2026 Venkatraman Gopalan: 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	79	2802	2709	794	748	510	24412

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his insightful use of symmetry combined with optical and scanning probe methods to better understand domain walls and the influence of defects, rotations, and strain on ferroelectrics and multiferroics

Overview

Venkatraman Gopalan is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Materials Science, Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions focusing on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Their work covers a breadth of topics, including:

Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials
Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
2D Materials and Applications
Advanced Condensed Matter Physics

Frequent collaborators in Gopalan's research include Long-Qing Chen, Zhiqiang Mao, Jingyang He, Rui Zu, and Huaiyu Wang.

Their publications are commonly found in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review B, Nature Communications, Chemistry of Materials, and The Cambridge Structural Database.

Selected recent papers include:

"Overcoming Shockley-Queisser limit using halide perovskite platform?", 2022, Joule
"SrNbO3 as a transparent conductor in the visible and ultraviolet spectra", 2020, Communications Physics
"Chirality-Dependent Second Harmonic Generation of MoS₂ Nanoscroll with Enhanced Efficiency", 2020, ACS Nano
"Evidence for a Magnetic-Field-Induced Ideal Type-II Weyl State in Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator Mn_{(Bi_1−xSb_x)₂Te₄", 2021, Physical Review X}
"Strong room-temperature bulk nonlinear Hall effect in a spin-valley locked Dirac material", 2023, Nature Communications

Gopalan has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) since 2012, with a citation highlighting their use of symmetry combined with optical and scanning probe methods to better understand domain walls and the impact of defects, rotations, and strain on ferroelectrics and multiferroics.

Best Publications

Enhancement of ferroelectricity in strained BaTiO3 thin films.

K. J. Choi;M. Biegalski;Y. L. Li;A. Sharan

2268
Citations
A Strain-Driven Morphotropic Phase Boundary in BiFeO3

R. J. Zeches;M. D. Rossell;J. X. Zhang;A. J. Hatt

1396
Citations
A strong ferroelectric ferromagnet created by means of spin–lattice coupling

June Hyuk Lee;June Hyuk Lee;Lei Fang;Eftihia Vlahos;Xianglin Ke

884
Citations
Microstructured Optical Fibers as High-Pressure Microfluidic Reactors

Pier J.A. Sazio;Adrian Amezcua-Correa;Chris E. Finlayson;John R. Hayes

597
Citations
Elastic strain engineering of ferroic oxides

Darrell G. Schlom;Long Qing Chen;Craig J. Fennie;Venkatraman Gopalan

541
Citations
The role of nonstoichiometry in 180° domain switching of LiNbO3 crystals

Venkatraman Gopalan;Terence E. Mitchell;Y. Furukawa;K. Kitamura

426
Citations
Correlated metals as transparent conductors

Lei Zhang;Yuanjun Zhou;Lu Guo;Lu Guo;Weiwei Zhao

400
Citations
Probing Ferroelectrics Using Optical Second Harmonic Generation

Sava A. Denev;Tom T. A. Lummen;Eftihia Barnes;Amit Kumar

378
Citations
Crystal growth and low coercive field 180° domain switching characteristics of stoichiometric LiTaO3

Kenji Kitamura;Yasunori Furukawa;Kazuo Niwa;Venkatraman Gopalan

372
Citations
Polar metals by geometric design

T. H. Kim;Danilo Puggioni;Y. Yuan;L. Xie;L. Xie

350
Citations
Linear and nonlinear optical properties of BiFeO3

Amit Kumar;Ram C. Rai;Nikolas J. Podraza;Sava Denev

337
Citations
Direct Observation of Pinning and Bowing of a Single Ferroelectric Domain Wall

T. J. Yang;Venkatraman Gopalan;P. J. Swart;U. Mohideen

315
Citations
Exploiting dimensionality and defect mitigation to create tunable microwave dielectrics

Che Hui Lee;Che Hui Lee;Nathan D. Orloff;Nathan D. Orloff;Turan Birol;Ye Zhu

295
Citations
Thick lead-free ferroelectric films with high Curie temperatures through nanocomposite-induced strain

Sophie A. Harrington;Junyi Zhai;Sava Denev;Venkatraman Gopalan

280
Citations
Static conductivity of charged domain walls in uniaxial ferroelectric semiconductors

E. A. Eliseev;A. N. Morozovska;G. S. Svechnikov;Venkatraman Gopalan

276
Citations
Phase transitions and domain structures in strained pseudocubic (100) Sr Ti O 3 thin films

Y. L. Li;Y. L. Li;S. Choudhury;J. H. Haeni;M. D. Biegalski

274
Citations
Defect–Domain Wall Interactions in Trigonal Ferroelectrics

Venkatraman Gopalan;Volkmar Dierolf;David A. Scrymgeour

273
Citations
Linear and Nonlinear Optical constants of BiFeO_3

Amit Kumar;R. Rai;Nikolas Podraza;Sava Denev

263
Citations
Ferroelectricity in strain-free SrTiO3 thin films.

H. W. Jang;A. Kumar;S. Denev;M. D. Biegalski

246
Citations
Overcoming Shockley-Queisser limit using halide perovskite platform?

Unknown

236
Citations
Phenomenological thermodynamic potential for CaTiO 3 single crystals

Yijia Gu;Karin Rabe;Eric Bousquet;Eric Bousquet;Venkatraman Gopalan

63
Citations