Chuting Tan, Robinson James, Bin Dong, M. Sky Driver, Jeffry A. Kelber, Greg Downing, Lei R. Cao. "Characterization of a boron carbide-based polymer neutron sensor," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A. Vol. 803, 82-88, 2015.

P. Mulligan, J.H. Wang, L. R. Cao, "Evaluation of Freestanding GaN as an Alpha and Neutron Detector," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A:. Vol. 719, 13-16. 2013.

J.H. Wang, P. Mulligan, L. R. Cao, "Transient Current Analysis of a GaN Radiation Detector by TCAD," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A, Vol. 761, no. 11: 7-12. 2014.

Neil Taylor, Nora Alnajjar, Josh Jarrell, Praneeth Kandlakunta, Michael Simpson, Thomas E. Blue, and Lei R. Cao, “Isotopic Concentration of Uranium from Alpha Spectrum of Electrodeposited Source on 4H-SiC Detector”, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry

Praneeth Kandlakunta, Lei R. Cao, "Neutron conversion efficiency and gamma interference with gadolinium," Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. Vol. 300, no. 3: 953-961. 2014.

Wang, Lei, Josh Jarrell, Sha Xue, Chuting Tan, Thomas Blue, and Lei R. Cao. "Fast neutron detection at near-core location of a research reactor with a SiC detector." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 888 (2018): 126-131.

Wei, Haotong, Dylan DeSantis, Wei Wei, Yehao Deng, Dengyang Guo, Tom J. Savenije, Lei Cao, and Jinsong Huang. "Dopant compensation in alloyed CH 3 NH 3 PbBr3xCl1-x perovskite single crystals for gamma-ray spectroscopy." Nature materials 16, no. 8 (2017): 826.

Haotong Wei, Yanjun Fang, Padhraic Mulligan, William Chuirazzi, Hong-Hua Fang, Congcong Wang, Benjamin R. Ecker, Yongli Gao, Maria Antonietta Loi, Lei Cao, Jinsong Huang, "Sensitive X-ray detectors made of methylammonium lead tribromide perovskite single crystals," Nature Photonics. Vol. 10, 333–339. 2016.

Yang, Shuang, Zeyuan Xu, Sha Xue, Praneeth Kandlakunta, Lei Cao, and Jinsong Huang. "Organohalide Lead Perovskites: More Stable than Glass under Gamma‐Ray Radiation." Advanced Materials (2018): 1805547. (Role: project co-PI, advised students, wrote part of the paper)

Sha Xue, Chuting Tan, Praneeth Kandlakunta, Ibrahim Oksuz, Vasil Hlinka, Lei R. Cao, "Method to improve power conversion efficiency of nuclear voltaic battery" Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, (2018, DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2019.01.097)