Publications

74 publications in refereed journals, more than 120 conference proceedings and presentations, h-index is 26. My papers have been cited more than 2400 times.

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. A. N. Bazhan, V. N. Bevz, V. A. Merzhanov, E. A. Tishchenko, and S. Shaplygin, “Magnetic Properties of La2CuO4-y with La3+ Deficiency and with Magnetic Impurities,” Sov. Phys. JETP Letters 48, 21-25 (1988)
  2. A. N. Bazhan, V. N. Bevz, and S. V. Petrov, “Magnetic properties of Antiferromagnetic Ni1-xZnxF2 and Ni1-xMgxF2,” Sov. Phys. JETP 67, 779-785 (1988)
  3. A. N. Bazhan, V. N. Bevz, and S. V. Petrov, “Anomalies of Magnetic Properties of Dilute Mn1-xZnxF2 and Ni1-xMgxF2 Antiferromagnets Below the Percolation Threshold,” Sov. Phys. JETP 68, 567-571 (1989)
  4. A. N. Bazhan, V. N. Bevz, M. B. Kosmyna, and V. A. Miroshnichenko, “Investigation of Magnetic Phase Transition in La2CuO4+y Single Crystals Containing Different Amounts of Oxygen,” Sov. Phys. Superconductivity 3, 941-943 (1990)
  5. A. Bazhan and V. N. Bevz, “Change in the Magnetic Properties of La2CuO4+y Single Crystals Due to Oxygen Annealing,” Sov. Phys. Superconductivity 4, 100-113 (1991)
  6. A. N. Bazhan and V. N. Bevz, “Magnetic Properties of Antiferromagnetic Mn1-xZnxF2 and Ni1-xMgxF2 Single Crystals,” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 140-144, 1799-1800 (1995)
  7. J. Hamilton, E. L. Keatley, H. L. Ju, A. K. Raychaudhuri, V. Smolyaninova, and R. L. Greene, “Low-temperature specific heat of La0.67Ba0.33MnO3 and La0.8Ca0.2MnO3,” Phys. Rev. B 54, 14926-14929, (1996)
  8. V. N. Smolyaninova, J. J. Hamilton, R. L. Greene, Y. M. Mukovskii, S. G. Karabashev, and A. M. Balbashov, “Low-temperature field-dependent magnetization of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3,” Phys. Rev. B 55, 5640-5642 (1997)
  9. Ramesha, V. N. Smolyaninova, J. Gopalakrishnan, and R. L. Greene, “ALaMn2O6-y (A = K,   Rb): Novel Ferromagnetic Manganites Exhibiting Negative Giant Magnetoresistance,” Chem. Mater. 10, 1436-1439 (1998)
  10. V. N. Smolyaninova, K. Ghosh, and R. L. Greene, “Anomalous low-temperature specific heat of charge-ordered La0.5Ca0.5MnO3,” Phys. Rev. B 58, R14725 (1998)
  11. F. M. Araujo-Moreira, M. Rajeswari, A. Goyal, K. Ghosh, V. Smolyaninova, T. Venkatesan,   C. J. Lobb, and R. L. Greene, “Magnetic homogeneity of colossal-magnetoresistance thin films   determined by alternating current magnetic susceptibility,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 73, 3456 (1998)
  12. Brian Litter, Scott A. Sirchio, Vera Smolyaninova, Bryan W. Eichhorn, and Richard L. Greene, “Synthesis, Structure and Magnetism of La15.9(2)Cr5.4(2)S32: A Cr(III) Sulfide containing d3-d3 Cr2S912- Bioctahedra with Large Antiferromagnetic Coupling,” Chem. Mater. 11, 1179-1182 (1999)
  13. Asano, S. B. Ogale, J. Garrison, A. Orozco, E. Li, V. Smolyaninova, C. Galley, M. Downes, M. Rajeswari, R. Ramesh, and T. Venkatesan, “Pulsed laser deposited epitaxial Sr2FeMoO6-y thin films: Positive and negative magnetoresistance regimes,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 74, 3696 (1999)
  14. Shreekala, M. Rajeswari, S. P. Pai, S. E. Lofland, V. Smolyaninova, K. Ghosh, S. B. Ogale,   S. M. Bhagat, M. J. Downes, R. L. Greene, R. Ramesh, and T. Venkatesan, “Effects of Addition of Ag on the Properties of La2/3Ca1/3MnO3 Thin Films,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 74, 2857 (1999)
