2026 Richard D. Schaller: 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	84	2225	2151	649	610	392	31095

Overview

Richard D. Schaller is affiliated with Argonne National Laboratory in the United States. Their research output encompasses a broad array of topics primarily centered in materials science and engineering, with specific focus on materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their work covers several main fields of study:

Materials Science
Engineering

Subfields of research include:

Materials Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Biomedical Engineering

Key research topics addressed by Richard D. Schaller involve:

Perovskite Materials and Applications
Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
Crystallization and Solubility Studies
X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
2D Materials and Applications
Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, including:

The Cambridge Structural Database
Journal of the American Chemical Society
ACS Nano
Nano Letters
arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard D. Schaller include:

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (47 publications)
Benjamin T. Diroll (41 publications)
Jacky Even (21 publications)
Lin X. Chen (20 publications)
Peijun Guo (19 publications)

Several recent papers illustrate the breadth of their research:

"Colloidal quantum dot lasers," 2021, published in Nature Reviews Materials
"Observation of the fastest chemical processes in the radiolysis of water," 2020, published in Science
"Negative Pressure Engineering with Large Cage Cations in 2D Halide Perovskites Causes Lattice Softening," 2020, published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
"Sub-1.4eV bandgap inorganic perovskite solar cells with long-term stability," 2020, published in Nature Communications
"Three-Dimensional Lead Iodide Perovskitoid Hybrids with High X-ray Photoresponse," 2020, published in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

High efficiency carrier multiplication in PbSe nanocrystals: implications for solar energy conversion.

R. D. Schaller;V. I. Klimov

2347
Citations
Single gallium nitride nanowire lasers

Justin C. Johnson;Heon Jin Choi;Heon Jin Choi;Kelly P. Knutsen;Richard D. Schaller

1544
Citations
Seven excitons at a cost of one: redefining the limits for conversion efficiency of photons into charge carriers.

Richard D. Schaller;Milan Sykora;Jeffrey M. Pietryga;Victor I. Klimov

691
Citations
Seeded growth of single-crystal two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

Austin M. Evans;Lucas R. Parent;Nathan C. Flanders;Ryan P. Bisbey;Ryan P. Bisbey

662
Citations
Single Nanowire Lasers

Justin C. Johnson;Haoquan Yan;Richard D. Schaller;Louis H. Haber

642
Citations
Suppressed auger recombination in "giant" nanocrystals boosts optical gain performance.

Florencio García-Santamaría;Yongfen Chen;Javier Vela;Richard D. Schaller

611
Citations
High-efficiency carrier multiplication through direct photogeneration of multi-excitons via virtual single-exciton states

Richard D. Schaller;Vladimir M. Agranovich;Vladimir M. Agranovich;Victor I. Klimov

604
Citations
Utilizing the Lability of Lead Selenide to Produce Heterostructured Nanocrystals with Bright, Stable Infrared Emission

Jeffrey M. Pietryga;Donald J. Werder;Darrick J. Williams;Joanna L. Casson

571
Citations
Pushing the band gap envelope: mid-infrared emitting colloidal PbSe quantum dots.

Jeffrey M. Pietryga;Richard D. Schaller;Donald Werder;Michael H. Stewart;Michael H. Stewart

564
Citations
Tuning the Excitonic and Plasmonic Properties of Copper Chalcogenide Nanocrystals

Ilka Kriegel;Chengyang Jiang;Jessica Rodríguez-Fernández;Richard D. Schaller;Richard D. Schaller

541
Citations
New Aspects of Carrier Multiplication in Semiconductor Nanocrystals

John A. Mcguire;Jin Joo;Jeffrey M. Pietryga;Richard D. Schaller

516
Citations
Disphenoidal Zero-Dimensional Lead, Tin, and Germanium Halides: Highly Emissive Singlet and Triplet Self-Trapped Excitons and X-ray Scintillation

Viktoriia Morad;Viktoriia Morad;Yevhen Shynkarenko;Yevhen Shynkarenko;Sergii Yakunin;Sergii Yakunin;Alexandra Brumberg

491
Citations
Structural Diversity in White-Light-Emitting Hybrid Lead Bromide Perovskites

Lingling Mao;Peijun Guo;Mikaël Kepenekian;Ido Hadar

466
Citations
Low-Threshold Stimulated Emission Using Colloidal Quantum Wells

Chunxing She;Igor Fedin;Dmitriy S. Dolzhnikov;Arnaud Demortière;Arnaud Demortière

426
Citations
Universal size-dependent trend in auger recombination in direct-gap and indirect-gap semiconductor nanocrystals.

István Robel;Ryan Gresback;Uwe Kortshagen;Richard D. Schaller

419
Citations
Near-Field Imaging of Nonlinear Optical Mixing in Single Zinc Oxide Nanowires

Justin C. Johnson;Haoquan Yan;Richard D. Schaller;Poul B. Petersen

418
Citations
Effect of electronic structure on carrier multiplication efficiency: Comparative study of PbSe and CdSe nanocrystals

Richard D. Schaller;Melissa A. Petruska;Victor I. Klimov

393
Citations
Tunable near-infrared optical gain and amplified spontaneous emission using PbSe nanocrystals

R. D. Schaller;M. A. Petruska;V. I. Klimov

387
Citations
Colloidal quantum dot lasers

Young Shin Park;Young Shin Park;Jeongkyun Roh;Jeongkyun Roh;Benjamin T. Diroll;Richard D. Schaller;Richard D. Schaller

382
Citations
Carrier multiplication in InAs nanocrystal quantum dots with an onset defined by the energy conservation limit

Richard D. Schaller;Jeffrey M. Pietryga;Victor I. Klimov

370
Citations
Breaking the phonon bottleneck in semiconductor nanocrystals via multiphonon emission induced by intrinsic nonadiabatic interactions.

Richard D. Schaller;Jeffrey M. Pietryga;Serguei V. Goupalov;Melissa A. Petruska

320
Citations