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  1. Improving spatial and timing resolution of 3D diamond detectors

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, November 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  2. Wavelength-tunable femtosecond pulsed laser for the characterisation of solid-state sensors

    Article • Journal of Instrumentation, October 2025, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  3. Yb2-Tb Upconversion in a Hetero-Trimetallic Molecular Lanthanide Complex

    Article • September 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  4. Interfaces in Epitaxially Grown Zn3P2 Nanowires and Their Composition-Dependent Optoelectronic Properties for Photovoltaic Applications

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, July 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  5. Bayesian Optimized Design for O-Band Bottom-Up Grown Microring Lasers

    Article • ACS Photonics, July 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  6. Wafer-scale correlated morphology and optoelectronic properties in GaAs/AlGaAs core–shell nanowires

    Article • APL Materials, June 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Ishika Das, Dr Patrick Parkinson

  7. High‐Throughput Single‐Nanowire Optoelectronic Characterization Using Microfluidic Technology

    Article • Advanced Photonics Research, April 2025, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  8. Colloidal quantum dots grown from singly-doped seed clusters: a spin-photon interface for quantum memories and quantum repeaters

    Article • March 2025, SPIE

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  9. Enhanced spin lifetime in colloidal quantum dots by growth from singly Mn-doped molecular cluster seeds

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  10. High-Throughput Spectroscopy of Geometry-Tunable Arrays of Axial InGaAs Nanowire Heterostructures with Twin-Induced Carrier Confinement

    Article • Nano Letters, November 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  11. Development of 3D diamond detectors for application in future particle physics experiments

    Article • October 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  12. Data‐Driven Discovery for Robust Optimization of Semiconductor Nanowire Lasers

    Article • Laser & Photonics Review, October 2024, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  13. Optical Characterization of Size‐ and Substrate‐Dependent Performance of Ultraviolet Hybrid Plasmonic Nanowire Lasers

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, August 2024, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  14. Efficiency droop in zincblende InGaN/GaN quantum wells

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  15. Heterometallic lanthanide complexes with site-specific binding that enable simultaneous visible and NIR-emission

    Article • Frontiers in Chemistry, July 2023, Frontiers

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  16. Disentangling the Impact of Point Defect Density and Carrier Localization-Enhanced Auger Recombination on Efficiency Droop in (In,Ga)N/GaN Quantum Wells

    Article • ACS Photonics, July 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  17. Highly repeatable, high density lasers by shape and growth engineering

    Article • ACS Nano, July 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  18. Sub‐Picosecond Carrier Dynamics Explored using Automated High‐Throughput Studies of Doping Inhomogeneity within a Bayesian Framework

    Article • Small, April 2023, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  19. Improving Quantum Well Tube Homogeneity Using Strained Nanowire Heterostructures

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, February 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  20. Holistic Nanowire Laser Characterization as a Route to Optimal Design

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, January 2023, Wiley

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  21. Learning about nano-materials from large experimental data

    Article • ACS Nano, May 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  22. Defect-Free Axially Stacked GaAs/GaAsP Nanowire Quantum Dots with Strong Carrier Confinement

    Article • Nano Letters, June 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  23. Self-Catalyzed AlGaAs Nanowires and AlGaAs/GaAs Nanowire-Quantum Dots on Si Substrates

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, June 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  24. Effect of Micron-scale Photoluminescence Variation on Droop Measurements in InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, May 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  25. How to measure, understand and use the natural disorder in bottom-up grown semiconductor nanowires

    Article • Journal of Physics Photonics, February 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  26. Facet-Related Non-uniform Photoluminescence in Passivated GaAs Nanowires

    Article • Frontiers in Chemistry, December 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  27. Carrier dynamics and recombination mechanisms in InP twinning superlattice nanowires

    Article • Optics Express, May 2020, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  28. Spatially and temporally resolved degradation in antisolvent treated perovskite films

    Article • April 2020, SPIE

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  29. Efficient nano-sized lasers through material engineering

    Article • Light Science & Applications, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  30. A needle in a needlestack: exploiting functional inhomogeneity for optimized nanowire lasing

    Article • March 2020, SPIE

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  31. Building laser systems on the nanoscale

    Article • Nano Letters, February 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  32. Visualizing the role of photoinduced ion migration on photoluminescence in halide perovskite grains

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  33. Effect of Size on the Luminescent Efficiency of Perovskite Nanocrystals

    Article • ACS Applied Energy Materials, October 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  34. Visible and infrared photocurrent enhancement in a graphene-silicon Schottky photodetector through surface-states and electric field engineering

