Information

Membership Number: FCA3527

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Engineering and Applied Sciences

Corresponding Email: sunxw@sustech.edu.cn

Homepage(s): https://www.sustech.edu.cn/en/faculties/sunxiaowei.html 

Present and Previous Positions

· Executive Dean, Institute of Nanoscience and Applications, SUSTech

· Chair Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, SUSTech

Professor Xiao Wei Sun is a Chair Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. He is a National Distinguished Expert of China, a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Academician of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials. Professor Sun serves as the Executive Dean of the Institute of Nanoscience and Applications at SUSTech, Founding Chair of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and the Director of both the Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Technology under the Ministry of Education and the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Dot Advanced Display and Lighting. Previously, Professor Sun held positions at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, including Full Professor and Director of the Microelectronics Center. Additionally, Professor Sun founded the Society for Energy Photonics as the President and co-founded the Singapore-China Association for Science and Technology Promotion, where he served as Vice Chairman.

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Professor Xiao Wei Sun's research focuses on wide-bandgap semiconductor materials and devices, advanced display technologies, AR/VR, and glasses-free 3D technology. He has published over 600 papers in academic journals, garnering more than 45,000 citations and achieving an H-index of 105 (Google Scholar). Furthermore, he has been listed among Elsevier's Most Cited Chinese Researchers for six consecutive years and ranks among Stanford University's Top 2% Global Scientists.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Professor Sun is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), the Society for Information Display (SID), and the Institute of Physics (IoP). Notably, he was the first mainland Chinese scholar to be elected as an SID Fellow and had served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

His distinguished accolades include the SPIE DCS 2024 Fumio Okano Best 3D Paper Prize, the 2023 SID Slottow-Owaki Prize, the First Prize in the National Invention and Innovation Awards, and the Second Prize in the Guangdong Science and Technology Awards.

· 2025: Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences

· 2025: Fellow, IEEE

· 2024: SPIE DCS Fumio Okano Best 3D Paper Prize

· 2023: SID Slottow-Owaki Prize

· 2022: Second Prize in Natural Science, Shenzhen Natural Science Award (First Author); Second Prize in Natural Science, Guangdong Science and Technology Award (First Author)

· 2021: Honorary Doctorate, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (BSUIR)

· 2018: IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

· 2016: Fellow, Optica (formerly OSA)

· 2013: Academician, Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials

· 2013: Jacques Beaulieu Distinguished Research Chair Award, National Institute for Scientific Research, Canada

· 2011: Fellow, SID

· 2010: Fellow, SPIE

· 2009: Fellow, Institute of Physics

· 2009: Nanyang Technological and Innovation Award, NTU, Singapore

· 2008: Nominee, Singapore National Technology Award

Selected Publications

Professor Sun has authored over 600 peer-reviewed journal publications, and delivered numerous invited talks. His Google Scholar H-index is 105. He is an Elsevier Highly Cited Scholar, and is listed among the "Global Top 2% Scientists" by Stanford University.

Selected articles

1.Sun, X. W., & Kwok, H. S. (1999). Optical properties of epitaxially grown zinc oxide films on sapphire by pulsed laser deposition. Journal of Applied Physics, 86(1), 408-411.

2.Tan, S. T., et al. (2005). Blueshift of optical band gap in ZnO thin films grown by metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition. Journal of Applied Physics, 98(1).

3.Wang, J. X., et al. (2006). Hydrothermally grown oriented ZnO nanorod arrays for gas sensing applications. Nanotechnology, 17(19), 4995.

4.Wang, J. X., et al. (2006). Zinc oxide nanocomb biosensor for glucose detection. Applied Physics Letters, 88(23).

5.Xu, C. X., Sun, X. W., & Chen, B. J. (2004). Field emission from gallium-doped zinc oxide nanofiber array. Applied Physics Letters, 84, 1540.

6.Sun, X. W., Huang, J. Z., Wang, J. X., & Xu, Z. (2008). A ZnO nanorod inorganic/organic heterostructure light-emitting diode emitting at 342 nm. Nano Letters, 8, 1219–1223.

7.Yang, Y., Sun, X. W., Tay, B. K., You, G. F., Tan, S. T., & Teo, K. L. (2008). A p-n homojunction ZnO nanorod light-emitting diode formed by As ion implantation. Applied Physics Letters, 93, 253107.

8.Zhao, D. W., Sun, X. W., Jiang, C. Y., Kyaw, A. K. K., Lo, L. Q., & Kwong, D. L. (2009). An efficient triple-tandem polymer solar cell. IEEE Electron Device Letters, 30, 490–492.

9.Chen, R., Ling, B., Sun, X. W., & Sun, H. D. (2011). Room temperature excitonic whispering gallery mode lasing from high-quality hexagonal ZnO microdisk. Advanced Materials, 23, 2199–2204.

