Luis Balicas

18.3k citations

279 papers · 13.3k · 4 hit papers · h-index 55

Impact in

Condensed Matter Physics top 0.1%
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
- Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
- Rare-earth and actinide compounds
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials top 0.2%
- Iron-based superconductors research
- Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials

Papers in

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 169
- Iron-based superconductors research 64
- Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials 56
- Organic and Molecular Conductors Research 46
Condensed Matter Physics 163
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism 105
- Advanced Condensed Matter Physics 86
- Rare-earth and actinide compounds 62

Co-authors: Pulickel M. Ajayan (12 shared papers)Daniel Rhodes (42 shared papers)Nihar Pradhan (25 shared papers)K. Storr (13 shared papers)Shahriar Memaran (15 shared papers)Li Song (3 shared papers)Mauricio Terrones (15 shared papers)Deep Jariwala (2 shared papers)
Journals: Physical Review B (54 papers)Physical Review Letters (38 papers)Physical review. B. (27 papers)Physical review. B, Condensed matter (13 papers)Nature Communications (10 papers)
Partner nations: United States Japan United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Luis Balicas

271 papers receiving 13.2k citations

Luis Balicas's Hit Papers

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Superconductivity up to 243 K in the yttrium-hydrogen system under high pressure 2021 · 378 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Nature Communications
2018 Nature
2013 ACS Nano
2010 Nature Materials

