S.S. Major

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
111 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

S.S. Major is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, S.S. Major has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Materials Chemistry, 59 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 29 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in S.S. Major's work include ZnO doping and properties (50 papers), Ga2O3 and related materials (24 papers) and GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (22 papers). S.S. Major is often cited by papers focused on ZnO doping and properties (50 papers), Ga2O3 and related materials (24 papers) and GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials (22 papers). S.S. Major collaborates with scholars based in India, Italy and South Korea. S.S. Major's co-authors include K. L. Chopra, Dinesh K. Pandya, R.S. Srinivasa, M. C. Bhatnagar, Arghya Narayan Banerjee, Satyendra Kumar, Shalini Talwar, Sukhvinder Singh, Chitra Agashe and Pavan K. Narayanam and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

S.S. Major

110 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Transparent conductors—A status review

1983 2.3k citations K. L. Chopra, S.S. Major et al. Thin Solid Films profile →
Effect of hydrogen plasma treatment on transparent conducting oxides

1986 580 citations S.S. Major, K. L. Chopra et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
S.S. Major India	25	4.5k	3.8k	1.1k	992	513	111	5.3k
Mahendra A. More India	40	4.6k 1.0×	3.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	988 1.0×	1.1k 2.2×	278	6.3k
Young-Woo Heo South Korea	43	6.8k 1.5×	5.0k 1.3×	2.6k 2.4×	632 0.6×	1.0k 2.0×	189	7.8k
Chang‐Yong Nam United States	37	2.4k 0.5×	2.8k 0.7×	483 0.4×	1.4k 1.4×	895 1.7×	155	4.9k
Durga Basak India	44	5.1k 1.1×	3.9k 1.0×	2.4k 2.2×	603 0.6×	816 1.6×	152	6.3k
Yi Gu United States	34	3.3k 0.7×	2.9k 0.8×	1.5k 1.4×	625 0.6×	954 1.9×	100	5.0k
Xiangyang Kong China	32	4.5k 1.0×	3.0k 0.8×	1.5k 1.4×	327 0.3×	1.3k 2.6×	81	5.9k
T. Monteiro Portugal	32	3.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	293 0.3×	612 1.2×	253	4.5k
Myung Mo Sung South Korea	40	2.4k 0.5×	3.7k 1.0×	558 0.5×	694 0.7×	1.4k 2.8×	160	5.2k
Ting‐Jen Hsueh Taiwan	41	3.4k 0.8×	3.7k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	491 0.5×	1.6k 3.1×	163	4.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Major, S.S., et al.. (2024). Electrical transport in epitaxially grown undoped and Si-doped degenerate GaN films. Physica Scripta. 99(2). 25982–25982. 1 indexed citations

Major, S.S., et al.. (2024). Mg incorporation induced microstructural evolution of reactively sputtered GaN epitaxial films to Mg-doped GaN nanorods. Nanotechnology. 35(22). 225603–225603. 1 indexed citations

Mondal, Praloy & S.S. Major. (2023). Dependence of diode behaviour and photoresponse of Ga-doped ZnO (GZO)/p-Si junction on the carrier concentration of GZO layer. Micro and Nanostructures. 185. 207719–207719. 6 indexed citations

Nandi, Raju, et al.. (2023). The microstructural evolution of sputtered ZnO epitaxial films to stress-relaxed nanorods. Thin Solid Films. 782. 140039–140039. 2 indexed citations

Sutar, D.S., et al.. (2020). Energy level alignment of graphene oxide and its derivatives with ZnO. Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena. 243. 146953–146953. 6 indexed citations

Mohan, Shyam, et al.. (2020). Gallium nitride films of high n-type conductivity grown by reactive sputtering. Semiconductor Science and Technology. 35(4). 45011–45011. 14 indexed citations

Major, S.S., et al.. (2020). Microstructural dependence of residual stress in reactively sputtered epitaxial GaN films. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(17). 175302–175302. 5 indexed citations

Narayanam, Pavan K., V. Divakar Botcha, Monalisa Ghosh, & S.S. Major. (2019). Growth and photocatalytic behavior of transparent reduced GO–ZnO nanocomposite sheets. Nanotechnology. 30(48). 485601–485601. 28 indexed citations

Nandi, Raju & S.S. Major. (2016). The mechanism of growth of ZnO nanorods by reactive sputtering. Applied Surface Science. 399. 305–312. 50 indexed citations

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Botcha, V. Divakar, et al.. (2016). A ‘modified’ Langmuir–Blodgett technique for transfer of graphene oxide monolayer sheets on solid substrates. Materials Research Express. 3(3). 35002–35002. 7 indexed citations

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Botcha, V. Divakar, D.S. Sutar, Pavan K. Narayanam, et al.. (2014). Near room temperature reduction of graphene oxide Langmuir–Blodgett monolayers by hydrogen plasma. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16(23). 11708–11708. 21 indexed citations

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Sutar, D.S., V. Divakar Botcha, Pavan K. Narayanam, et al.. (2013). Study of simultaneous reduction and nitrogen doping of graphene oxide Langmuir–Blodgett monolayer sheets by ammonia plasma treatment. Nanotechnology. 24(35). 355704–355704. 53 indexed citations

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Narayanam, Pavan K., V. Divakar Botcha, D.S. Sutar, et al.. (2012). Growth of CdS nanocrystallites on graphene oxide Langmuir–Blodgett monolayers. Nanotechnology. 23(32). 325605–325605. 15 indexed citations

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Botcha, V. Divakar, Pavan K. Narayanam, D.S. Sutar, et al.. (2012). GO and RGO based FETs fabricated with Langmuir-Blodgett grown monolayers. AIP conference proceedings. 327–328. 1 indexed citations

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Singh, Sukhvinder, Ravi Kumar, Tapas Ganguli, R.S. Srinivasa, & S.S. Major. (2008). High optical quality ZnO epilayers grown on sapphire substrates by reactive magnetron sputtering of zinc target. Journal of Crystal Growth. 310(22). 4640–4646. 17 indexed citations

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Singh, Sukhvinder, R.S. Srinivasa, & S.S. Major. (2007). Effect of substrate temperature on the structure and optical properties of ZnO thin films deposited by reactive rf magnetron sputtering. Thin Solid Films. 515(24). 8718–8722. 115 indexed citations

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Kumar, Narendra, S.S. Major, Satish Vitta, et al.. (2002). Molecular packing in cadmium and zinc arachidate LB multilayers. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 198-200. 75–81. 16 indexed citations

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Dabke, Rajeev B., A. Dhanabalan, S.S. Major, et al.. (1998). Electrochemistry of polyaniline Langmuir–Blodgett films. Thin Solid Films. 335(1-2). 203–208. 24 indexed citations

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Dhanabalan, A., Rajeev B. Dabke, Sambhu N. Datta, et al.. (1997). Preparation and characterization of mixed LB films of polyaniline and cadmium arachidate. Thin Solid Films. 295(1-2). 255–259. 21 indexed citations

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Chopra, K. L. & S.S. Major. (1983). Transparent conductors for solar cell applications. 271(12). 7203–11. 1 indexed citations

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