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D-Index
55
Citations
14026
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8478
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2090

Ritesh Agarwal 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 Ritesh Agarwal sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 153 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ritesh Agarwal 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 Ritesh Agarwal sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Tunable Metasurface and Flat Optical Zoom Lens on a Stretchable Substrate

    Ho-Seok Ee;Ritesh Agarwal

  • Nanoscale avalanche photodiodes for highly sensitive and spatially resolved photon detection

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

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

    Se-Ho Lee;Yeonwoong Jung;Ritesh Agarwal

  • Strong Exciton–Plasmon Coupling in MoS2 Coupled with Plasmonic Lattice

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

  • Lasing in Single Cadmium Sulfide Nanowire Optical Cavities

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

  • Semiconductor nanowires: optics and optoelectronics

    R. Agarwal;C.M. Lieber

  • Manipulation and assembly of nanowires with holographic optical traps.

    Ritesh Agarwal;Kosta Ladavac;Yael Roichman;Guihua Yu

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

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

  • 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

  • Seeded growth of highly crystalline molybdenum disulphide monolayers at controlled locations

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

  • Strain Multiplexed Metasurface Holograms on a Stretchable Substrate

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

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

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

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

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

  • All-optical active switching in individual semiconductor nanowires

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

  • Mixed-Mode Operation of Hybrid Phase-Change Nanophotonic Circuits

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

  • Spatially dispersive circular photogalvanic effect in a Weyl semimetal.

    Zhurun Ji;Gerui Liu;Zachariah Addison;Wenjing Liu

  • Semiconductor nanowire devices

    Oliver Hayden;Ritesh Agarwal;Wei Lu

  • 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

  • Photocurrent detection of the orbital angular momentum of light.

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

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

    Yeonwoong Jung;Dong Kyun Ko;Ritesh Agarwal

  • 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

  • Heterointerfaces in semiconductor nanowires

    Ritesh Agarwal

Frequent Co-Authors

Yeonwoong Jung
Yeonwoong Jung University of Central Florida
Volker J. Sorger
Volker J. Sorger George Washington University
Graham R. Fleming
Graham R. Fleming University of California, Berkeley
Anlian Pan
Anlian Pan Hunan University
Eugene J. Mele
Eugene J. Mele University of Pennsylvania
Andrew M. Rappe
Andrew M. Rappe University of Pennsylvania
Oliver Hayden
Oliver Hayden Technical University of Munich
Jacob B. Khurgin
Jacob B. Khurgin Johns Hopkins University
Albert V. Davydov
Albert V. Davydov National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hamed Dalir
Hamed Dalir University of Florida

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