Solomon Assefa

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
108 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Solomon Assefa is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Solomon Assefa has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 41 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 12 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Solomon Assefa's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (73 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (33 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (30 papers). Solomon Assefa is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (73 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (33 papers) and Optical Network Technologies (30 papers). Solomon Assefa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ethiopia and Switzerland. Solomon Assefa's co-authors include Yurii A. Vlasov, William M. J. Green, Fengnian Xia, Dirk Englund, Yuanda Gao, James Hone, Ren-Jye Shiue, Xuetao Gan, Inanc Meric and Tony F. Heinz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Solomon Assefa

106 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Chip-integrated ultrafast graphene photodetector with high responsivity

2013 928 citations Solomon Assefa, Dirk Englund et al. profile →
Reinventing germanium avalanche photodetector for nanophotonic on-chip optical interconnects

2010 477 citations Solomon Assefa, Fengnian Xia et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Solomon Assefa United States	34	3.2k	1.8k	972	949	367	108	4.8k
Brijesh Kumar India	31	1.9k 0.6×	406 0.2×	1.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	84 0.2×	292	4.9k
Tim Foster United Kingdom	38	536 0.2×	995 0.6×	410 0.4×	520 0.5×	42 0.1×	140	4.5k
Rebecca Green United Kingdom	36	286 0.1×	308 0.2×	691 0.7×	408 0.4×	233 0.6×	122	5.1k
Brian McNeil United Kingdom	44	1.2k 0.4×	965 0.5×	1.3k 1.3×	180 0.2×	48 0.1×	242	7.2k
Sunil Mittal United States	24	752 0.2×	2.2k 1.3×	279 0.3×	153 0.2×	418 1.1×	44	3.2k
Mohamed A. Salem Egypt	33	567 0.2×	815 0.5×	508 0.5×	266 0.3×	53 0.1×	219	3.5k
Kai-Erik Peiponen∥ Finland	27	1.1k 0.3×	805 0.5×	991 1.0×	289 0.3×	19 0.1×	210	3.1k
James H. Kaufman United States	23	1.5k 0.5×	352 0.2×	503 0.5×	872 0.9×	36 0.1×	98	3.2k
S. C. Mehrotra India	35	506 0.2×	599 0.3×	468 0.5×	1.0k 1.1×	88 0.2×	222	3.9k
Shu‐Wei Chang Taiwan	33	1.7k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	607 0.6×	146 0.4×	180	3.7k

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Bhagavathula, Akshaya Srikanth, Wafa Ali Aldhaleei, Tesfay Mehari Atey, Solomon Assefa, & Wubshet Tesfaye. (2023). Efficacy of eHealth Technologies on Medication Adherence in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JMIR Cardio. 7. e52697–e52697.

Jones, Anne, et al.. (2023). AI for climate impacts: applications in flood risk. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 6(1). 41 indexed citations

Assefa, Solomon, et al.. (2022). Multi-environment evaluation of malt sorghum in semi-arid areas of Northeast Ethiopia. 9(2). 50–56. 1 indexed citations

Assefa, Solomon, et al.. (2020). In Vivo Antimalarial Activity of Crude Fruit Extract of Capsicum frutescens Var. Minima (Solanaceae) against Plasmodium berghei ‐Infected Mice. BioMed Research International. 2020(1). 1320952–1320952. 7 indexed citations

Assefa, Solomon, et al.. (2019). Assessment of Magnitude and Associated Factors of Emergence Delirium in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit at Tikur Anbesa Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences. 29(5). 597–604. 21 indexed citations

Assefa, Solomon, et al.. (2018). Assessment of vocational training programmes on mushroom farming and p.h.t of mushroom organized for urban women of gamaharia block in saraikela kharsawan district. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry. 7(1). 2736–2739. 1 indexed citations

Nureye, Dejen, Solomon Assefa, Teshome Nedi, & Ephrem Engidawork. (2018). In Vivo Antimalarial Activity of the 80% Methanolic Root Bark Extract and Solvent Fractions of Gardenia ternifolia Schumach. & Thonn. (Rubiaceae) against Plasmodium berghei. Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2018(1). 9217835–9217835. 45 indexed citations

Assefa, Solomon, et al.. (2018). Group B streptococci vaginal colonization and drug susceptibility pattern among pregnant women attending in selected public antenatal care centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 18(1). 135–135. 33 indexed citations

Assefa, Solomon. (2017). Potential anti-trypanosomal plants against African animal trypanosmiasis. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry. 6(5). 77–85. 2 indexed citations

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Najafi, Faraz, Jacob Mower, Nicholas C. Harris, et al.. (2015). On-chip detection of non-classical light by scalable integration of single-photon detectors. Nature Communications. 6(1). 5873–5873. 209 indexed citations

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Kang, Christopher, Sharon M. Weiss, Yurii A. Vlasov, & Solomon Assefa. (2012). Optimized light–matter interaction and defect hole placement in photonic crystal cavity sensors. Optics Letters. 37(14). 2850–2850. 14 indexed citations

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Assefa, Solomon, D. M. Gill, Tymon Barwicz, et al.. (2012). Demonstration of electrooptic modulation at 2165nm using a silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Optics Express. 20(27). 28009–28009. 73 indexed citations

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Pan, Huapu, Solomon Assefa, William M. J. Green, et al.. (2012). High-speed receiver based on waveguide germanium photodetector wire-bonded to 90nm SOI CMOS amplifier. Optics Express. 20(16). 18145–18145. 35 indexed citations

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Campenhout, Joris Van, William M. J. Green, Solomon Assefa, & Yurii A. Vlasov. (2011). Drive-noise-tolerant broadband silicon electro-optic switch. Optics Express. 19(12). 11568–11568. 14 indexed citations

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Cooper, Michael L., Mark Schneider, William M. J. Green, et al.. (2010). Statistics of light transport in 235-ring silicon coupled-resonator optical waveguides. Optics Express. 18(25). 26505–26505. 62 indexed citations

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Assefa, Solomon, Fengnian Xia, & Yurii A. Vlasov. (2010). Reinventing germanium avalanche photodetector for nanophotonic on-chip optical interconnects. Nature. 464(7285). 80–84. 477 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kang, Christopher, Christopher T. Phare, Yurii A. Vlasov, Solomon Assefa, & Sharon M. Weiss. (2010). Photonic crystal slab sensor with enhanced surface area. Optics Express. 18(26). 27930–27930. 90 indexed citations

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Campenhout, Joris Van, William M. J. Green, Xiaoping Liu, et al.. (2009). Silicon-nitride surface passivation of submicrometer silicon waveguides for low-power optical switches. Optics Letters. 34(10). 1534–1534. 17 indexed citations

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Campenhout, Joris Van, William M. J. Green, Solomon Assefa, & Yurii A. Vlasov. (2009). Low-power, 2×2 silicon electro-optic switch with 110-nm bandwidth for broadband reconfigurable optical networks. Optics Express. 17(26). 24020–24020. 233 indexed citations

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Assefa, Solomon & Yurii A. Vlasov. (2007). High-order dispersion in photonic crystal waveguides. Optics Express. 15(26). 17562–17562. 13 indexed citations

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