    Article • 2D Materials, August 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  35. Highly Strained III–V–V Coaxial Nanowire Quantum Wells with Strong Carrier Confinement

    Article • ACS Nano, May 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  36. Two-Dimensional Diffusion of Excitons in a Perylene Diimide Monolayer Quenched by a Fullerene Heterojunction

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, April 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  37. Emission Properties and Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics of CsPbCl3 Perovskite Nanocrystals

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, January 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  38. Threshold reduction and yield improvement of semiconductor nanowire lasers via processing-related end-facet optimization

    Article • Nanoscale Advances, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  39. Optical Study of p-Doping in GaAs Nanowires for Low-Threshold and High-Yield Lasing

    Article • Nano Letters, December 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  40. Extended spectral range CMOS-compatible Graphene/Silicon-Hybrid-Photodetectors: Free-space light detection from the visible to short-wave infrared

    Article • December 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  41. Engineering semiconductor nanowires for photodetection: from visible to terahertz

    Article • September 2018, SPIE

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  42. The Route to Nanoscale Terahertz Technology: Nanowire-based Terahertz Detectors and Terahertz Modulators

    Article • September 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  43. Modal refractive index measurement in nanowire lasers—a correlative approach

    Article • Nano Futures, July 2018, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  44. Distinguishing cap and core contributions to the photoconductive terahertz response of single GaAs based core–shell–cap nanowire detectors

    Article • Lithuanian Journal of Physics, March 2018, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  45. Three-dimensional direct laser written graphitic electrical contacts to randomly distributed components

    Article • Applied Physics A, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  46. Towards substrate engineering of graphene–silicon Schottky diode photodetectors

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Andrew Thomas, Dr Patrick Parkinson

  47. Graphene–silicon-on-insulator (GSOI) Schottky diode photodetectors

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  48. Large-Scale Statistics for Threshold Optimization of Optically Pumped Nanowire Lasers

    Article • Nano Letters, July 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  49. The influence of surfaces on the transient terahertz conductivity and electron mobility of GaAs nanowires

    Article • Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, May 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  50. Single n+-i-n+InP nanowires for highly sensitive terahertz detection

    Article • Nanotechnology, February 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  51. Direct laser write process for 3D conductive carbon circuits in polyimide

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  52. Broadband Phase-Sensitive Single InP Nanowire Photoconductive Terahertz Detectors

    Article • Nano Letters, July 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  53. Characterization of a silica-PVA hybrid for high density and stable silver dissolution

    Article • Materials Chemistry and Physics, July 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  54. Size-Independent Energy Transfer in Biomimetic Nanoring Complexes

    Article • ACS Nano, May 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  55. Photoconductive terahertz receivers utilizing single semiconductor nanowires

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  56. Terahertz spectroscopy of modulation doped core-shell GaAs/AlGaAs nanowires

    Article • August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  57. Identification of a triplet pair intermediate in singlet exciton fission in solution

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  58. Rapid Energy Transfer Enabling Control of Emission Polarization in Perylene Bisimide Donor–Acceptor Triads

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, April 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  59. Structure-Directed Exciton Dynamics in Templated Molecular Nanorings

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, March 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  60. Modulation Doping of GaAs/AlGaAs Core–Shell Nanowires With Effective Defect Passivation and High Electron Mobility

    Article • Nano Letters, January 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  61. Ultrafast delocalization of excitation in synthetic light-harvesting nanorings

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  62. Single Nanowire Terahertz Detectors

    Article • January 2015, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  63. Low ensemble disorder in quantum well tube nanowires

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  64. Chromophores in Molecular Nanorings: When Is a Ring a Ring?

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, December 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  65. Single Nanowire Photoconductive Terahertz Detectors

    Article • Nano Letters, December 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  66. Single GaAs/AlGaAs nanowire photoconductive terahertz detectors

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  67. Ultrafast Transient Terahertz Conductivity of Monolayer MoS2 and WSe2 Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition

    Article • ACS Nano, November 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  68. Electron Mobilities Approaching Bulk Limits in “Surface-Free” GaAs Nanowires

    Article • Nano Letters, September 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  69. Ultrafast Energy Transfer in Biomimetic Multistrand Nanorings

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, June 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  70. Dual-channel spontaneous emission of quantum dots in magnetic metamaterials

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  71. III–V semiconductor nanowires for optoelectronic device applications

    Article • December 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  72. Optically pumped room-temperature GaAs nanowire lasers

    Article • Nature Precedings, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  73. High vertical yield InP nanowire growth on Si(111) using a thin buffer layer

    Article • Nanotechnology, October 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  74. Enhanced Minority Carrier Lifetimes in GaAs/AlGaAs Core–Shell Nanowires through Shell Growth Optimization

