Nina Balke

14.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
152 papers, 12.3k citations indexed

About

Nina Balke is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nina Balke has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 12.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Materials Chemistry, 58 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 49 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nina Balke's work include Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (76 papers), Multiferroics and related materials (41 papers) and Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies (39 papers). Nina Balke is often cited by papers focused on Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (76 papers), Multiferroics and related materials (41 papers) and Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies (39 papers). Nina Balke collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Nina Balke's co-authors include Sergei V. Kalinin, Stephen Jesse, Petro Maksymovych, Ying‐Hao Chu, Lane W. Martin, M. Gajek, Qing He, Alexander Tselev, Mikel B. Holcomb and R. Ramesh and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nina Balke

149 papers receiving 12.1k citations

Hit Papers

Electric-field control of local ferromagnetism using a ma... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2009 2010 2018 2021 250 500 750 1000
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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.

  1. Electric-field control of local ferromagnetism using a magnetoelectric multiferroic
    2008 1.1k citations Nina Balke et al. Nature Materials profile →
  2. Conduction at domain walls in oxide multiferroics
    2009 1.1k citations Petro Maksymovych, Nina Balke et al. Nature Materials profile →
  3. Nanoscale mapping of ion diffusion in a lithium-ion battery cathode
    2010 489 citations Nina Balke, Stephen Jesse et al. profile →
  4. Homogenization of Al CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloys with improved corrosion resistance
    2018 377 citations Liam Collins, Nina Balke et al. profile →
  5. Effects of interlayer confinement and hydration on capacitive charge storage in birnessite
    2021 187 citations Shelby Boyd, Karthik Ganeshan et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers

Nina Balke
Qunqing Li China
Xiaofeng Fan China
Hailin Peng China
Yi Zheng China
Yanrong Li China
Xiangfan Xu China
Michael T. Lanagan United States
Yuping Sun China
Andréi L. Kholkin Portugal
Changzhi Gu China
Qunqing Li China
Nina Balke
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nina Balke

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Qiao, Huimin, Jacob L. Jones, & Nina Balke. (2024). Effect of sub‐coercive degradation on the local piezoelectric properties in lead zirconate titanate ceramics. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 108(3). 1 indexed citations
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Holzapfel, Noah P., et al.. (2024). Role of Lattice Flexibility on Electrochemical Ion Insertion: Structural Dynamics in WO3 vs WO2.9. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2024-02(6). 734–734. 1 indexed citations
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Sohn, Changhee, Xiang Gao, Rama K. Vasudevan, et al.. (2021). Strain-driven autonomous control of cation distribution for artificial ferroelectrics. Science Advances. 7(18). 5 indexed citations
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Boyd, Shelby, Karthik Ganeshan, Wan‐Yu Tsai, et al.. (2021). Effects of interlayer confinement and hydration on capacitive charge storage in birnessite. Nature Materials. 20(12). 1689–1694. 187 indexed citations breakdown →
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Balke, Nina, et al.. (2020). Structure of the Electrical Double Layer at the Interface between an Ionic Liquid and Tungsten Oxide in Ion-Gated Transistors. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11(9). 3257–3262. 14 indexed citations
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Herklotz, Andreas, Nina Balke, Christopher M. Rouleau, et al.. (2019). Designing Morphotropic Phase Composition in BiFeO3. Nano Letters. 19(2). 1033–1038. 26 indexed citations
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Brehm, John A., Sabine M. Neumayer, Tao Lei, et al.. (2019). Tunable quadruple-well ferroelectric van der Waals crystals. Nature Materials. 19(1). 43–48. 211 indexed citations
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Collins, Liam, Rebecca J. L. Welbourn, Maximilian W. A. Skoda, et al.. (2018). Ion movement in thin Nafion films under an applied electric field. Applied Physics Letters. 113(11). 2 indexed citations
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Sharma, Yogesh, Janakiraman Balachandran, Changhee Sohn, et al.. (2018). Nanoscale Control of Oxygen Defects and Metal–Insulator Transition in Epitaxial Vanadium Dioxides. ACS Nano. 12(7). 7159–7166. 56 indexed citations
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Kim, Jong-Jin, Binyang Hou, Changyong Park, et al.. (2017). Effect of defects on reaction of NiO surface with Pb-contained solution. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 44805–44805. 11 indexed citations
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Wong, Anthony T., Pushpa Raj Pudasaini, B. Wolf, et al.. (2017). Impact of gate geometry on ionic liquid gated ionotronic systems. APL Materials. 5(4). 12 indexed citations
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Collins, Liam, Alex Belianinov, Suhas Somnath, et al.. (2016). Full data acquisition in Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy: Mapping dynamic electric phenomena in real space. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 30557–30557. 42 indexed citations
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Balke, Nina, Stephen Jesse, M. Baris Okatan, et al.. (2016). Quantification of in-contact probe-sample electrostatic forces with dynamic atomic force microscopy. Nanotechnology. 28(6). 65704–65704. 48 indexed citations
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Collins, Liam, Stephen Jesse, Jason I. Kilpatrick, et al.. (2014). Probing charge screening dynamics and electrochemical processes at the solid–liquid interface with electrochemical force microscopy. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3871–3871. 91 indexed citations
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Balke, Nina, Miaofang Chi, Zheng Gai, et al.. (2013). Room-Temperature Multiferroic Hexagonal LuFeO3. Physical Review Letters. 110(23).
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Wang, Wenbin, Jun Zhao, Wenbo Wang, et al.. (2013). Room-Temperature Multiferroic HexagonalLuFeO3Films. Physical Review Letters. 110(23). 237601–237601. 185 indexed citations
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Kalinin, Sergei V., Amit Kumar, Nina Balke, et al.. (2011). ESM of ionic and electrochemical phenomena on the nanoscale. AM&P Technical Articles. 169(11). 4 indexed citations
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Denev, S., Ho Won Jang, Seung‐Hyub Baek, et al.. (2010). Ferroelectricity in Strain-Free SrTiO$_{3}$ Thin Films. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2010. 8 indexed citations
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Kalinin, Sergei V. & Nina Balke. (2010). Local Electrochemical Functionality in Energy Storage Materials and Devices by Scanning Probe Microscopies: Status and Perspectives. Advanced Materials. 22(35). E193–209. 71 indexed citations
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Kalinin, Sergei V., Brian J. Rodriguez, Albina Y. Borisevich, et al.. (2009). Defect‐Mediated Polarization Switching in Ferroelectrics and Related Materials: From Mesoscopic Mechanisms to Atomistic Control. Advanced Materials. 22(3). 314–322. 69 indexed citations

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