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Thirumalai Venkatesan

Thirumalai Venkatesan

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
113
Citations
47518
World Ranking
633
National Ranking
223

Thirumalai Venkatesan 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 Thirumalai Venkatesan sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 809 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thirumalai Venkatesan 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 Thirumalai Venkatesan sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 113 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society For the discovery, implementation, popular dissemination and commercialization of pulsed laser deposition for multicomponent thin-film synthesis.
  • 2012 - George E. Pake Prize, American Physical Society
  • 1987 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering work in optical bistability, and dynamical ion and laser beam studies of graphite and of the diffusion and reaction kinetics or organic and compound semiconductor surfaces

Overview

Thirumalai Venkatesan is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. They have also contributed to research in Condensed Matter Physics as well as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their work frequently appears in publication venues such as Applied Physics Reviews, Advanced Materials, arXiv (Cornell University), The Cambridge Structural Database, and Nano Letters. Their research interests cover a range of topics, notably:

  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials
  • 2D Materials and Applications

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Engineering covalently bonded 2D layered materials by self-intercalation," 2020, Nature
  • "Ferroic tunnel junctions and their application in neuromorphic networks," 2020, Applied Physics Reviews
  • "Decision trees within a molecular memristor," 2021, Nature
  • "Charge disproportionate molecular redox for discrete memristive and memcapacitive switching," 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • "Volatile Ultrafast Switching at Multilevel Nonvolatile States of Phase Change Material for Active Flexible Terahertz Metadevices," 2021, Advanced Functional Materials

Their frequent co-authors include Ariando Ariando, Shengwei Zeng, Sreebrata Goswami, Sreetosh Goswami, and R. Stanley Williams, indicating collaboration across various interdisciplinary projects.

Thirumalai Venkatesan has received several awards acknowledging their contributions. These include being named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2020 for work related to pulsed laser deposition for multicomponent thin-film synthesis. They were also awarded the George E. Pake Prize by the American Physical Society in 2012. Additionally, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1987 for pioneering work in optical bistability and studies related to graphite and semiconductor surface kinetics.

Best Publications

  • Preparation of Y‐Ba‐Cu oxide superconductor thin films using pulsed laser evaporation from high Tc bulk material

    D. Dijkkamp;T. Venkatesan;X. D. Wu;S. A. Shaheen

  • Direct evidence for a half-metallic ferromagnet

    J.-H. Park;E. Vescovo;H.-J. Kim;C. Kwon;C. Kwon

  • Differential Gain and Bistability Using a Sodium-Filled Fabry-Perot Interferometer

    H. M. Gibbs;S. L. McCall;T. N. C. Venkatesan

  • High temperature ferromagnetism with a giant magnetic moment in transparent co-doped SnO(2-delta).

    S. B. Ogale;R. J. Choudhary;J. P. Buban;S. E. Lofland

  • Realization of band gap above 5.0 eV in metastable cubic-phase MgxZn1−xO alloy films

    S. Choopun;R. D. Vispute;W. Yang;R. P. Sharma

  • Ferroelectric Field Effect Transistor Based on Epitaxial Perovskite Heterostructures

    S. Mathews;R. Ramesh;T. Venkatesan;J. Benedetto

  • Dependence of giant magnetoresistance on oxygen stoichiometry and magnetization in polycrystalline La0.67Ba0.33MnOz

    H. L. Ju;J. Gopalakrishnan;J. L. Peng;Qi Li

  • Heteroepitaxy of ZnO on GaN and its implications for fabrication of hybrid optoelectronic devices

    R. D. Vispute;V. Talyansky;S. Choopun;R. P. Sharma

  • Giant magnetoresistance in La1-xSrxMnOz films near room temperature

    H. L. Ju;C. Kwon;Qi Li;R. L. Greene

  • On the origin of high-temperature ferromagnetism in the low-temperature-processed Mn-Zn-O system.

    Darshan C. Kundaliya;S. B. Ogale;S. E. Lofland;S. Dhar

  • Optical bistability in semiconductors

    H. M. Gibbs;S. L. McCall;T. N. C. Venkatesan;A. C. Gossard

  • Magnetic Properties at Surface Boundary of a Half-Metallic Ferromagnet La 0.7 Sr 0.3 MnO 3

    J.-H. Park;E. Vescovo;H.-J. Kim;C. Kwon

  • Observation of two distinct components during pulsed laser deposition of high Tc superconducting films

    T. Venkatesan;X. D. Wu;A. Inam;J. B. Wachtman

  • Giant magnetoresistance in epitaxial Nd0.7Sr0.3MnO3−δ thin films

    G. C. Xiong;Q. Li;H. L. Ju;S. N. Mao

  • Oxygen pressure-tuned epitaxy and optoelectronic properties of laser-deposited ZnO films on sapphire

    S. Choopun;R. D. Vispute;W. Noch;A. Balsamo

  • Time‐resolved reflectivity of ion‐implanted silicon during laser annealing

    D. H. Auston;C. M. Surko;T. N. C. Venkatesan;R. E. Slusher

  • In a clean high-Tc superconductor you do not see the gap.

    K. Kamarás;S. L. Herr;C. D. Porter;N. Tache

  • Electronic phase separation at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface

    Ariando;X. Wang;G. Baskaran;Z. Q. Liu

  • Interlayer coupling effect in high-Tc superconductors probed by YBa2Cu3O7-x/PrBa2Cu3O7-x superlattices.

    Q. Li;X. X. Xi;X. D. Wu;A. Inam

  • Octahedral cation site disorder effects on magnetization in double-perovskite Sr2FeMoO6: Monte Carlo simulation study

    Abhijit S. Ogale;S. B. Ogale;R. Ramesh;T. Venkatesan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jingsheng Chen
Jingsheng Chen National University of Singapore
Ichiro Takeuchi
Ichiro Takeuchi University of Maryland, College Park
Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Ramamoorthy Ramesh Rice University
Mark B. H. Breese
Mark B. H. Breese National University of Singapore
Stephen J. Pennycook
Stephen J. Pennycook University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Yuan Ping Feng
Yuan Ping Feng National University of Singapore
S. M. Bhagat
S. M. Bhagat University of Maryland, College Park
Samuel E. Lofland
Samuel E. Lofland Rowan University
Kian Ping Loh
Kian Ping Loh National University of Singapore
Nigel D. Browning
Nigel D. Browning University of Liverpool

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