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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
50
Citations
9550
World Ranking
2816
National Ranking
157

Materials Science

D-Index
51
Citations
9674
World Ranking
9882
National Ranking
394

Graham A. Turnbull publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Graham A. Turnbull sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 208 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Graham A. Turnbull D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Graham A. Turnbull sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Overview

Graham A. Turnbull is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Engineering, with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Additional subfields of study include Oceanography and Spectroscopy.

Their work encompasses several main topics, including Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Strong Light-Matter Interactions, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices.

Turnbull has contributed to a variety of scholarly publications. Recent papers include:

  • Electrically driven organic laser using integrated OLED pumping (2023, Nature)
  • 245 MHz bandwidth organic light-emitting diodes used in a gigabit optical wireless data link (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Organic photovoltaics for simultaneous energy harvesting and high-speed MIMO optical wireless communications (2021, Light Science & Applications)
  • Organic semiconductors for visible light communications (2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences)
  • Triple-cation perovskite solar cells for visible light communications (2020, Photonics Research)

The scientist frequently collaborates with peers such as Ifor D. W. Samuel, Ross N. Gillanders, Kou Yoshida, Harald Haas, and Lethy Krishnan Jagadamma.

Turnbull's research has been published in various notable venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Light Science & Applications
  • Laser & Photonics Review
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • Organic semiconductor lasers.

    I D W Samuel;G A Turnbull

  • The generation of free-space Laguerre-Gaussian modes at millimetre-wave frequencies by use of a spiral phaseplate

    G.A. Turnbull;D.A. Robertson;G.M. Smith;L. Allen

  • How to recognize lasing

    Ifor D. W. Samuel;Ifor D. W. Samuel;Ebinazar B. Namdas;Graham A. Turnbull

  • Hybrid optoelectronics: A polymer laser pumped by a nitride light-emitting diode

    Y. Yang;G. A. Turnbull;I. D. W. Samuel

  • Emission Characteristics and Performance Comparison of Polyfluorene Lasers with One- and Two-Dimensional Distributed Feedback

    G. Heliotis;R. Xia;G. A. Turnbull;P. Andrew

  • Relationship between photonic band structure and emission characteristics of a polymer distributed feedback laser

    G. A. Turnbull;P. Andrew;M. J. Jory;William L. Barnes

  • Light amplification and gain in polyfluorene waveguides

    George Heliotis;Donal D. C. Bradley;Graham A. Turnbull;If Or D. W. Samuel

  • Operating characteristics of a semiconducting polymer laser pumped by a microchip laser

    G. A. Turnbull;P. Andrew;William L. Barnes;I. D. W. Samuel

  • Flexible and Ultra-Lightweight Polymer Membrane Lasers

    Markus Karl;James M. E. Glackin;Marcel Schubert;Nils M. Kronenberg

  • Visible light communication using a blue GaN mu LED and fluorescent polymer color converter

    Hyunchae Chun;Pavlos Manousiadis;Sujan Rajbhandari;Dimali A. Vithanage

  • Blue, surface-emitting, distributed feedback polyfluorene lasers

    G. Heliotis;R. Xia;D. D. C. Bradley;G. A. Turnbull

  • Probing the energy levels of perovskite solar cells via Kelvin probe and UV ambient pressure photoemission spectroscopy

    Jonathon Robert Harwell;T. K. Baikie;I. D. Baikie;Julia Louise Payne

  • Electrically driven organic laser using integrated OLED pumping

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  • Nanoimprinted organic semiconductor laser pumped by a light-emitting diode

    Georgios Tsiminis;Yue Wang;Alexander L. Kanibolotsky;Anto R. Inigo

  • Two-dimensional distributed feedback lasers using a broadband, red polyfluorene gain medium

    G. Heliotis;R. Xia;D. D. C. Bradley;G. A. Turnbull

  • Low-threshold organic laser based on an oligofluorene truxene with low optical losses

    Georgios Tsiminis;Yue Wang;Paul E. Shaw;Alexander L. Kanibolotsky

  • Polymer lasers: recent advances

    Ifor D.W. Samuel;Graham A. Turnbull

  • Polymer laser fabricated by a simple micromolding process

    Justin R. Lawrence;Graham A. Turnbull;Ifor D. W. Samuel

  • Sensitive Explosive Vapor Detection with Polyfluorene Lasers

    Ying Yang;Graham A. Turnbull;Ifor D. W. Samuel

  • Diode pumped distributed Bragg reflector lasers based on a dye-to-polymer energy transfer blend.

    A. E. Vasdekis;G. Tsiminis;J.-C. Ribierre;Liam O’Faolain

  • Organic solar cells as high-speed data detectors for visible light communication

    Shuyu Zhang;Dobroslav Tsonev;Stefan Videv;Sanjay Ghosh

Frequent Co-Authors

Ifor D. W. Samuel
Ifor D. W. Samuel University of St Andrews
Peter J. Skabara
Peter J. Skabara University of Glasgow
Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh
Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh Institute of Photonic Sciences
Dominic O'Brien
Dominic O'Brien University of Oxford
Sujan Rajbhandari
Sujan Rajbhandari University of Strathclyde
Grahame Faulkner
Grahame Faulkner University of Oxford
William L. Barnes
William L. Barnes University of Exeter
Martin D. Dawson
Martin D. Dawson University of Strathclyde
Harald Haas
Harald Haas University of Cambridge
Malte C. Gather
Malte C. Gather University of St Andrews

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