Ihab El-Kady

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Ihab El-Kady is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ihab El-Kady has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 34 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ihab El-Kady's work include Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (33 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (31 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (22 papers). Ihab El-Kady is often cited by papers focused on Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research (33 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (31 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (22 papers). Ihab El-Kady collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and China. Ihab El-Kady's co-authors include Roy H. Olsson, J. G. Fleming, Shawn-Yu Lin, R. Biswas, Kai‐Ming Ho, Zayd C. Leseman, Charles M. Reinke, Mehmet F. Su, Patrick E. Hopkins and Leslie M. Phinney and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ihab El-Kady

84 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

  1. All-metallic three-dimensional photonic crystals with a large infrared bandgap
    2002 497 citations J. G. Fleming, Shawn-Yu Lin et al. Nature profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ihab El-Kady United States 24 1.5k 1.3k 1.1k 744 689 92 2.9k
Martin Maldovan United States 28 1.8k 1.2× 1.4k 1.1× 904 0.9× 810 1.1× 1.8k 2.6× 51 4.3k
J. G. Fleming United States 21 930 0.6× 2.3k 1.8× 824 0.8× 1.5k 2.1× 374 0.5× 58 3.0k
Abdellatif Akjouj France 31 1.7k 1.2× 1.5k 1.2× 132 0.1× 1.1k 1.4× 331 0.5× 169 2.9k
Yan Pennec France 42 4.5k 3.1× 2.2k 1.7× 612 0.6× 1.5k 2.0× 720 1.0× 193 6.4k
Ahmed Mehaney Egypt 31 1.8k 1.2× 919 0.7× 132 0.1× 1.0k 1.3× 240 0.3× 157 2.5k
Weidong Shen China 26 783 0.5× 929 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.4× 530 0.8× 146 3.4k
Feng Liang China 25 2.0k 1.4× 1.1k 0.9× 125 0.1× 1.1k 1.5× 459 0.7× 99 3.4k
Nicolas Stenger Denmark 19 1.7k 1.1× 936 0.7× 294 0.3× 592 0.8× 576 0.8× 50 3.3k
El Houssaine El Boudouti France 26 1.2k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 111 0.1× 657 0.9× 308 0.4× 127 2.0k
Tiemo Bückmann Germany 16 1.6k 1.1× 342 0.3× 427 0.4× 223 0.3× 257 0.4× 17 2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ihab El-Kady

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All Works

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Allam, Ahmed, et al.. (2024). Portable through-metal ultrasonic power transfer using a dry-coupled detachable transmitter. Ultrasonics. 141. 107339–107339. 6 indexed citations
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Soule, Luke, et al.. (2024). Electrodeposited NiFeCo + Tb and Dy for enhanced magnetostrictive properties and soft magnetism. Thin Solid Films. 800. 140396–140396. 2 indexed citations
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Kellogg, Rick A., et al.. (2023). Modeling the performance of a family of phononic pseudo-crystal interposers. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 153(3_supplement). A317–A317. 1 indexed citations
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El-Kady, Ihab, et al.. (2023). Principles underlying 2-D phononic pseudocrystal isolators. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations
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Alaie, Seyedhamidreza, et al.. (2015). Thermal transport in phononic crystals and the observation of coherent phonon scattering at room temperature. Nature Communications. 6(1). 133 indexed citations
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El-Kady, Ihab, et al.. (2014). Thermal Transport in Micro-Scale Phononic Crystals: Observation of Coherent Phonon Scattering at Room Temperature.. Nature Nanotechnology. 1 indexed citations
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Davis, Bruce L., Mehmet F. Su, Ihab El-Kady, & Mahmoud I. Hussein. (2012). Silicon Thin-Film Lattice Dynamics and Thermal Transport Properties. 2993–2998. 1 indexed citations
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Reinke, Charles M., Lorena I. Basilio, Larry K. Warne, et al.. (2010). A Group Theory Approach to Tailored Electromagnetic Properties of Metamaterials: An Inverse Problem Solution.. Physical Review A. 1 indexed citations
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Reinke, Charles M., et al.. (2010). Silicon carbide phononic crystals for high f.Q micromechanical resonators. 92. 162–166. 8 indexed citations
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Leseman, Zayd C., et al.. (2008). Hot-Spot Damage Monitoring in Aerospace Composites Using Acoustic Bandgap (ABG) Sensors. 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Jeon, Seokwoo, Daniel Shir, Robert Nidetz, et al.. (2007). Molded transparent photopolymers and phase shift optics for fabricating three dimensional nanostructures. Optics Express. 15(10). 6358–6358. 32 indexed citations
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Luk, Ting S., et al.. (2007). Emissivity measurements of 3D photonic crystals at high temperatures. Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications. 6(1). 81–86. 8 indexed citations
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El-Kady, Ihab, et al.. (2006). Application of photonic crystals in submicron damage detection and quantification. Applied Physics Letters. 88(25). 20 indexed citations
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Lin, Shawn-Yu, J. G. Fleming, & Ihab El-Kady. (2003). Three-dimensional photonic-crystal emission through thermal excitation. Optics Letters. 28(20). 1909–1909. 75 indexed citations
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Lin, Shawn-Yu, J. G. Fleming, & Ihab El-Kady. (2003). Highly efficient light emission at λ = 15 μm by a three-dimensional tungsten photonic crystal. Optics Letters. 28(18). 1683–1683. 39 indexed citations
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El-Kady, Ihab, R. Biswas, Irina Puscasu, et al.. (2003). Tunable narrow-band infrared emitters from hexagonal lattices. Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications. 1(1). 69–77. 11 indexed citations
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Fleming, J. G., Shawn-Yu Lin, Ihab El-Kady, R. Biswas, & Kai‐Ming Ho. (2002). All-metallic three-dimensional photonic crystals with a large infrared bandgap. Nature. 417(6884). 52–55. 497 indexed citations breakdown →

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