Jayakumar Balakrishnan

10.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Jayakumar Balakrishnan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jayakumar Balakrishnan has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Materials Chemistry, 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Jayakumar Balakrishnan's work include Graphene research and applications (17 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (6 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (6 papers). Jayakumar Balakrishnan is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (17 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (6 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (6 papers). Jayakumar Balakrishnan collaborates with scholars based in India, Singapore and South Korea. Jayakumar Balakrishnan's co-authors include Barbaros Özyilmaz, Jong‐Hyun Ahn, Yi Zheng, Sukang Bae, Byung Hee Hong, Kwang S. Kim, Young-Jin Kim, Hyeongkeun Kim, Xiangfan Xu and Hye Ri Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Jayakumar Balakrishnan

20 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Roll-to-roll production of 30-inch graphene films for transparent electrodes

2010 6.7k citations Sukang Bae, Hyeongkeun Kim et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Spin–orbit proximity effect in graphene

2014 385 citations Ahmet Avşar, Jun Tan et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jayakumar Balakrishnan India	13	6.4k	3.9k	3.3k	1.7k	1.1k	22	8.3k
Young Il Song South Korea	13	6.1k 1.0×	4.0k 1.0×	3.8k 1.1×	957 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	18	8.2k
Daniel Nezich United States	13	6.3k 1.0×	3.1k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	18	7.5k
Lei Tian China	11	5.1k 0.8×	3.5k 0.9×	3.3k 1.0×	930 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	37	7.2k
Yuerui Lu Australia	51	6.5k 1.0×	4.4k 1.1×	2.4k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	167	8.9k
Young-Jin Kim South Korea	1	5.0k 0.8×	3.4k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	795 0.5×	994 0.9×	2	6.7k
Carl W. Magnuson United States	24	6.2k 1.0×	3.3k 0.8×	2.7k 0.8×	938 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	29	7.5k
Won Jong Yoo South Korea	46	8.2k 1.3×	6.2k 1.6×	2.3k 0.7×	988 0.6×	912 0.8×	213	10.6k
Hyeongkeun Kim South Korea	23	6.0k 0.9×	4.8k 1.2×	4.4k 1.3×	895 0.5×	1.5k 1.3×	53	9.2k
Simone Pisana United Kingdom	27	5.2k 0.8×	2.6k 0.7×	2.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	59	6.8k
R. Thomas Weitz Germany	36	3.7k 0.6×	3.5k 0.9×	2.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	105	6.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Balakrishnan, Jayakumar, et al.. (2025). Thermal conductivity near armchair and zigzag edges of supported graphene. Physical review. B.. 111(8).

Jaiswal, Manu, et al.. (2025). Interface-controlled thermal transport in monolayer molybdenum disulfide. Physical review. B.. 111(7).

Balakrishnan, Jayakumar, et al.. (2023). Layer number and stacking order dependent thermal transport in molybdenum disulfide with sulfur vacancies. Physical review. B.. 108(24). 1 indexed citations

Balakrishnan, Jayakumar, et al.. (2023). High temperature anomalous Raman and photoluminescence response of molybdenum disulfide with sulfur vacancies. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 16418–16418. 5 indexed citations

Balakrishnan, Jayakumar, et al.. (2022). A simple and robust machine learning assisted process flow for the layer number identification of TMDs using optical contrast spectroscopy. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 35(2). 25901–25901. 2 indexed citations

Balakrishnan, Jayakumar, et al.. (2021). Investigating the thermal transport in gold decorated graphene by opto-thermal Raman technique. Nanotechnology. 33(13). 135706–135706. 6 indexed citations

Sinha, Apurva, et al.. (2021). Graphene oxide and its derivatives as potential Ovchinnikov ferromagnets. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 33(37). 375801–375801. 1 indexed citations

Kumari, Karuna, et al.. (2019). Structural and resistive switching behaviour in lanthanum strontium manganite - Reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite system. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 815. 152213–152213. 25 indexed citations

Ranjan, Pranay, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, & Ajay D. Thakur. (2019). Dye Adsorption Behavior of Graphene Oxide. Materials Today Proceedings. 11. 833–836. 15 indexed citations

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Ranjan, Pranay, Atul Kumar, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, & Ajay D. Thakur. (2019). Graphene Oxide Based P-N Junctions. Materials Today Proceedings. 11. 830–832. 3 indexed citations

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Ranjan, Pranay, Shweta Agrawal, Apurva Sinha, et al.. (2018). A Low-Cost Non-explosive Synthesis of Graphene Oxide for Scalable Applications. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 12007–12007. 148 indexed citations

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Avşar, Ahmet, Jun Tan, Thiti Taychatanapat, et al.. (2014). Spin–orbit proximity effect in graphene. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4875–4875. 385 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tan, Jun, Ahmet Avşar, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, et al.. (2014). Electronic transport in graphene-based heterostructures. Applied Physics Letters. 104(18). 59 indexed citations

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Saha, Surajit, Manu Jaiswal, Amar Srivastava, et al.. (2014). Unconventional Transport through Graphene on SrTiO3: A Plausible Effect of SrTiO3 Phase-Transitions. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 6173–6173. 29 indexed citations

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Cherian, Christie Thomas, Francesco Giustiniano, Iñigo Martín-Fernández, et al.. (2014). ‘Bubble-Free’ Electrochemical Delamination of CVD Graphene Films. Small. 11(2). 189–194. 85 indexed citations

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Balakrishnan, Jayakumar, Gavin Kok Wai Koon, Ahmet Avşar, et al.. (2014). Giant spin Hall effect in graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition. Nature Communications. 5(1). 142 indexed citations

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Balakrishnan, Jayakumar, Gavin Kok Wai Koon, Manu Jaiswal, A. H. Castro Neto, & Barbaros Özyilmaz. (2013). Colossal enhancement of spin–orbit coupling in weakly hydrogenated graphene. Nature Physics. 9(5). 284–287. 320 indexed citations

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Yang, Tsung‐Mao, Jayakumar Balakrishnan, Frank Volmer, et al.. (2011). Observation of Long Spin-Relaxation Times in Bilayer Graphene at Room Temperature. Physical Review Letters. 107(4). 47206–47206. 191 indexed citations

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Avşar, Ahmet, Tsung-Yeh Yang, Sukang Bae, et al.. (2011). Toward Wafer Scale Fabrication of Graphene Based Spin Valve Devices. Nano Letters. 11(6). 2363–2368. 148 indexed citations

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Bae, Sukang, Hyeongkeun Kim, Youngbin Lee, et al.. (2010). Roll-to-roll production of 30-inch graphene films for transparent electrodes. Nature Nanotechnology. 5(8). 574–578. 6694 indexed citations breakdown →

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