K. Thyagarajan

7.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
277 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

K. Thyagarajan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, K. Thyagarajan has authored 277 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 186 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 90 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 63 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in K. Thyagarajan's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (86 papers), Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (66 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (61 papers). K. Thyagarajan is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (86 papers), Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (66 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (61 papers). K. Thyagarajan collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and France. K. Thyagarajan's co-authors include Ajoy Ghatak, A. K. Ghatak, M. R. Shenoy, Olivier J. F. Martin, Arun Kumar, Jérémy Butet, Harry A. Atwater, Ruzan Sokhoyan, Ragip Pala and Din Ping Tsai and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

K. Thyagarajan

266 papers receiving 5.4k citations

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What are hit papers?

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.

Introduction to fiber optics

1998 622 citations Ajoy Ghatak, K. Thyagarajan profile →
Gate-Tunable Conducting Oxide Metasurfaces

2016 581 citations Ruzan Sokhoyan, Ragip Pala et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
K. Thyagarajan India	37	3.5k	1.8k	1.4k	1.2k	986	277	5.7k
C. Sibilia Italy	34	1.7k 0.5×	2.8k 1.5×	2.2k 1.6×	2.1k 1.7×	844 0.9×	309	5.3k
Feng Zhang China	36	3.1k 0.9×	738 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.8×	377	5.1k
Nabil M. Amer United States	33	2.6k 0.7×	2.9k 1.6×	2.0k 1.4×	754 0.6×	1.7k 1.7×	83	7.0k
Yang Chen China	37	1.9k 0.6×	2.5k 1.4×	1.7k 1.3×	2.2k 1.8×	750 0.8×	228	5.5k
Susumu Sato Japan	35	2.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 1.1×	2.9k 2.3×	815 0.8×	298	5.0k
Minkyung Kim South Korea	35	1.2k 0.3×	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	2.0k 1.6×	843 0.9×	132	5.0k
Pan Wang China	35	2.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	2.0k 1.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	202	5.0k
J. Elazar Serbia	11	1.5k 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.5×	1.3k 1.0×	505 0.5×	33	3.6k
Yong‐yuan Zhu China	36	1.8k 0.5×	2.6k 1.5×	2.2k 1.6×	1.7k 1.4×	997 1.0×	196	4.9k
Akihisa Tomita Japan	38	2.5k 0.7×	3.6k 2.0×	934 0.7×	533 0.4×	762 0.8×	195	5.4k

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Thyagarajan, K., et al.. (2025). Effect of calcination temperature on the structural, morphological, and magnetic properties of CuFe2O4/CoFe2O4/CeO2 nanocomposites. Ceramics International. 51(20). 31083–31096. 3 indexed citations

Ravi, N., et al.. (2024). Erbium-Ion-Doped Bismuth Borate Glasses for High Optical Gain NIR Fiber Laser Applications. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology. 13(2). 26004–26004. 5 indexed citations

Thyagarajan, K., et al.. (2024). CoFe₂O₄/NiFe₂O₄/CeO₂ nanocomposites: structural, FTIR, XPS, BET, and magnetic properties. Applied Physics A. 130(10). 6 indexed citations

Thyagarajan, K., et al.. (2020). Structural, surface morphological, optical and thermoelectric properties of sol–gel spin coated Zn doped CdS thin films. SN Applied Sciences. 2(4). 14 indexed citations

Eswaraiah, S., Kondapalli Niranjan Kumar, Yong Ha Kim, et al.. (2020). Low-latitude mesospheric signatures observed during the 2017 sudden stratospheric warming using the fuke meteor radar and ERA-5. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 207. 105352–105352. 4 indexed citations

Thyagarajan, K., et al.. (2019). Investigations on physical properties of Mg ferrite nanoparticles for microwave applications. Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy. 53(1). 3–11. 10 indexed citations

Reddy, B. Sudhakar, et al.. (2018). Spectroscopic properties of Dy³⁺-doped alkali and mixed alkali borosilicate glasses. Ferroelectrics. 531(1). 51–61. 3 indexed citations

Thyagarajan, K., et al.. (2018). Sonochemical Synthesis of SrBaFexMo2-xO6 (x=1.0, 1.1, 1.3 and 1.4) Double Perovskites: Characterization and Magnetic Properties. 7(2). 8–17. 2 indexed citations

Thyagarajan, K., et al.. (2017). Trends of stability indices over different meteorological stations of India by using IGRA radiosonde data. Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research. 4(12). 513-518–513-518. 1 indexed citations

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Lu, Yu‐Jung, Ruzan Sokhoyan, Wen‐Hui Cheng, et al.. (2017). Dynamically controlled Purcell enhancement of visible spontaneous emission in a gated plasmonic heterostructure. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1631–1631. 55 indexed citations

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Thyagarajan, K., et al.. (2017). Polarization splitter based on a three waveguide directional coupler using quantum mechanical analogies. Journal of Optics. 19(6). 65805–65805. 9 indexed citations

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Thyagarajan, K., et al.. (2017). Simulation and Analysis of Lead based Perovskite Solar Cell using SCAPS-1D. Indian Journal of Science and Technology. 10(11). 1–8. 51 indexed citations

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Yadav, L. S. Reddy, et al.. (2016). Structural, optical, thermal and Photocatalytic properties of ZnO nanoparticles of Betel Leave by using Green synthesis method. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(3). 250–255. 13 indexed citations

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Thyagarajan, K., et al.. (2014). X-Ray Diffraction, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and Optical Absorption Study of Bauxite. Journal of Minerals and Materials Characterization and Engineering. 2(2). 114–120. 7 indexed citations

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Thyagarajan, K., Simón Rivier, Andrea Lovera, & Olivier J. F. Martin. (2012). Enhanced second-harmonic generation from double resonant plasmonic antennae. Optics Express. 20(12). 12860–12860. 202 indexed citations

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Nagarajan, V., et al.. (2011). Novel Approach on Characterization of Inter-laminar Failure in Glass Fiber Reinforced Composite. Advanced Composite Materials. 20(6). 585–609. 3 indexed citations

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Thyagarajan, K. & Ajoy Ghatak. (2007). Fiber Optic Essentials (Wiley Survival Guides in Engineering and Science). 2 indexed citations

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Goswami, J. N., K. Thyagarajan, & M. Annadurai. (2006). Chandrayaan-1: Indian Mission to Moon. LPI. 1704. 10 indexed citations

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Thyagarajan, K., et al.. (2005). Broadband, lossless, dispersion-compensating asymmetrical twin-core fiber design with flat-gain Raman amplification. Applied Optics. 44(12). 2396–2396. 7 indexed citations

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Thyagarajan, K., et al.. (1980). Aberration losses of the microoptic directional coupler. Applied Optics. 19(2). 266–266. 1 indexed citations

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