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Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
51
Citations
10404
World Ranking
9845
National Ranking
2373

Sohrab Ismail-Beigi 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 Sohrab Ismail-Beigi sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 246 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sohrab Ismail-Beigi 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 Sohrab Ismail-Beigi sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to understanding and control of epitaxial semiconductoroxide interfaces, for the discovery of new structural phases for 2D boron, and for advances in theoretical methods for first principles excited state calculations that enable engineering of material at the picometer scale

Overview

Sohrab Ismail-Beigi is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and focuses on research within the fields of Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans multiple subfields including Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's research concentrates on topics such as advanced condensed matter physics, electronic and structural properties of oxides, magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials, multiferroics and related materials, 2D materials and their applications, graphene research, and the physics of superconductivity and magnetism.

Recent publications include:

  • Designing and controlling the properties of transition metal oxide quantum materials, 2021, Nature Materials
  • Micrometre-scale single-crystalline borophene on a square-lattice Cu(100) surface, 2022, Nature Chemistry
  • Complex-time shredded propagator method for large-scale GW calculations, 2020, Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • Piezoelectric ferromagnetism in two-dimensional materials via materials screening, 2022, Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • Magnetism and Piezoelectricity in Stable Transition Metal Silicate Monolayers, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequently appearing coauthors include Kayahan Saritas, Eric I. Altman, F. J. Walker, Zheting Jin, and Nassar Doudin.

The primary venues for publication are arXiv (Cornell University) with ten papers, Physical review. B./Physical review. B with nine, Advanced Materials Interfaces with three, Physical Review Materials with two, and Nature Materials with one.

Their research contributions have been recognized with the Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) award in 2019, awarded for work on epitaxial semiconductor-oxide interfaces, discovery of new structural phases for 2D boron, and advances in theoretical methods for first principles excited state calculations enabling material engineering at the picometer scale.

Best Publications

  • Excitonic Effects and Optical Spectra of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Catalin D. Spataru;Catalin D. Spataru;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi;Lorin X. Benedict;Steven G. Louie;Steven G. Louie

  • Novel Precursors for Boron Nanotubes: The Competition of Two-Center and Three-Center Bonding in Boron Sheets

    Hui Tang;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

  • Theory and Ab Initio Calculation of Radiative Lifetime of Excitons in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes

    Catalin D. Spataru;Catalin D. Spataru;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi;Rodrigo B. Capaz;Rodrigo B. Capaz;Rodrigo B. Capaz;Steven G. Louie;Steven G. Louie

  • Truncation of periodic image interactions for confined systems

    Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

  • Large-area single-crystal sheets of borophene on Cu(111) surfaces.

    Rongting Wu;Ilya K. Drozdov;Stephen Eltinge;Percy Zahl

  • Diameter and chirality dependence of exciton properties in carbon nanotubes

    Rodrigo Capaz;Catalin Spataru;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi;Steven Louie

  • Crystalline Oxides on Silicon

    James W. Reiner;Alexie M. Kolpak;Yaron Segal;Kevin F. Garrity

  • Ab Initio Study of Screw Dislocations in Mo and Ta: A New Picture of Plasticity in bcc Transition Metals

    Sohrab Ismail-Beigi;T. A. Arias

  • First-principles study of boron sheets and nanotubes

    Hui Tang;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

  • LOCALITY OF THE DENSITY MATRIX IN METALS, SEMICONDUCTORS, AND INSULATORS

    Sohrab Ismail-Beigi;T. A. Arias

  • Quasiparticle energies, excitonic effects and optical absorption spectra of small-diameter single-walled carbon nanotubes

    C.D. Spataru;C.D. Spataru;S. Ismail-Beigi;S. Ismail-Beigi;L.X. Benedict;S.G. Louie;S.G. Louie

  • Ferroelectric-Based Catalysis: Switchable Surface Chemistry

    Arvin Kakekhani;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

  • Self-doping in boron sheets from first principles: A route to structural design of metal boride nanostructures

    Hui Tang;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

  • Orbital engineering in symmetry-breaking polar heterostructures.

    Ankit S. Disa;Divine P. Kumah;Andrei Malashevich;Hanghui Chen

  • Effect of semicore orbitals on the electronic band gaps of Si, Ge, and GaAs within the GW approximation

    Murilo L. Tiago;Murilo L. Tiago;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi;Steven G. Louie;Steven G. Louie

  • Photoisomerization of azobenzene from first-principles constrained density-functional calculations

    Murilo L. Tiago;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi;Steven G. Louie

  • Ferroelectrics: A pathway to switchable surface chemistry and catalysis

    Arvin Kakekhani;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi;Eric I. Altman

  • Electronic and Magnetic Properties of SrTiO3/LaAlO3 Interfaces from First Principles

    Hanghui Chen;Alexie M. Kolpak;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

  • New algebraic formulation of density functional calculation

    Sohrab Ismail-Beigi;T.A. Arias;T.A. Arias

  • LaTiO3/KTaO3 interfaces: A new two-dimensional electron gas system

    Ke Zou;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi;Kim Kisslinger;Xuan Shen;Xuan Shen

Frequent Co-Authors

Chong H. Ahn
Chong H. Ahn University of Cincinnati
Steven G. Louie
Steven G. Louie University of California, Berkeley
Eric I. Altman
Eric I. Altman Yale University
Udo D. Schwarz
Udo D. Schwarz Yale University
Mehmet Dogan
Mehmet Dogan Balıkesir University
Rodrigo B. Capaz
Rodrigo B. Capaz Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Laxmikant V. Kale
Laxmikant V. Kale University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dong Su
Dong Su Chinese Academy of Sciences
Robert F. Klie
Robert F. Klie University of Illinois at Chicago
Yimei Zhu
Yimei Zhu Brookhaven National Laboratory

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