  15. A. Orozco, S. B. Ogale, Y. H. Li, P. Fournier, Eric Li, H. Asano, V. Smolyaninova, R. L. Greene, R. P. Sharma, R. Ramesh, and T. Venkatesan, “Oscillatory exchange coupling and giant positive magnetoresistance in TiN/Fe3O4 superlatticies,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1680 (1999)
  16. J. R. Simpson, H. D. Drew, V. N. Smolyaninova, R. L. Greene, M. C. Robson, Amlan Biswas, and M. Rajeswari, “Temperature dependent scattering rate and optical mass of ferromagnetic metallic manganites”, Phys. Rev. B 60, R16 263 (1999)
  17. I. Patil, S. M. Bhagat, Q. Q. Shu, S. E. Lofland, S. B. Ogale, V. N. Smolyaninova, R. L. Greene, R. Decca, H. D. Drew, I. O. Troyanchuk, and W. H. McCarroll, “Indications of phase separation in polycrystalline La1-xSrxMnO3 for x~0.5,” Phys. Rev. B 62, 9548 (2000)
  18. W. Prellier, V. Smolyaninova, Amlan Biswas, C. Galley, and R. L. Greene, “Properties of the ferrimagnetic double-perovskites A2FeReO6 (A = Ba and Ca), J. of Phys.: Condens. Matter 12, 965 (2000)
  19. Y. Zhao, Y. H. Li, S. B. Ogale, M. Rajeswari, V. Smolyaninova, T. Wu, L. Salamanca-Riba, R. L. Greene, R. Ramesh, T. Venkatesan, and J.H. Scott, “Electrical transport and magnetic properties of a possible electron-doped layered manganese oxide,” Phys. Rev. B 61, 4141 (2000)
  20. Huang, J. W. Lynn, R. W. Erwin, A. Santoro, D. C. Dender, V. N. Smolyaninova, K. Ghosh, and R. L. Greene, “Temperature and field dependence of the phase separation,     structure, and magnetic ordering in La1-xCaxMnO3 (x = 0.47, 0.50, and 0.53),” Phys. Rev. B 61, 8895 (2000)
  21. S. Z. Gonen, P. Fournier, V. Smolyaninova, R. L. Greene, F. M. Araujo-Moreira, and B. Eichhorn, “Magnetic and transport properties of Ba6Fe8S15 and BaFe2S3: Magnetoresistance in a Spin-Glass Like Fe(II) System,” Chemistry of Materials 12(11), 3331-3336 (2000)
  22. G. M. Zhao, V. Smolyaninova, W. Prellier, and H. Keller, “Electrical transport in the ferromagnetic state of manganites: Small-polaron metallic condition at low temperatures,”   Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 6086 (2000)
  23. V. N. Smolyaninova, X. C. Xie, F. C. Zhang, M. Rajeswari, R. L. Greene, S. Das Sarma,   “Metal-insulator transition in colossal magnetoresistance materials” Phys. Rev. B 62, 3010 (2000)
  24. V. N. Smolyaninova, Amlan Biswas, X. Zhang, K. H. Kim, Bog-Gi Kim, S.-W. Cheong, and R. L. Greene, “Anomalous field-dependent specific heat in charge-ordered Pr1-xCaxMnO3 and La0.5Ca0.5MnO3,” Phys. Rev. B 62, R6093 (2000)
  25. Y. Zhao, R. C. Srivastava, P. Fournier, V. Smolyaninova, M. Rajeswari, T. Wu, Z. Y. Li, R. L. Greene, T. Venkatesan, “Transport and magnetic properties of La0.8Ce0.2MnO3 thin films grown by pulsed paser deposition,” J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 220, 161 (2000)
  26. Serpil Gonen, J. Gopalakrishnan, Scott A. Sirchio, B. W. Eichhorn, V. N. Smolyaninova, and R. L. Greene, “Lithium Substitution in LaMnO3: Synthesis, Structure and Properties of LaMn1-xLixO3 Perovskites,” J. Solid State Chem. 159, 68 (2001)
  27. Amlan Biswas, P. Fournier, V. N. Smolyaninova, R. C. Budhani, J. S. Higgins, and R. L. Greene, “Gapped tunneling spectra in the normal state of Pr2-xCexCuO4-d,” Phys. Rev. B 64,104519 (2001)
