis E. Johnson, Bruce H. Robinson, & Larry R. Dalton. (2019). Molecular Engineering of Structurally Diverse Dendrimers with Large Electro-Optic Activities. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(23). 21058–21068. 36 indexed citations

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Koch, Ueli, Larry R. Dalton, Juerg Leuthold, et al.. (2019). Ultra-Compact Terabit Plasmonic Modulator Array. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 37(5). 1484–1491. 29 indexed citations

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Heni, Wolfgang, Yuriy Fedoryshyn, Benedikt Baeuerle, et al.. (2019). Plasmonic IQ modulators with attojoule per bit electrical energy consumption. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1694–1694. 122 indexed citations

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Baeuerle, Benedikt, Wolfgang Heni, Claudia Hoessbacher, et al.. (2019). 120 GBd plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator with a novel differential electrode design operated at a peak-to-peak drive voltage of 178 mV. Optics Express. 27(12). 16823–16823. 53 indexed citations

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Baeuerle, Benedikt, Wolfgang Heni, Claudia Hoessbacher, et al.. (2019). Reduced Equalization Needs of 100 GHz Bandwidth Plasmonic Modulators. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 37(9). 2050–2057. 16 indexed citations

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Robinson, Bruce H., Yannick Salamin, Arne Josten, et al.. (2018). Optimization of Plasmonic-Organic Hybrid Electro-Optics. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 36(21). 5036–5047. 38 indexed citations

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Heni, Wolfgang, Y. Kutuvantavida, Christian Haffner, et al.. (2017). Silicon–Organic and Plasmonic–Organic Hybrid Photonics. ACS Photonics. 4(7). 1576–1590. 137 indexed citations

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Ayata, Masafumi, Yuriy Fedoryshyn, Wolfgang Heni, et al.. (2017). High-speed plasmonic modulator in a single metal layer. Science. 358(6363). 630–632. 237 indexed citations

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Elder, Delwin L., Christian Haffner, Wolfgang Heni, et al.. (2017). Effect of Rigid Bridge-Protection Units, Quadrupolar Interactions, and Blending in Organic Electro-Optic Chromophores. Chemistry of Materials. 29(15). 6457–6471. 76 indexed citations

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Leuthold, Juerg, Christian Haffner, Wolfgang Heni, et al.. (2015). Plasmonic devices for communications. 1–3. 6 indexed citations

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