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Keivan Esfarjani 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 Keivan Esfarjani sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 215 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Keivan Esfarjani 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 Keivan Esfarjani sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Keivan Esfarjani is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Materials Science, with a significant emphasis on Materials Chemistry.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics and have appeared in several notable venues. Selected recent papers include:

  • Evidence for pseudo-Jahn-Teller distortions in the charge density wave phase of 1T−TiSe2, 2020, Physical Review B
  • The thermal and mechanical properties of hafnium orthosilicate: Experiments and first-principles calculations, 2020, Materialia
  • Nanophotonic control of thermal emission under extreme temperatures in air, 2022, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Nernst coefficient within relaxation time approximation, 2021, Physical Review B
  • Ultra-high lattice thermal conductivity and the effect of pressure in superhard hexagonal BC2N, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Mona Zebarjadi
  • Safoura Nayeb Sadeghi
  • S. Emad Rezaei
  • S. Mehdi Vaez Allaei
  • Jonathan W. Kaufman

Publications by Esfarjani have appeared most often in:

  • Physical Review B
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Journal of Applied Physics
  • Physical Review Materials

Esfarjani's work covers a range of subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

Key topics in Esfarjani's research encompass:

  • Thermal properties of materials
  • Advanced thermoelectric materials and devices
  • Thermal expansion and ionic conductivity
  • 2D materials and applications
  • Boron and carbon nanomaterials research
  • Advanced ceramic materials synthesis
  • Electronic and structural properties of oxides

The combination of experimental approaches and first-principles calculations in Esfarjani's publications highlights a focus on understanding both fundamental properties and practical applications related to thermal and electronic behaviors in novel materials.

Best Publications

  • Perspectives on thermoelectrics: from fundamentals to device applications

    Mona Zebarjadi;Keivan Esfarjani;M S Dresselhaus;Z. F. Ren

  • High thermoelectric performance by resonant dopant indium in nanostructured SnTe

    Qian Zhang;Bolin Liao;Yucheng Lan;Kevin Lukas

  • Thermal Conductivity Spectroscopy Technique to Measure Phonon Mean Free Paths

    Austin J. Minnich;J A Johnson;A J Schmidt;Keivan Esfarjani

  • Resonant bonding leads to low lattice thermal conductivity.

    Sangyeop Lee;Keivan Esfarjani;Tengfei Luo;Jiawei Zhou

  • Coherent phonon heat conduction in superlattices.

    Maria N. Luckyanova;Jivtesh Garg;Keivan Esfarjani;Adam Jandl

  • Phonon conduction in PbSe, PbTe, and PbTe 1 − x Se x from first-principles calculations

    Zhiting Tian;Jivtesh Garg;Keivan Esfarjani;Takuma Shiga;Takuma Shiga

  • Enhancement of thermoelectric figure-of-merit by resonant states of aluminium doping in lead selenide

    Qinyong Zhang;Qinyong Zhang;Hui Wang;Weishu Liu;Hengzhi Wang

  • Method to extract anharmonic force constants from first principles calculations

    Keivan Esfarjani;Harold T. Stokes

  • Hydrodynamic phonon transport in suspended graphene

    Sangyeop Lee;David Broido;Keivan Esfarjani;Gang Chen

  • Significant Reduction of Lattice Thermal Conductivity by the Electron-Phonon Interaction in Silicon with High Carrier Concentrations: A First-Principles Study

    Bolin Liao;Bo Qiu;Jiawei Zhou;Samuel Huberman

  • Enhancing phonon transmission across a Si/Ge interface by atomic roughness: First-principles study with the Green's function method

    Zhiting Tian;Keivan Esfarjani;Gang Chen

  • Stronger phonon scattering by larger differences in atomic mass and size in p-type half-Heuslers Hf1−xTixCoSb0.8Sn0.2

    Xiao Yan;Weishu Liu;Hui Wang;Shuo Chen

  • Insights into exfoliation possibility of MAX phases to MXenes.

    Mohammad Khazaei;Ahmad Ranjbar;Keivan Esfarjani;Dimitri Bogdanovski

  • Thermal conductivity of half-Heusler compounds from first-principles calculations

    Junichiro Shiomi;Junichiro Shiomi;Keivan Esfarjani;Gang Chen

  • On the importance of optical phonons to thermal conductivity in nanostructures

    Zhiting Tian;Keivan Esfarjani;Junichiro Shiomi;Asegun S. Henry

  • Novel MAB phases and insights into their exfoliation into 2D MBenes.

    Mohammad Khazaei;Junjie Wang;Mehdi Estili;Ahmad Ranjbar

  • Thermal interface conductance in Si/Ge superlattices by equilibrium molecular dynamics

    Y Chalopin;Y Chalopin;Keivan Esfarjani;A Henry;S Volz

  • Thermoelectric properties of a nanocontact made of two-capped single-wall carbon nanotubes calculated within the tight-binding approximation

    Keivan Esfarjani;Mona Zebarjadi;Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

  • Microscopic mechanism of low thermal conductivity in lead telluride

    Takuma Shiga;Junichiro Shiomi;Junichiro Shiomi;Jie Ma;Olivier Delaire

  • Effect of nanoparticle scattering on thermoelectric power factor

    Mona Zebarjadi;Keivan Esfarjani;Ali Shakouri;Je-Hyeong Bahk

  • Phonon conduction in PbSe, PbTe, and PbTe1−xSex from first-principles calculations

    Zhiting Tian;Jivtesh Garg;Keivan Esfarjani;Takuma Shiga

  • Enhancement of Thermoelectric Figure-of-Merit by Resonant States of Aluminum Doping in Lead Selenide

    Qinyong Zhang;Hui Wang;Weishu Liu;Hengzhi Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshiyuki Kawazoe
Yoshiyuki Kawazoe Tohoku University
Junichiro Shiomi
Junichiro Shiomi University of Tokyo
Ali Shakouri
Ali Shakouri Purdue University West Lafayette
Zhifeng Ren
Zhifeng Ren University of Houston
Tengfei Luo
Tengfei Luo University of Notre Dame
Weishu Liu
Weishu Liu Southern University of Science and Technology
Qian Zhang
Qian Zhang Northeast Normal University
Vijay Kumar
Vijay Kumar Shiv Nadar University

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