  28. I. Smolyaninov, V. N. Smolyaninova, C. C. Davis, S-W. Cheong, and R. L. Greene, “High resolution study of permanent photoinduced reflectivity changes and charge-order domainswitching in Bi0.3Ca0.7MnO3,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 127204 (2001)
  29. Ramesha, J. Gopalakrishnan, V. Smolyaninova, and R. L. Greene, “AlaFeVO6 (A = Ca, Sr): New Double Perovskite Oxides,” Journ. of Solid State Chem. 162,250 (2001)
  30. V. N. Smolyaninova, Amlan Biswas, P. Fournier, S. Lofland, X. Zhang, Guo-meng Zhao, and R. L. Greene, “Influence of oxygen isotope exchange on the ground state of manganites,” Phys. Rev. B 65, 104419 (2002)
  31. A. Biswas, P. Fournier, V. N. Smolyaninova, H. Balci, J. S. Higgins, A. R. C. Budhani, and R. L. Greene, “Tunneling Spectroscopy of the Electron-doped Cuprate Superconductor Pr2-xCexCuO4,” International Journal of Modern Physics B, 16, 3175 (2002)
  32. Amlan Biswas, P. Fournier, M. M. Qazilbash, V. N. Smolyaninova, Hamza Balci, and R. L. Greene, “Evidence of d-wave to s-wave pairing symmetry transition in the electron-doped cuprate superconductor Pr2-xCexCuO4,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 207004 (2002)
  33. V. N. Smolyaninova, S. E. Lofland, C. Hill, R. C. Budhani, Z. Serpil Gonen, B. W. Eichhorn, and R. L. Greene, “Effect of A-site cation disorder on charge ordering and ferromagnetizm of La0.5Ca0.5-yBayMnO3,” Journ. of Magn. Magn. Mat. 248, 348 (2002)
  34. Hamza Balci, V. N. Smolyaninova, P. Fournier, Amlan Biswas, and R. L. Greene, “Magnetic field dependence of electronic specific heat in Pr2-xCexCuO4,” Phys. Rev. B 66, 174510 (2002)
  35. V. N. Smolyaninova, Amlan Biswas, C. Hill, Bog-Gi Kim, S-W. Cheong, and R. L. Greene,“Charge order to two-dimensional metal crossover in Pr0.5(Sr1-yCay)0.5MnO3,” Journ. of Magn. Magn. Mat., 267, 300 (2003)
  36. P. Adams, J. W. Lynn, V. N. Smolyaninova, Amlan Biswas, R. L. Greene, W. Ratcliff II, S-W. Cheong, Y. M. Mukovskii, and D. A. Shulyatev, “First-order nature of the ferromagnetic phase transition in (La-Ca)MnO3 near optimal doping,” Phys. Rev. B 70, 124414 (2004)
  37. G. Landry, M. M. Miller, B. R. Bennett, M. Johnson, and V. Smolyaninova, “Characterization of single magnetic particles with InAs SQW Hall Devices,” Applied Physics Letters 85, 4693 (2004)
  38. Igor I. Smolyaninov, Christopher C. Davis, Vera N. Smolyaninova, David Schaefer, Jill Elliott, and Anatoly V. Zayats, “Plasmon-induced magnetization of metallic nanostructures,” Rev. B 71, 035425 (2005) This paper was featured in the February 14, 2005 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
  39. V. N. Smolyaninova, M. Rajeswari, R. Kennedy, M. Overby, S. E. Lofland, L. Z. Chen, and R. L. Greene, “Photoinduced resistivity changes in Bi0.4Ca0.6MnO3 thin films,” Applied Physics Letters 86, 071922 (2005)
  40. C. S. Nelson, R. M. Kolagani, M. Overby, V.N. Smolyaninova, and R. Kennedy, “Charge order in photosensitive Bi0.4Ca0.6MnO3 thin films,” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 18, 997 (2006)
  41. R. M. Kolagani, Mason A. Overby, V. N. Smolyaninova, Anthony Davidson, and David Cox, “Non-bollometric response in (La,Pr)0.7Ca0.3MnO3 thin films,” Applied Physics Letters 88, 052504 (2006)
