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About Me

My interest field can be best summarized as an exploration of light-matter interaction at the nanoscale. The main research focus areas are the development of: photonic structures that confine light and artificially engineered optical materials such as metamaterials, optical micro-cavities and hybrid excitonic materials that display optical properties that surpass naturally occurring materials. These focus areas are motivated by the quest to develop next-generation computing technologies including those that exploit the quantum property of light, ultrasensitive sensors for chemical and biological detection, and high-efficiency energy transfer systems.

Contact Details

Zheng Sun
500 Dongchuan Rd, A307 Optics Building, Shanghai, 200241 CN
+86-18017854698
zsun@lps.ecnu.edu.cn

Education

City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center

PH.D in Physics Advisor: Prof. Vinod Menon Sep 2017

Fudan University

Master Degree in Physics Advisor: Prof. Zhanghai Chen and Prof. Xuechu Shen Jan 2012

Zhejiang Normal University

B.S. Degree in Physics Advisor: Prof. Sheng Li Jun 2008

Work

East China Normal University

Professor Dec 2020 - Now

I build a Bose-Einstein condensation and nonlinear optics of exciton and polariton systems research group in the State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy at East China Normal University. Our experimental group uses a wide array of optical methods to study fundamental questions of quantum mechanics in semiconductor systems.

University of Pittsburgh

Postdoc Fellow Advisor: Prof. David Snoke Nov 2017 - Oct 2020

As a postdoc, I'm working under the supervision of Prof. David Snoke to perform electronic and optical measurements. Also, I have been a team leader mentoring three graduate students and one undergraduate student.

Research Interests

  • Excitons in two-dimensional Semiconductors of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)
  • Cavity quantum electrodynamics using inorganic and hybrid microcavities
  • Engineered nonlinear optical materials based on hybrid nanocomposites
  • Optical electro control of the polaritons and related applications
  • Quantum simulator in polaritons
  • Transportation of polaritons in GaAs quantum wells based microcavity

Publications

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  • * Corresponding author; # Co-first author)

  • Under Consideration

  • 1. J. Beaumariage, Z. Sun, H. Alnatah, D. M. Myers, M. Steger, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. West, Z. Wasilewski and D. W. Snoke, "Measurement of exciton fraction of microcavity exciton-polaritons using transfer-matrix modeling," (2024).
  • 2. Shiyi Yuan, Yuanjun Guan, Yang Zhao, Cunbin An, Bo Liao, Chunling Gu, Zheng Sun*, Qing Liao, Hongbing Fu, "Colorful organic polariton light-emitting diodes with narrowbands emission" (2024)
  • 3. Lingxiao Yu, Minglang Gao, Qian Lv, Hanyuan Ma, Jingzhi Shang, Zhenghong Huang, Zheng Sun, Ting Yu, Feiyu Kang and Ruitao Lv, “High-fidelity Transfer of 2D Semiconductors and Electrodes for van der Waals Devices” (2024)
  • 2024

  • 1. Yongsheng Hu, Danqun Mao, Linqi Chen, Yuanjun Guan, Long Zhang, Hongxing, Dong, Hongxing Xu, Wei Xie, Zheng Sun*, "Cavity-enhanced superfluorescence induced stimulated energy transfer in perovskite quantum dot superlattice," Laser & Photonics Rev., 2400650 (2024)
  • 2. Yuening Fan, Qiaochu Wan, Qi Yao, Xingzhou Chen, Yuanjun Guan, Hassan Alnatah, Daniel Vaz, Jonathan Beaumariadge, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jian Wu, Zheng Sun* and David Snoke, "High efficiency of exciton-polariton lasing in a 2D multi-layer structure" ACS Photonics, 11 (7), 2722-2728 (2024)
  • 3. Danqun Mao, Linqi Chen, Zheng Sun*, Min Zhang, Zhe-yu Shi, Yongsheng, Hu, Long Zhang, Jian Wu, Hongxing Dong, Wei Xie, Hongxing Xu, "Observation of transition from superfluorescence to polariton condensation in perovskite quantum dots," Light Sci. & Appl., 13 (1), 34 (2024)
  • 2023

