Nikhil Sivadas

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Nikhil Sivadas is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikhil Sivadas has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Materials Chemistry, 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 7 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Nikhil Sivadas's work include 2D Materials and Applications (11 papers), Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (5 papers) and Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (4 papers). Nikhil Sivadas is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (11 papers), Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (5 papers) and Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (4 papers). Nikhil Sivadas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Hong Kong. Nikhil Sivadas's co-authors include Di Xiao, Satoshi Okamoto, Xiaodong Xu, Craig J. Fennie, Kyle L. Seyler, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Robert H. Swendsen, Matthew W. Daniels and Ding Zhong and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Nikhil Sivadas

18 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Van der Waals engineering... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2018 200 400 600
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.

  1. Van der Waals engineering of ferromagnetic semiconductor heterostructures for spin and valleytronics
    2018 653 citations Ding Zhong, Kyle L. Seyler et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →
  2. Stacking-Dependent Magnetism in Bilayer CrI3
    2018 517 citations Nikhil Sivadas, Satoshi Okamoto et al. Nano Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nikhil Sivadas United States 14 1.8k 767 706 661 476 18 2.2k
Tiancheng Song United States 12 2.1k 1.1× 723 0.9× 970 1.4× 725 1.1× 548 1.2× 23 2.5k
Yangfan Yi China 5 1.9k 1.0× 840 1.1× 696 1.0× 558 0.8× 276 0.6× 6 2.1k
Yichen Song China 3 1.8k 1.0× 779 1.0× 654 0.9× 519 0.8× 257 0.5× 4 2.0k
Zeyuan Sun China 10 1.9k 1.0× 862 1.1× 745 1.1× 712 1.1× 311 0.7× 31 2.3k
Jinghua Liang China 23 1.3k 0.7× 551 0.7× 647 0.9× 417 0.6× 335 0.7× 43 1.7k
Wen‐Yi Tong China 15 1.6k 0.8× 649 0.8× 505 0.7× 548 0.8× 250 0.5× 58 1.8k
Chuang‐Han Hsu Taiwan 21 1.3k 0.7× 242 0.3× 798 1.1× 615 0.9× 257 0.5× 45 1.7k
Nicolas Ubrig Switzerland 20 1.7k 0.9× 334 0.4× 468 0.7× 765 1.2× 189 0.4× 36 1.9k
Xiaoou Zhang United States 5 1.3k 0.7× 446 0.6× 542 0.8× 495 0.7× 273 0.6× 6 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Nikhil Sivadas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nikhil Sivadas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nikhil Sivadas

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Sivadas, Nikhil, Bobby G. Sumpter, & Panchapakesan Ganesh. (2023). Scale-free switching of polarization in the layered ferroelectric material CuInP2S6. Physical Review Research. 5(4). 3 indexed citations
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Sivadas, Nikhil, et al.. (2023). Mechanical Investigations of Composite Cathode Degradation in All-Solid-State Batteries. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 6(18). 9615–9623. 18 indexed citations
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Sivadas, Nikhil, Peter Doak, & Panchapakesan Ganesh. (2022). Anharmonic stabilization of ferrielectricity in CuInP2Se6. Physical Review Research. 4(1). 15 indexed citations
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Baggari, Ismail El, Nikhil Sivadas, Gregory M. Stiehl, et al.. (2020). Direct Visualization of Trimerized States in 1T′−TaTe2. Physical Review Letters. 125(16). 165302–165302. 24 indexed citations
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Ray, Ariana, Yu‐Tsun Shao, Yang Xu, et al.. (2020). Mapping Stacking and Stacking Defects in the 2D Ferromagnet CrI3. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 26(S2). 636–638. 1 indexed citations
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Moriyama, Takahiro, Nikhil Sivadas, Ryan F. Need, et al.. (2019). Spin Seebeck imaging of spin-torque switching in antiferromagnetic Pt/NiO/Pt heterostructures. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Moriyama, Takahiro, Nikhil Sivadas, Gregory M. Stiehl, et al.. (2019). Spin Seebeck Imaging of Spin-Torque Switching in Antiferromagnetic Pt/NiO Heterostructures. Physical Review X. 9(4). 63 indexed citations
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Stiehl, Gregory M., David MacNeill, Nikhil Sivadas, et al.. (2019). Current-Induced Torques with Dresselhaus Symmetry Due to Resistance Anisotropy in 2D Materials. ACS Nano. 13(2). 2599–2605. 36 indexed citations
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Zhong, Ding, Kyle L. Seyler, Xiayu Linpeng, et al.. (2018). Van der Waals engineering of ferromagnetic semiconductor heterostructures for spin and valleytronics. arXiv (Cornell University). 653 indexed citations breakdown →
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Barrera, Sergio C. de la, Michael Sinko, Devashish Gopalan, et al.. (2018). Tuning Ising superconductivity with layer and spin–orbit coupling in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1427–1427. 299 indexed citations
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Sivadas, Nikhil, Satoshi Okamoto, Xiaodong Xu, Craig J. Fennie, & Di Xiao. (2018). Stacking-Dependent Magnetism in Bilayer CrI$_3$. arXiv (Cornell University). 2019. 18 indexed citations
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Sivadas, Nikhil, Satoshi Okamoto, Xiaodong Xu, Craig J. Fennie, & Di Xiao. (2018). Stacking-Dependent Magnetism in Bilayer CrI3. Nano Letters. 18(12). 7658–7664. 517 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhong, Ding, Kyle L. Seyler, Xiayu Linpeng, et al.. (2017). Van der Waals engineering of ferromagnetic semiconductor heterostructures for spin and valleytronics. Science Advances. 3(5). e1603113–e1603113. 15 indexed citations
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Cheng, Ran, Nikhil Sivadas, Satoshi Okamoto, & Di Xiao. (2016). Magnon Chirality Hall Effect in Antiferromagnet. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2016. 1 indexed citations
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Sivadas, Nikhil, Satoshi Okamoto, & Di Xiao. (2016). Gate-Controllable Magneto-optic Kerr Effect in Layered Collinear Antiferromagnets. Physical Review Letters. 117(26). 267203–267203. 107 indexed citations
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Sivadas, Nikhil, Matthew W. Daniels, Robert H. Swendsen, Satoshi Okamoto, & Di Xiao. (2015). Magnetic ground state of semiconducting transition-metal trichalcogenide monolayers. Physical Review B. 91(23). 363 indexed citations
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Sivadas, Nikhil, et al.. (2015). Oxygen vacancies on SrO-terminatedSrTiO3(001)surfaces studied by scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Physical Review B. 91(20). 17 indexed citations
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Sivadas, Nikhil, Hemant Dixit, Valentino R. Cooper, & Di Xiao. (2014). Thickness-dependent carrier density at the surface ofSrTiO3(111) slabs. Physical Review B. 89(7). 22 indexed citations

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