Yi Xia

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
82 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Yi Xia is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Xia has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Materials Chemistry, 24 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 16 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Yi Xia's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (50 papers), Thermal properties of materials (26 papers) and Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity (14 papers). Yi Xia is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (50 papers), Thermal properties of materials (26 papers) and Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity (14 papers). Yi Xia collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Iran. Yi Xia's co-authors include Vidvuds Ozoliņš, Chris Wolverton, Fei Zhou, Jiangang He, Xu Lu, Donald T. Morelli, Koushik Pal, Weston Nielson, S. Shahab Naghavi and Ctirad Uher and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yi Xia

80 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

High Performance Thermoelectricity in Earth‐Abundant Compounds Based on Natural Mineral Tetrahedrites

2012 457 citations Yi Xia, Vidvuds Ozoliņš et al. profile →
A Li-rich layered oxide cathode with negligible voltage decay

2023 215 citations Yi Xia, Christopher Wolverton et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yi Xia United States	33	3.5k	1.7k	758	405	291	82	4.0k
Nebil A. Katcho Spain	19	3.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	468 0.6×	354 0.9×	337 1.2×	43	3.9k
Cem Sevik Türkiye	39	5.1k 1.5×	2.1k 1.2×	476 0.6×	432 1.1×	220 0.8×	119	5.6k
Hezhu Shao China	45	4.5k 1.3×	2.9k 1.7×	700 0.9×	489 1.2×	425 1.5×	118	5.5k
Koushik Pal India	30	2.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	372 0.5×	527 1.3×	206 0.7×	64	2.6k
Olle Hellman Sweden	27	2.8k 0.8×	799 0.5×	476 0.6×	614 1.5×	176 0.6×	64	3.4k
Terumasa Tadano Japan	21	2.4k 0.7×	860 0.5×	718 0.9×	639 1.6×	132 0.5×	64	3.3k
J. Serrano Spain	30	2.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	736 1.0×	536 1.3×	58 0.2×	69	3.4k
Jamil Tahir‐Kheli United States	12	2.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	393 0.5×	698 1.7×	692 2.4×	24	3.5k
Jiawei Zhang China	28	2.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	678 0.9×	288 0.7×	315 1.1×	85	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Xia

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Hegde, Vinay I., et al.. (2025). Accelerating high-throughput phonon calculations via machine learning universal potentials. Materials Today Physics. 53. 101688–101688. 6 indexed citations

Xia, Yi, et al.. (2025). Four MBE Therapies to Improve Pain Scores, Physical Functioning, and Quality of Life in Patients With Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain: Network Meta‐Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials. European Journal of Pain. 29(8). e70092–e70092.

Xia, Yi. (2025). First-principles theory of five- and six-phonon scattering. Physical review. B.. 112(20).

He, Cheng, Jun Sun, Xiangdong Ding, et al.. (2024). The relation between the atomic mass ratio and quartic anharmonicity in alkali metal hydrides. Materials Today Physics. 44. 101423–101423. 5 indexed citations

Xia, Yi, et al.. (2024). Revisiting lattice thermal conductivity of CsCl: The crucial role of quartic anharmonicity. Applied Physics Letters. 124(17). 8 indexed citations

Xia, Yi, et al.. (2024). Competition between long- and short-range order in size-mismatched medium-entropy alloys. Acta Materialia. 277. 120199–120199. 7 indexed citations

Xia, Yi, et al.. (2023). Accelerating the prediction of stable materials with machine learning. Nature Computational Science. 3(11). 934–945. 50 indexed citations

Gao, Zhibin, Guimei Zhu, Jie Ren, et al.. (2023). Role of high-order anharmonicity and off-diagonal terms in thermal conductivity: A case study of multiphase CsPbBr3. Physical review. B.. 107(21). 31 indexed citations

Shen, Jiahong, et al.. (2023). Phase Stability of Lead Phosphate Apatite Pb_10–xCu_x(PO₄)₆O, Pb_10–xCu_x(PO₄)₆(OH)₂ (x = 0, 1), and Pb₈Cu₂(PO₄)₆. Chemistry of Materials. 36(1). 275–285. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Zhi, Yi Xia, & Chris Wolverton. (2023). First-principles calculations of lattice thermal conductivity in Tl3VSe4: Uncertainties from different approaches of force constants. Physical review. B.. 108(18). 10 indexed citations

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Li, Zhi, Hongyao Xie, Yi Xia, et al.. (2022). Weak-Bonding Elements Lead to High Thermoelectric Performance in BaSnS₃ and SrSnS₃: A First-Principles Study. Chemistry of Materials. 34(3). 1289–1301. 40 indexed citations

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Pal, Koushik, Cheol Woo Park, Yi Xia, Jiahong Shen, & Chris Wolverton. (2022). Scale-invariant machine-learning model accelerates the discovery of quaternary chalcogenides with ultralow lattice thermal conductivity. npj Computational Materials. 8(1). 30 indexed citations

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Li, Zhi, Hongyao Xie, Shiqiang Hao, et al.. (2021). Optical phonon dominated heat transport: A first-principles thermal conductivity study of BaSnS2. Physical review. B.. 104(24). 40 indexed citations

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Shen, Jiahong, Vinay I. Hegde, Jiangang He, Yi Xia, & Chris Wolverton. (2021). High-Throughput Computational Discovery of Ternary Mixed-Anion Oxypnictides. Chemistry of Materials. 33(24). 9486–9500. 12 indexed citations

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Hodges, James M., Yi Xia, Christos D. Malliakas, et al.. (2020). Mixed-Valent Copper Chalcogenides: Tuning Structures and Electronic Properties Using Multiple Anions. Chemistry of Materials. 32(23). 10146–10154. 16 indexed citations

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Pal, Koushik, Xia Hua, Yi Xia, & Christopher Wolverton. (2019). Unraveling the Structure-Valence-Property Relationships in AMM′Q₃ Chalcogenides with Promising Thermoelectric Performance. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 3(3). 2110–2119. 33 indexed citations

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Pal, Koushik, Yi Xia, Jiangang He, & Christopher Wolverton. (2019). Intrinsically Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity Derived from Rattler Cations in an AMM′Q₃ Family of Chalcogenides. Chemistry of Materials. 31(21). 8734–8741. 34 indexed citations

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Hodges, James M., Yi Xia, Christos D. Malliakas, et al.. (2018). Two-Dimensional CsAg₅Te_3–xS_x Semiconductors: Multi-anion Chalcogenides with Dynamic Disorder and Ultralow Thermal Conductivity. Chemistry of Materials. 30(20). 7245–7254. 20 indexed citations

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Naghavi, S. Shahab, Jiangang He, Yi Xia, & Chris Wolverton. (2018). Pd₂Se₃ Monolayer: A Promising Two-Dimensional Thermoelectric Material with Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity and High Power Factor. Chemistry of Materials. 30(16). 5639–5647. 141 indexed citations

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He, Jiangang, Shiqiang Hao, Yi Xia, et al.. (2016). Bi₂PdO₄: A Promising Thermoelectric Oxide with High Power Factor and Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity. Chemistry of Materials. 29(6). 2529–2534. 46 indexed citations

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