Jie Sun

5.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
83 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Jie Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Jie Sun has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 32 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 17 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Jie Sun's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (55 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (18 papers) and Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (16 papers). Jie Sun is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (55 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (18 papers) and Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (16 papers). Jie Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Jie Sun's co-authors include Michael R. Watts, Ehsan Shah Hosseini, Erman Timurdogan, Ami Yaacobi, Haisheng Rong, Ranjeet Kumar, Shin‐Tson Wu, Douglas Coolbaugh, Gerald Leake and Cheryl Sorace-Agaskar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Jie Sun

80 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Large-scale nanophotonic phased array 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2016 2014 250 500 750
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.

  1. Large-scale nanophotonic phased array
    2013 945 citations Jie Sun, Erman Timurdogan et al. Nature profile →
  2. High-resolution aliasing-free optical beam steering
    2016 405 citations Jie Sun, J. K. Doylend et al. profile →
  3. An ultralow power athermal silicon modulator
    2014 340 citations Erman Timurdogan, Cheryl Sorace-Agaskar et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Jie Sun
Erman Timurdogan United States
Michael J. Strain United Kingdom
David Fattal United States
Xianshu Luo Singapore
J. K. Doylend United States
Jianji Dong China
Xinlun Cai China
M. J. Steel Australia
Ozdal Boyraz United States
Christopher V. Poulton United States
Erman Timurdogan United States
Jie Sun
Citations per year, relative to Jie Sun Jie Sun (= 1×) peers Erman Timurdogan

Countries citing papers authored by Jie Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jie Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jie Sun. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Jie Sun. The network helps show where Jie Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jie Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jie Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jie Sun based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jie Sun. Jie Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sun, Jie, et al.. (2025). Exploring the impact of internet use on cognitive abilities in the older adults: evidence from the CHARLS 2020 database. Frontiers in Public Health. 13. 1510418–1510418. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Hao, Bryan Casper, Ganesh Balamurugan, et al.. (2019). A 112 Gb/s PAM4 Silicon Photonics Transmitter With Microring Modulator and CMOS Driver. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 38(1). 131–138. 51 indexed citations
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Sun, Jie, Ranjeet Kumar, Meer Sakib, et al.. (2018). A 128 Gb/s PAM4 Silicon Microring Modulator With Integrated Thermo-Optic Resonance Tuning. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 37(1). 110–115. 212 indexed citations
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Sakib, Meer, Jie Sun, Ranjeet Kumar, Jeffrey B. Driscoll, & Haisheng Rong. (2018). Demonstration of a 50 Gb/s all-silicon waveguide photodetector for photonic integration. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. JTh5A.7–JTh5A.7. 16 indexed citations
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Kumar, Ranjeet, J. K. Doylend, Meer Sakib, Jie Sun, & Haisheng Rong. (2018). Demonstration of an On-Chip III-V/Si Hybrid Semiconductor Optical Amplifier for Photonics Integration. 1–2. 9 indexed citations
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Su, Zhan, Ehsan Shah Hosseini, Erman Timurdogan, et al.. (2017). Whispering gallery germanium-on-silicon photodetector. Optics Letters. 42(15). 2878–2878. 18 indexed citations
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Timurdogan, Erman, Cheryl Sorace-Agaskar, Jie Sun, et al.. (2014). An ultralow power athermal silicon modulator. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4008–4008. 340 indexed citations breakdown →
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Purnawirman, Jie Sun, Thomas Adam, et al.. (2013). C- and L-band erbium-doped waveguide lasers with wafer-scale silicon nitride cavities. Optics Letters. 38(11). 1760–1760. 64 indexed citations
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Sun, Jie, Erman Timurdogan, Ami Yaacobi, Ehsan Shah Hosseini, & Michael R. Watts. (2013). Large-scale nanophotonic phased array. Nature. 493(7431). 195–199. 945 indexed citations breakdown →
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Watts, Michael R., Jie Sun, Christopher T. DeRose, et al.. (2013). Adiabatic thermo-optic Mach–Zehnder switch. Optics Letters. 38(5). 733–733. 245 indexed citations
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Sun, Jie, Yuan Chen, & Shin‐Tson Wu. (2012). Submillisecond-response and scattering-free infrared liquid crystal phase modulators. Optics Express. 20(18). 20124–20124. 50 indexed citations
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Xu, Su, Hongwen Ren, Jie Sun, & Shin‐Tson Wu. (2012). Polarization independent VOA based on dielectrically stretched liquid crystal droplet. Optics Express. 20(15). 17059–17059. 18 indexed citations
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Chen, Yuan, Haiqing Xianyu, Jie Sun, et al.. (2011). Low absorption liquid crystals for mid-wave infrared applications. Optics Express. 19(11). 10843–10843. 44 indexed citations
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Orcutt, Jason S., Anatol Khilo, Charles W. Holzwarth, et al.. (2011). Nanophotonic integration in state-of-the-art CMOS foundries. Optics Express. 19(3). 2335–2335. 102 indexed citations
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Xianyu, Haiqing, Liang Xiao, Jie Sun, & Shin‐Tson Wu. (2010). High performance dual frequency liquid crystal compounds and mixture for operation at elevated temperature. Liquid Crystals. 37(12). 1493–1499. 12 indexed citations
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Sun, Jie, Charles W. Holzwarth, Marcus S. Dahlem, J. Todd Hastings, & Henry I. Smith. (2008). Accurate frequency alignment in fabrication of high-order microring-resonator filters. Optics Express. 16(20). 15958–15958. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Jie, Devin A. Mourey, Dalong Zhao, et al.. (2007). Fast ZnO Thin-Film Transistor Circuits. 19–20. 3 indexed citations
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Dai, Yitang, Xiangfei Chen, Jie Sun, & Shizhong Xie. (2006). Wideband multichannel dispersion compensation based on a strongly chirped sampled Bragg grating and phase shifts. Optics Letters. 31(3). 311–311. 16 indexed citations
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Zhai, Hongchen, et al.. (1999). Color pattern recognition in white-light joint transform correlation. Applied Optics. 38(35). 7238–7238. 2 indexed citations
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D’Ambrosio, C., et al.. (1991). Reflection losses in polystyrene fibres. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 306(3). 549–556. 12 indexed citations

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