Jesse Lu

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Jesse Lu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jesse Lu has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 13 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jesse Lu's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (15 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (12 papers) and Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (4 papers). Jesse Lu is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (15 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (12 papers) and Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (4 papers). Jesse Lu collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. Jesse Lu's co-authors include Jelena Vučković, Konstantinos G. Lagoudakis, Thomas M. Babinec, Alexander Y. Piggott, Jan Petykiewicz, Gary Shambat, Szu-Lin Cheng, Yoshio Nishi, Hyun‐Yong Yu and Krishna C. Saraswat and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, ACS Nano and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Jesse Lu

19 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Inverse design and demonstration of a compact and broadba... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 200 400 600
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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. Inverse design and demonstration of a compact and broadband on-chip wavelength demultiplexer
    2015 744 citations Alexander Y. Piggott, Jesse Lu et al. Nature Photonics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jesse Lu United States 13 955 667 447 261 194 19 1.3k
Jan Petykiewicz United States 10 1.2k 1.3× 844 1.3× 431 1.0× 309 1.2× 125 0.6× 33 1.6k
Xi Wang China 23 1.0k 1.1× 669 1.0× 532 1.2× 447 1.7× 300 1.5× 105 1.7k
Kuo‐Bin Hong Taiwan 17 652 0.7× 475 0.7× 333 0.7× 225 0.9× 260 1.3× 72 1.0k
Logan Su United States 12 659 0.7× 497 0.7× 336 0.8× 431 1.7× 55 0.3× 24 1.1k
Peipeng Xu China 19 1.3k 1.4× 568 0.9× 279 0.6× 274 1.0× 550 2.8× 85 1.6k
Ciyuan Qiu China 29 2.1k 2.2× 1.4k 2.1× 971 2.2× 485 1.9× 234 1.2× 95 2.7k
Tsung Sheng Kao Taiwan 19 679 0.7× 357 0.5× 527 1.2× 423 1.6× 413 2.1× 46 1.3k
Meir Grajower Israel 16 418 0.4× 438 0.7× 580 1.3× 431 1.7× 204 1.1× 28 1.0k
Stefan F. Preble United States 20 1.4k 1.4× 1.2k 1.7× 250 0.6× 121 0.5× 121 0.6× 99 1.6k
Imad Agha United States 16 709 0.7× 578 0.9× 319 0.7× 289 1.1× 239 1.2× 63 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Jesse Lu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jesse Lu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jesse Lu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jesse Lu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jesse Lu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jesse Lu. Jesse Lu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Kim, Yun‐Soung, Jesse Lu, Benjamin Shih, et al.. (2017). Scalable Manufacturing of Solderable and Stretchable Physiologic Sensing Systems. Advanced Materials. 29(39). 50 indexed citations
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Piggott, Alexander Y., Jesse Lu, Konstantinos G. Lagoudakis, et al.. (2016). Inverse Design of a Wavelength Demultiplexer. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 21. SM1F.4–SM1F.4. 2 indexed citations
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Piggott, Alexander Y., Jesse Lu, Thomas M. Babinec, et al.. (2015). Inverse design and implementation of a wavelength demultiplexing grating coupler. 84. SM3I.2–SM3I.2. 7 indexed citations
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Piggott, Alexander Y., Jesse Lu, Konstantinos G. Lagoudakis, et al.. (2015). Inverse design and demonstration of a compact and broadband on-chip wavelength demultiplexer. Nature Photonics. 9(6). 374–377. 744 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lu, Jesse & Jelena Vučković. (2012). Objective-first design of high-efficiency, small-footprint couplers between arbitrary nanophotonic waveguide modes. Optics Express. 20(7). 7221–7221. 85 indexed citations
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Lu, Jesse, Stephen Boyd, & Jelena Vučković. (2011). Inverse design of a three-dimensional nanophotonic resonator. Optics Express. 19(11). 10563–10563. 35 indexed citations
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Cheng, Szu-Lin, Gary Shambat, Jesse Lu, et al.. (2011). Cavity-enhanced direct band electroluminescence near 1550 nm from germanium microdisk resonator diode on silicon. Applied Physics Letters. 98(21). 21 indexed citations
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Shambat, Gary, Kelley Rivoire, Jesse Lu, Fariba Hatami, & Jelena Vučković. (2010). Tunable-wavelength second harmonic generation from GaP photonic crystal cavities coupled to fiber tapers. Optics Express. 18(12). 12176–12176. 20 indexed citations
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Lu, Jesse & Jelena Vučković. (2010). Inverse design of nanophotonic structures using complementary convex optimization. Optics Express. 18(4). 3793–3793. 38 indexed citations
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Shambat, Gary, Yiyang Gong, Jesse Lu, et al.. (2010). Coupled fiber taper extraction of 153 μm photoluminescence from erbium doped silicon nitride photonic crystal cavities. Optics Express. 18(6). 5964–5964. 12 indexed citations
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Shambat, Gary, Szu-Lin Cheng, Jesse Lu, Yoshio Nishi, & Jelena Vučković. (2010). Direct band Ge photoluminescence near 1.6 μm coupled to Ge-on-Si microdisk resonators. Applied Physics Letters. 97(24). 36 indexed citations
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Cheng, Szu-Lin, Gary Shambat, Jesse Lu, et al.. (2010). (Invited) Characterizations of Direct Band Gap Photoluminescence and Electroluminescence from epi-Ge on Si. ECS Transactions. 33(6). 545–554. 2 indexed citations
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Lu, Jesse & Jelena Vučković. (2010). Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Structures using Complementary Convex Optimization. ITuD4–ITuD4. 1 indexed citations
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Lu, Jesse & Jelena Vučković. (2010). Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Structures using Complementary Convex Optimization. 13. CWB6–CWB6. 1 indexed citations
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Lee, Sang‐Won, Michael F. Toney, Wonhee Ko, et al.. (2010). Laser-Synthesized Epitaxial Graphene. ACS Nano. 4(12). 7524–7530. 75 indexed citations
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Gong, Yiyang, Jesse Lu, Szu-Lin Cheng, Yoshio Nishi, & Jelena Vučković. (2009). Plasmonic enhancement of emission from Si-nanocrystals. Applied Physics Letters. 94(1). 22 indexed citations
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Cheng, Szu-Lin, Jesse Lu, Gary Shambat, et al.. (2009). Room temperature 16 μm electroluminescence from Ge light emitting diode on Si substrate. Optics Express. 17(12). 10019–10019. 132 indexed citations
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Lu, Jesse, Csaba Petre, Eli Yablonovitch, & Josh Conway. (2007). Numerical optimization of a grating coupler for the efficient excitation of surface plasmons at an Ag-SiO_2 interface. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 24(9). 2268–2268. 47 indexed citations
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Conway, Josh, et al.. (2007). Nanoscale fabrication of a plasmonic dimple lens for nano-focusing of light. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6641. 66411J–66411J. 4 indexed citations

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