Zhipei Sun

19.6k total citations · 8 hit papers
231 papers, 12.2k citations indexed

About

Zhipei Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhipei Sun has authored 231 papers receiving a total of 12.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 124 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 103 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhipei Sun's work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (85 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (71 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (55 papers). Zhipei Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (85 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (71 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (55 papers). Zhipei Sun collaborates with scholars based in Finland, China and United States. Zhipei Sun's co-authors include A. Martinez, Feng Wang, Tawfique Hasan, Harri Lipsanen, Henri Jussila, Francesco Bonaccorso, Andrea C. Ferrari, Yunyun Dai, Anton Autere and Qing Dai and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Zhipei Sun

221 papers receiving 11.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Optical modulators with 2D layered materials

2016 1.2k citations Zhipei Sun et al. Nature Photonics profile →
Production and processing of graphene and 2d crystals

2012 815 citations Tawfique Hasan, Zhipei Sun et al. profile →
Nanotube and graphene saturable absorbers for fibre lasers

2013 673 citations Zhipei Sun et al. Nature Photonics profile →
Nonlinear Optics with 2D Layered Materials

2018 596 citations Anton Autere, Yunyun Dai et al. profile →
Single-nanowire spectrometers

2019 411 citations Zongyin Yang, Weiwei Cai et al. profile →
Miniaturized spectrometers with a tunable van der Waals junction

2022 205 citations Hoon Hahn Yoon, Henry A. Fernández et al. profile →
Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials

2022 163 citations Yunyun Dai, Yadong Wang et al. profile →
Moiré photonics and optoelectronics

2023 142 citations Luojun Du, Zhipei 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
Zhipei Sun Finland	56	7.0k	5.9k	5.4k	3.7k	1.8k	231	12.2k
Ritesh Agarwal United States	49	5.1k 0.7×	3.3k 0.6×	5.0k 0.9×	4.4k 1.2×	2.0k 1.2×	114	9.8k
E. H. Hwang United States	61	6.7k 1.0×	7.8k 1.3×	13.3k 2.4×	3.1k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	203	17.1k
Tobias Stauber Spain	35	3.7k 0.5×	5.0k 0.9×	9.0k 1.7×	5.0k 1.4×	2.4k 1.3×	94	12.5k
Cefe López Spain	48	4.1k 0.6×	7.1k 1.2×	3.2k 0.6×	2.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	188	10.2k
Roman Gorbachev United Kingdom	46	6.1k 0.9×	5.9k 1.0×	14.2k 2.6×	3.1k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	93	16.9k
Ming Liu China	30	4.9k 0.7×	3.5k 0.6×	2.8k 0.5×	5.9k 1.6×	3.5k 2.0×	242	10.2k
Junichiro Kono United States	61	5.5k 0.8×	6.0k 1.0×	6.9k 1.3×	3.3k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	330	13.3k
Yuanjiang Xiang China	57	5.1k 0.7×	5.7k 1.0×	3.8k 0.7×	4.7k 1.3×	3.2k 1.8×	284	11.8k
Limin Tong China	64	10.7k 1.5×	5.8k 1.0×	3.0k 0.6×	6.0k 1.6×	1.6k 0.9×	322	15.0k
Yong P. Chen United States	51	3.3k 0.5×	4.1k 0.7×	7.7k 1.4×	2.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	232	10.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhipei Sun

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

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Cui, Xiaoqi, Andreas C. Liapis, Mingde Du, et al.. (2025). Miniaturized spectral sensing with a tunable optoelectronic interface. Science Advances. 11(4). eado6886–eado6886. 9 indexed citations

You, Yilong, Zijing Ding, Mengxian Ding, et al.. (2025). Phase Matching of High Harmonic Generation in Twisted van der Waals Crystals. Physical Review Letters. 135(16). 166902–166902.

