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D-Index
84
Citations
31095
World Ranking
2223
National Ranking
647

Richard D. Schaller 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 Richard D. Schaller sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 392 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard D. Schaller 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 Richard D. Schaller sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Single gallium nitride nanowire lasers

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Single Nanowire Lasers

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Tuning the Excitonic and Plasmonic Properties of Copper Chalcogenide Nanocrystals

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

  • New Aspects of Carrier Multiplication in Semiconductor Nanocrystals

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

  • 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

  • Structural Diversity in White-Light-Emitting Hybrid Lead Bromide Perovskites

    Lingling Mao;Peijun Guo;Mikaël Kepenekian;Ido Hadar

  • Low-Threshold Stimulated Emission Using Colloidal Quantum Wells

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Colloidal quantum dot lasers

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

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Dmitri V. Talapin
Dmitri V. Talapin University of Chicago
Victor I. Klimov
Victor I. Klimov Los Alamos National Laboratory
Benjamin T. Diroll
Benjamin T. Diroll Argonne National Laboratory
Richard J. Saykally
Richard J. Saykally University of California, Berkeley
Jeffrey M. Pietryga
Jeffrey M. Pietryga Los Alamos National Laboratory
Gary P. Wiederrecht
Gary P. Wiederrecht Argonne National Laboratory
George C. Schatz
George C. Schatz Northwestern University
Lin X. Chen
Lin X. Chen Northwestern University
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis Northwestern University
Constantinos C. Stoumpos
Constantinos C. Stoumpos University of Crete

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