  42. V. N. Smolyaninova, E. Talanova, Rajeswari M. Kolagani, G. Yong, R. Kennedy, M. Steger, D. Schaefer, and K. Wall, “Enhancement of Photoinduced Effects in Bi1-xCaxMnO3 Thin Films,” Applied Physics Letters 90, 222501 (2007)
  43. V. N. Smolyaninova, E. Talanova, R. Kennedy, Rajeswari M. Kolagani, M. Overby, L. Aldaco, G. Yong, and K. Karki, “Photoinduced phase-separation in Bi0.4Ca0.6MnO3 thin films,” Phys. Rev. B 76, 104423 (2007)
  44. Igor I. Smolyaninov, Vera N. Smolyaninova, Alexander V. Kildishev, and Vladimir M. Shalaev, “Anisotropic Metamaterials Emulated by Tapered Waveguides: Application to Optical Cloaking,” Physical Review Letters 102, 213901

This paper has received extensive press coverage (about 90 000 internet links in science and general news media around the world) including articles in 2Physics, Scientific American, NSF news,  EE times, Eureka Alert of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2Physics, and my interview on WYPR “Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast” on June 1, 2009.

  1. V. N. Smolyaninova, G. Yong, Rajeswari M. Kolagani, K. Karki, and B. Hofmann, “Effects of oxygen depletion on photoinduced and transport properties of thin films of charge-ordered manganites,” Journal of Applied Physics 106, 043902 (2009).
  2. Vera N. Smolyaninova, Igor I. Smolyaninov, Alexander V. Kildishev, and Vladimir M. Shalaev, “Experimental observation of the trapped rainbow,” Applied Physics Letters 96, 211121 (2010). This work has received extensive press coverage (about 700 000 of internet links in science and general news media around the world) including articles in New Scientist, Francis (th)E mule Science’s News, Sciencestage, Tech News Daily. It has been selected for the June 14, 2010 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology. It is listed as one of the top 10 physics stories of 2009 published in New Scientist.
  3. Vera N. Smolyaninova, Igor I. Smolyaninov, Alexander V. Kildishev, and Vladimir M. Shalaev, “Maxwell fish-eye and Eaton lenses emulated by microdroplets,” Optics Letters 35, 3396 (2010). This work was featured by the SPIE Newsroom, September 30, 2010.
  4. V. N. Smolyaninova, Igor I. Smolyaninov, Alexander V. Kildishev, and Vladimir M.Shalaev, “Broadband Transformation Optics Devices,” Materials 3, 4793 (2010) (special issue: Next wave of metamaterials, invited feature review article)
  5. Grace J. Yong, Rajeswari M. Kolagani, Benjamin Hofmann, Sanjay Adhikari, Liang, Vera Smolyaninova, “Epitaxial Integration of Photoresponsive Bi0.4Ca0.6MnO3 with Si(001),” Journal of Applied Physics 109, 063913 (2011)
  6. V. N. Smolyaninova, G. Yong, Rajeswari M. Kolagani, Amlan Biswas, H. K. Ermer, K. Wang, and A. Piazza, “Large photoinduced conductivity reduction in thin films of metallic ferromagnetic manganites,” Applied Physics Letters 99, 222507 (2011)
  7. V. N. Smolyaninova, I. I. Smolyaninov, A. V. Kildishev and V. M. Shalaev, “Trapped rainbow techniques for spectroscopy on a chip and fluorescence enhancement,” Applied Physics B 106, 577 (2011)

This work was featured in Virtual Journal of Laser

  1. V. N. Smolyaninova, I. I. Smolyaninov, H. K. Ermer, “Experimental demonstration of a broadband array of invisibility cloaks in the visible frequency range,” New Journal of Physics 14, 053029 (2012).

