Shang Sun

2.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
50 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Shang Sun is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Shang Sun has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 18 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Shang Sun's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (18 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (13 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (10 papers). Shang Sun is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (18 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (13 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (10 papers). Shang Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Shang Sun's co-authors include Shumin Xiao, Qinghai Song, Cheng‐Wei Qiu, Yisheng Gao, Zonghui Duan, Chen Zhang, Kaiyang Wang, Zhang‐Kai Zhou, Xuehua Wang and Kuang Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as ACS Nano, Nature Nanotechnology and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Shang Sun

47 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

All-Dielectric Full-Color Printing with TiO2 Metasurfaces 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2020 2020 100 200 300
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. All-Dielectric Full-Color Printing with TiO2 Metasurfaces
    2017 399 citations Shang Sun, Chen Zhang et al. ACS Nano profile →
  2. An optically driven digital metasurface for programming electromagnetic functions
    2020 245 citations Xin Ge Zhang, Wei Jiang et al. Nature Electronics profile →
  3. A Fully Phase‐Modulated Metasurface as An Energy‐Controllable Circular Polarization Router
    2020 238 citations Yueyi Yuan, Shang Sun et al. Advanced Science profile →

Peers

Shang Sun
Sensong An United States
Zhiqiang Guan China
Gwanho Yoon South Korea
Jianxiong Li China
Clara Rivero‐Baleine United States
Chengchun Tang China
Zhongyang Li China
Tzu‐Ting Huang Taiwan
Junhwa Seong South Korea
Jin Tao China
Sensong An United States
Shang Sun
Citations per year, relative to Shang Sun Shang Sun (= 1×) peers Sensong An

Countries citing papers authored by Shang Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shang Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shang Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shang Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shang 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 Shang Sun. Shang 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, Shang, Zhe Wang, Guojian Li, et al.. (2025). Probing the structural, morphological, electronic, and magnetic properties of Co-doped ZnO films grown by magnetron sputtering: A combined experimental, computational, and simulation approach. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1020. 179479–179479. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Guojian, Zhe Wang, Shang Sun, et al.. (2025). Structural, magnetic, and electrical property modulation in ZnO and V- and Cr-doped ZnO films via defect engineering. Materials Science and Engineering B. 323. 118818–118818.
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Li, Zhijie, Shang Sun, Wenjing Zhang, et al.. (2025). Eco-friendly in-situ electrospun PLA/ZnO-ZnF2 biomass composite separator enabling stable zinc anode for sustainable aqueous batteries. Journal of Energy Storage. 135. 118387–118387.
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Li, Wei, Jiayue Li, Manman Duan, et al.. (2024). Toehold and hairpin assembly-mediated tripedal DNA walker for circulating tumor DNA detection in human blood. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 424. 136887–136887. 3 indexed citations
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Luo, Hao, Fan Li, Mingli Wang, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing the phase of vanadium oxides enables redox-catalysis manipulated reversible sulfur conversion for stable Zn–S batteries. Chemical Science. 16(2). 753–760. 22 indexed citations
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Han, Jiaping, et al.. (2022). Corrosion behavior of Y2O3 reinforced Ti/TiC/TiB composite in simulated seawater and its dry friction performance. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 20. 3875–3890. 7 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhiyuan, Zheng Zhang, Weikang Wu, et al.. (2021). Floating solid-state thin films with dynamic structural colour. Nature Nanotechnology. 16(7). 795–801. 57 indexed citations
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Hong, Xuanmiao, Guangwei Hu, Wenchao Zhao, et al.. (2020). Structuring Nonlinear Wavefront Emitted from Monolayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides. Research. 2020. 9085782–9085782. 49 indexed citations
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Yuan, Yueyi, Shang Sun, Yang Chen, et al.. (2020). A Fully Phase‐Modulated Metasurface as An Energy‐Controllable Circular Polarization Router. Advanced Science. 7(18). 2001437–2001437. 238 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Xin Ge, Wei Jiang, Hao Jiang, et al.. (2020). An optically driven digital metasurface for programming electromagnetic functions. Nature Electronics. 3(3). 165–171. 245 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xue, Jiancai, Zhang‐Kai Zhou, Shang Sun, et al.. (2019). Perturbative countersurveillance metaoptics with compound nanosieves. Light Science & Applications. 8(1). 101–101. 46 indexed citations
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Huang, Yao‐Wei, He‐Xiu Xu, Shang Sun, et al.. (2019). Structured Semiconductor Interfaces: Active Functionality on Light Manipulation. Proceedings of the IEEE. 108(5). 772–794. 16 indexed citations
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Bao, Yanjun, Ying Yu, Haofei Xu, et al.. (2019). Full-colour nanoprint-hologram synchronous metasurface with arbitrary hue-saturation-brightness control. Light Science & Applications. 8(1). 95–95. 209 indexed citations
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Gao, Yisheng, Can Huang, Chenglong Hao, et al.. (2018). Lead Halide Perovskite Nanostructures for Dynamic Color Display. ACS Nano. 12(9). 8847–8854. 158 indexed citations
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Sun, Shang, Wenhong Yang, Chen Zhang, et al.. (2018). Real-Time Tunable Colors from Microfluidic Reconfigurable All-Dielectric Metasurfaces. ACS Nano. 12(3). 2151–2159. 168 indexed citations
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Sun, Shang, Chen Zhang, Yisheng Gao, et al.. (2017). All-Dielectric Full-Color Printing with TiO2 Metasurfaces. ACS Nano. 11(5). 4445–4452. 399 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Shang, et al.. (2017). All‐Dielectric Meta‐Reflectarray for Efficient Control of Visible Light. Annalen der Physik. 530(3). 20 indexed citations
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Yi, Ningbo, Shang Sun, Yisheng Gao, et al.. (2016). Large-Scale and Defect-Free Silicon Metamaterials with Magnetic Response. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 25760–25760. 11 indexed citations
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Song, Qinghai, Nan Zhang, Shuai Liu, et al.. (2014). The combination of high Q factor and chirality in twin cavities and microcavity chain. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 6493–6493. 15 indexed citations

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