Keivan Esfarjani

11.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
147 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Keivan Esfarjani is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Keivan Esfarjani has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Materials Chemistry, 51 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Keivan Esfarjani's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (53 papers), Thermal properties of materials (45 papers) and Graphene research and applications (29 papers). Keivan Esfarjani is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (53 papers), Thermal properties of materials (45 papers) and Graphene research and applications (29 papers). Keivan Esfarjani collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Iran. Keivan Esfarjani's co-authors include Gang Chen, Zhifeng Ren, Mona Zebarjadi, Zhiting Tian, M. S. Dresselhaus, Junichiro Shiomi, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, Jivtesh Garg, David Broido and Bolin Liao and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Keivan Esfarjani

144 papers receiving 9.5k 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.

Perspectives on thermoelectrics: from fundamentals to device applications

2011 1.1k citations Mona Zebarjadi, Keivan Esfarjani et al. profile →
High thermoelectric performance by resonant dopant indium in nanostructured SnTe

2013 672 citations Bolin Liao, Keivan Esfarjani et al. profile →
Resonant bonding leads to low lattice thermal conductivity

2014 558 citations Sangyeop Lee, Keivan Esfarjani et al. Nature Communications profile →
Phonon conduction in PbSe, PbTe, and PbTe1−xSexfrom first-principles calculations

2012 482 citations Zhiting Tian, Jivtesh Garg et al. profile →
Coherent Phonon Heat Conduction in Superlattices

2012 478 citations Jivtesh Garg, Keivan Esfarjani et al. profile →
Thermal Conductivity Spectroscopy Technique to Measure Phonon Mean Free Paths

2011 414 citations Keivan Esfarjani, Gang Chen et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Enhancement of thermoelectric figure-of-merit by resonant states of aluminium doping in lead selenide

2011 400 citations Zhiting Tian, Sangyeop Lee et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keivan Esfarjani

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	ALATDYN: A set of Anharmonic LATtice DYNamics codes to compute thermodynamic and thermal transport properties of crystalline solids 2025 ·Computer Physics Communications ·Keivan Esfarjani, Harold T. Stokes, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Meng Han, Junichiro Shiomi, Bolin Liao, Ruoshi Sun	2
2	Fundamentals and advances in thermal transport in thermoelectric materials 2025 ·MRS Bulletin ·Keivan Esfarjani, Junichiro Shiomi	1
3	The interplay of chemical bonding and thermoelectric properties in doped cubic GeTe 2024 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·(unknown), (unknown), Keivan Esfarjani, Mona Zebarjadi	3
4	Electrostatic modulation of thermoelectric transport properties of 2H-MoTe₂ 2023 ·Energy Advances ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sergiy Krylyuk, Costel Constantin, Keivan Esfarjani, Albert V. Davydov, Mona Zebarjadi	5
5	Low-resistance contact in MoSe2-based solid-state thermionic devices 2022 ·Physical review. B. ·(unknown), Xiaoming Wang, Keivan Esfarjani, Mona Zebarjadi	3
6	Delocalization of phonons and energy spectrum in disordered nonlinear systems 2020 ·Physical review. B. ·(unknown), (unknown), M. Reza Rahimi Tabar, Keivan Esfarjani	0
7	Non-linear enhancement of thermoelectric performance of a TiSe₂ monolayer due to tensile strain, from first-principles calculations 2019 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·(unknown), Mona Zebarjadi, Keivan Esfarjani	24
8	Temperature-dependent thermal conductivity in silicon nanostructured materials studied by the Boltzmann transport equation 2016 ·Physical Review Letters ·Giuseppe Romano, Keivan Esfarjani, David Broido, Alexie M. Kolpak, David A. Strubbe	8
9	Hydrodynamic phonon transport in suspended graphene 2015 ·Nature Communications ·Sangyeop Lee, David Broido, Keivan Esfarjani, Gang Chen	280
10	First principles molecular dynamics studies of elastic constants, ideal tensile strength, chemistry of crack initiation, and surface and cohesive energies in amorphous silicon 2014 ·The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics ·H.M. Shodja, Maryam Tabatabaei, Keivan Esfarjani	9
11	Resonant bonding leads to low lattice thermal conductivity breakdown → 2014 ·Nature Communications ·Sangyeop Lee, Keivan Esfarjani, Tengfei Luo, Jiawei Zhou, Zhiting Tian, Gang Chen	558
12	Phonon conduction in PbSe, PbTe, and PbTe1−xSex from first-principles calculations 2012 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Zhiting Tian, Jivtesh Garg, Keivan Esfarjani, Takuma Shiga, Junichiro Shiomi, Gang Chen	69
13	Cloaking Core-Shell Nanoparticles from Conducting Electrons in Solids 2012 ·Physical Review Letters ·Bolin Liao, Mona Zebarjadi, Keivan Esfarjani, Gang Chen	52
14	Thermal interface conductance in Si/Ge superlattices by equilibrium molecular dynamics 2012 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Keivan Esfarjani, Gang Chen, Yann Chalopin, Asegun Henry, Sebastian Volz	25
15	Thermal conductivity of half-Heusler compounds from first-principles calculations 2011 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Junichiro Shiomi, Keivan Esfarjani, Gang Chen	3
16	High-pressure phases of hydrogen cyanide: formation of hydrogenated carbon nitride polymers and layers and their electronic properties 2011 ·Journal of Physics Condensed Matter ·Mohammad Khazaei, Yunye Liang, M. S. Bahramy, Fabio Pichierri, Keivan Esfarjani, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe	15
17	Why the all-electron full-potential approach is suitable for calculations on fullerenes and nanotubes? 2001 ·Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling ·Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, Kaoru Ohno, Keivan Esfarjani, Yutaka Maruyama, (unknown), Amir A. Farajian	3
18	Computational materials science : from ab initio to Monte Carlo methods 1999 ·Springer eBooks ·(unknown), Keivan Esfarjani, (unknown)	108
19	Surface Reconstruction of Si (001) by Genetic Algorithm and Simulated Annealing Method(STM-Si(001)) 1997 ·Science Reports of the Research Institutes, Tohoku University, Series A: Physics, Chemistry, and Metallurgy ·(unknown), Keivan Esfarjani, (unknown), Jian Wu, (unknown), Yoshiyuki Kawazoe	3
20	Tight-binding Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Fullerene Collision Processes 1996 ·Science Reports of the Research Institutes, Tohoku University, Series A: Physics, Chemistry, and Metallurgy ·(unknown), Keivan Esfarjani, Kaoru Ohno, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe	1

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