Zubin Jacob

11.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
148 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Zubin Jacob is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zubin Jacob has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 57 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 53 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zubin Jacob's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (54 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (39 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (32 papers). Zubin Jacob is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (54 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (39 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (32 papers). Zubin Jacob collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Zubin Jacob's co-authors include Evgenii E. Narimanov, Saman Jahani, Leonid Alekseyev, Cristian L. Cortes, Prashant Shekhar, Vinod M. Menon, Harish N. S. Krishnamoorthy, Sean Molesky, Ilona Kretzschmar and Vladimir M. Shalaev and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Zubin Jacob

138 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

All-dielectric metamaterials 2006 2026 2012 2019 2016 2006 2012 2014 2020 500 1000 1.5k
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. All-dielectric metamaterials
    2016 1.5k citations Saman Jahani, Zubin Jacob profile →
  2. Optical Hyperlens: Far-field imaging beyond the diffraction limit
    2006 1.2k citations Zubin Jacob et al. profile →
  3. Topological Transitions in Metamaterials
    2012 651 citations Zubin Jacob et al. profile →
  4. Hyperbolic metamaterials: fundamentals and applications
    2014 425 citations Prashant Shekhar, Zubin Jacob et al. profile →
  5. Recent advances in 2D, 3D and higher-order topological photonics
    2020 333 citations Zubin Jacob et al. profile →

Peers

Zubin Jacob
Evgenii E. Narimanov United States
Viktor A. Podolskiy United States
Ting S. Luk United States
Ivan Iorsh Russia
Jason Valentine United States
Alex Krasnok United States
Mário G. Silveirinha Portugal
Kirill Koshelev Australia
Lei Zhang China
Dentcho A. Genov United States
Evgenii E. Narimanov United States
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Fields of papers citing papers by Zubin Jacob

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zubin Jacob

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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López, A., et al.. (2025). Nanophotonic superdephasing in collective atom-atom interactions. Physical Review Applied. 23(3). 1 indexed citations
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Roknuzzaman, M., et al.. (2024). Exploiting universal nonlocal dispersion in optically active materials for spectro-polarimetric computational imaging. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 9 indexed citations
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Khosravi, Farhad, et al.. (2024). Giant enhancement of vacuum friction in spinning YIG nanospheres. New Journal of Physics. 26(5). 53006–53006. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Yi, Alexandra Boltasseva, Teri W. Odom, et al.. (2024). Reducing Effective System Dimensionality with Long-Range Collective Dipole-Dipole Interactions. Physical Review Letters. 132(17). 173803–173803. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Xueji, et al.. (2023). Observation of nonvanishing optical helicity in thermal radiation from symmetry-broken metasurfaces. Science Advances. 9(4). eade4203–eade4203. 45 indexed citations
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López, A., et al.. (2023). Nonequilibrium Hanbury Brown-Twiss interferometry: Theory and application to binary stars. Physical Review Research. 5(1).
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Roknuzzaman, M., et al.. (2023). First-principles study of large gyrotropy in MnBi for infrared thermal photonics. Physical review. B.. 108(22). 1 indexed citations
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Jacob, Zubin, et al.. (2023). Optical N-plasmon: topological hydrodynamic excitations in graphene from repulsive Hall viscosity. New Journal of Physics. 25(11). 113009–113009.
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Jacob, Zubin, et al.. (2022). Climate change: the missing discourse in the Indian Parliament. Environmental Research Climate. 1(1). 15006–15006. 1 indexed citations
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Mahmud, Shoaib, et al.. (2022). Optically induced static magnetic field in ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Li‐Ping & Zubin Jacob. (2021). Non-classical photonic spin texture of quantum structured light. Communications Physics. 4(1). 17 indexed citations
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Guan, Jun, et al.. (2021). Long-Range Dipole–Dipole Interactions in a Plasmonic Lattice. Nano Letters. 22(1). 22–28. 39 indexed citations
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Khosravi, Farhad, et al.. (2021). Ultrafast electron cycloids driven by the transverse spin of a surface acoustic wave. Science Advances. 7(31). 14 indexed citations
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Sengupta, Parijat, et al.. (2020). Electron g-factor engineering for nonreciprocal spin photonics. Physical review. B.. 101(3). 5 indexed citations
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Newman, Ward D., Cristian L. Cortes, Amir Afshar, et al.. (2018). Observation of long-range dipole-dipole interactions in hyperbolic metamaterials. Science Advances. 4(10). 61 indexed citations
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Jahani, Saman, Sangsik Kim, Ward D. Newman, et al.. (2017). Controlling evanescent waves on-chip using all-dielectric metamaterials for dense photonic integration. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Jahani, Saman, Sangsik Kim, Ward D. Newman, et al.. (2017). Photonic skin-depth engineering on a silicon chip using all-dielectric metamaterials. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Guo, Yu & Zubin Jacob. (2013). Broadband super-Planckian thermal emission from hyperbolic metamaterials. QTu3A.4–QTu3A.4. 21 indexed citations
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Jacob, Zubin. (2012). Quantum plasmonics. MRS Bulletin. 37(8). 761–767. 30 indexed citations

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