2026 Alain Polian: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	55	8529	8238	235	228	322	12254

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Overview

Alain Polian is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and focuses research in the fields of Materials Science, Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy. Their work emphasizes materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

The scientist's research covers topics including chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, advanced semiconductor detectors and materials, semiconductor quantum structures and devices, high-pressure geophysics and materials, crystal structures and properties, solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography, and material dynamics and properties.

Frequent publication venues for Alain Polian include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Scientific Reports
ACS Nano
Physical review. B./Physical review. B
Research Square (Research Square)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Alain Polian are:

Function Monochalcogenides: Raman Evidence Linking Properties, Structure, and Metavalent Bonding, 2020, Physical Review Letters
On the Stiffness of Gold at the Nanoscale, 2021, ACS Nano
Behavior of Au Nanoparticles under Pressure Observed by In Situ Small-Angle X-ray Scattering, 2022, ACS Nano
Halogen molecular modifications at high pressure: the case of iodine, 2021, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Mechanism of pressure induced amorphization of SnI₄: A combined x-ray diffraction-x-ray absorption spectroscopy study., 2020, PubMed

Alain Polian collaborates frequently with several scientists, including:

J. P. Itié
O. Pagès
V. J. B. Torres
K. Strzałkowski
Sébastien Diliberto

Best Publications

Elastic constants of gallium nitride

A. Polian;M. Grimsditch;I. Grzegory

845
Citations
Raman scattering and x-ray-absorption spectroscopy in gallium nitride under high pressure.

Piotr Perlin;Piotr Perlin;Claude Jauberthie-Carillon;Jean Paul Itie;Alfonso San Miguel

794
Citations
High-pressure Raman spectroscopy study of wurtzite ZnO

Fredéric Decremps;Julio Pellicer-Porres;A. Marco Saitta;Jean-Claude Chervin

640
Citations
Pressure-induced coordination changes in crystalline and vitreous GeO2.

J. P. Itie;J. P. Itie;A. Polian;A. Polian;G. Calas;G. Calas;J. Petiau;J. Petiau

451
Citations
Towards the identification of the dominant donor in GaN.

P Perlin;T Suski;H Teisseyre;M Leszczynski

436
Citations
Elastic constants of boron nitride

M. Grimsditch;E. S. Zouboulis;A. Polian

369
Citations
Local structure of condensed zinc oxide

F. Decremps;F. Datchi;A. M. Saitta;A. Polian

356
Citations
High-pressure phase transition and phase diagram of gallium arsenide.

J. M. Besson;J. P. Itié;A. Polian;G. Weill

241
Citations
Lattice Dynamics of Icosahedral α -Boron under Pressure

N. Vast;S. Baroni;S. Baroni;G. Zerah;J. M. Besson

186
Citations
Brillouin scattering and three-body forces in argon at high pressures.

M. Grimsditch;P. Loubeyre;A. Polian

185
Citations
Raman-scattering studies of aluminum nitride at high pressure

Piotr Perlin;Piotr Perlin;Alain Polian;Tadeusz Suski

185
Citations
Elastic properties of a-SiO2 up to 2300 K from Brillouin scattering measurements

A. Polian;Dung Vo-Thanh;P. Richet

178
Citations
High Pressure Behavior of Silicon Clathrates: A New Class of Low Compressibility Materials

A. San-Miguel;P. Kéghélian;X. Blase;P. Mélinon

172
Citations
Two-dimensional pressure-induced electronic topological transition in Bi 2 Te 3

Alain Polian;Michel Gauthier;Sergio Michielon Souza;Daniela Menegon Triches

171
Citations
Simple molecular systems at very high density

A. Polian;P. Loubeyre

169
Citations
New High-Pressure Phase of H 2 O: Ice X

A. Polian;M. Grimsditch

164
Citations
Dynamics of the magnetic and structural alpha-epsilon phase transition in iron.

O. Mathon;F. Baudelet;J. P. Itié;A. Polian

157
Citations
Optical properties of gallium selenide under high pressure

M. Gauthier;A. Polian;J. M. Besson;A. Chevy

148
Citations
Trapping of cubic ZnO nanocrystallites at ambient conditions

F. Decremps;J. Pellicer-Porres;F. Datchi;J. P. Itié

113
Citations
Vibrational properties of delafossite Cu Ga O 2 at ambient and high pressures

J. Pellicer-Porres;A. Segura;E. Martínez;A. M. Saitta

111
Citations
ZnTe at high pressure: X-ray-absorption spectroscopy and x-ray-diffraction studies.

A. San-Miguel;A. Polian;Michel Gauthier;J. Itié

96
Citations