Liu, Can, Zhibin Zhang, Zhipei Sun, et al.. (2024). Understanding epitaxial growth of two-dimensional materials and their homostructures. Nature Nanotechnology. 19(7). 907–918. 60 indexed citations

Singh, Neetesh, Jan Lorenzen, Milan Sinobad, et al.. (2024). Silicon photonics-based high-energy passively Q-switched laser. Nature Photonics. 18(5). 485–491. 21 indexed citations

Liu, Peng, Er‐Xiong Ding, Xiaoqi Cui, et al.. (2024). Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Wearable All-Carbon Nanotube Photodetector Arrays. ACS Nano. 18(29). 18900–18909. 19 indexed citations

Ma, Chaojie, Chang Liu, Quanlin Guo, et al.. (2024). Strong chiroptical nonlinearity in coherently stacked boron nitride nanotubes. Nature Nanotechnology. 19(9). 1299–1305. 18 indexed citations

Uddin, Md Gius, Xiaoqi Cui, Fida Ali, et al.. (2023). Strain Engineering for Enhancing Carrier Mobility in MoTe₂ Field‐Effect Transistors. Advanced Science. 10(29). e2303437–e2303437. 16 indexed citations

Cui, Xiaoqi, Yi Zhang, Andreas C. Liapis, & Zhipei Sun. (2023). Reconstructive spectrometers taper down in price. Light Science & Applications. 12(1). 142–142. 2 indexed citations

Ahmed, Faisal, Henry A. Fernández, Yi Zhang, et al.. (2023). Deterministic Polymorphic Engineering of MoTe₂ for Photonic and Optoelectronic Applications. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(33). 15 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yi, et al.. (2023). Prospect of optical chirality logic computing. Applied Physics Letters. 123(24). 7 indexed citations

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Zhao, Bin, Xuetong Shi, Sergei Khakalo, et al.. (2023). Wood-based superblack. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7875–7875. 32 indexed citations

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Bai, Xueyin, Qiang Zhang, Shisheng Li, et al.. (2022). Molybdenum Disulfide/Double‐Wall Carbon Nanotube Mixed‐Dimensional Heterostructures. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 9(13). 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Song, et al.. (2022). Widely-tunable harmonic mode-locked fiber laser by the combination of spectral filtering and gain management. Optics & Laser Technology. 157. 108726–108726. 13 indexed citations

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Vainio, Markku, et al.. (2022). Terahertz radiation detection with a cantilever-based photoacoustic sensor. Optics Express. 30(24). 43417–43417. 2 indexed citations

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Yoon, Hoon Hahn, Faisal Ahmed, Yunyun Dai, et al.. (2021). Tunable Quantum Tunneling through a Graphene/Bi₂Se₃ Heterointerface for the Hybrid Photodetection Mechanism. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(49). 58927–58935. 18 indexed citations

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Yang, He, Yuhang He, Tuomas Haggrén, et al.. (2021). Enhanced terahertz emission from mushroom-shaped InAs nanowire network induced by linear and nonlinear optical effects. Nanotechnology. 33(8). 85207–85207. 5 indexed citations

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Du, Luojun, Yanchong Zhao, Xuerong Hu, et al.. (2021). Giant anisotropic photonics in the 1D van der Waals semiconductor fibrous red phosphorus. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4822–4822. 56 indexed citations

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Hynninen, Ville, Sourov Chandra, Susobhan Das, et al.. (2021). Luminescent Gold Nanocluster‐Methylcellulose Composite Optical Fibers with Low Attenuation Coefficient and High Photostability. Small. 17(27). e2005205–e2005205. 36 indexed citations

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Zuo, Yonggang, Wentao Yu, Can Liu, et al.. (2020). Optical fibres with embedded two-dimensional materials for ultrahigh nonlinearity. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(12). 987–991. 119 indexed citations

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Zhang, Weiwei, Anton Autere, Carlos Alonso‐Ramos, et al.. (2019). Ultra-high on-chip optical gain in erbium-based hybrid slot waveguides. Nature Communications. 10(1). 432–432. 126 indexed citations

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