2026 Zeev Valy Vardeny: 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	86	2043	1970	618	580	761	29045

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids, American Physical Society
1995 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his pioneering work on the application of photomodulation techniques and picosecond spectroscopy to the study of conducting polymers, fullerenes, amorphous semiconductors and high temperature superconductivity

Overview

Zeev Valy Vardeny is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within materials science and engineering, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, and atomic and molecular physics and optics. Their subfield expertise also includes electronic, optical and magnetic materials, as well as polymers and plastics.

The scientist's main research topics encompass perovskite materials and applications, organic light-emitting diodes research, solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography, organic electronics and photovoltaics, 2D materials and applications, conducting polymers and applications, and crystallization and solubility studies.

Examples of recent papers include:

Chiral-induced spin selectivity enables a room-temperature spin light-emitting diode, 2021, Science
Organic-to-inorganic structural chirality transfer in a 2D hybrid perovskite and impact on Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling, 2020, Nature Communications
Control of light, spin and charge with chiral metal halide semiconductors, 2022, Nature Reviews Chemistry
Spin-Dependent Photovoltaic and Photogalvanic Responses of Optoelectronic Devices Based on Chiral Two-Dimensional Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites, 2020, ACS Nano
Circular photogalvanic spectroscopy of Rashba splitting in 2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite multiple quantum wells, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this researcher include Dipak Raj Khanal, Haoliang Liu, David B. Mitzi, Volker Blüm, and Uyen Huynh.

Their work has been published in various research venues, with multiple publications appearing in The Cambridge Structural Database, Nature Communications, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, ACS Nano, and Advanced Optical Materials.

In addition to journal articles, this scientist has contributed to book publications, particularly multiple editions of "Hybrid Organic Inorganic Perovskites" published by World Scientific in 2021.

Zeev Valy Vardeny has received awards including the Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids from the American Physical Society in 2008. They were also named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1995 for work involving photomodulation techniques and picosecond spectroscopy applied to conducting polymers, fullerenes, amorphous semiconductors, and high temperature superconductivity.

Best Publications

Giant magnetoresistance in organic spin-valves

Z. H. Xiong;Di Wu;Z. Valy Vardeny;Jing Shi

2054
Citations
Two-Dimensional Electronic Excitations in Self-Assembled Conjugated Polymer Nanocrystals

R. Österbacka;C. P. An;X. M. Jiang;Z. V. Vardeny

848
Citations
Coherent Phonon Generation and Detection by Picosecond Light Pulses

C. Thomsen;J. Strait;Z. Vardeny;H. J. Maris

700
Citations
Chiral-induced spin selectivity enables a room-temperature spin light-emitting diode

Young Hoon Kim;Yaxin Zhai;Haipeng Lu;Xin Pan

666
Citations
Random lasing in human tissues

Randal C. Polson;Z. Valy Vardeny

642
Citations
Isotope effect in spin response of pi-conjugated polymer films and devices.

Tho D. Nguyen;Golda Hukic-Markosian;Fujian Wang;Leonard Wojcik

606
Citations
Optics of photonic quasicrystals

Z. Valy Vardeny;Ajay Nahata;Amit Agrawal

504
Citations
Spin-dependent charge transport through 2D chiral hybrid lead-iodide perovskites

Haipeng Lu;Jingying Wang;Chuanxiao Xiao;Xin Pan

468
Citations
Spectroscopic Studies of Photoexcitations in Regioregular and Regiorandom Polythiophene Films

XM Jiang;R Österbacka;OJ Korovyanko;CP An

429
Citations
Optical probes of excited states in poly(p-phenylenevinylene).

J. M. Leng;S. Jeglinski;X. Wei;R. E. Benner

395
Citations
Film morphology and photophysics of polyfluorene

A. J. Cadby;P. A. Lane;H. Mellor;S. J. Martin

393
Citations
Organic-to-inorganic structural chirality transfer in a 2D hybrid perovskite and impact on Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling.

Manoj K. Jana;Ruyi Song;Haoliang Liu;Dipak Raj Khanal

391
Citations
Transmission resonances through aperiodic arrays of subwavelength apertures

Tatsunosuke Matsui;Amit Agrawal;Ajay Nahata;Z. Valy Vardeny

390
Citations
Giant Rashba splitting in 2D organic-inorganic halide perovskites measured by transient spectroscopies

Yaxin Zhai;Sangita Baniya;Chuang Zhang;Junwen Li;Junwen Li

377
Citations
Amplitude and phase modes in trans -polyacetylene: Resonant Raman scattering and induced infrared activity

E. Ehrenfreund;Z. Vardeny;O. Brafman;B. Horovitz

372
Citations
Spin-optoelectronic devices based on hybrid organic-inorganic trihalide perovskites.

Jingying Wang;Chuang Zhang;Haoliang Liu;Ryan McLaughlin

338
Citations
Magnetic field effects in hybrid perovskite devices

C. Zhang;D. Sun;C. X. Sheng;C. X. Sheng;Y. X. Zhai

334
Citations
Photogeneration of confined soliton pairs (bipolarons) in polythiophene.

Z. Vardeny;E. Ehrenfreund;O. Brafman;M. Nowak

305
Citations
Spin-Polarized Light-Emitting Diode Based on an Organic Bipolar Spin Valve

Tho D. Nguyen;Eitan Ehrenfreund;Eitan Ehrenfreund;Z. Valy Vardeny

298
Citations
Stimulated emission in high-gain organic media

S. V. Frolov;Z. V. Vardeny;K. Yoshino;A. Zakhidov

290
Citations
Ultrafast spectroscopy of excitons in single-walled carbon nanotubes.

OJ Korovyanko;CX Sheng;ZV Vardeny;AB Dalton

271
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