Karl Joulain

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
100 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Karl Joulain is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Karl Joulain has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 39 papers in Materials Chemistry and 38 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Karl Joulain's work include Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (84 papers), Thermal properties of materials (38 papers) and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (22 papers). Karl Joulain is often cited by papers focused on Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (84 papers), Thermal properties of materials (38 papers) and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (22 papers). Karl Joulain collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Mexico. Karl Joulain's co-authors include Jean‐Jacques Greffet, Jean‐Philippe Mulet, Rémi Carminati, Jérémie Drevillon, Younès Ezzahri, S. Mainguy, Yong Chen, Philippe Ben‐Abdallah, José Ordoñez-Miranda and Denis Lemonnier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Karl Joulain

93 papers receiving 4.9k 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. Coherent emission of light by thermal sources
    2002 1.1k citations Jean‐Jacques Greffet, Karl Joulain et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Karl Joulain France 36 3.8k 2.5k 1.4k 843 830 100 5.0k
Zhuomin M. Zhang United States 37 3.4k 0.9× 2.1k 0.8× 952 0.7× 1.3k 1.5× 628 0.8× 141 5.0k
Philippe Ben‐Abdallah France 36 4.1k 1.1× 2.9k 1.2× 1.0k 0.7× 689 0.8× 1.2k 1.5× 110 4.6k
Svend‐Age Biehs Germany 32 3.5k 0.9× 2.6k 1.1× 956 0.7× 618 0.7× 1.1k 1.3× 82 4.1k
Linxiao Zhu United States 31 6.9k 1.8× 3.2k 1.3× 880 0.6× 1.0k 1.2× 843 1.0× 44 7.7k
Ivan Čelanović United States 36 3.9k 1.0× 2.4k 1.0× 483 0.3× 1.2k 1.4× 910 1.1× 97 5.4k
Aaswath P. Raman United States 30 6.8k 1.8× 2.7k 1.1× 786 0.6× 1.0k 1.2× 467 0.6× 69 8.8k
Rémi Carminati France 13 1.9k 0.5× 1.6k 0.6× 395 0.3× 675 0.8× 333 0.4× 16 2.8k
Yaoguang Ma China 26 2.0k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 684 0.8× 73 0.1× 91 4.8k
Ceji Fu China 26 1.5k 0.4× 1.2k 0.5× 288 0.2× 645 0.8× 272 0.3× 75 2.5k
Bai Song China 21 1.4k 0.4× 950 0.4× 1.5k 1.1× 161 0.2× 348 0.4× 67 2.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Karl Joulain

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karl Joulain

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wilde, Yannick De, et al.. (2025). Modeling conductive thermal transport in three-dimensional fibrous media with fiber-to-fiber contacts. Physical Review Applied. 23(3).
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Yalçın, Refet Ali, Karl Joulain, & Jérémie Drevillon. (2024). Effect of optical properties and micro-structure on radiative cooling performance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 309. 13004–13004.
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Mulet, Jean‐Philippe, Karl Joulain, Rémi Carminati, & Jean‐Jacques Greffet. (2023). Enhanced radiative heat transfer at nanometric distances. 352–357.
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Ezzahri, Younès, et al.. (2021). Characterization of the temperature behavior of optimized SiC gratings emissivity. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 172. 121140–121140. 3 indexed citations
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Ezzahri, Younès, Karl Joulain, & José Ordoñez-Miranda. (2020). Heat transport in semiconductor crystals: Beyond the local-linear approximation. Journal of Applied Physics. 128(10). 4 indexed citations
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Horny, Nicolas, José Ordoñez-Miranda, Corinne Champeaux, et al.. (2019). Thermophysical characterisation of VO2 thin films hysteresis and its application in thermal rectification. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 8728–8728. 37 indexed citations
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Ordoñez-Miranda, José, et al.. (2018). VO2-based radiative thermal transistor with a semi-transparent base. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 210. 52–61. 26 indexed citations
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Ordoñez-Miranda, José, James M. Hill, Karl Joulain, Younès Ezzahri, & Jérémie Drevillon. (2018). Conductive thermal diode based on the thermal hysteresis of VO2 and nitinol. Journal of Applied Physics. 123(8). 36 indexed citations
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Ordoñez-Miranda, José, Denis Lemonnier, Younès Ezzahri, & Karl Joulain. (2017). Analytical description of the radiative-conductive heat transfer in a gray medium contained between two diffuse parallel plates. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 56. 51–64. 6 indexed citations
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Joulain, Karl, et al.. (2016). Modeling of Unsteady Heat Transfer by Impact Between Gas Particles and a Cold Wall in a Spherical Combustion Vessel. International Journal of Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements. 5(1). 44–54. 1 indexed citations
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Joulain, Karl, Jérémie Drevillon, Younès Ezzahri, & José Ordoñez-Miranda. (2016). Quantum Thermal Transistor. Physical Review Letters. 116(20). 200601–200601. 186 indexed citations
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Ordoñez-Miranda, José, Younès Ezzahri, Jérémie Drevillon, & Karl Joulain. (2016). Transistorlike Device for Heating and Cooling Based on the Thermal Hysteresis of VO2. Physical Review Applied. 6(5). 42 indexed citations
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Nefzaoui, Elyes, Karl Joulain, Jérémie Drevillon, & Younès Ezzahri. (2014). Radiative thermal rectification using superconducting materials. Applied Physics Letters. 104(10). 46 indexed citations
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Ezzahri, Younès & Karl Joulain. (2012). Dynamical thermal conductivity of bulk semiconductor crystals. Journal of Applied Physics. 112(8). 19 indexed citations
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Joulain, Karl, Jérémie Drevillon, & Philippe Ben‐Abdallah. (2010). Noncontact heat transfer between two metamaterials. Physical Review B. 81(16). 66 indexed citations
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Joulain, Karl, et al.. (2009). Modeling semiconductor nanostructures thermal properties: The dispersion role. Journal of Applied Physics. 105(7). 29 indexed citations
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Joulain, Karl & Carsten Henkel. (2008). The near field correlation spectrum of a metallic film. Applied Physics B. 93(1). 151–158. 12 indexed citations
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Joulain, Karl, et al.. (2007). Numerical simulation of transient phonon heat transfer in silicon nanowires and nanofilms. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 7 indexed citations
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Lacroix, David, et al.. (2007). Monte Carlo modeling of phonon transport in nanodevices. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 92. 12078–12078. 5 indexed citations
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Marquier, François, Karl Joulain, & Jean‐Jacques Greffet. (2004). Resonant infrared transmission through SiC films. Optics Letters. 29(18). 2178–2178. 15 indexed citations

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