Publications

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Under Consideration
1. Daniel Vaz, Yuanjun Guan, Qiaochu Wan, Bobby Bobby, Anshul Ramavath, Brandon Vargo, Juntong Ye, Yuzhi He, Jonathan Beaumariage, Om Patel, Kenji Watanabe, Taakashi Taniguchi, Xiong Feng, James C. Hone, Nathan Youngblood, Zheng Sun^*, David W. Snoke, "Counterdirectional Exciton and Trion Motion in Applied Electric Field," (2026)
2. Xingzhou Chen, Yuanjun Guan, Areg Ghazaryan, Shiran Sun, Lingxiao Yu, Ruitao Lv, Artem Volosniev, Zheng Sun^*, Jian Wu, "Anomalous valley Hall dynamics of exciton-polaritons," (2026)
3. Yan Zhang, Mingyong Jing, Hong-Hua Fang, Jiawen Liu, Yiyang Gong, Menghui Jia, Shuting Dai, Zhuoya Zhu, Jiasong Hu, Zheng Sun, Xinfeng Liu, Wenjing Tian, Hai-Long Chen, Bin Xu, Hongbo Sun, "Coherent Phonon Modulated Superfluorescence at Room Temperature from Molecular Crystals," (2026)
4. 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)
2026
1. Yuanjun Guan, Mengyao Xu, Zhen Cui, Xingzhou Chen, Chengye Ding, Xiaoqing Zhou, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jesper Levinsen, Meera M. Parish, Pavlos G. Savvidis, Zhe-Yu Shi, Zheng Sun^*, Jian Wu, "Observation of electrically generated polaron-polaritons in a monolayer MoSe₂ Microcavity," Science Advances (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aed2180) (2026)
2. Chengye Ding, Meng Niu, Yuanjun Guan, Xingzhou Chen, Mengyao Xu, Yuening Fan, Xiaoqing Zhou, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Pavlos G. Savvidis, Jie Gu, Zhe-Yu Shi, Zheng Sun^*, Jian Wu, "Twist-angle-controlled magneto-polarization switching in WS₂/WSe₂ heterostructure," Phys. Rev. B 113 (12), 125403 (2026)
3. Yongsheng Hu, Yuanjun Guan, Teng Long, Wei Xie, Hongxing Xu, Qing Liao, Zheng Sun^*, Jian Wu, "Optical spin Hall effect driven by hybrid spin-orbit coupling in organic microcavities," Science Bulletin 71 (4), 752-758 (2026)
4. Min Zhang, Jiayin Fan, Fangying Peng, Xuekai Ma, Changchang Huang, Peifen Lu, Peng Li, Di Sun, Weihang Zhou, Stefan Schumacher, Hui Li, Feng Li, Zheng Sun^*, Jian Wu, "Ultrafast Dynamics of Reconfigurable Mode Switching of Polariton Condensates Revealed in a Tunable ZnO Microcavity," Phys. Rev. Res. 8 (1), 013219 (2026)
5. Ming Chen, Muhammad Idrees, Kun Zhang, Zheng Sun, Hui-jun Li, Alexey Kavokin, "Nonlinear dynamics of one-dimensional bright soliton-like state in polariton condensates induced by a PT-symmetric periodic potential," Phys. Rev. Res. 8 (2), 023133 (2026)
2025
1. Qiaochu Wan, Daniel Vaz, Li Xiang, Anshul Ramavath, Brandon Vargo, Juntong Ye, Jonathan Beaumariage, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zheng Sun, Dmitry Smirnov, Nathan Youngblood, Igor Bondarev, David Snoke, "Light-induced Electron Pairing in a Bilayer Structure," Rep. Prog. Phys., 89, 018003 (2025)
2. Jiqing Tan, Di Sun, Chun Zhou, Xinjie Li, Yichi Zhong, Qiangqiang Wang, Danqun Mao, Long Zhang, Hongxing Dong, Zheng Sun^*, Wei Xie, and Hongxing Xu, "Collective excitonic assembly in perovskite superlattice," Laser & Photonics Rev., 19 (16), 2401847 (2025)
3. Yuanjun Guan, Xingzhou Chen, Mengyao Xu, Yuening Fan, Chengye Ding, Zhe-Yu Shi and Zheng Sun^*, "Ultrafast dynamics of exciton- and trion-polaritons in an atomic crystal microcavity," [Invited] Opt. Mater. Express 15 (9) 2264-2272 (2025)
4. 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," Laser & Photonics Rev., 2401532 (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., 18 (12), 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)
4. 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," ACS Nano 18 (48), 33131-33141 (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 transferable 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 17th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Opticcs CLEO PR 2026, Beijing, China Aug 2-8, 2026
2. Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium (Session Orgnizer) PIERS 2026, Suzhou, China Jul 27-31, 2026
3. Excitonics and Polaritonics International Conference EPIC 2026, Beijing, China Apr 20-24, 2026
4. Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium (Session Orgnizer) PIERS 2025 Chiba, Japan Nov 5-9, 2025
5. International Conference on Physics of Light-Mater Coupling in Nanostructures PLMCN 2025 Xiamen, China Apl 8-13, 2025
6. The 15_th International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP 2024), Xi'an, China, Aug 11-15, 2024
7. The conference on Optical Properties of Condensaed Matter (OPCM 2024), Henan, China, Aug 5-9, 2024
8. Chinese Materials Conference 2024 & The 2^nd World Materials Conference (CMC 2024), Guangzhou, China, Jul 8-12, 2024
9. 3^rd National Conference on Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Hangzhou, China, Apr 12-15, 2024
10. Excitonics and Polaritonics International Conference (EPIC2023), Singapore, Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2023
11. 2023 Nano⁺ International Summit, Suzhou, China, Nov 23-25, 2023
12. Chinese Materials Conference 2023 & The 2^nd World Materials Conference (CMC 2023), Shenzhen, China, Jul 8-12, 2024
13. The 3^rd 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

Medium Coverage

"Photonic hypercrystals drastically enhance light emission in 2D materials," Phys.org Aug 2016.
"Study unveils new half-light half-matter quantum particles," National Science Foundation, Phys.org, Science Daily, and more, Dec 2014.

Service

🎓 ORCID

I'm serving as a reviewer for the following journals and also serving as the editorial board member for the Science Bulletin & Nano-Micro Letters & 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.