2026 Valanoor Nagarajan: 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	68	4771	4619	156	155	274	21741

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Materials Science

4771

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274

21741

Overview

Valanoor Nagarajan is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia and works primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research covers a range of topics, particularly focusing on ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, multiferroics and related materials, and the electronic and structural properties of oxides.

The main topics of their scholarly work include:

Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials
Multiferroics and related materials
Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices
Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials

Valanoor Nagarajan has contributed to several recent papers, such as:

"Topology and control of self-assembled domain patterns in low-dimensional ferroelectrics" (2020, Nature Communications)
"The Experimentalist's Guide to the Cycloid, or Noncollinear Antiferromagnetism in Epitaxial BiFeO₃" (2020, Advanced Materials)
"Superior polarization retention through engineered domain wall pinning" (2020, Nature Communications)
"Recent progress in artificial synaptic devices: materials, processing and applications" (2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry C)
"Anisotropic epitaxial stabilization of a low-symmetry ferroelectric with enhanced electromechanical response" (2021, Nature Materials)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Valanoor Nagarajan include:

Daniel Sando
Qi Zhang
L. Bellaïche
Vivasha Govinden
Oliver Paull

The frequent publication venues where their research appears include:

ACS Applied Electronic Materials
arXiv (Cornell University)
Nature Communications
Advanced Functional Materials
Journal of Applied Physics

Their subfields of study reflect interdisciplinary expertise, covering Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Best Publications

Epitaxial BiFeO3 multiferroic thin film heterostructures.

J. Wang;J. B. Neaton;H. Zheng;V. Nagarajan

7455
Citations
Dynamics of ferroelastic domains in ferroelectric thin films.

V. Nagarajan;A. Roytburd;A. Stanishevsky;S. Prasertchoung

678
Citations
Unit-cell scale mapping of ferroelectricity and tetragonality in epitaxial ultrathin ferroelectric films

Chun-Lin Jia;Valanoor Nagarajan;Jia-Qing He;Lothar Houben

484
Citations
Universal Behavior and Electric-Field-Induced Structural Transition in Rare-Earth-Substituted BiFeO3

Daisuke Kan;Lucia Pálová;Varatharajan Anbusathaiah;Ching Jung Cheng

464
Citations
Doping BiFeO3: approaches and enhanced functionality.

Chan-Ho Yang;Daisuke Kan;Ichiro Takeuchi;Valanoor Nagarajan

432
Citations
Nanoshell tubes of ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate and barium titanate

Yun Luo;Izabela Szafraniak;Nikolai D. Zakharov;Valanoor Nagarajan

392
Citations
Nonvolatile ferroelectric domain wall memory.

Pankaj Sharma;Qi Zhang;Daniel Sando;Chi Hou Lei

349
Citations
Combinatorial discovery of a lead-free morphotropic phase boundary in a thin-film piezoelectric perovskite

S. Fujino;M. Murakami;A. Varatharajan;S.-H. Lim

348
Citations
Combinatorial discovery of a lead-free morphotropic phase boundary in a thin-film piezoelectric perovskite

S. Fujino;M. Murakami;V. Anbusathaiah;S.-H. Lim

291
Citations
Can interface dislocations degrade ferroelectric properties

S. P. Alpay;I. B. Misirlioglu;V. Nagarajan;R. Ramesh

250
Citations
Chemical route derived bismuth ferrite thin films and nanomaterials

Qi Zhang;Daniel Sando;Valanoor Nagarajan

240
Citations
Polarization relaxation kinetics and 180° domain wall dynamics in ferroelectric thin films

C. S. Ganpule;A. L. Roytburd;V. Nagarajan;B. K. Hill

231
Citations
Structural transitions and complex domain structures across a ferroelectric-to-antiferroelectric phase boundary in epitaxial Sm-doped BiFeO 3 thin films

C.-J. Cheng;D. Kan;S.-H. Lim;W. R. McKenzie

225
Citations
TiO2–Au plasmonic nanocomposite for enhanced dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) performance

Subas Muduli;Onkar Game;Vivek Dhas;K. Vijayamohanan

213
Citations
Role of 90° domains in lead zirconate titanate thin films

C. S. Ganpule;V. Nagarajan;H. Li;A. S. Ogale

210
Citations
Thickness dependence of structural and electrical properties in epitaxial lead zirconate titanate films

V. Nagarajan;I. G. Jenkins;S. P. Alpay;H. Li

207
Citations
Imaging three-dimensional polarization in epitaxial polydomain ferroelectric thin films

C. S. Ganpule;V. Nagarajan;B. K. Hill;A. L. Roytburd

189
Citations
Thickness dependence of structural and piezoelectric properties of epitaxial Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 films on Si and SrTiO3 substrates

Dong Min Kim;Chang-Beom Eom;Valanoor Nagarajan;Jun Ouyang

184
Citations
Atomic-scale evolution of modulated phases at the ferroelectric-antiferroelectric morphotropic phase boundary controlled by flexoelectric interaction.

A. Y. Borisevich;E. A. Eliseev;A. N. Morozovska;C. J. Cheng

183
Citations
Nanoscale Bubble Domains and Topological Transitions in Ultrathin Ferroelectric Films.

Qi Zhang;Lin Xie;Lin Xie;Guangqing Liu;Sergei Prokhorenko;Sergei Prokhorenko

179
Citations
Misfit dislocations in nanoscale ferroelectric heterostructures

V. Nagarajan;C. L. Jia;H. Kohlstedt;R. Waser

176
Citations