This article has been selected for inclusion in IOP (Institute of Physics) Select. (IoP Select is a special collection of journal articles, chosen by our Editors based on one or more of the following criteria: *Substantial advances or significant breakthroughs *A high degree of novelty *Significant impact on future research, it has also been selected by the editors of New Journal of Physics for inclusion in the exclusive ‘Highlights of 2012’ collection. Papers are chosen on the basis of referee endorsement, novelty, scientific impact and broadness of appeal.)

NJP has also made a press release about this paper, which generated a wide press coverage including BBC News, Physics World, EurekAlert!(AAAS), etc.

  1. Vera N. Smolyaninova, H. Kurt Ermer, Alex Piazza, David Schaefer, and Igor I. Smolyaninov, “Experimental demonstration of birefringent transformation optics devices,” Rev. B 87, 075406 (2013)
  2. Igor I. Smolyaninov, Bradley Yost, Evan Bates, and Vera N. Smolyaninova, “Experimental demonstration of metamaterial “multiverse” in a ferrofluid,” Optics Express 21, 014918 (2013). This work generated considerable media interest including MIT Technology Review, ExtremeTech, The Econimist, etc.
  3. Vera N. Smolyaninova, Bradley Yost, David Lahneman, Evgenii E. Narimanov & Igor I. Smolyaninov, “Self-assembled tunable photonic hyper-crystals,” Scientific Reports (Nature publishing group) 4, 5706 (2014)  . This work was featured by SPIE NewsRoom, Laser Focus World, etc.
  4. V. N. Smolyaninova, B. Yost, K. Zander, M. S. Osofsky, H. Kim, S. Saha, R. L. Greene, and I. I. Smolyaninov “Experimental demonstration of superconducting critical temperature increase in electromagnetic metamaterials”, Scientific Reports (Nature publishing group) 4, 7321 (2014). This work generated considerable media interest including ExtremeTech, The Physics arXiv Blog, etc.
  5. I. Smolyaninov and V.N. Smolyaninova, “Is there a metamaterial route to high temperature superconductivity?” Advances in Condensed Matter Physics 2014, 479635 (2014) This work generated considerable media interest including MIT Technology Review, NSF Science 360, PhysicsWorld, Superconductor Week, etc.
  6. I. I. Smolyaninov and V. N. Smolyaninova, “Metamaterial superconductors,” Physical Review B 91, 094501 (2015)
  7. Vera N. Smolyaninova, David Lahneman, Todd Adams, Thomas Gresock, Kathryn Zander, Christopher Jensen, and Igor I. Smolyaninov, “Experimental demonstration of Luneburg waveguides,” Photonics 2, 440 (2015), invited paper for special issue New Frontiers in Plasmonics and Metamaterials
  8. Peng Xu, T.J. Huffman, N.C. Branagan, M.M. Qazilbash, P. Srivastava, T. Goehringer, G. Yong, V. Smolyaninova & R. Kolagani, “Novel aspects of charge and lattice dynamics in the hole-doped manganite La0.67Sr0.33MnO3,” Philosophical Magazine 95:19, 2078-2091 (2015)
  9. I. I. Smolyaninov, V. N. Smolyaninova and A. I. Smolyaninov, “Experimental model of topological defects in Minkowski space–time based on disordered ferrofluid: magnetic monopoles, cosmic strings and the space–time cloak,” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A  373: 20140360 (2015).
  10. Vera N. Smolyaninova, Kathryn Zander, Thomas Gresock, Christopher Jensen, Joseph C. Prestigiacomo, M. S. Osofsky & Igor I. Smolyaninov, “Using metamaterial nanoengineering to triple the superconducting critical temperature of bulk aluminum,” Scientific Reports (Nature publishing group) 5,15777 (2015).  This work was highlighted by SPIE NewsRoom, Superconductor Week and other media outlets.
