Shankar Narayanan

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
144 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Shankar Narayanan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Shankar Narayanan has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 47 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 31 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Shankar Narayanan's work include Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (52 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (32 papers) and Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (28 papers). Shankar Narayanan is often cited by papers focused on Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (52 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (32 papers) and Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (28 papers). Shankar Narayanan collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Australia. Shankar Narayanan's co-authors include Evelyn N. Wang, Hyunho Kim, Sungwoo Yang, Ari S. Umans, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Omar M. Yaghi, Sameer R. Rao, Eugene A. Kapustin, Ting Zhu and Yogendra Joshi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Shankar Narayanan

134 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight

2017 1.5k citations Hyunho Kim, Sungwoo Yang et al. Science profile →
Self-heating–induced healing of lithium dendrites

2018 456 citations Shankar Narayanan et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shankar Narayanan United States	30	1.7k	1.3k	1.2k	1.1k	675	144	4.5k
Bruce J. Tatarchuk United States	34	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	2.0k 1.6×	636 0.6×	490 0.7×	162	3.6k
Xuewen Wang China	33	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	848 0.7×	322 0.3×	1.7k 2.5×	144	3.7k
Maxim V. Zdorovets Kazakhstan	44	2.5k 1.4×	768 0.6×	4.8k 3.8×	875 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	407	7.7k
Xiaodong Wu China	42	2.6k 1.5×	598 0.5×	2.6k 2.1×	2.0k 1.8×	496 0.7×	167	5.9k
Hongfei Cheng China	34	1.7k 1.0×	459 0.4×	1.9k 1.5×	2.2k 2.0×	819 1.2×	91	5.2k
Annick Hubin Belgium	42	2.6k 1.5×	527 0.4×	2.2k 1.8×	1.5k 1.4×	702 1.0×	267	5.9k
Xiaodong Li China	45	3.1k 1.8×	1.0k 0.8×	4.9k 4.0×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.7×	287	8.1k
Tao Hu China	37	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	2.9k 2.3×	539 0.5×	712 1.1×	224	5.1k
Venkata Sai Kiran Chakravadhanula Germany	36	1.9k 1.1×	809 0.6×	1.8k 1.5×	293 0.3×	876 1.3×	111	4.3k
Yong Zhu China	45	2.6k 1.5×	707 0.5×	3.0k 2.4×	2.0k 1.9×	531 0.8×	236	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Shankar Narayanan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shankar Narayanan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shankar Narayanan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shankar Narayanan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shankar Narayanan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Shankar Narayanan. Shankar Narayanan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Hwang, Young Jin, et al.. (2024). Assessing the Performance of a Thermoresponsive Liquid‐Based Smart Windows for Building Thermal Regulation through Outdoor Experimentation and Computational Modeling. Advanced Sustainable Systems. 8(9). 1 indexed citations

Hartwig, Jason, et al.. (2024). Electrospun Silica Nanofibers as Passive Thermal Control Materials for the Extreme Environment of Low Earth Orbit.

Narayanan, Shankar, et al.. (2023). Investigation of sessile droplet evaporation using a transient two-step moving mesh model. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 209. 124151–124151. 6 indexed citations

Hsieh, Mei-Li, et al.. (2022). Experimental Determination of Absolute Spectral Radiance and Emissivity of a Photonic Crystal Filament. IEEE photonics journal. 14(6). 1–5.

Wen, John T., et al.. (2021). Oscillatory valve effect on temperature synchronization in microchannel cooling systems. Applied Thermal Engineering. 204. 117999–117999. 7 indexed citations

Narayanan, Shankar, et al.. (2020). Quantifying the evaporation rate of sessile droplets using a quartz crystal microbalance. Journal of Applied Physics. 128(3). 6 indexed citations

Narayanan, Shankar, et al.. (2020). Crystal plasticity modeling of non-Schmid yield behavior: from Ni ₃ Al single crystals to Ni-based superalloys. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 29(5). 55005–55005. 15 indexed citations

Hsieh, Mei-Li, et al.. (2020). The role of nanostructure morphology of nickel-infused alumina on solar-thermal energy conversion. Journal of Optics. 23(1). 15101–15101. 9 indexed citations

Hsieh, Mei-Li, Shawn-Yu Lin, Sajeev John, et al.. (2019). Super Planckian Thermal Radiation Emitted From a Nano-Filament of Photonic Crystal: A Direct Imaging Study. IEEE photonics journal. 11(6). 1–8. 2 indexed citations

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Narayanan, Shankar, et al.. (2019). The Role of Wettability on the Response of a Quartz Crystal Microbalance Loaded with a Sessile Droplet. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 17289–17289. 15 indexed citations

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Yadav, Apurv, et al.. (2018). Carbon based Phase Change Nanocomposites for Solar Energy Storage. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 3 indexed citations

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Kim, Hyunho, Sungwoo Yang, Sameer R. Rao, et al.. (2017). Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight. Science. 356(6336). 430–434. 1454 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lu, Zhengmao, Todd Salamon, Shankar Narayanan, et al.. (2016). Design and Modeling of Membrane-Based Evaporative Cooling Devices for Thermal Management of High Heat Fluxes. IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology. 6(7). 1056–1065. 64 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiangwei, Shankar Narayanan, Jianyu Huang, et al.. (2013). Atomic-scale dynamic process of deformation-induced stacking fault tetrahedra in gold nanocrystals. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2340–2340. 111 indexed citations

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Upadhyaya, Ajay, et al.. (2006). Investigation of the Effect of Resistivity and Thickness on the Performance of Cast Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells. 86. 1308–1311. 2 indexed citations

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Melnyk, Igor, et al.. (2003). A simplified process for isotropic texturing of mc-Si. 3rd World Conference onPhotovoltaic Energy Conversion, 2003. Proceedings of. 2. 1447–1450. 29 indexed citations

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Narayanan, Shankar, et al.. (2002). Polyphagotarsonemus latus (Banks): A New Pest of Mulberry. Indian Journal of Forestry. 25(2). 171–176. 4 indexed citations

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Green, Green, Stuart Wenham, Chee Mun Chong, et al.. (1989). Laser grooved and polycrystalline silicon solar cell research. NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N. 90. 11347. 3 indexed citations

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Green, Green, et al.. (1987). High-efficiency silicon concentrator solar cells. PhDT. 1 indexed citations

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Blakers, Andrew, et al.. (1985). Improvements in silicon solar cell efficiency. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 39–42. 30 indexed citations

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