2026 Ritesh Agarwal: 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	55	8480	8192	2092	1939	153	14026

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D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Materials Science

8480

8192

2092

1939

153

14026

Overview

Ritesh Agarwal is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans several main fields, including Physics and Astronomy, Materials Science, and Engineering. Within these broader areas, their subfields of study include Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Biomedical Engineering.

The research interests of Ritesh Agarwal focus on multiple advanced topics. These include 2D Materials and Applications, Photonic and Optical Devices, Phase-change materials and chalcogenides, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Topological Materials and Phenomena, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics.

Their publication record features contributions to various prominent venues. Frequent publication outlets consist of Nano Letters, Science, arXiv (Cornell University), Nature, and Small. Among their recent papers are:

Strain-engineered high-responsivity MoTe2 photodetector for silicon photonic integrated circuits (2020, Nature Photonics)
Tunable topological charge vortex microlaser (2020, Science)
Photocurrent detection of the orbital angular momentum of light (2020, Science)
Generation of helical topological exciton-polaritons (2020, Science)
Higher-dimensional supersymmetric microlaser arrays (2021, Science)

Ritesh Agarwal frequently collaborates with several co-authors. These include Wenjing Liu, Gaurav Modi, Zhurun Ji, Xingdu Qiao, and Tianwei Wu.

Best Publications

Single-nanowire electrically driven lasers

Xiangfeng Duan;Yu Huang;Ritesh Agarwal;Charles M. Lieber

2366
Citations
Tunable Metasurface and Flat Optical Zoom Lens on a Stretchable Substrate

Ho-Seok Ee;Ritesh Agarwal

655
Citations
Nanoscale avalanche photodiodes for highly sensitive and spatially resolved photon detection

Oliver Hayden;Oliver Hayden;Ritesh Agarwal;Ritesh Agarwal;Charles M. Lieber

511
Citations
Highly scalable non-volatile and ultra-low-power phase-change nanowire memory.

Se-Ho Lee;Yeonwoong Jung;Ritesh Agarwal

473
Citations
Strong Exciton–Plasmon Coupling in MoS2 Coupled with Plasmonic Lattice

Wenjing Liu;Bumsu Lee;Carl H. Naylor;Ho-Seok Ee

441
Citations
Lasing in Single Cadmium Sulfide Nanowire Optical Cavities

Ritesh Agarwal;Carl J. Barrelet;Charles M. Lieber

417
Citations
Semiconductor nanowires: optics and optoelectronics

R. Agarwal;C.M. Lieber

390
Citations
Manipulation and assembly of nanowires with holographic optical traps.

Ritesh Agarwal;Kosta Ladavac;Yael Roichman;Guihua Yu

356
Citations
On-the-fly Closed-loop Autonomous Materials Discovery via Bayesian Active Learning

A. Gilad Kusne;Heshan Yu;Changming Wu;Huairuo Zhang

329
Citations
Fano Resonance and Spectrally Modified Photoluminescence Enhancement in Monolayer MoS2 Integrated with Plasmonic Nanoantenna Array

Bumsu Lee;Joohee Park;Gang Hee Han;Ho-Seok Ee

321
Citations
Seeded growth of highly crystalline molybdenum disulphide monolayers at controlled locations

Gang Hee Han;Nicholas J. Kybert;Carl H. Naylor;Bum Su Lee

313
Citations
Strain Multiplexed Metasurface Holograms on a Stretchable Substrate

Stephanie C. Malek;Ho-Seok Ee;Ritesh Agarwal

312
Citations
Strain-engineered high-responsivity MoTe2 photodetector for silicon photonic integrated circuits

R. Maiti;C. Patil;M. A. S. R. Saadi;T. Xie

289
Citations
On-the-fly closed-loop materials discovery via Bayesian active learning.

A. Gilad Kusne;A. Gilad Kusne;Heshan Yu;Changming Wu;Huairuo Zhang

287
Citations
All-optical active switching in individual semiconductor nanowires

Brian Piccione;Chang-Hee Cho;Lambert K. van Vugt;Ritesh Agarwal

273
Citations
Mixed-Mode Operation of Hybrid Phase-Change Nanophotonic Circuits

Yegang Lu;Matthias Stegmaier;Pavan Nukala;Marco A. Giambra;Marco A. Giambra

236
Citations
Spatially dispersive circular photogalvanic effect in a Weyl semimetal.

Zhurun Ji;Gerui Liu;Zachariah Addison;Wenjing Liu

235
Citations
Semiconductor nanowire devices

Oliver Hayden;Ritesh Agarwal;Wei Lu

211
Citations
Electrical Wind Force–Driven and Dislocation-Templated Amorphization in Phase-Change Nanowires

Sung Wook Nam;Hee Suk Chung;Yu Chieh Lo;Yu Chieh Lo;Liang Qi;Liang Qi

204
Citations
Photocurrent detection of the orbital angular momentum of light.

Zhurun Ji;Wenjing Liu;Sergiy Krylyuk;Xiaopeng Fan;Xiaopeng Fan

196
Citations
Synthesis and structural characterization of single-crystalline branched nanowire heterostructures.

Yeonwoong Jung;Dong Kyun Ko;Ritesh Agarwal

190
Citations
Tailoring hot-exciton emission and lifetimes in semiconducting nanowires via whispering-gallery nanocavity plasmons

Chang-Hee Cho;Carlos O. Aspetti;Michael E. Turk;James M. Kikkawa

173
Citations
Heterointerfaces in semiconductor nanowires

Ritesh Agarwal

150
Citations