Marcello Ferrera

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Marcello Ferrera is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcello Ferrera has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 62 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Marcello Ferrera's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (58 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (38 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (21 papers). Marcello Ferrera is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (58 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (38 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (21 papers). Marcello Ferrera collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Marcello Ferrera's co-authors include Alexandra Boltasseva, Roberto Morandotti, Luca Razzari, David Moss, Brent E. Little, Sai T. Chu, Nathaniel Kinsey, Vladimir M. Shalaev, D. Duchesne and Matteo Clerici and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Marcello Ferrera

72 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

CMOS-compatible integrate... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400
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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. CMOS-compatible integrated optical hyper-parametric oscillator
    2009 401 citations Luca Razzari, D. Duchesne et al. Nature Photonics profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Marcello Ferrera 2.5k 2.5k 1.1k 747 334 80 3.5k
Xiankai Sun 2.2k 0.9× 2.1k 0.8× 606 0.5× 463 0.6× 230 0.7× 133 3.2k
Boris Desiatov 2.7k 1.1× 2.3k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 527 0.7× 215 0.6× 59 3.6k
Christophe Sauvan 1.9k 0.8× 2.5k 1.0× 1.9k 1.7× 846 1.1× 514 1.5× 67 3.6k
E. A. Muljarov 1.4k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 878 0.8× 448 0.6× 174 0.5× 79 2.5k
Michal Lipson 3.1k 1.3× 2.9k 1.2× 1.4k 1.3× 428 0.6× 224 0.7× 46 4.1k
Andrea Di Falco 1.5k 0.6× 1.6k 0.6× 1.1k 1.0× 666 0.9× 100 0.3× 101 2.5k
A. V. Zayats 939 0.4× 2.1k 0.9× 1.9k 1.7× 1.4k 1.8× 330 1.0× 31 3.2k
Carl B. Poitras 2.4k 1.0× 1.8k 0.7× 333 0.3× 606 0.8× 229 0.7× 54 3.2k
Cuicui Lu 1.2k 0.5× 1.6k 0.6× 845 0.8× 564 0.8× 239 0.7× 91 2.4k
Shaimaa I. Azzam 1.0k 0.4× 763 0.3× 892 0.8× 546 0.7× 223 0.7× 36 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marcello Ferrera

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcello Ferrera

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marcello Ferrera. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marcello Ferrera 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 Marcello Ferrera. Marcello Ferrera is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hallman, Kent A., Federico Belli, Marcello Ferrera, et al.. (2025). High‐harmonic generation from subwavelength silicon films. Nanophotonics. 14(23). 3927–3938. 1 indexed citations
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Biancalana, Fabio, et al.. (2025). Spatio-spectral optical fission in time-varying subwavelength layers. Nature Photonics. 19(6). 558–566. 2 indexed citations
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Belli, Federico, M. A. Vincenti, Michael Scalora, et al.. (2024). High‐Order Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in Transparent Conducting Oxide Thin Films. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(28). 7 indexed citations
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Guo, Ziheng, et al.. (2024). Engineering Waveguide Nonlinear Effective Length via Low Index Thin Films. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(16). 1 indexed citations
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Clerici, Matteo, et al.. (2023). Nonlinear Loss Engineering in Near‐Zero‐Index Bulk Materials. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(1). 8 indexed citations
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Carnemolla, Enrico G., Matteo Clerici, Lucia Caspani, et al.. (2021). Visible photon generation via four-wave mixing in near-infrared near-zero-index thin films. Optics Letters. 46(21). 5433–5433. 7 indexed citations
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Bruno, Vincenzo, Stefano Vezzoli, Clayton DeVault, et al.. (2020). Broad Frequency Shift of Parametric Processes in Epsilon-Near-Zero Time-Varying Media. IrInSubria (University of Insubria). 41 indexed citations
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Khurgin, Jacob B., Matteo Clerici, Vincenzo Bruno, et al.. (2020). Adiabatic frequency shifting in epsilon-near-zero materials: the role of group velocity. Optica. 7(3). 226–226. 86 indexed citations
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Carnemolla, Enrico G., Lucia Caspani, Clayton DeVault, et al.. (2018). Degenerate optical nonlinear enhancement in epsilon-near-zero transparent conducting oxides. Optical Materials Express. 8(11). 3392–3392. 43 indexed citations
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Bogdanov, Simeon, Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, А. В. Акимов, et al.. (2017). Electron spin contrast of Purcell-enhanced nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in nanodiamonds. Physical review. B.. 96(3). 18 indexed citations
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Clerici, Matteo, Nathaniel Kinsey, Clayton DeVault, et al.. (2017). Controlling hybrid nonlinearities in transparent conducting oxides via two-colour excitation. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15829–15829. 89 indexed citations
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Reimer, Christian, Michael Kues, Lucia Caspani, et al.. (2015). Cross-polarized photon-pair generation and bi-chromatically pumped optical parametric oscillation on a chip. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8236–8236. 66 indexed citations
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Debnath, Kapil, et al.. (2013). Highly efficient optical filter based on vertically coupled photonic crystal cavity and bus waveguide. Optics Letters. 38(2). 154–154. 36 indexed citations
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Pasquazi, Alessia, Lucia Caspani, Marco Peccianti, et al.. (2013). Self-locked optical parametric oscillation in a CMOS compatible microring resonator: a route to robust optical frequency comb generation on a chip. Optics Express. 21(11). 13333–13333. 76 indexed citations
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Hwang, Jae‐Yeol, Marcello Ferrera, Luca Razzari, A. Pignolet, & Roberto Morandotti. (2012). Optimization of Rare-earth Modified Iron Garnet Epitaxial Films for Magneto-Optic Applications. JTh2A.64–JTh2A.64.
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Ferrera, Marcello, Yongwoo Park, Luca Razzari, et al.. (2011). All-optical 1st and 2nd order integration on a chip. Optics Express. 19(23). 23153–23153. 39 indexed citations
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Duchesne, D., Marco Peccianti, Michael R. E. Lamont, et al.. (2010). Supercontinuum generation in a high index doped silica glass spiral waveguide. Optics Express. 18(2). 923–923. 80 indexed citations
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Duchesne, D., Marcello Ferrera, Luca Razzari, et al.. (2009). Efficient self-phase modulation in low loss, high index doped silica glass integrated waveguides. Optics Express. 17(3). 1865–1865. 71 indexed citations
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Ndione, Paul F., Marcello Ferrera, D. Duchesne, et al.. (2009). Hybrid integration of Ca_028Ba_072Nb_2O_6 thin film electro-optic waveguides with silica/silicon substrates. Optics Express. 17(17). 15128–15128. 11 indexed citations
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Ferrera, Marcello, D. Duchesne, Luca Razzari, et al.. (2009). Low power four wave mixing in an integrated, micro-ring resonator with Q = 12 million. Optics Express. 17(16). 14098–14098. 90 indexed citations

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