Sajeev John

26.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
216 papers, 20.5k citations indexed

About

Sajeev John is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sajeev John has authored 216 papers receiving a total of 20.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 169 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 133 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 60 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sajeev John's work include Photonic Crystals and Applications (139 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (111 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (31 papers). Sajeev John is often cited by papers focused on Photonic Crystals and Applications (139 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (111 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (31 papers). Sajeev John collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Sajeev John's co-authors include Kurt Busch, Tran Quang, Ovidiu Toader, Jian Wang, Alongkarn Chutinan, F. C. MacKintosh, Jian Wang, Mesfin Woldeyohannes, Tran Quang and Sayak Bhattacharya and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Sajeev John

214 papers receiving 19.6k citations

Hit Papers

Strong localization of photons in certain disordered diel... 1984 2026 1998 2012 1987 1984 1998 1999 1990 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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. Strong localization of photons in certain disordered dielectric superlattices
    1987 7.7k citations Sajeev John Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Electromagnetic Absorption in a Disordered Medium near a Photon Mobility Edge
    1984 723 citations Sajeev John Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Photonic band gap formation in certain self-organizing systems
    1998 711 citations Sajeev John et al. profile →
  4. Liquid-Crystal Photonic-Band-Gap Materials: The Tunable Electromagnetic Vacuum
    1999 598 citations Sajeev John et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  5. Quantum electrodynamics near a photonic band gap: Photon bound states and dressed atoms
    1990 593 citations Sajeev John et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  6. Spontaneous emission near the edge of a photonic band gap
    1994 551 citations Sajeev John et al. Physical Review A profile →
  7. Localization of Light
    1991 399 citations Sajeev John profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sajeev John Canada 58 16.8k 11.8k 5.6k 2.8k 2.8k 216 20.5k
Susumu Noda Japan 72 19.3k 1.2× 17.3k 1.5× 6.0k 1.1× 2.4k 0.8× 3.8k 1.4× 579 22.9k
Eli Yablonovitch United States 75 23.6k 1.4× 25.7k 2.2× 9.4k 1.7× 8.2k 2.9× 4.2k 1.5× 383 40.1k
Cefe López Spain 48 7.1k 0.4× 4.1k 0.3× 2.9k 0.5× 3.2k 1.1× 1.1k 0.4× 188 10.2k
Masaya Notomi Japan 59 11.8k 0.7× 11.1k 0.9× 4.0k 0.7× 975 0.3× 1.8k 0.7× 351 14.2k
Kurt Busch Germany 45 6.6k 0.4× 4.5k 0.4× 3.1k 0.6× 1.3k 0.5× 1.2k 0.4× 242 8.9k
Willem L. Vos Netherlands 47 6.1k 0.4× 3.9k 0.3× 3.0k 0.5× 2.9k 1.0× 878 0.3× 185 9.9k
C. T. Chan Hong Kong 95 20.9k 1.2× 8.3k 0.7× 16.5k 2.9× 7.7k 2.7× 1.9k 0.7× 546 40.3k
C. M. Soukoulis United States 48 6.4k 0.4× 4.3k 0.4× 2.0k 0.4× 1.4k 0.5× 1.2k 0.4× 119 8.8k
Diederik S. Wiersma Italy 60 8.0k 0.5× 3.6k 0.3× 5.0k 0.9× 2.1k 0.8× 390 0.1× 225 15.7k
Takashi Asano Japan 47 9.2k 0.5× 8.6k 0.7× 3.4k 0.6× 1.3k 0.5× 1.5k 0.6× 251 11.4k

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All Works

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John, Sajeev, et al.. (2025). Corrosion Resistance and Electrochemical Adaptation of Aluminium in Brackish Peat Water Sources Under Seawater Intrusion in the Rural Tropical Peatlands of Borneo. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 100074–100074. 3 indexed citations
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John, Sajeev, et al.. (2021). Photonic crystal based photoelectrochemical cell for solar fuels. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(6). 1218–1224. 3 indexed citations
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Hsieh, Mei-Li, et al.. (2020). Experimental demonstration of broadband solar absorption beyond the lambertian limit in certain thin silicon photonic crystals. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 11857–11857. 58 indexed citations
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Hsieh, Mei-Li, Shawn-Yu Lin, Sajeev John, et al.. (2019). Super Planckian Thermal Radiation Emitted From a Nano-Filament of Photonic Crystal: A Direct Imaging Study. IEEE photonics journal. 11(6). 1–8. 2 indexed citations
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Hsieh, Mei-Li, Shuyu Chen, Ishwara Bhat, et al.. (2019). A low cost and large-scale synthesis of 3D photonic crystal with SP2 lattice symmetry. AIP Advances. 9(8). 6 indexed citations
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Jiang, Jian‐Hua & Sajeev John. (2014). Photonic Architectures for Equilibrium High-Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dichalcogenide Monolayers. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 7432–7432. 14 indexed citations
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Deinega, Alexei & Sajeev John. (2012). Solar power conversion efficiency in modulated silicon nanowire photonic crystals. Journal of Applied Physics. 112(7). 36 indexed citations
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Juodkazis, Saulius & Sajeev John. (2011). Photonic crystals approach visible-light functionality. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 47(8). 59. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Sheng-Jun & Sajeev John. (2007). Exciton Dressing and Capture by a Photonic Band Edge. 2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO). 1–2. 1 indexed citations
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Chutinan, Alongkarn & Sajeev John. (2005). Diffractionless flow of light in two- and three-dimensional photonic band gap heterostructures: Theory, design rules, and simulations. Physical Review E. 71(2). 26605–26605. 41 indexed citations
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John, Sajeev. (2003). Photonic band gap materials: a semiconductor for light. 73–74. 1 indexed citations
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Toader, Ovidiu, Mona Berciu, & Sajeev John. (2003). Photonic Band Gaps Based on Tetragonal Lattices of Slanted Pores. Physical Review Letters. 90(23). 233901–233901. 39 indexed citations
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Toader, Ovidiu & Sajeev John. (2001). Proposed Square Spiral Microfabrication Architecture for Large Three-Dimensional Photonic Band Gap Crystals. Science. 292(5519). 1133–1135. 195 indexed citations
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Berciu, Mona & Sajeev John. (2001). A microscopic model for D-wave pairing in the cuprates: what happens when electrons somersault?. Physica B Condensed Matter. 296(1-3). 143–155. 1 indexed citations
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Berciu, Mona & Sajeev John. (2000). Microscopic model ford-wave charge-carrier pairing and non-Fermi-liquid behavior in a purely repulsive two-dimensional electron system. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 61(24). 16454–16469. 12 indexed citations
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Berciu, Mona & Sajeev John. (1999). Numerical study of multisoliton configurations in a doped antiferromagnetic Mott insulator. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 59(23). 15143–15159. 12 indexed citations
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Quang, Tran & Sajeev John. (1997). Resonance fluorescence near a photonic band edge: Dressed-state Monte Carlo wave-function approach. Physical Review A. 56(5). 4273–4277. 27 indexed citations
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Grein, C. H. & Sajeev John. (1989). Temperature dependence of the fundamental optical absorption edge in crystals and disordered semiconductors. Solid State Communications. 70(1). 87–91. 13 indexed citations
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John, Sajeev & Raghavan Rangarajan. (1988). Optimal structures for classical wave localization: an alternative to the ioffe-regel criterion. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 38(14). 10101–10104. 80 indexed citations

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