Yong Sun

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
180 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Yong Sun is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yong Sun has authored 180 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 88 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 62 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yong Sun's work include Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (68 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (45 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (41 papers). Yong Sun is often cited by papers focused on Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (68 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (45 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (41 papers). Yong Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Yong Sun's co-authors include Haitao Jiang, Hong Chen, Yunhui Li, Hong Chen, Zhiwei Guo, Wei Tan, Hongqiang Li, Jensen Li, Feng Wu and Jiaju Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yong Sun

171 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Experimental Demonstration of a Coherent Perfect Absorber with PT Phase Transition

2014 392 citations Yong Sun, Hong Chen et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers

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Zhuomin M. Zhang United States

Feng Wu China

Karl Joulain France

Alexander Yu. Petrov Germany

Jie Luo China

François Marquier France

Yao Liang China

Peining Li China

Lei Bi China

Ho Wai Howard Lee United States

Zhuomin M. Zhang United States

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Countries citing papers authored by Yong Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yong Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yong Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yong Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yong 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 Yong Sun. Yong Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Huang, Wei, et al.. (2025). Dynamic conversion between electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption in an electrically biased meta-molecule. Physica Scripta. 100(8). 85503–85503. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Jiaju, Zhiwei Guo, Xin Qi, et al.. (2025). Metacavities by harnessing the linear‐crossing metamaterials. Nanophotonics. 14(1). 51–58. 1 indexed citations

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Bi, Dexi, Zhiwei Guo, Qiang Wang, et al.. (2025). Significant Non‐Reciprocal Transmission Achieved by Combining Nonlinear Near‐Zero Index Materials with Bound States in the Continuum. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(7). 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Han, Jie Jiang, Haitao Jiang, et al.. (2025). Observation of robust polarization conversion via topological edge states in dimer chains. Journal of Optics. 27(4). 45401–45401. 3 indexed citations

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Qi, Xin, Yu Ye, Chao Wu, et al.. (2025). Observation of steerable polarization conversion in metasurfaces with parity-time phase transition. Applied Physics Letters. 126(26).

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Yang, Lei, et al.. (2024). Electrically switchable metamaterial analogue to electromagnetically induced transparency. Physica B Condensed Matter. 694. 416458–416458. 2 indexed citations

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Jiang, Jie, Fusheng Deng, Zhiwei Guo, et al.. (2024). Hybrid metamaterials combining zero-index and graded-index materials for multi-directional Bessel beam generation. Optical Materials Express. 14(4). 1085–1085.

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Qi, Xin, Jiaju Wu, Feng Wu, et al.. (2024). Topologically enabled giant angle-insensitive Goos-Hänchen shift by tunable merging bound states in the continuum of a quasiflat band. Physical review. B.. 110(3). 6 indexed citations

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Wu, Jiaju, Jie Jiang, Zhiwei Guo, et al.. (2024). Chirality-dependent topological edge states in photonic metacrystal. Optics Letters. 49(15). 4262–4262. 2 indexed citations

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Yu, Ye, Yiwei Wang, Xiaogang Yao, et al.. (2024). Realization of Gapped and Ungapped Photonic Topological Anderson Insulators. Physical Review Letters. 132(6). 66602–66602. 3 indexed citations

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Jiang, Jun, Zhiwei Guo, Yong Sun, et al.. (2024). Stable dynamic wireless power transfer via a space-extendable high-order Non-Hermitian system. Physica Scripta. 99(2). 25519–25519. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Sheng, Bin Liu, Yang Wu, et al.. (2023). Prototype design and experimental study of fission neutron imaging at China Mianyang research reactor. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 1061. 169061–169061. 1 indexed citations

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Zhu, Kejia, Zhiwei Guo, Yuguang Chen, et al.. (2023). Robustness of Wireless Power Transfer Systems with Parity-Time Symmetry and Asymmetry. Energies. 16(12). 4605–4605. 6 indexed citations

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Wu, Jiaju, Wei Qian, Feng Wu, et al.. (2022). On-chip multiple beam splitting assisted by bound states in the continuum. Optics Letters. 47(12). 3135–3135. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuqian, Zhiwei Guo, Xian Wu, et al.. (2021). Significant enhancement of magnetic shielding effect by using the composite metamaterial composed of mu-near-zero media and ferrite. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 13–13. 6 indexed citations

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Guo, Li, Zhiwei Guo, Jie Ren, et al.. (2021). Reconfigurable magnetic near-field distributions based on the coding metasurfaces in MHz band. Optics Express. 29(9). 13908–13908. 3 indexed citations

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Song, Juan, Zhiwei Guo, Xian Wu, et al.. (2021). Actively controlled asymmetric edge states for directional wireless power transfer. Optics Express. 29(5). 7844–7844. 22 indexed citations

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Wu, Jiaju, Feng Wu, Zhiwei Guo, et al.. (2020). Giant Goos-Hänchen shift with a high reflectance assisted by interface states in photonic heterostructures. Physical review. A. 101(5). 43 indexed citations

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Guo, Zhiwei, Haitao Jiang, Yong Sun, Yunhui Li, & Hong Chen. (2018). Asymmetric topological edge states in a quasiperiodic Harper chain composed of split-ring resonators. Optics Letters. 43(20). 5142–5142. 29 indexed citations

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Guo, Zhiwei, Haitao Jiang, Yong Sun, Yunhui Li, & Hong Chen. (2018). Actively Controlling the Topological Transition of Dispersion Based on Electrically Controllable Metamaterials. Applied Sciences. 8(4). 596–596. 25 indexed citations

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