2026 Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin: 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	47	11255	10874	627	608	196	6698

Overview

Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with substantial work in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, as well as Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The main topics explored in their work include:

Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques
Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
Thermal properties of materials
Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
Phase-change materials and chalcogenides

Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin has published extensively in several journals. Frequent publication venues include:

Advanced Functional Materials
Advanced Materials
arXiv (Cornell University)
Advanced Energy Materials
Nature Communications

Some of their recent papers are:

"Polycrystalline SnSe with a thermoelectric figure of merit greater than the single crystal," 2021, Nature Materials
"Atom probe tomography," 2021, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
"Metavalent Bonding in Crystalline Solids: How Does It Collapse?," 2021, Advanced Materials
"Exceptionally High Average Power Factor and Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in n-type PbSe by the Dual Incorporation of Cu and Te," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
"Retarding Ostwald ripening through Gibbs adsorption and interfacial complexions leads to high-performance SnTe thermoelectrics," 2021, Energy & Environmental Science

The frequent co-authors of Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin include:

Yuan Yu
Matthias Wuttig
Chongjian Zhou
Mohit Raghuwanshi
Carl-Friedrich Schön

Best Publications

Polycrystalline SnSe with a thermoelectric figure of merit greater than the single crystal.

Chongjian Zhou;Yong Kyu Lee;Yuan Yu;Sejin Byun

642
Citations
Atom probe tomography

Baptiste Gault;Baptiste Gault;Ann N. Chiaramonti;Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin;Patrick Stender

328
Citations
Monatomic phase change memory.

Martin Salinga;Martin Salinga;Benedikt Kersting;Benedikt Kersting;Ider Ronneberger;Ider Ronneberger;Vara Prasad Jonnalagadda

322
Citations
Unique Bond Breaking in Crystalline Phase Change Materials and the Quest for Metavalent Bonding.

Min Zhu;Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin;Antonio M. Mio;Jens Keutgen

264
Citations
Chalcogenide Thermoelectrics Empowered by an Unconventional Bonding Mechanism

Yuan Yu;Matteo Cagnoni;Oana Cojocaru‐Mirédin;Matthias Wuttig

252
Citations
Simultaneous optimization of electrical and thermal transport properties of Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 thermoelectric alloy by twin boundary engineering

Yuan Yu;Yuan Yu;Dong-Sheng He;Siyuan Zhang;Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin

213
Citations
Understanding the Structure and Properties of Sesqui-Chalcogenides (i.e., V2VI3 or Pn2Ch3 (Pn = Pnictogen, Ch = Chalcogen) Compounds) from a Bonding Perspective

Yudong Cheng;Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin;Jens Keutgen;Yuan Yu

178
Citations
High-Performance n-Type PbSe-Cu2Se Thermoelectrics through Conduction Band Engineering and Phonon Softening.

Chongjian Zhou;Yuan Yu;Yong Kyu Lee;Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin

151
Citations
Clustering and nearest neighbour distances in atom-probe tomography.

T. Philippe;F. De Geuser;S. Duguay;W. Lefebvre

147
Citations
Metavalent Bonding in Crystalline Solids: How Does It Collapse?

Ludovica Guarneri;Stefan Jakobs;Alexander von Hoegen;Stefan Maier

134
Citations
Investigation of the diffusion behavior of sodium in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 layers

Anke Laemmle;Roland Wuerz;Torsten Schwarz;Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin

123
Citations
Exceptionally High Average Power Factor and Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in n-type PbSe by the Dual Incorporation of Cu and Te.

Chongjian Zhou;Yuan Yu;Yea-Lee Lee;Bangzhi Ge

121
Citations
Retarding Ostwald ripening through Gibbs adsorption and interfacial complexions leads to high-performance SnTe thermoelectrics

Decheng An;Jiangjing Wang;Jiangjing Wang;Jie Zhang;Xin Zhai

118
Citations
Confined and Chemically Flexible Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline Compound Semiconductors

Daniel Abou-Ras;Sebastian S. Schmidt;Raquel Caballero;Raquel Caballero;Thomas Unold

107
Citations
Revealing nano-chemistry at lattice defects in thermoelectric materials using atom probe tomography

Yuan Yu;Chongjian Zhou;Siyuan Zhang;Min Zhu

104
Citations
Defect Engineering in Solution-Processed Polycrystalline SnSe Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance.

Yu Liu;Mariano Calcabrini;Yuan Yu;Seungho Lee

102
Citations
Nb‐Mediated Grain Growth and Grain‐Boundary Engineering in Mg3Sb2‐Based Thermoelectric Materials

Ting Luo;Jimmy J. Kuo;Kent J. Griffith;Kazuki Imasato

95
Citations
Grain boundary segregation in multicrystalline silicon: correlative characterization by EBSD, EBIC, and atom probe tomography

Andreas Stoffers;Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin;Winfried Seifert;Stefan Zaefferer

93
Citations
Atomic-scale characterization of the CdS/CuInSe2 interface in thin-film solar cells

O. Cojocaru-Mirédin;P. Choi;R. Wuerz;D. Raabe

93
Citations
Characterization of Grain Boundaries in Cu(In,Ga)Se $_{f 2}$ Films Using Atom-Probe Tomography

O. Cojocaru-Mirédin;Pyuck-Pa Choi;D. Abou-Ras;S. S. Schmidt

90
Citations
Cu Intercalation and Br Doping to Thermoelectric SnSe2 Lead to Ultrahigh Electron Mobility and Temperature‐Independent Power Factor

Chongjian Zhou;Yuan Yu;Xiangzhao Zhang;Yudong Cheng

85
Citations
Comparative atom probe study of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin-film solar cells deposited on soda-lime glass and mild steel substrates

Pyuck-Pa Choi;Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin;Roland Wuerz;Dierk Raabe

83
Citations
Strain-Induced Asymmetric Line Segregation at Faceted Si Grain Boundaries.

Christian H. Liebscher;Andreas Stoffers;Masud Alam;Liverios Lymperakis

78
Citations