Mahesh G. Samant

8.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
79 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

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Mahesh G. Samant is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mahesh G. Samant has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 35 papers in Materials Chemistry and 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mahesh G. Samant's work include Magnetic properties of thin films (21 papers), Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials (17 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (12 papers). Mahesh G. Samant is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic properties of thin films (21 papers), Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials (17 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (12 papers). Mahesh G. Samant collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and South Korea. Mahesh G. Samant's co-authors include S. Parkin, Brian Hughes, See‐Hun Yang, Philip M. Rice, Christian Kaiser, Alex Panchula, Jaewoo Jeong, Naga Phani B. Aetukuri, Tanja Graf and Thomas D. Schladt 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

Mahesh G. Samant

78 papers receiving 6.3k citations

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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.

Giant tunnelling magnetoresistance at room temperature with MgO (100) tunnel barriers

2004 2.5k citations S. Parkin, Christian Kaiser et al. Nature Materials profile →
Suppression of Metal-Insulator Transition in VO ₂ by Electric Field–Induced Oxygen Vacancy Formation

2013 937 citations Jaewoo Jeong, Mahesh G. Samant et al. profile →
Control of the metal–insulator transition in vanadium dioxide by modifying orbital occupancy

2013 468 citations A. X. Gray, K. P. Roche et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mahesh G. Samant United States	34	3.1k	3.1k	2.6k	2.6k	1.4k	79	6.5k
David Emin United States	45	6.0k 1.9×	2.0k 0.7×	3.5k 1.3×	2.0k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	173	9.8k
R. Coehoorn Netherlands	56	3.0k 1.0×	4.5k 1.5×	5.0k 1.9×	4.1k 1.6×	1.8k 1.3×	196	10.6k
Kang L. Wang United States	41	4.9k 1.6×	4.2k 1.4×	3.0k 1.1×	1.7k 0.7×	321 0.2×	150	8.1k
Luc Piraux Belgium	46	4.9k 1.6×	3.9k 1.3×	2.2k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	361 0.3×	243	7.7k
J. W. Freeland United States	50	5.8k 1.9×	1.9k 0.6×	2.7k 1.0×	5.7k 2.2×	493 0.4×	263	10.0k
A. Ignatiev United States	39	3.1k 1.0×	1.6k 0.5×	3.0k 1.1×	1.0k 0.4×	801 0.6×	288	5.9k
M. Holtz United States	37	1.9k 0.6×	972 0.3×	2.3k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	648 0.5×	174	4.4k
S. Stafström Sweden	46	4.2k 1.4×	1.6k 0.5×	4.8k 1.8×	906 0.3×	2.8k 2.0×	204	9.2k
Ulrich Starke Germany	50	7.1k 2.3×	3.3k 1.1×	4.9k 1.9×	1.3k 0.5×	369 0.3×	196	10.1k
Arthur P. Baddorf United States	45	5.5k 1.8×	2.0k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	2.8k 1.1×	314 0.2×	143	7.5k

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Yang, See‐Hun, Brian Hughes, Charles Rettner, et al.. (2025). Ferrimagnetic Heusler tunnel junctions with fast spin-transfer torque switching enabled by low magnetization. Nature Nanotechnology. 20(3). 360–365. 7 indexed citations

Faleev, Sergey V., et al.. (2023). Half‐Metallic Full‐Heusler and Half‐Heusler Compounds with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy. physica status solidi (b). 260(3). 6 indexed citations

Oh, Dahyun, Noel Arellano, Yong Cheol Shin, et al.. (2018). Flat Monolayer Graphene Cathodes for Li–Oxygen Microbatteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(1). 489–498. 11 indexed citations

Faleev, Sergey V., Yari Ferrante, Jaewoo Jeong, et al.. (2017). Origin of the Tetragonal Ground State of Heusler Compounds. Physical Review Applied. 7(3). 157 indexed citations

Karel, Julie, János Kiss, S. G. Altendorf, et al.. (2016). Transparent conducting oxide induced by liquid electrolyte gating. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(40). 11148–11151. 21 indexed citations

Passarello, Donata, S. G. Altendorf, Jaewoo Jeong, Mahesh G. Samant, & S. Parkin. (2016). Metallization of Epitaxial VO₂ Films by Ionic Liquid Gating through Initially Insulating TiO₂ Layers. Nano Letters. 16(9). 5475–5481. 33 indexed citations

Zhu, Yi, Zhonghou Cai, Pice Chen, et al.. (2016). Mesoscopic structural phase progression in photo-excited VO2 revealed by time-resolved x-ray diffraction microscopy. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 21999–21999. 24 indexed citations

Grilj, Jakob, Emily Sistrunk, Jaewoo Jeong, et al.. (2015). Self Referencing Heterodyne Transient Grating Spectroscopy with Short Wavelength. Photonics. 2(2). 392–401. 3 indexed citations

Ouardi, Siham, Gerhard H. Fecher, Li Gao, et al.. (2013). Electronic and crystalline structures of zero band-gap LuPdBi thin films grown epitaxially on MgO(100). Applied Physics Letters. 102(17). 9 indexed citations

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Lin, J. G., et al.. (2013). Ferromagnetic Resonance Study of ${\hbox {Fe}}_{3}{\hbox {O}}_{4}$ Thin Film. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 49(7). 4311–4313. 4 indexed citations

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Parkin, S., Christian Kaiser, Alex Panchula, et al.. (2004). Giant tunnelling magnetoresistance at room temperature with MgO (100) tunnel barriers. Nature Materials. 3(12). 862–867. 2488 indexed citations breakdown →

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Samant, Mahesh G. & S. Parkin. (2004). Magnetic tunnel junctions—principles and applications. Vacuum. 74(3-4). 705–709. 16 indexed citations

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Thomas, Luc, Mahesh G. Samant, & S. Parkin. (2000). Domain-Wall Induced Coupling between Ferromagnetic Layers. Physical Review Letters. 84(8). 1816–1819. 78 indexed citations

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Dı́az, J., S. Anders, A. Cossy-Favre, Mahesh G. Samant, & J. Stöhr. (1998). Enhanced Electron Emission from Oxidized Regions on Amorphous Carbon Films Studied by X-ray Spectro-Microscopy. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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Samant, Mahesh G., Charles A. Brown, & Joseph G. Gordon. (1993). An epitaxial organic film. The self-assembled monolayer of docosanoic acid on silver(111). Langmuir. 9(4). 1082–1085. 28 indexed citations

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Samant, Mahesh G., Gary L. Borges, & Owen R. Melroy. (1993). In Situ Surface EXAFS Study of an Underpotentially Deposited Silver Monolayer on Gold (111). Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 140(2). 421–425. 16 indexed citations

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Samant, Mahesh G., Charles A. Brown, & Joseph G. Gordon. (1991). Structure of an ordered self-assembled monolayer of docosyl mercaptan on gold(111) by surface x-ray diffraction. Langmuir. 7(3). 437–439. 60 indexed citations

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Ashley, Kevin, et al.. (1989). In situ infrared spectroelectrochemical studies of cyanide adsorbed on platinum and palladium. Surface Science. 219(3). L590–L594. 19 indexed citations

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Samant, Mahesh G.. (1989). Influence of electric field at the electrode/electrolyte interface on EXAFS results. Langmuir. 5(4). 1113–1115. 1 indexed citations

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Samant, Mahesh G., Louis Charles de Ménorval, RALPH A. DALLA BETTA, & M. Boudart. (1988). Nuclear magnetic resonance of xenon occluded in Na-A zeolite. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 92(13). 3937–3938. 25 indexed citations

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