  • 1. Xingzhou Chen, Hassan Alnatah, Danqun Mao, Mengyao Xu, Qiaochu Wan, Jonathan Beaumariage, Wei Xie, Hongxing Xu, Zhe-Yu Shi, David Snoke, Zheng Sun*, Jian Wu, "Bose condensation of upper-branch exciton-polaritons in a transferrable microcavity," Nano Lett., 20 (23), 9538-9546 (2023)
  • 2. Min Zhang, Yuan Tian, Xingzhou Chen, Zheng Sun*, Xiaolong Zhu, Jian Wu, "Ultra-large Rabi splitting in the plasmon-exciton polaritons at room temperature," Nanophotonics, 12 (16), 3267-3275 (2023)
  • 3. Xingzhou Chen, Zheng Sun*, Ming Zhang, Ming Li, Zhigao Hu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, David Snoke, Zhe-Yu Shi, Jian Wu, "Broadband enhancement of absorption by two-dimensional atomic crystals modeled as non-Hermitian photonics scattering," Appl. Phys. Lett., 122, 0411105 (2023)
  • 4. D. W. Snoke, V. Hartwell, J. Beaumariage, S. Mukherjee, Y. Yoon, D. M. Myers, M. Steger, Z. Sun, K. A. Nelson, L. N. Pfeiffe, "Experimental determinations of polariton-polariton interactions in microcavities," Phys. Rev. B, 107, 165302 (2023)
  • 5. Jingyan Feng, Hui Li, Zheng Sun, Tim Byrnes, "Entanglement generation and detection in split exciton-polariton condensates," Phys. Rev. A, 108 053301 (2023)
  • 2022

  • 1. Fei Chen, Hui Li, Hang Zhou, Song Luo, Zheng Sun, Ziyu Ye, Fenghao Sun, Jiawei Wang, Yuanlin Zheng, Xianfeng Chen, Hongxing Xu, Hongxing Xu, Tim Byrnes, Zhanghai Chen, Jian Wu, "Optically Controlled Femtosecond Polariton Switch at Room Temperature," Phys. Rev. Lett., 129, 057402 (2022)
  • 2. Fei Chen, Hang Zhou, Hui Li, Song Luo, Zheng Sun, Zhe Zhang, Fenghao Sun, Beier Zhou, Hongxing Dong, Huailiang Xu, Hongxing Xu, Alexey Kavokin, Zhanghai Chen, Jian Wu, "Femtosecond dynamics of a polariton bosonic cascade at room temperature," Nano Lett.,22 (5), 2023-2029 (2022)
  • 3. Fei Chen, Hang Zhou, Ziyu Ye, Song Luo, Zheng Sun, Yuanlin Zheng, Xianfeng Chen, Huailiang Xu, Hongxing Xu, Tim Byrnes, Hui Li, Zhanghai Chen, Jian Wu, "Buildup dynamics of room-temperature polariton condensation," Phys. Rev. B, 106 (2), L020301 (2022)
  • 4. Ziyu Ye, Fei Chen, Hang Zhou, Song Luo, Fenghao Sun, Zheng Sun, Yuanlin Zheng, Xianfeng Chen, Huailiang Xu, Zhanghai, Chen, Hui Li, Jian Wu, "Exciton-Polarization-dependent dynamics of polariton condensates at room temperature," Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 34 (22) (2022)
  • 2021

