Iñigo Liberal

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Iñigo Liberal is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Iñigo Liberal has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 41 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 35 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Iñigo Liberal's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (50 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (29 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (22 papers). Iñigo Liberal is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (50 papers), Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies (29 papers) and Antenna Design and Analysis (22 papers). Iñigo Liberal collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and China. Iñigo Liberal's co-authors include Nader Engheta, Íñigo Ederra, Yue Li, R. Gonzalo, Richard W. Ziolkowski, J. Enrique Vázquez‐Lozano, Ahmed M. Mahmoud, Ziheng Zhou, Michaël Lobet and Wangyu Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Iñigo Liberal

69 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Near-zero refractive index photonics 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 200 400 600
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. Near-zero refractive index photonics
    2017 620 citations Iñigo Liberal, Nader Engheta profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Iñigo Liberal Spain 20 979 839 656 561 548 85 1.7k
Zhiwei Guo China 26 985 1.0× 1.3k 1.5× 583 0.9× 623 1.1× 387 0.7× 106 2.0k
Yunhui Li China 24 849 0.9× 1.0k 1.2× 627 1.0× 619 1.1× 365 0.7× 103 1.7k
Zhengji Xu Singapore 22 682 0.7× 560 0.7× 580 0.9× 504 0.9× 300 0.5× 96 1.5k
Jun‐Jun Xiao China 21 970 1.0× 1.0k 1.2× 602 0.9× 546 1.0× 470 0.9× 117 1.9k
P. K. Choudhury Malaysia 24 1.4k 1.4× 713 0.8× 608 0.9× 962 1.7× 956 1.7× 190 2.3k
Michael Mrejen Israel 11 1.2k 1.3× 589 0.7× 692 1.1× 519 0.9× 704 1.3× 26 1.9k
Amr M. Shaltout United States 14 1.4k 1.4× 753 0.9× 765 1.2× 564 1.0× 792 1.4× 24 1.9k
Younes Ra’di United States 20 2.0k 2.0× 633 0.8× 717 1.1× 503 0.9× 1.6k 3.0× 51 2.6k
Víctor Pacheco‐Peña United Kingdom 24 812 0.8× 775 0.9× 679 1.0× 801 1.4× 471 0.9× 81 1.7k
Mykhailo Tymchenko United States 23 1.7k 1.7× 1.3k 1.5× 1.6k 2.4× 818 1.5× 498 0.9× 37 2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Iñigo Liberal

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All Works

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Liberal, Iñigo, J. Enrique Vázquez‐Lozano, & Víctor Pacheco‐Peña. (2023). Quantum Antireflection Temporal Coatings: Quantum State Frequency Shifting and Inhibited Thermal Noise Amplification. Laser & Photonics Review. 17(9). 18 indexed citations
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Bocio, Carlos del Río, et al.. (2023). Noise Cancellation Effects in Integrated Photonics with Wilkinson Power Dividers. ACS Photonics. 10(5). 1240–1249. 1 indexed citations
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Dolado, Jorge S., G Goracci, S. Arrese-Igor, et al.. (2023). Radiative Cooling Properties of Portlandite and Tobermorite: Two Cementitious Minerals of Great Relevance in Concrete Science and Technology. ACS Applied Optical Materials. 2(6). 1000–1009. 15 indexed citations
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Gong, Tao, et al.. (2023). Effect of Epsilon-Near-Zero Modes on the Casimir Interaction between Ultrathin Films. Physical Review Letters. 130(19). 196901–196901. 3 indexed citations
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Vázquez‐Lozano, J. Enrique & Iñigo Liberal. (2023). Incandescent temporal metamaterials. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4606–4606. 29 indexed citations
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Lobet, Michaël, et al.. (2022). Momentum considerations inside near-zero index materials. Light Science & Applications. 11(1). 110–110. 18 indexed citations
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Li, Hao, Ziheng Zhou, Yijing He, et al.. (2022). Geometry-independent antenna based on Epsilon-near-zero medium. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3568–3568. 35 indexed citations
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Liberal, Iñigo, Andrea Alù, & Nader Engheta. (2022). Zero-index metamaterials for classical and quantum light. Applied Physics Letters. 120(26).
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Zhou, Ziheng, Hao Li, Wangyu Sun, et al.. (2022). Dispersion coding of ENZ media via multiple photonic dopants. Light Science & Applications. 11(1). 207–207. 25 indexed citations
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Bittencourt, Victor A. S. V., Iñigo Liberal, & Silvia Viola Kusminskiy. (2022). Optomagnonics in Dispersive Media: Magnon-Photon Coupling Enhancement at the Epsilon-near-Zero Frequency. Physical Review Letters. 128(18). 183603–183603. 19 indexed citations
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Liberal, Iñigo, et al.. (2022). Material-based high-impedance surfaces for infrared photonic technologies. 1. 1–4. 1 indexed citations
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Liberal, Iñigo, et al.. (2019). Nonperturbative Effective Magnetic Nonlinearity in ENZ Media Doped with Kerr Dielectric Inclusions. ACS Photonics. 6(11). 2823–2831. 13 indexed citations
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Liberal, Iñigo, Ahmed M. Mahmoud, & Nader Engheta. (2016). Geometry-invariant resonant cavities. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10989–10989. 86 indexed citations
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Liberal, Iñigo, Íñigo Ederra, R. Gonzalo, & Richard W. Ziolkowski. (2013). Electromagnetic forces produced by dipole antennas. UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney). 275–278.
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Liberal, Iñigo, Íñigo Ederra, & R. Gonzalo. (2011). Analytical modelling of amorphous glass-coated microwires for microwave applications. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation. 736–738.
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Iriarte, Juan Carlos, et al.. (2011). Broadband RCS reduction using AMC technology. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation. 1322–1323. 7 indexed citations
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Iriarte, Juan Carlos, et al.. (2011). Water content evolution in leaves based on active THz imaging system. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation. 1049–1050. 3 indexed citations
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Liberal, Iñigo, Íñigo Ederra, & R. Gonzalo. (2011). Compact multi-frequency metamaterial-inspired antenna. European Conference on Antennas and Propagation. 733–735.
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Liberal, Iñigo, et al.. (2011). Experimental verification of the electromagnetic response of ferromagnetic microwires. European Microwave Conference. 452–455.

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