2026 Lena F. Kourkoutis: 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	5519	5336	1436	1343	372	21292

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Burton Medal, Mineralogical Society of America

Overview

Lena F. Kourkoutis is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Materials Science, Physics and Astronomy, and Engineering. Within these broad areas, their work focuses on several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics in their research include:

Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
2D Materials and Applications

Lena F. Kourkoutis has authored several recent papers, some of which include:

Electrocatalysis in Alkaline Media and Alkaline Membrane-Based Energy Technologies, 2022, Chemical Reviews
Superconducting Dome in Nd_1−xSr_xNiO₂ Infinite Layer Films, 2020, Physical Review Letters
A Superconducting Praseodymium Nickelate with Infinite Layer Structure, 2020, Nano Letters
Nickelate Superconductivity without Rare-Earth Magnetism: (La,Sr)NiO₂, 2021, Advanced Materials
Organo-organic and organo-mineral interfaces in soil at the nanometer scale, 2020, Nature Communications

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

Microscopy and Microanalysis
arXiv (Cornell University)
Nature Communications
APL Materials
Advanced Materials

Their work also involves collaboration with several frequent co-authors, including:

Berit H. Goodge
Noah Schnitzer
Darrell G. Schlom
Ismail El Baggari
Michael Colletta

In 2018, Lena F. Kourkoutis received the Burton Medal from the Mineralogical Society of America.

Best Publications

Superconducting Interfaces Between Insulating Oxides

N. Reyren;S. Thiel;A. D. Caviglia;L. Fitting Kourkoutis

3259
Citations
A strong ferroelectric ferromagnet created by means of spin–lattice coupling

June Hyuk Lee;June Hyuk Lee;Lei Fang;Eftihia Vlahos;Xianglin Ke

884
Citations
Cryo-STEM mapping of solid–liquid interfaces and dendrites in lithium-metal batteries

Michael J. Zachman;Zhengyuan Tu;Snehashis Choudhury;Lynden A. Archer

786
Citations
Atomic-Scale Chemical Imaging of Composition and Bonding by Aberration-Corrected Microscopy

D. A. Muller;L. Fitting Kourkoutis;M. Murfitt;J. H. Song;J. H. Song

760
Citations
High-temperature interface superconductivity between metallic and insulating copper oxides

A. Gozar;G. Logvenov;L. Fitting Kourkoutis;A. T. Bollinger

650
Citations
Electrocatalysis in Alkaline Media and Alkaline Membrane-Based Energy Technologies.

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626
Citations
Synthesis of freestanding single-crystal perovskite films and heterostructures by etching of sacrificial water-soluble layers

Di Lu;Di Lu;David J. Baek;Seung Sae Hong;Seung Sae Hong;Lena F. Kourkoutis

604
Citations
Fast ion transport at solid–solid interfaces in hybrid battery anodes

Zhengyuan Tu;Snehashis Choudhury;Michael J. Zachman;Shuya Wei

510
Citations
A Ferroelectric Oxide Made Directly on Silicon

Maitri P. Warusawithana;Cheng Cen;Charles R. Sleasman;Joseph C. Woicik

478
Citations
Atomic-Scale Chemical Imaging of Composition and Bonding by Aberration-Corrected Microscopy

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466
Citations
Thermal Decomposition Synthesis of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Diminished Magnetic Dead Layer by Controlled Addition of Oxygen

Mythreyi Unni;Amanda M. Uhl;Amanda M. Uhl;Shehaab Savliwala;Shehaab Savliwala;Benjamin H. Savitzky;Benjamin H. Savitzky

413
Citations
Superconducting Dome in Nd 1 − x Sr x NiO 2 Infinite Layer Films

Danfeng Li;Danfeng Li;Bai Yang Wang;Bai Yang Wang;Kyuho Lee;Kyuho Lee;Shannon P. Harvey;Shannon P. Harvey

392
Citations
Designing solid-liquid interphases for sodium batteries.

Snehashis Choudhury;Shuya Wei;Yalcin Ozhabes;Deniz Gunceler

389
Citations
Atomically engineered ferroic layers yield a room-temperature magnetoelectric multiferroic

Julia A. Mundy;Charles M. Brooks;Megan E. Holtz;Jarrett A. Moyer

359
Citations
Epitaxial integration of the highly spin-polarized ferromagnetic semiconductor EuO with silicon and GaN.

Andreas Schmehl;Andreas Schmehl;Venu Vaithyanathan;Alexander Herrnberger;Stefan Thiel

336
Citations
Charge transport and localization in atomically coherent quantum dot solids.

Kevin Whitham;Jun Yang;Benjamin H. Savitzky;Lena F. Kourkoutis

318
Citations
Towards Oxide Electronics: a Roadmap

M. Coll;J. Fontcuberta;M. Althammer;M. Bibes

317
Citations
Exploiting dimensionality and defect mitigation to create tunable microwave dielectrics

Che Hui Lee;Che Hui Lee;Nathan D. Orloff;Nathan D. Orloff;Turan Birol;Ye Zhu

295
Citations
Interface superconductor with gap behaviour like a high-temperature superconductor

C. Richter;H. Boschker;W. Dietsche;E. Fillis-Tsirakis

295
Citations
Structure and control of charge density waves in two-dimensional 1T-TaS2

Adam W. Tsen;Robert Hovden;Dennis Wang;Young Duck Kim

289
Citations
LaAlO 3 stoichiometry is key to electron liquid formation at LaAlO 3 /SrTiO 3 interfaces

M. P. Warusawithana;C. Richter;C. Richter;J. A. Mundy;P. Roy

273
Citations
Growth of homoepitaxial SrTiO3 thin films by molecular-beam epitaxy

C. M. Brooks;L. Fitting Kourkoutis;T. Heeg;J. Schubert

252
Citations