Greg Sun

9.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
193 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Greg Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Greg Sun has authored 193 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 90 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 63 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Greg Sun's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (119 papers), Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (57 papers) and Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (42 papers). Greg Sun is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (119 papers), Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (57 papers) and Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (42 papers). Greg Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Singapore. Greg Sun's co-authors include Jacob B. Khurgin, Richard Soref, Din Ping Tsai, Wei Ting Chen, Shui-Qing Yu, Pin Chieh Wu, Wei Du, Yao‐Wei Huang, John Tolle and Joe Margetis and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Advanced Materials and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Greg Sun

182 papers receiving 6.9k citations

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What are hit papers?

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.

High-Efficiency Broadband Meta-Hologram with Polarization-Controlled Dual Images

2013 674 citations Chih‐Ming Wang, Greg Sun et al. profile →
Aluminum Plasmonic Multicolor Meta-Hologram

2015 500 citations Wei‐Yi Tsai, Pin Chieh Wu et al. profile →
Active dielectric metasurface based on phase‐change medium

2016 346 citations Pin Chieh Wu, Greg Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Greg Sun United States	46	4.1k	3.1k	2.9k	2.9k	1.2k	193	7.2k
Andrei V. Lavrinenko Denmark	42	3.3k 0.8×	3.6k 1.2×	2.9k 1.0×	2.8k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	279	6.7k
Michael Scalora United States	44	4.6k 1.1×	6.9k 2.2×	3.2k 1.1×	2.6k 0.9×	617 0.5×	288	8.9k
Duk‐Yong Choi Australia	59	6.9k 1.7×	6.3k 2.0×	3.8k 1.3×	3.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	318	11.5k
Sven Burger Germany	35	1.6k 0.4×	4.5k 1.5×	1.8k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	558 0.5×	214	6.7k
Eric Plum United Kingdom	41	2.0k 0.5×	2.6k 0.9×	3.3k 1.1×	5.3k 1.8×	2.3k 2.0×	97	6.8k
V.A. Fedotov United Kingdom	42	2.9k 0.7×	4.5k 1.4×	6.2k 2.1×	8.4k 2.9×	3.4k 3.0×	119	10.6k
Nicolae C. Panoiu United Kingdom	43	2.7k 0.7×	4.1k 1.3×	2.8k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	178	6.5k
Costantino De Angelis Italy	40	3.0k 0.7×	4.3k 1.4×	2.7k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	592 0.5×	291	6.4k
Kirill Koshelev Australia	30	2.9k 0.7×	4.0k 1.3×	4.4k 1.5×	4.1k 1.4×	1.5k 1.3×	68	7.3k
Alexander N. Poddubny Russia	37	2.2k 0.5×	4.7k 1.5×	3.4k 1.2×	3.2k 1.1×	987 0.9×	168	7.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Greg Sun

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Greg, Wenjie Li, Peng Wan, et al.. (2025). Ultrahigh-sensitivity PtNPs@CsCu2I3/AlGaN van der Waals heterojunction self-powered photodetector enabling precision solar-blind UV photometric quantification. Applied Physics Letters. 127(1).

Ghosh, Soumava, Greg Sun, Shui-Qing Yu, & Guo‐En Chang. (2024). Impact of Carrier Momentum (k)-Space Separation on GeSn Infrared Photodetectors. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 31(1: SiGeSn Infrared Photon. and). 1–11. 5 indexed citations

Bansal, Radhika, et al.. (2024). High‐Detectivity GeSn Mid‐Infrared Photodetectors for Sensitive Infrared Spectroscopy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(6).

Ghosh, Soumava, et al.. (2023). Dark Current Analysis on GeSn p-i-n Photodetectors. Sensors. 23(17). 7531–7531. 17 indexed citations

Chang, Guo‐En, Shui-Qing Yu, & Greg Sun. (2023). “GeSn Rule-23”—The Performance Limit of GeSn Infrared Photodiodes. Sensors. 23(17). 7386–7386. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Shengwei, et al.. (2023). Plasmon enhancement of third-order nonlinear optical absorption of gold nanoparticles dispersed in planar oriented nematic liquid crystals. Nanotechnology. 34(36). 365205–365205. 4 indexed citations

Ghosh, Soumava, Radhika Bansal, Greg Sun, et al.. (2022). Design and Optimization of GeSn Waveguide Photodetectors for 2-µm Band Silicon Photonics. Sensors. 22(11). 3978–3978. 21 indexed citations

Soref, Richard, et al.. (2021). Electro-absorption modulation in GeSn alloys for wide-spectrum mid-infrared applications. Communications Materials. 2(1). 24 indexed citations

Tran, Huong, Thach Pham, Joe Margetis, et al.. (2019). Study of High Performance GeSn Photodetectors with Cutoff Wavelength Up to 3.7 μm for Low-Cost Infrared Imaging. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1 indexed citations

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Song, Zhigang, W. J. Fan, Chuan Seng Tan, et al.. (2019). Band Structure of Strained $\mathrm{Ge}_{1-x}~\mathrm{Sn}_{x}$ Alloy: A Full-Zone 30-Band ${k}\cdot{p}$ Model. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 56(1). 1–8. 8 indexed citations

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Tsai, Wei‐Yi, Tsung Lin Chung, Hui‐Hsin Hsiao, et al.. (2018). Second Harmonic Light Manipulation with Vertical Split Ring Resonators. Advanced Materials. 31(7). e1806479–e1806479. 45 indexed citations

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Dou, Wei, Yiyin Zhou, Joe Margetis, et al.. (2018). Optically pumped lasing at 3 μm from compositionally graded GeSn with tin up to 223%. Optics Letters. 43(19). 4558–4558. 60 indexed citations

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Margetis, Joe, Sattar Al-Kabi, Wei Du, et al.. (2017). Si-Based GeSn Lasers with Wavelength Coverage of 2–3 μm and Operating Temperatures up to 180 K. ACS Photonics. 5(3). 827–833. 139 indexed citations

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Du, Wei, Seyed Amir Ghetmiri, Joe Margetis, et al.. (2017). Investigation of optical transitions in a SiGeSn/GeSn/SiGeSn single quantum well structure. Journal of Applied Physics. 122(12). 23 indexed citations

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Al-Kabi, Sattar, Seyed Amir Ghetmiri, Joe Margetis, et al.. (2016). An optically pumped 2.5 μm GeSn laser on Si operating at 110 K. Applied Physics Letters. 109(17). 169 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yiyin, Wei Dou, Wei Du, et al.. (2016). Systematic study of GeSn heterostructure-based light-emitting diodes towards mid-infrared applications. Journal of Applied Physics. 120(2). 63 indexed citations

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Conley, Benjamin R., Joe Margetis, Wei Du, et al.. (2014). Si based GeSn photoconductors with a 1.63 A/W peak responsivity and a 2.4 μm long-wavelength cutoff. Applied Physics Letters. 105(22). 66 indexed citations

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Sun, Greg & Jacob B. Khurgin. (2011). Theory of optical emission enhancement by coupled metal nanoparticles: An analytical approach. Applied Physics Letters. 98(11). 18 indexed citations

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Sun, Greg, A. T. Lin, Dusun Hwang, Won‐Taek Han, & Y. Chung. (2008). Gain-clamped discrete Raman amplifier with suppressed low-frequency relative intensity noise pump-to-signal transfer. Laser Physics. 18(10). 1192–1195. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Greg & L. Friedman. (1996). Heavy-hole scattering by confined nonpolar optical phonons in a singleSi1−xGex/Siquantum well. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 53(7). 3966–3974. 14 indexed citations

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