10.Dai, J., Xu, C. X., & Sun, X. W. (2011). ZnO-Microrod/p-GaN heterostructured whispering-gallery-mode microlaser diodes. Advanced Materials, 23, 4115–4119.

11.Yang, X., Zhao, D., Leck, K. S., Tan, S. T., Tang, Y. X., Zhao, J., Demir, H. V., & Sun, X. W. (2012). Full visible range covering InP/ZnS nanocrystals with high photometric performance and their application to white quantum dot light-emitting diode. Advanced Materials, 24, 4180–4185.

12.Wang, J., Zhang, L., Yu, L., Jiao, Z., Xie, H., Lou, X. W. (D.), & Sun, X. W. (2014). A bi-functional device for self-powered electrochromic window and self-rechargeable transparent battery applications. Nature Communications, 5, 4921.

13.Wang, N., Zhou, Y., Ju, M. G., Garces, H. F., Ding, T., Pang, S., Zeng, X. C., Padture, N. P., & Sun, X. W. (2016). Heterojunction-depleted lead-free perovskite solar cells with coarse-grained B-gamma-CsSnI₃ thin films. Advanced Energy Materials, 6, 1601130.

14.Zhang, X., Liu, H., Wang, W., Zhang, J., Xu, B., Karen, K. L., ... & Sun, X. W. (2017). Hybrid perovskite light‐emitting diodes based on perovskite nanocrystals with organic–inorganic mixed cations. Advanced Materials, 29(18), 1606405.

15.Wu, Z., Liu, P., Zhang, W., Wang, K., & Sun, X. W. (2020). Development of InP Quantum Dot-Based Light-Emitting Diodes. ACS Energy Letters, 5(4), 1095-1106.

16.Zhao, J., et al. (2021). Large-area patterning of full-color quantum dot arrays beyond 1000 pixels per inch by selective electrophoretic deposition. Nature Communications, 12(1), 4603.

17.Jia, S., Tang, H., Ma, J., Ding, S., Qu, X., Xu, B., Wu, Z., Li, G., Liu, P., Wang, K., & Sun, X. W. (2021). High-performance inkjet‐printed quantum‐dot light‐emitting diodes with high operational stability. Advanced Optical Materials, 9(22), 2101069.

18.Jia, S., Li, D., Chen, Y., Mei, G., Ma, J., Qu, X., Tang, H., Liu, P., Xu, B., Wang, K., Zhang, Z., Xia, J., & Sun, X. W. (2023). A full high‐definition quantum dot light‐emitting diode‐on‐silicon microdisplay. Journal of the Society for Information Display, 31(9), 548-558.

19.Qu, X., Xiang, G., Ma, J., Liu, P., Kyaw, A. K., Wang, K., & Sun, X. (2023). Identifying the dominant carrier of CdSe-based blue quantum dot light-emitting diode. Applied Physics Letters, 122(11), 113501.

20.Jia, S., et al. (2024). Optimizing ZnO–quantum dot interface with thiol as ligand modification for high‐performance quantum dot light‐emitting diodes. Small, 20(13), 2307298.

21.Qu, X., Ma, J., Wang, K., & Sun, X. W. (2024). Characteristic voltages and times from capacitance–voltage analysis of quantum dot light-emitting diodes. Applied Physics Letters, 124(26).

22.Mei, G., Wang, K., & Sun, X. W. (2024). Competing light extraction strategies in perovskite light-emitting diodes. Nature Nanotechnology, 2024, 1-5.

23.Tan, Y., Huang, Y., Wu, D., Wang, Y., Sun, X. W., Choi, H. W., & Wang, K. (2025). Low-threshold surface-emitting colloidal quantum-dot circular Bragg laser array. Light: Science & Applications, 14(1), 36.

24.Duan, X., Zhang, W., Hao, J., Liu, R., Xu, B., Jin, L., Samuelson, L., & Sun, X. W. (2025). InP Quantum Dots with a Strain-Engineered Gradient Shell for Enhanced Optical Performance and Stability. Nano Letters, 25(36), 13539-13548.

25.Tian, Z., Zhu, X., Surman, P. A., Chen, Z., & Sun, X. W (2025). An achromatic metasurface waveguide for augmented reality displays. Light: Science and Applications, 14(1), 94.

26.Zhao,J.,Liu,W.,Rezvan,A,Chen,L.,Wang, K.,Aldo,R.B,Sun, X. W. (2026).Electrophoretic deposition.Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 6, 12. (Primer Article)

He actively participates in undergraduate and graduate education, teaching courses such as "Organic Electronics," "Fundamentals of Optoelectronics," "Thin Film Materials and Technology," "iPhone 6 Assembly," and "Glasses-Free 3D Display." He has supervised 24 undergraduate and 30 graduate students, many of whom have won prestigious awards including gold medals in the "Challenge Cup" Guangdong Student Entrepreneurship Competition and the China International Student Innovation Competition, as well as funding from the Guangdong Provincial "Climbing Plan."

Other Information

Acceptance Letter_Core Academy.pdf