Sean D. Harrington

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Sean D. Harrington is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean D. Harrington has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 7 papers in Materials Chemistry and 6 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Sean D. Harrington's work include Topological Materials and Phenomena (9 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (6 papers) and Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties (6 papers). Sean D. Harrington is often cited by papers focused on Topological Materials and Phenomena (9 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (6 papers) and Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties (6 papers). Sean D. Harrington collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Sweden. Sean D. Harrington's co-authors include Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Adriana E. Lita, Varun B. Verma, Matthew D. Shaw, J. A. Stern, Thomas Gerrits, Francesco Marsili, Igor Vayshenker and Burm Baek and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Sean D. Harrington

19 papers receiving 981 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.

Detecting single infrared photons with 93% system efficiency

2013 810 citations Francesco Marsili, Varun B. Verma et al. Nature Photonics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean D. Harrington United States	8	664	461	431	238	150	22	1.0k
Xiaolong Hu China	17	516 0.8×	363 0.8×	639 1.5×	196 0.8×	121 0.8×	73	1.0k
S. N. Dorenbos Netherlands	16	586 0.9×	401 0.9×	582 1.4×	186 0.8×	95 0.6×	24	979
Andrew E. Dane United States	16	548 0.8×	362 0.8×	564 1.3×	292 1.2×	124 0.8×	27	1.1k
Andrew D. Beyer United States	17	625 0.9×	367 0.8×	526 1.2×	260 1.1×	146 1.0×	72	1.2k
A. Divochiy Russia	13	501 0.8×	430 0.9×	360 0.8×	229 1.0×	95 0.6×	41	871
Samuel Gyger Sweden	18	515 0.8×	306 0.7×	502 1.2×	124 0.5×	265 1.8×	44	1.0k
Sander N. Dorenbos Netherlands	13	476 0.7×	338 0.7×	411 1.0×	327 1.4×	80 0.5×	19	974
Marco Colangelo United States	16	476 0.7×	270 0.6×	449 1.0×	192 0.8×	89 0.6×	49	1.0k
D. Rosenberg United States	16	621 0.9×	477 1.0×	410 1.0×	145 0.6×	103 0.7×	33	999
Vikas Anant United States	12	942 1.4×	650 1.4×	872 2.0×	226 0.9×	132 0.9×	23	1.4k

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Zhang, Bomin, Po Zhang, Mihir Pendharkar, et al.. (2025). Evidence of $\phi_0$-Josephson junction from skewed diffraction patterns in Sn-InSb nanowires. SciPost Physics. 18(1). 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Po, Mihir Pendharkar, Joon Sue Lee, et al.. (2025). Missing odd-order Shapiro steps do not uniquely indicate fractional Josephson effect. SciPost Physics. 18(6).

Zhang, Bomin, Mihir Pendharkar, Joon Sue Lee, et al.. (2025). Supercurrent through a single transverse mode in nanowire Josephson junctions. Physical review. B.. 111(16).

Pendharkar, Mihir, et al.. (2025). Zero-bias conductance peaks at zero applied magnetic field due to stray fields from integrated micromagnets in hybrid nanowire quantum dots. SciPost Physics. 19(2).

Zhang, Po, Mihir Pendharkar, Joon Sue Lee, et al.. (2024). Large second-order Josephson effect in planar superconductor-semiconductor junctions. SciPost Physics. 16(1). 11 indexed citations

Harrington, Sean D., et al.. (2021). Gated Magnetotransport in α-Sn Thin Films on CdTe. Journal of Electronic Materials. 50(11). 6329–6336. 3 indexed citations

Pendharkar, Mihir, Bomin Zhang, Po Zhang, et al.. (2021). Parity-preserving and magnetic field–resilient superconductivity in InSb nanowires with Sn shells. Science. 372(6541). 508–511. 63 indexed citations

Bonef, Bastien, Sean D. Harrington, Daniel J. Pennachio, James S. Speck, & C. J. Palmstrøm. (2019). Nanometer scale structural and compositional inhomogeneities of half-Heusler CoTi1-xFexSb thin films. Journal of Applied Physics. 125(20). 3 indexed citations

Harrington, Sean D.. (2018). Semiconducting Half-Heusler Based Compounds and Heterostructures Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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Harrington, Sean D., John Logan, Sahil Patel, et al.. (2018). Electronic structure of epitaxial half-Heusler Co1-xNixTiSb across the semiconductor to metal transition. Applied Physics Letters. 113(9). 1 indexed citations

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Logan, John, et al.. (2017). Growth, structural, and magnetic properties of single-crystal full-Heusler Co2TiGe thin films. Journal of Applied Physics. 121(21). 3 indexed citations

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Harrington, Sean D., Abhishek Sharan, Anthony D. Rice, et al.. (2017). Valence-band offsets of CoTiSb/In0.53Ga0.47As and CoTiSb/In0.52Al0.48As heterojunctions. Applied Physics Letters. 111(6). 9 indexed citations

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Logan, John, Sahil Patel, Sean D. Harrington, et al.. (2016). Observation of a topologically non-trivial surface state in half-Heusler PtLuSb (001) thin films. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11993–11993. 42 indexed citations

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Patel, Sahil, John Logan, Sean D. Harrington, B. D. Schultz, & C. J. Palmstrøm. (2015). Surface reconstructions and transport of epitaxial PtLuSb (001) thin films grown by MBE. Journal of Crystal Growth. 436. 145–149. 9 indexed citations

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Verma, Varun B., Francesco Marsili, Sean D. Harrington, et al.. (2013). A three-dimensional, polarization-insensitive superconducting nanowire avalanche photodetector. 16. QM4L.8–QM4L.8. 3 indexed citations

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Marsili, Francesco, Varun B. Verma, J. A. Stern, et al.. (2013). Detecting single infrared photons with 93% system efficiency. Nature Photonics. 7(3). 210–214. 810 indexed citations breakdown →

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Marsili, Francesco, Varun B. Verma, J. A. Stern, et al.. (2013). Detecting Single Infrared Photons with 93% System Efficiency: Supplementary Information. 1 indexed citations

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Marsili, Francesco, Varun B. Verma, J. A. Stern, et al.. (2013). Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors with High System Detection Efficiency at Telecom Wavelengths. 82. JTh2A.103–JTh2A.103. 1 indexed citations

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Verma, Varun B., Francesco Marsili, Sean D. Harrington, et al.. (2012). A three-dimensional, polarization-insensitive superconducting nanowire avalanche photodetector. Applied Physics Letters. 101(25). 59 indexed citations

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Harrington, Sean D., et al.. (2000). How Can Land Tenure and Cadastral Reform Succeed? An Inter-Regional Comparison of Rural Reforms. Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d études du développement. 21(3). 693–723. 7 indexed citations

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