Susan Trolier‐McKinstry

22.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
511 papers, 18.3k citations indexed

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Susan Trolier‐McKinstry is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Susan Trolier‐McKinstry has authored 511 papers receiving a total of 18.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 376 papers in Materials Chemistry, 287 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 229 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Susan Trolier‐McKinstry's work include Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (348 papers), Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies (225 papers) and Multiferroics and related materials (102 papers). Susan Trolier‐McKinstry is often cited by papers focused on Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (348 papers), Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies (225 papers) and Multiferroics and related materials (102 papers). Susan Trolier‐McKinstry collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Susan Trolier‐McKinstry's co-authors include Clive A. Randall, Gary L. Messing, Paul Muralt, Edward M. Sabolsky, Jon‐Paul Maria, Wei Ren, Ronald G. Polcawich, T. M. Shaw, Paul C. McIntyre and Ichiro Fujii and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Susan Trolier‐McKinstry

496 papers receiving 18.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Thin Film Piezoelectrics for MEMS

2004 818 citations Susan Trolier‐McKinstry et al. profile →
Templated Grain Growth of Textured Piezoelectric Ceramics

2004 514 citations Susan Trolier‐McKinstry et al. profile →
Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducer (PMUT) Arrays for Integrated Sensing, Actuation and Imaging

2015 287 citations Margeaux Wallace, Susan Trolier‐McKinstry et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Susan Trolier‐McKinstry United States	70	14.2k	9.6k	8.3k	5.7k	1.5k	511	18.3k
A. K. Tagantsev Switzerland	64	17.7k 1.2×	7.7k 0.8×	6.5k 0.8×	8.1k 1.4×	2.5k 1.7×	284	19.5k
Kenji Uchino United States	66	14.8k 1.0×	10.0k 1.0×	9.4k 1.1×	6.7k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	482	21.2k
N. Setter Switzerland	82	24.3k 1.7×	13.2k 1.4×	13.2k 1.6×	10.9k 1.9×	2.3k 1.6×	468	27.3k
Dragan Damjanović Switzerland	76	24.2k 1.7×	14.8k 1.5×	11.3k 1.4×	13.3k 2.3×	1.3k 0.9×	258	26.5k
Haosu Luo China	55	11.1k 0.8×	7.0k 0.7×	5.3k 0.6×	6.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	510	13.3k
Thomas R. Shrout United States	78	28.8k 2.0×	18.5k 1.9×	15.4k 1.9×	13.4k 2.4×	1.9k 1.3×	352	31.7k
Xiaobing Ren China	65	19.4k 1.4×	5.8k 0.6×	5.1k 0.6×	7.9k 1.4×	743 0.5×	365	21.3k
D. Viehland United States	74	25.7k 1.8×	7.6k 0.8×	7.7k 0.9×	22.7k 4.0×	2.1k 1.4×	452	30.5k
Paul Muralt Switzerland	58	7.3k 0.5×	8.1k 0.8×	5.3k 0.6×	2.1k 0.4×	2.0k 1.3×	326	12.6k
Wenzhong Bao China	58	19.9k 1.4×	7.6k 0.8×	9.6k 1.2×	4.1k 0.7×	4.4k 3.0×	188	27.5k

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Trolier‐McKinstry, Susan, et al.. (2025). Flexoelectricity in structured solids: Stacking and strain gradient modulation. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 310. 111122–111122.

Hayden, John, Joseph Casamento, Sebastián Calderón, et al.. (2025). Proximity ferroelectricity in wurtzite heterostructures. Nature. 637(8046). 574–579. 9 indexed citations

Rost, Christina M., et al.. (2024). Polarization stability and its influence on electrocaloric effects of high entropy perovskite oxide films. Acta Materialia. 283. 120576–120576. 7 indexed citations

Tran, Quyen, et al.. (2024). Quantitative piezoelectric measurements of partially released Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 structures. Journal of Applied Physics. 136(9). 1 indexed citations

Trolier‐McKinstry, Susan, et al.. (2024). Strain Fluctuations Unlock Ferroelectricity in Wurtzites. Advanced Electronic Materials. 11(5). 9 indexed citations

He, Fan, Wanlin Zhu, John Hayden, et al.. (2024). Frequency dependence of wake-up and fatigue characteristics in ferroelectric Al0.93B0.07N thin films. Acta Materialia. 266. 119678–119678. 12 indexed citations

Argüelles, Andrea P., et al.. (2023). Scaling up the cold sintering process of ceramics. Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 43(12). 5319–5329. 29 indexed citations

Yan, Yongke, Liwei D. Geng, Li‐Qian Cheng, et al.. (2023). Correlation between cation order/disorder and the electrocaloric effect in the MLCCs of complex perovskite ferroelectrics. Acta Materialia. 254. 118990–118990. 5 indexed citations

Yazawa, Keisuke, John Hayden, Jon-Paul Maria, et al.. (2023). Anomalously abrupt switching of wurtzite-structured ferroelectrics: simultaneous non-linear nucleation and growth model. Materials Horizons. 10(8). 2936–2944. 32 indexed citations

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Calderón, Sebastián, John Hayden, Susan Trolier‐McKinstry, et al.. (2023). Atomic-scale polarization switching in wurtzite ferroelectrics. Science. 380(6649). 1034–1038. 85 indexed citations

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Zhu, Wanlin, et al.. (2022). Challenges in double-beam laser interferometry measurements of fully released piezoelectric films. Journal of Applied Physics. 131(21). 4 indexed citations

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Pramanick, Abhijit, Alisa R. Paterson, Gang Niu, et al.. (2020). Oxygen octahedral tilt ordering in (Na1/2Bi1/2)TiO3 ferroelectric thin films. Applied Physics Letters. 116(2). 2 indexed citations

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Kovacova, Veronika, et al.. (2020). Comparative Solution Synthesis of Mn Doped (Na,K)NbO₃ Thin Films. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(42). 9356–9364. 6 indexed citations

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Garten, Lauren M., David T. Moore, Sanjini U. Nanayakkara, et al.. (2019). The existence and impact of persistent ferroelectric domains in MAPbI ₃. Science Advances. 5(1). eaas9311–eaas9311. 89 indexed citations

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Dangi, Ajay, et al.. (2019). A Photoacoustic Imaging Device Using Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (PMUTs). IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control. 67(4). 801–809. 57 indexed citations

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Roundy, Shad & Susan Trolier‐McKinstry. (2018). Materials and approaches for on-body energy harvesting. MRS Bulletin. 43(3). 206–213. 35 indexed citations

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Garten, Lauren M., Shyam Dwaraknath, Julian Walker, et al.. (2018). Theory‐Guided Synthesis of a Metastable Lead‐Free Piezoelectric Polymorph. Advanced Materials. 30(25). e1800559–e1800559. 8 indexed citations

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Reid, Paul B., Ryan Allured, Sagi Ben-Ami, et al.. (2016). Development Status of Adjustable X-ray Optics with 0.5 Arcsec Imaging for the X-ray Surveyor Mission Concept. 1 indexed citations

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Frederick, J., W. J. Maeng, J. P. Podkaminer, et al.. (2016). Visualization of dielectric constant-electric field-temperature phase maps for imprinted relaxor ferroelectric thin films. Applied Physics Letters. 108(13). 10 indexed citations

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Polcawich, Ronald G., Paul Moses, & Susan Trolier‐McKinstry. (1999). AC and DC electrical stress reliability of Piezoelectric Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) thin films. 3906(1). 227–232. 17 indexed citations

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