Keye Sun

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Keye Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Keye Sun has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 42 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 7 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Keye Sun's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (46 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (35 papers) and Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (20 papers). Keye Sun is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (46 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (35 papers) and Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (20 papers). Keye Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Keye Sun's co-authors include Andréas Beling, Mool C. Gupta, Jesse Morgan, Benjamin J. Foley, Joe C. Campbell, Louis Scudiero, Joshua J. Choi, Wissam A. Saidi, Qinglong Li and Mirko Fraschke and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Nature Photonics.

In The Last Decade

Keye Sun

60 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Ultra-fast germanium photodiode with 3-dB bandwidth of 26... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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. Ultra-fast germanium photodiode with 3-dB bandwidth of 265 GHz
    2021 195 citations Stefan Lischke, Anna Pęczek et al. Nature Photonics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Keye Sun United States 17 985 483 241 108 69 62 1.1k
Binhao Wang United States 20 939 1.0× 259 0.5× 121 0.5× 51 0.5× 93 1.3× 90 1.1k
Alfonso Ruocco United States 19 1.0k 1.0× 632 1.3× 179 0.7× 187 1.7× 15 0.2× 42 1.2k
Huong Tran United States 13 1.0k 1.0× 445 0.9× 130 0.5× 262 2.4× 19 0.3× 37 1.0k
Daniel Benedikovič France 20 1.3k 1.4× 787 1.6× 108 0.4× 182 1.7× 37 0.5× 65 1.4k
S. J. Spector United States 16 980 1.0× 518 1.1× 167 0.7× 153 1.4× 28 0.4× 46 1.1k
Kevin Gallacher United Kingdom 18 735 0.7× 569 1.2× 182 0.8× 312 2.9× 69 1.0× 57 986
Kambiz Abedi Iran 17 748 0.8× 457 0.9× 73 0.3× 256 2.4× 11 0.2× 94 873
Mansour Mortazavi United States 17 1.2k 1.2× 597 1.2× 180 0.7× 323 3.0× 14 0.2× 58 1.3k
Emir Salih Magden United States 19 812 0.8× 688 1.4× 106 0.4× 77 0.7× 36 0.5× 49 925
Carlos Errando-Herranz Sweden 17 746 0.8× 457 0.9× 90 0.4× 167 1.5× 22 0.3× 43 927

Countries citing papers authored by Keye Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Keye Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Keye 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 Keye Sun. The network helps show where Keye Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keye Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Keye Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Keye 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 Keye Sun. Keye 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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March, Stephen D., Andrew H. Jones, Yang Shen, et al.. (2023). Photon-trapping-enhanced avalanche photodiodes for mid-infrared applications. Nature Photonics. 17(7). 594–600. 64 indexed citations
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Morgan, Jesse, et al.. (2023). Bias-Insensitive GaAsSb/InP CC-MUTC Photodiodes for mmWave Generation up to 325 GHz. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 41(23). 7092–7097. 7 indexed citations
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Shao, Linbo, Lingyan He, Kevin Luke, et al.. (2022). High-performance modified uni-traveling carrier photodiode integrated on a thin-film lithium niobate platform. Photonics Research. 10(6). 1338–1338. 57 indexed citations
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Morgan, Jesse, et al.. (2021). High-Power V-Band-to-G-Band Photonically Driven Electromagnetic Emitters. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 69(2). 1474–1487. 9 indexed citations
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Lischke, Stefan, Anna Pęczek, Jesse Morgan, et al.. (2021). Publisher Correction: Ultra-fast germanium photodiode with 3-dB bandwidth of 265 GHz. Nature Photonics. 16(3). 258–258. 3 indexed citations
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Lischke, Stefan, Anna Pęczek, Jesse Morgan, et al.. (2021). Ultra-fast germanium photodiode with 3-dB bandwidth of 265 GHz. Nature Photonics. 15(12). 925–931. 195 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Beichen, Jesse Morgan, Keye Sun, et al.. (2021). Towards high-power, high-coherence, integrated photonic mmWave platform with microcavity solitons. Light Science & Applications. 10(1). 4–4. 59 indexed citations
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Sun, Keye, et al.. (2020). Efficient absorption enhancement approaches for AlInAsSb avalanche photodiodes for 2-μm applications. Optics Express. 28(17). 24379–24379. 12 indexed citations
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Peng, Yiwei, Keye Sun, Yang Shen, Andréas Beling, & Joe C. Campbell. (2020). Photonic generation of pulsed microwave signals in the X-, Ku- and K-band. Optics Express. 28(19). 28563–28563. 4 indexed citations
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Sun, Keye, et al.. (2020). 40  Gbit/s waveguide photodiode using III–V on silicon heteroepitaxy. Optics Letters. 45(11). 2954–2954. 14 indexed citations
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Sun, Keye, et al.. (2019). Ge-on-Si Balanced Periodic Traveling-Wave Photodetector. 1–2. 4 indexed citations
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Beling, Andréas, et al.. (2018). High Power Integrated 100 GHz Photodetectors. 4 indexed citations
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Sun, Keye, et al.. (2018). Ge-on-Si Waveguide Photodiode Array for High-Power Applications. 1–2. 9 indexed citations
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Xie, Linli, Keye Sun, Jizhao Zang, et al.. (2018). High-performance InGaAs/InP photodiodes on silicon using low-temperature wafer-bonding. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. SM2I.1–SM2I.1. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Keye, Daehwan Jung, Chen Shang, et al.. (2017). Low-dark current III-V photodiodes grown on silicon substrate. 3. 95–96. 6 indexed citations
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Sun, Keye, Jesse Moody, Qinglong Li, Steven M. Bowers, & Andréas Beling. (2017). High Power Integrated Photonic W-Band Emitter. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 66(3). 1668–1677. 16 indexed citations
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Moody, Jesse, Keye Sun, Qinglong Li, Andréas Beling, & Steven M. Bowers. (2016). A Vivaldi antenna based W-band MUTC photodiode driven radiator. 217–220. 10 indexed citations
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Nayak, Barada K., et al.. (2011). Self-organized 2D periodic arrays of nanostructures in silicon by nanosecond laser irradiation. Applied Optics. 50(16). 2349–2349. 13 indexed citations

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