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1	Atomic layers of hybridized boron nitride and graphene domains Nature Materials ·Lijie Ci, Li Song, Chuanhong Jin, Deep Jariwala, Dangxin Wu, Yong-Jie Li, Anchal Srivastava, Zhengfei Wang, K. Storr, Luis Balicas, Feng Liu, Pulickel M. Ajayan Hit paper breakdown →	2010	1907
2	Controlled Synthesis and Transfer of Large-Area WS₂ Sheets: From Single Layer to Few Layers ACS Nano ·Ana Laura Elías, Néstor Perea‐López, Andrés Castro-Beltrán, Ayşe Berkdemir, Ruitao Lv, Simin Feng, Aaron Long, Takuya Hayashi, Yoong Ahm Kim, Morinobu Endo, Humberto R. Gutiérrez, Nihar Pradhan, Luis Balicas, Thomas E. Mallouk, Florentino Lopéz‐Urías, Humberto Terrones, Mauricio Terrones Hit paper breakdown →	2013	543
3	One-pot growth of two-dimensional lateral heterostructures via sequential edge-epitaxy Nature ·Prasana K. Sahoo, Shahriar Memaran, Yan Xin, Luis Balicas, Humberto R. Gutiérrez Hit paper breakdown →	2018	456
4	New First Order Raman-active Modes in Few Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Scientific Reports ·Humberto Terrones, (unknown), Simin Feng, Jean‐Marie Poumirol, Daniel Rhodes, Dmitry Smirnov, Nihar Pradhan, (unknown), Minh Nguyen, Ana Laura Elías, Thomas E. Mallouk, Luis Balicas, M. A. Pimenta, Mauricio Terrones	2014	386
5	Superconductivity up to 243 K in the yttrium-hydrogen system under high pressure Nature Communications ·P. P. Kong, Vasily S. Minkov, Mikhail A. Kuzovnikov, А. П. Дроздов, S. P. Besedin, Shirin Mozaffari, Luis Balicas, Fedor Balakirev, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Stella Chariton, D. A. Knyazev, Eran Greenberg, M. I. Eremets Hit paper breakdown →	2021	378
6	Electron pockets in the Fermi surface of hole-doped high-Tc superconductors Nature ·David LeBoeuf, N. Doiron-Leyraud, Julien Levallois, Ramzy Daou, J.-B. Bonnemaison, N. E. Hussey, Luis Balicas, B. J. Ramshaw, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, Seiji Adachi, Cyril Proust, Louis Taillefer	2007	377
7	Field-Effect Transistors Based on Few-Layered α-MoTe₂ ACS Nano ·Nihar Pradhan, Daniel Rhodes, Simin Feng, Yan Xin, Shahriar Memaran, Byoung-Hee Moon, Humberto Terrones, Mauricio Terrones, Luis Balicas	2014	335
8	Metallic Spin-Liquid Behavior of the Geometrically Frustrated Kondo LatticePr2Ir2O7 Physical Review Letters ·Satoru Nakatsuji, Yo Machida, Y. Maeno, T. Tayama, T. Sakakibara, J. van Duijn, Luis Balicas, Jasmine N. Millican, Robin T. Macaluso, Julia Y. Chan	2006	288
9	Surface electronic structure of the topological Kondo-insulator candidate correlated electron system SmB6 Nature Communications ·Madhab Neupane, Nasser Alidoust, S.-Y. Xu, Takeshi Kondo, Y. Ishida, D. J. Kim, Chang Liu, Ilya Belopolski, Younjung Jo, Tay‐Rong Chang, H.-T. Jeng, Tomasz Durakiewicz, Luis Balicas, Hsin Lin, Arun Bansil, Shik Shin, Z. Fisk, M. Zahid Hasan	2013	280
10	Upper critical fields and thermally-activated transport ofNdFeAsO0.7F0.3single crystal Physical Review B ·J. Jaroszyński, Frank Hunte, Luis Balicas, Younjung Jo, I. Raičević, A. Gurevich, D. C. Larbalestier, Fedor Balakirev, Leiming Fang, (unknown), Ying Jia, Hai‐Hu Wen	2008	275
11	Superconductivity and quantum criticality in the heavy-fermion system β-YbAlB4 Nature Physics ·Satoru Nakatsuji, Kentaro Kuga, Yo Machida, T. Tayama, T. Sakakibara, Yoshitomo Karaki, Hidehiko Ishimoto, Shingo Yonezawa, Y. Maeno, E. E. Pearson, G. G. Lonzarich, Luis Balicas, H. Lee, Z. Fisk	2008	245
12	A coherent three-dimensional Fermi surface in a high-transition-temperature superconductor Nature ·N. E. Hussey, M. Abdel-Jawad, A. Carrington, A. P. Mackenzie, Luis Balicas	2003	217
13	Artificially Stacked Atomic Layers: Toward New van der Waals Solids Nano Letters ·Guanhui Gao, Wei Gao, Elena Cannuccia, Jaime Taha‐Tijerina, Luis Balicas, Akshay Mathkar, Tharangattu N. Narayanan, Zhen Liu, Bipin Kumar Gupta, Juan Peng, Yansheng Yin, Ángel Rubio, Pulickel M. Ajayan	2012	203
14	CVD-grown monolayered MoS ₂ as an effective photosensor operating at low-voltage 2D Materials ·Néstor Perea‐López, Zhong Lin, Nihar Pradhan, Agustín Íñiguez‐Rábago, Ana Laura Elías, Amber McCreary, Jun Lou, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Humberto Terrones, Luis Balicas, Mauricio Terrones	2014	202
15	Dimensional reduction at a quantum critical point Nature ·Suchitra E. Sebastian, N. Harrison, Cristian D. Batista, Luis Balicas, M. Jaime, P. A. Sharma, Naoki Kawashima, I. R. Fisher	2006	197
16	Approaching the Intrinsic Limit in Transition Metal Diselenides via Point Defect Control Nano Letters ·Drew Edelberg, Daniel Rhodes, Alexander Kerelsky, Bumho Kim, Jue Wang, Amirali Zangiabadi, Chanul Kim, Abhinandan Antony, Jenny Ardelean, Micheál Scully, Declan Scullion, Lior Embon, Rui Zu, Elton J. G. Santos, Luis Balicas, Chris A. Marianetti, Katayun Barmak, Xiaoyang Zhu, James Hone, Abhay N. Pasupathy	2019	177
17	Linear temperature dependence of resistivity and change in the Fermi surface at the pseudogap critical point of a high-Tc superconductor Nature Physics ·Ramzy Daou, N. Doiron-Leyraud, David LeBoeuf, S. Y. Li, F. Laliberté, O. Cyr-Choinière, Y. J. Jo, Luis Balicas, Jiaqiang Yan, Jianshi Zhou, John B. Goodenough, Louis Taillefer	2008	163
18	Lifshitz critical point in the cuprate superconductorYBa2Cu3Oyfrom high-field Hall effect measurements Physical Review B ·D. LeBoeuf, N. Doiron-Leyraud, Baptiste Vignolle, Mike Sutherland, B. J. Ramshaw, Julien Levallois, Ramzy Daou, Francis Laliberté, O. Cyr-Choinière, J. Chang, Y. J. Jo, Luis Balicas, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, Cyril Proust, Louis Taillefer	2011	163
19	Superconductivity in an Organic Insulator at Very High Magnetic Fields Physical Review Letters ·Luis Balicas, J. S. Brooks, K. Storr, Shinya Uji, M. Tokumoto, Hisashi Tanaka, H. Kobayashi, Akiko Kobayashi, Victor Barzykin, L. P. Gor’kov	2001	162
20	Gapped itinerant spin excitations account for missing entropy in the hidden-order state of URu2Si2 Nature Physics ·C. R. Wiebe, J.A. Janik, G. J. MacDougall, G. M. Luke, J.D. Garrett, Haidong Zhou, Younjung Jo, Luis Balicas, Yiming Qiu, J. R. D. Copley, Z. Yamani, W. J. L. Buyers	2007	141

About Luis Balicas

Luis Balicas is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, having authored 279 papers that have together received 13.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (105 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (86 papers), Iron-based superconductors research (64 papers), Rare-earth and actinide compounds (62 papers), Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (56 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (54 papers), Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (46 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (44 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Condensed Matter Physics (6.0k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (5.2k citations), Materials Chemistry (7.0k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (2.7k citations) and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2.7k citations). Luis Balicas has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Pulickel M. Ajayan, Daniel Rhodes, Nihar Pradhan, K. Storr, Shahriar Memaran, Li Song, Mauricio Terrones, Deep Jariwala, Lijie Ci and Anchal Srivastava. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, Physical review. B., Physical review. B, Condensed matter and Nature Communications.

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