    Article • Nano Letters, October 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  75. High performance GaAs/AlGaAs radial heterostructure nanowires grown by MOCVD

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  76. Defect formation and thermal stability of H in high dose H implanted ZnO

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, August 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  77. Three-Dimensional in Situ Photocurrent Mapping for Nanowire Photovoltaics

    Article • Nano Letters, March 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  78. Droplet epitaxy of strain-free GaAs/AlGaAs quantum molecules for optoelectronic applications

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  79. Growth and characterization of GaAs1−xSbx nanowires

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  80. Growth of InP nanowires on silicon using a thin buffer layer

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  81. III-V nanowires for optoelectronic applications

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  82. Improved GaAs nanowire solar cells using AlGaAs for surface passivation

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  83. Improvement of minority carrier lifetime in GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs core-shell nanowires

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  84. InP nanowires grown by SA-MOVPE

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  85. Influence of growth temperature and V/III ratio on Au-assisted InxGa1−xAs nanowires

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  86. Non-linear direct-laser-write lithography for semiconductor nanowire characterisation

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  87. Optoelectronic properties of GaAs nanowire photodetector

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  88. Structural and optical properties of H implanted ZnO

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  89. Polarization Tunable, Multicolor Emission from Core–Shell Photonic III–V Semiconductor Nanowires

    Article • Nano Letters, November 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  90. Precursor flow rate manipulation for the controlled fabrication of twin-free GaAs nanowires on silicon substrates

    Article • Nanotechnology, September 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  91. Raman probing of competitive laser heating and local recrystallization effect in ZnO nanocrystals

    Article • Optics Express, September 2012, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  92. Coupling of light from microdisk lasers to nano-antennas with nano-tapers

    Article • September 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  93. Noncontact Measurement of Charge Carrier Lifetime and Mobility in GaN Nanowires

    Article • Nano Letters, August 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  94. Direct-write non-linear photolithography for semiconductor nanowire characterization

    Article • Nanotechnology, August 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  95. A plasmonic staircase nano-antenna device with strong electric field enhancement for surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) applications

    Article • Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, July 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  96. Long minority carrier lifetime in Au-catalyzed GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs core-shell nanowires

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, July 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  97. Distinct Photocurrent Response of Individual GaAs Nanowires Induced by n-Type Doping

    Article • ACS Nano, June 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  98. Rapid, substrate-independent thickness determination of large area graphene layers

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, December 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  99. Surface Energy Relay Between Cosensitized Molecules in Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, November 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  100. III–V semiconductor nanowires for optoelectronic device applications

    Article • Progress in Quantum Electronics, March 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  101. Ultrafast Charge Separation at a Polymer−Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Molecular Junction

    Article • Nano Letters, January 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  102. Improved Performance of GaAs-Based Terahertz Emitters via Surface Passivation and Silicon Nitride Encapsulation

    Article • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, January 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  103. Ultrafast Charge Separation at a Single-walled Carbon Nanotube – Polymer Interface

    Article • MRS Proceedings, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  104. Characterisation of nanostructures via terahertz spectroscopy

    Article • December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  105. The role of ultrafast torsional relaxation in the emission from polythiophene aggregates

    Article • December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  106. Role of Ultrafast Torsional Relaxation in the Emission from Polythiophene Aggregates

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, September 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  107. Improved performance of GaAs-based terahertz emitters

    Article • September 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  108. Dynamic terahertz polarization in single-walled carbon nanotubes

    Article • Physical Review B, August 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  109. Ultrafast Terahertz Conductivity Dynamics in Mesoporous TiO2: Influence of Dye Sensitization and Surface Treatment in Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, December 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  110. Carrier Lifetime and Mobility Enhancement in Nearly Defect-Free Core−Shell Nanowires Measured Using Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy

    Article • Nano Letters, September 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  111. Conductivity of nanoporous InP membranes investigated using terahertz spectroscopy

    Article • November 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  112. Efficient generation of charges via below-gap photoexcitation of polymer-fullerene blend films investigated by terahertz spectroscopy

    Article • Physical Review B, September 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  113. Conductivity of nanoporous InP membranes investigated using terahertz spectroscopy

    Article • Nanotechnology, August 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  114. Compound Semiconductors for Terahertz Photonics

    Article • October 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  115. Transient Terahertz Conductivity of GaAs Nanowires

    Article • Nano Letters, July 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson

  116. Dimensionality-dependent energy transfer in polymer-intercalatedSnS2nanocomposites

    Article • Physical Review B, April 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Patrick Parkinson