  • 1. Zheng Sun*, Ke Xu, Chang Liu, Jonathan Beaumariage, Jierui Liang, Susan K Fullerton-Shirey, Zhe-Yu Shi, Jian Wu, David Snoke, "Photoluminescence switching in a two-dimensional atomic crystal," ACS Nano 15 (12), 19439-19445 (2021)
  • 2. Z. Sun*, J. Beaumariage, Q. Cao, B. Hunt, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. W. Snoke, "Charged bosons made of fermions in a solid state system without Cooper pairing," Nano Lett., 21 (18), 7669-7675 (2021)
  • 3. Fei Chen, Hui Li, Hang Zhou, Ziyu Ye, Song Luo, Zheng Sun, Fenghao Sun, Jiawei Wang, Huailiang Xu, Hongxing Xu, Zhanghai Chen, Jian Wu, “Ultrafast Dynamics of Exciton- Polariton in Optically Tailored Potential Landscapes at Room Temperature” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 34, 024001 (2021)
  • 4. Xu Wang, Lishu Wu, Xuewen Zhang, Weihuang Yang, Zheng Sun, Jingzhi Shang, Wei Huang, Ting Yu, "Femtosecond dynamics of a polariton bosonic cascade at room temperature," Nano Research 15, 1479-1485 (2021)
  • 5. S Mukherjee, V. K. Kozin, A. V. Nalitov, I. A. Shelykh, Z. Sun, D. M. Myers, B. Ozden, J. Beaumariage, M.Steger, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. West, D. W. Snoke, "Dynamics of spin polarization in tilted polariton rings," Phys. Rev. B 103 (16), 165306 (2021)
  • OLD

  • 1. Zheng Sun*, Jonathan Beaumariage, Qingrui Cao, Benjamin Hunt, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, David W. Snoke, "Observation of the Interlayer Exciton Gases in WSe2-p:WSe2 Heterostructures," ACS Photonics 7 (7), 1622–1627 (2020)
  • 2. Zheng Sun*, Jonathan Beaumariage, Ke Xu, Jierui Liang, Shaocong Hou, Stephen R. Forrest, Susan K Fullerton-Shirey, David W. Snoke, "Electric-field-induced optical hysteresis in single-layer WSe2," Appl. Phys. Lett. 7 (7), 115, 161103 (2019)
  • 3. S Mukherjee, DM Myers, RG Lena, B Ozden, J Beaumariage, Z. Sun, M Steger, LN Pfeiffer, K West, AJ Daley, DW Snoke, "Natural Oscillations of a Polariton Condensate in a Ring," Phys. Rev. B 100 (24), 245304 (2019)
  • 4. Zheng Sun*, David W Snoke, "Optical switching with organics," [Invited] Nat. Photonics, 13, 370-371 (2019)
  • 5. Zheng Sun*, Jonathan Beaumariage, Hema C P Movva, Sayema Chowdhury, Anupam Roy, Sanjay K Banerjee, David W Snoke, “Stress-induced bandgap renormalization in atomic crystals,” Solid State Communications 288, 18-21 (2019)
  • 6. Biswanath Chakraborty, Jie Gu, Zheng Sun, Mandeep Khatoniar, Rezlind Bushati, Alexandra L Boehmke, Rian Koots, Vinod M Menon, "Control of Strong Light-matter Interaction in Monolayer WS2 Through Electric Field Gating," Nano Lett., 18 (10), 6455-6460 (2018)
  • 7. Zheng Sun, Jie Gu, Areg Ghazryan, Zav Shotan, Christopher R. Considine, Michael Dollar, Biswanath Chakraborty, Xiaoze Liu, Pouyan Ghaemi, S. Kéna-Cohen, Vinod M. Menon, "Optical Control of Room Temperature Valley Polaritons," Nat. Photonics 11, 491-496 (2017)
  • 8. T Galfsky#, Zheng Sun#, CR Considinel, CT Chou, WC Ko, YH Lee, E Narimanov, "Broadband enhancement of light-matter interaction in 2D semiconductors by photonic hypercrystals," Nano Lett., 16 (8), 4940-4945 (2016)
  • 9. T. Galfsky, Z. Sun, Z. Jacob, V. M. Menon, "Preferential emission into epsilon-near-zero metamaterial," [Invited], Opt. Mater. Express 5 (12), 2878-2883 (2015)
  • 10. X. Liu, T. Galfsky, Z. Sun, F. Xia, E. Lin, Y.-H. Lee, S. Kéna-Cohen, and V. M. Menon, "Strong light–matter coupling in two-dimensional atomic crystals," Nat. Photonics 9, 30–34 (2014)
  • 11. Zheng Sun, LinHong Yang, XueChu Shen, ZhangHai Chen, "Anisotropic Raman spectroscopy of a single β-Ga2O3 nanobelt," Science Bulletin, 57 (6) (2012) (Cover Story)
  • 12. Qijun Ren, Jian Lu, H H Tan, Shan Wu, Liaoxin Sun, Weihang Zhou, Wei Xie, Zheng Sun, Yongyuan Zhu, C Jagadish, S C Shen, Zhanghai Chen, "Spin-Resolved Purcell Effect in a Quantum Dot Microcavity System," Nano Lett., 12 (7), 3455-3459 (2012)
  • 13. Lin-Hong Yang, Hong-Xing Dong, Zheng Sun, Liao-Xin Sun, Xue-Chu Shen, Zhang-Hai Chen: Temperature-Induced Phase Transition of In2O3 from a Rhombohedral Structure to a Body-Centered Cubic Structure. Chinese Physics Letters, 28 (8) (2011)
  • 14. Zheng Sun, Yuan-Ping Xu, Sheng Li, Thomas F George, "Forbidden Singlet Exciton Transitions Induced by Localization in Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes in a Strong Electric Field," Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 115 (5), 869-873 (2011)

