2026 Sohrab Ismail-Beigi: 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	51	9847	9509	2375	2205	246	10404

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

1168
Citations
Novel Precursors for Boron Nanotubes: The Competition of Two-Center and Three-Center Bonding in Boron Sheets

Hui Tang;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

1024
Citations
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

455
Citations
Truncation of periodic image interactions for confined systems

Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

411
Citations
Large-area single-crystal sheets of borophene on Cu(111) surfaces.

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

400
Citations
Diameter and chirality dependence of exciton properties in carbon nanotubes

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

269
Citations
Crystalline Oxides on Silicon

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

262
Citations
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

261
Citations
First-principles study of boron sheets and nanotubes

Hui Tang;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

223
Citations
LOCALITY OF THE DENSITY MATRIX IN METALS, SEMICONDUCTORS, AND INSULATORS

Sohrab Ismail-Beigi;T. A. Arias

214
Citations
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

205
Citations
Ferroelectric-Based Catalysis: Switchable Surface Chemistry

Arvin Kakekhani;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

194
Citations
Self-doping in boron sheets from first principles: A route to structural design of metal boride nanostructures

Hui Tang;Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

193
Citations
Orbital engineering in symmetry-breaking polar heterostructures.

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

169
Citations
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

167
Citations
Photoisomerization of azobenzene from first-principles constrained density-functional calculations

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

163
Citations
Ferroelectrics: A pathway to switchable surface chemistry and catalysis

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

148
Citations
Electronic and Magnetic Properties of SrTiO3/LaAlO3 Interfaces from First Principles

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

145
Citations
New algebraic formulation of density functional calculation

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

145
Citations
LaTiO3/KTaO3 interfaces: A new two-dimensional electron gas system

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

143
Citations