  11. Vera Smolyaninova, Christopher Jensen, William Zimmerman, Anthony Johnson, David Schaefer and Igor Smolyaninov, “Lithographically fabricated magnifying Maxwell fisheye lenses,” Photonics 2016, 3(1), 8; doi:10.3390/photonics3010008 (2016)
  12. I. I. Smolyaninov and V. N. Smolyaninova, “Theoretical modeling of critical temperature increase in metamaterial superconductors,” Physical Review B 93, 184510 (2016)
  13. Eduardo Bittencourt, Jonas P. Pereira, Igor I. Smolyaninov and Vera N. Smolyaninova, “The flexibility of optical metrics,” Classical and Quantum Gravity 33(16), 165008 (2016).
  14. Augustine M. Urbas, Zubin Jacob, Luca Dal Negro, Nader Engheta, A. D. Boardman, P. Egan, Alexander B. Khanikaev, Vinod Menon, Marcello Ferrera, Nathaniel Kinsey, Clayton DeVault, Jongbum Kim, Vladimir Shalaev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Jason Valentine, Carl Pfeiffer, Anthony Grbic, Evgenii Narimanov, Linxiao Zhu, Shanhui Fan, Andrea Alù, Ekaterina Poutrina, Natalia M. Litchinitser, Mikhail A. Noginov, Kevin F. MacDonald, Eric Plum, Xiaoying Liu, Paul F. Nealey, Cherie R. Kagan, Christopher B. Murray, Dorota A. Pawlak, Igor I. Smolyaninov, Vera N. Smolyaninova and Debashis Chanda, “Roadmap on optical metamaterials,” Journal of Optics 18, 093005 (2016) (review).
  15. Vera N. Smolyaninova, Christopher Jensen, William Zimmerman, Joseph C. Prestigiacomo, Michael S. Osofsky, Heungsoo Kim, Nabil Bassim, Zhen Xing, Mumtaz M. Qazilbash, and  Igor I. Smolyaninov, “Enhanced superconductivity in aluminum-based hyperbolic metamaterials,” Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) 6, 34140 (2016)
  16. Jonas P. Pereira, Igor I. Smolyaninov, and Vera N. Smolyaninova, “Magnetic liquids under high electric fields as broadband optical diodes,” Phys. Rev. A 94, 043852 (2016)
  17. I.I. Smolyaninov and V.N. Smolyaninova, “Enhancement of critical temperature in fractal metamaterial superconductors”, Physica C 535, 20-23 (2017)
  18. Igor I. Smolyaninov, Vera N. Smolyaninova, “Hyperbolic metamaterials: Novel physics and applications,” Solid-State Electronics 136, 102 (2017)
  19. Igor I. Smolyaninov, Vera N. Smolyaninova, “Ultrathin ultralight acoustic cloak,” Functional Nanomaterials 1: #C91YCW (2017) https://doi.org/10.22261/C91YCW
  20. Igor I. Smolyaninov, Vera N. Smolyaninova, “Fine tuning and MOND in a metamaterial “multiverse,” Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) 7, 8023 (2017)
  21. M. McCall, J.B. Pendry, V. Galdi, Y. Lai, S.A.R. Horsley, J. Li, J. Zhu, R.C Mitchell-Thomas, O. Quevedo-Teruel, P. Tassin, V. Ginis, E. Martini, G. Minatti, S. Maci, Quevedo-Teruel, M. Ebrahimpouri, Y. Hao, P. Kinsler, J. Gratus, J.M. Lukens, A.M. Weiner, U. Leonhardt, I.I. Smolyaninov, V.N. Smolyaninova, R.T. Thompson, M. Wegener, M. Kadic and S.A. Cummer, “Roadmap on transformation optics”, Journal of Optics 20, 063001 (2018)
  22. I.I. Smolyaninov and V.N. Smolyaninova, “Metamaterial superconductors”, Nanophotonics 7, 795–818, (2018)