Invited Talk

  • 1. The 15th International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP 2024), Xi'an, China, Aug 11-15, 2024
  • 2. The conference on Optical Properties of Condensaed Matter (OPCM 2024), Henan, China, Aug 5-9, 2024
  • 3. Chinese Materials Conference 2024 & The 2nd World Materials Conference (CMC 2024), Guangzhou, China, Jul 8-12, 2024
  • 4. 3rd National Conference on Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Hangzhou, China, Apr 12-15, 2024
  • 5. Excitonics and Polaritonics International Conference (EPIC2023), Singapore, Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2023
  • 6. 2023 Nano+ International Summit, Suzhou, China, Nov 23-25, 2023
  • 7. Chinese Materials Conference 2023 & The 2nd World Materials Conference (CMC 2023), Shenzhen, China, Jul 8-12, 2024
  • 8. The 3rd International Symposium on Advanced Laser Spectroscopy & Applications, Chongqing, China, Feb 24-27, 2023

Contributed Talk

  • 1. The Finite Temperature and Non-Equilibrium Superfluid Systems workshop FINESS 2024, Queensland, Australia, Sep 1-5, 2024
  • 2. American Physical Society (APS), March Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA, Mar 4-8, 2024
  • 3. American Physical Society (APS), March Meeting, Chicago IL, USA, Mar 14-18, 2022
  • 4. American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, Denver, CO, USA, Mar 2-6, 2020
  • 5. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (CLEO/QELS), San Jose, CA, USA, May 14-19, 2017
  • 6. Emerging Researchers National (ERN) in STEM, Washington DC, USA, Mar 2-4, 2017
  • 7. American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, Mar 13-17, 2017
  • 8. Material Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC), New York, NY, USA, Nov 17, 2016
  • 9. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (CLEO/QELS), San Jose, CA, USA, Jun 6-9, 2016
  • 10. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (CLEO/QELS), San Jose, CA, USA, Jun 10-14, 2015

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🎓 ORCID

I'm serving as a reviewer for the following journals and also serving as the young editorial board member for the Acta Photonica Sinica:

    Nature; Nature Photonics; Nature Nanotechnology; Nature Communications; Physical Review Letters; Physical Review X; ACS Nano; Nano Letters; Optica; Light Science & Applications; Physical Review B and so on.

Postdoctorate Fellow

Di Sun

       Di Sun 2024

PH.D Student

Xingzhou Chen

Xingzhou Chen 2021

Min Zhang

    Min Zhang 2021

Yuening Fan

  Yuening Fan 2022

Master Student

Yuanjun Guan

Yuanjun Guan 2023

Chengye Ding

Chengye Ding 2023

Undergraduate Student

Daocheng Wang

Daocheng Wang 2024

Semiconductor Exciton Polaritons

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Twistronics building Morie superlattices from 2D materials: