2026 C. M. Sotomayor Torres: 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	65	5679	5493	89	87	508	13862

C. M. Sotomayor Torres publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where C. M. Sotomayor Torres sits on this spectrum.

50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 508 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

C. M. Sotomayor Torres D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where C. M. Sotomayor Torres sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

C. M. Sotomayor Torres is affiliated with the Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering, materials science, and physics and astronomy, with specific breadth within materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, and civil and structural engineering.

Their research topics include:

Mechanical and Optical Resonators
Thermal properties of materials
Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies
Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
Photonic and Optical Devices
2D Materials and Applications

They have published extensively across various venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
Physical Review Letters
Nanophotonics

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Sotomayor Torres include:

"Highly-Scattering Cellulose-Based Films for Radiative Cooling" (2022, Advanced Science)
"Emerging topics in nanophononics and elastic, acoustic, and mechanical metamaterials: an overview" (2023, Nanophotonics)
"Quantifying the Robustness of Topological Slow Light" (2021, Physical Review Letters)
"Thermoreflectance techniques and Raman thermometry for thermal property characterization of nanostructures" (2020, Journal of Applied Physics)
"High-temperature silicon thermal diode and switch" (2020, Nano Energy)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

Emigdio Chávez-Ángel
Guillermo Arregui
Daniel Navarro-Urrios
Marianna Sledzinska
Martín F. Colombano

In recognition of their professional contributions, Sotomayor Torres was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2020.

Best Publications

Direct Measurement of Room-Temperature Nondiffusive Thermal Transport Over Micron Distances in a Silicon Membrane

Jeremy A. Johnson;A. A. Maznev;John Cuffe;John Cuffe;Jeffrey K. Eliason

510
Citations
Light‐Emitting Diodes with Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Andrey L. Rogach;Nikolai Gaponik;John M. Lupton;Cristina Bertoni

422
Citations
Nanoimprint lithography: challenges and prospects

S. Zankovych;T. Hoffmann;J. Seekamp;J. U. Bruch

382
Citations
Self-guiding in two-dimensional photonic crystals.

Dmitry N. Chigrin;Stefan Enoch;Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres;Gérard Tayeb

300
Citations
Graphene related materials for thermal management

Yifeng Fu;Josef Hansson;Ya Liu;Ya Liu;Shujing Chen

275
Citations
Nanoimprint lithography: An alternative nanofabrication approach

C.M. Sotomayor Torres;S. Zankovych;J. Seekamp;A. P. Kam

258
Citations
Problems of the nanoimprinting technique for nanometer scale pattern definition

H.-C. Scheer;H. Schulz;T. Hoffmann;C. M. Sotomayor Torres

238
Citations
Diffraction of light from thin-film polymethylmethacrylate opaline photonic crystals.

S. G. Romanov;T. Maka;C. M. Sotomayor Torres;M. Müller

216
Citations
Photonic Crystal Films with High Refractive Index Contrast

M. Müller;R. Zentel;T. Maka;S. G. Romanov

208
Citations
Bottom-up growth of fully transparent contact layers of indium tin oxide nanowires for light-emitting devices.

C. O'Dwyer;M. Szachowicz;G. Visimberga;V. Lavayen;V. Lavayen

208
Citations
Damaging Graphene with ozone treatment : a chemically tunable metal-insulator transition

Nicolas Leconte;Joël Moser;Pablo Ordejón;Haihua Tao

204
Citations
Dye-Containing Polymer Beads as Photonic Crystals

Manfred Müller;Rudolf Zentel;Torsten Maka;and Sergei G. Romanov

193
Citations
Reduction of the thermal conductivity in free-standing silicon nano-membranes investigated by non-invasive Raman thermometry

E Chavez-Angel;J S Reparaz;J Gomis-Bresco;M R Wagner

191
Citations
A one-dimensional optomechanical crystal with a complete phononic band gap

J. Gomis-Bresco;D. Navarro-Urrios;M. Oudich;M. Oudich;Saïd El-Jallal

180
Citations
Reconstructing phonon mean-free-path contributions to thermal conductivity using nanoscale membranes

John Cuffe;Jeffrey K. Eliason;A. A. Maznev;Kimberlee C. Collins

176
Citations
Magnetotransport in disordered graphene exposed to ozone: From weak to strong localization

Joel Moser;Haihua Tao;Stephan Roche;Francesc Alzina

168
Citations
Optical characterization of submonolayer and monolayer InAs structures grown in a GaAs matrix on (100) and high‐index surfaces

P. D. Wang;N. N. Ledentsov;C. M. Sotomayor Torres;P. S. Kop’ev

159
Citations
Two-Dimensional Phononic Crystals: Disorder Matters

Markus R. Wagner;Bartlomiej Graczykowski;Juan Sebastian Reparaz;Alexandros El Sachat

158
Citations
Nano-Urchin: The Formation and Structure of High-Density Spherical Clusters of Vanadium Oxide Nanotubes

C. O'dwyer;D. Navas;V. Lavayen;E. Benavente

156
Citations
Heterostructures of Polymer Photonic Crystal Films

Marc Egen;Rebecca Voss;Bernd Griesebock;Rudolf Zentel

156
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudolf Zentel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Colm O'Dwyer University College Cork

Mikhail V. Maximov Alferov Federal State Budgetary Institution of Higher Education and Science Saint Petersburg National Research Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences