Sunil Sandhu

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Sunil Sandhu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sunil Sandhu has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 25 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sunil Sandhu's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (17 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (12 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (10 papers). Sunil Sandhu is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (17 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (12 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (10 papers). Sunil Sandhu collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Japan. Sunil Sandhu's co-authors include Shanhui Fan, Michelle L. Povinelli, Qianfan Xu, Jagat Shakya, Michal Lipson, Zongfu Yu, Linxiao Zhu, Ken Xingze Wang, Clayton R. Otey and Parthiban Santhanam and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Sunil Sandhu

31 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

Experimental Realization of an On-Chip All-Optical Analogue to Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

2006 532 citations Qianfan Xu, Sunil Sandhu et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sunil Sandhu United States	20	1.0k	927	483	262	257	32	1.5k
S. R. K. Rodríguez Netherlands	18	766 0.7×	345 0.4×	1.1k 2.2×	777 3.0×	146 0.6×	42	1.4k
Zejie Yu China	20	1.1k 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	370 0.8×	253 1.0×	44 0.2×	65	1.8k
Menaka De Zoysa Japan	23	1.3k 1.3×	1.0k 1.1×	270 0.6×	375 1.4×	722 2.8×	79	1.9k
Ivan Sinev Russia	20	889 0.9×	641 0.7×	868 1.8×	678 2.6×	91 0.4×	50	1.6k
Yibiao Yang China	16	453 0.4×	612 0.7×	242 0.5×	233 0.9×	41 0.2×	77	1.0k
Ivan V. Timofeev Russia	21	1.2k 1.1×	658 0.7×	691 1.4×	697 2.7×	118 0.5×	130	1.5k
Haroldo T. Hattori Australia	25	998 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	915 1.9×	533 2.0×	107 0.4×	134	1.9k
Jun Qin China	21	532 0.5×	718 0.8×	326 0.7×	355 1.4×	88 0.3×	65	1.2k
Lin Zhu United States	20	798 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	456 0.9×	243 0.9×	26 0.1×	99	1.4k

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Chen, Kaifeng, Parthiban Santhanam, Sunil Sandhu, Linxiao Zhu, & Shanhui Fan. (2015). Heat-flux control and solid-state cooling by regulating chemical potential of photons in near-field electromagnetic heat transfer. Physical Review B. 91(13). 118 indexed citations

Wang, Ken Xingze, Zongfu Yu, Sunil Sandhu, Victor Liu, & Shanhui Fan. (2014). Condition for perfect antireflection by optical resonance at material interface. Optica. 1(6). 388–388. 39 indexed citations

Sandhu, Sunil, Zongfu Yu, & Shanhui Fan. (2014). Detailed Balance Analysis and Enhancement of Open-Circuit Voltage in Single-Nanowire Solar Cells. Nano Letters. 14(2). 1011–1015. 45 indexed citations

Sandhu, Sunil, Zongfu Yu, & Shanhui Fan. (2013). Detailed balance analysis of nanophotonic solar cells. Optics Express. 21(1). 1209–1209. 38 indexed citations

Zhu, Linxiao, Sunil Sandhu, Clayton R. Otey, et al.. (2013). Temporal coupled mode theory for thermal emission from a single thermal emitter supporting either a single mode or an orthogonal set of modes. Applied Physics Letters. 102(10). 56 indexed citations

Yu, Zongfu, Sunil Sandhu, & Shanhui Fan. (2013). Efficiency above the Shockley–Queisser Limit by Using Nanophotonic Effects To Create Multiple Effective Bandgaps With a Single Semiconductor. Nano Letters. 14(1). 66–70. 34 indexed citations

Yu, Xiaofang, et al.. (2013). Wireless power transfer in the presence of metallic plates: Experimental results. AIP Advances. 3(6). 35 indexed citations

Wang, Ken Xingze, Zongfu Yu, Sunil Sandhu, & Shanhui Fan. (2013). Fundamental bounds on decay rates in asymmetric single-mode optical resonators. Optics Letters. 38(2). 100–100. 86 indexed citations

Otey, Clayton R., Linxiao Zhu, Sunil Sandhu, & Shanhui Fan. (2013). Fluctuational electrodynamics calculations of near-field heat transfer in non-planar geometries: A brief overview. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 132. 3–11. 71 indexed citations

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Sandhu, Sunil & Shanhui Fan. (2012). Lossless intensity modulation in integrated photonics. Optics Express. 20(4). 4280–4280. 10 indexed citations

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Huo, Yijie, Sunil Sandhu, Jun Pan, et al.. (2011). Experimental demonstration of two methods for controlling the group delay in a system with photonic-crystal resonators coupled to a waveguide. Optics Letters. 36(8). 1482–1482. 33 indexed citations

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Pan, Jun, Yijie Huo, Sunil Sandhu, et al.. (2010). Tuning the coherent interaction in an on-chip photonic-crystal waveguide-resonator system. Applied Physics Letters. 97(10). 39 indexed citations

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Sandhu, Sunil, Michelle L. Povinelli, & Shanhui Fan. (2010). Enhancing optical switching with coherent control. Applied Physics Letters. 96(23). 18 indexed citations

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Sandhu, Sunil, Michelle L. Povinelli, & Shanhui Fan. (2008). Stopping and time-reversing a light pulse using dynamic loss-tuning of coupled-resonator delay lines. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6872. 68720K–68720K. 3 indexed citations

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Sandhu, Sunil, Michelle L. Povinelli, & Shanhui Fan. (2007). Stopping and time reversing a light pulse using dynamic loss tuning of coupled-resonator delay lines. Optics Letters. 32(22). 3333–3333. 27 indexed citations

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Fan, Shanhui, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Michelle L. Povinelli, & Sunil Sandhu. (2007). Dynamic Photonic Crystals. Optics and Photonics News. 18(3). 41–41. 15 indexed citations

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Shen, Jung‐Tsung, Michelle L. Povinelli, Sunil Sandhu, & Shanhui Fan. (2007). Stopping single photons in one-dimensional circuit quantum electrodynamics systems. 1–2. 2 indexed citations

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Sandhu, Sunil, Michelle L. Povinelli, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, & Shanhui Fan. (2006). Dynamically tuned coupled-resonator delay lines can be nearly dispersion free. Optics Letters. 31(13). 1985–1985. 22 indexed citations

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Sandhu, Sunil, Michelle L. Povinelli, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, & Shanhui Fan. (2006). Dynamically-tuned coupled-resonator delay lines can be nearly dispersion free. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6130. 613004–613004. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Qianfan, Sunil Sandhu, Michelle L. Povinelli, et al.. (2006). Experimental Realization of an On-Chip All-Optical Analogue to Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. Physical Review Letters. 96(12). 123901–123901. 532 indexed citations breakdown →

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