Welcome to the Sun Group
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Nian X. Sun (Nian-xiang Sun), FInstP, FIET
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue, 409 Dana
Boston, MA 02115, USA
Phone: (617) 373-3351
Fax: (617) 373-8970
Email: nian@ece.neu.edu
Web: www.neu.edu/sunlab/
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
Short Biography |
Our research efforts include novel magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials for power electronics, RFIC and MMIC; different RF/microwave devices and subsystems. We have been actively investigating integrated magnetic inductors and transformers, different RF / microwave devices including antennas, phase shifters, tunable bandpass filters, tunable bandstop filters, tunable inductors, tunable capacitors, integrated RF magnetic inductors, integrated magnetic transformers, circulators, etc. Besides the efforts on RF/microwave, we also work on magnetic sensors, spintronics, energy harvesting materials and devices, solar cell materials and devices, etc. Our research lab is fully equipped with facilities for the fabrication and characterization of RF/microwave materials, devices and electromagnetic microdevices and subsystems.
Brief Bio: Nian Sun is an associate professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Northeastern University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University. Prior to joining Northeastern University, he was a research scientist at IBM and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Dr. Sun was the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, USAF Summer Faculty Fellowship, and the first prize IDEMA Fellowship. He has published over 120 refereed publications and more than 20 patents and patent disclosures. One of their papers was selected as "the 10 most outstanding full papers in the past ten years (2001~2010) in Advanced Functional Materials". Dr. Sun has given over 60 invited or keynote presentations in national and international conferences and universities. He is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, and a fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Here is the link to his Google Scholar profile.
News/Events
Weekly group meeting: Friday 3-5 pm, Dana 442.
Xi Yang had his Ph.D. defense on May 16, 2013.
Prof. Hao Xin from University of Arizona gave an invited presentation entitled "THz Components and Microsystems Utilizing 3D Additive Manufacturing Technology" on May 10, 2013.
Qi Wang had her Ph.D. defense on March 26, 2013.
Nian is on sabbatical at the Research Laboratory of Electronics in MIT starting January 2013.
Invited presentation "Voltage Control of Magnetism in Multiferroic Heterostructures and Low Power Devices", Electronic Materials and Applications 2013, Orlando, Florida, January 25, 2013.
IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer Professor Masahiro Yamaguchi delivered his invited presentation "Soft Magnetic Thin Film Applications at Radio Frequencies",
on Monday, January 14, 2013.
Invited presentation "Voltage Control of Magnetism in Multiferroic Heterostructures and Devices", INRS-EMT, Univ. du Quebec, Canada,
November 9, 2012.
Invited presentation "Voltage Control of Magnetism in Multiferroic Heterostructures and Low Power Devices", Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K., Sept. 28, 2012.
Invited presentation "Voltage Control of Magnetism in Multiferroic Heterostructures and Devices", Workshop on Magnetoelectric Phenomena and Devices, The Royal Society, London, U.K., Sept. 24~25, 2012,
Prof. Ichiro Takeuchi from University of Maryland gave an invited presentation "Magnetoelectric sensors and other devices based on all-thin-film multiferroic heterostructures" on Thursday, September 20, 2012.
Invited talk "Voltage Control of Magnetism in Multiferroic Heterostructures and Low-Power Tunable Devices", Intel Workshop on Tunable Devices and RF MEMS Status, Hillsboro OR, August 16, 2012.
"Voltage Control of Magnetization in Multiferroic Heterostructures and Devices" in MFM-7 Workshop in Panama, August 8, 2012.
Invited talk "Strong Converse Magnetoelectric Coupling in Multiferroic Heterostructures and Devices" at ISIF 2012, Hong Kong, June 19, 2012.
Invited talk "Voltage Contol of Magnetism in Layered Multiferroic Heterostructures, a New Paradigm for Tunable RF/Microwave Components and Spintronics" at Wuhan Universuty, June 14, 2012.
Invited talk "Voltage Contol of Magnetism in Layered Multiferroic Heterostructures, a New Paradigm for Tunable RF/Microwave Components and Spintronics" at Tsinghua Universuty, June 8, 2012.
Invited talk "Voltage Contol of Magnetism in Layered Multiferroic Heterostructures, a New Paradigm for Tunable RF/Microwave Components and Spintronics" at Peking University, June 4, 2012.
Jing Wu had his Ph.D. defense on May 31, 2012.
Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering, Northeastern University, April 30, 2012.
S3TEC/ Mechanical Engineering Micro Nano Joint Seminar presentation on "E-field Control of Magnetism in Layered Multiferroic Heterostructures, a New Paradigm for Tunable RF/Microwave Components and Spintronics" at MIT on April 18th, 2012.
Tianxiang's recent paper "Voltage impulse induced bistable magnetization switching in multiferroic heterostructures," published in Applied Physics Letters 100, 132409 (2012), has been selected for the April 9, 2012 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
Invited talk at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, November 28, 2011.
Invited talk at The University of New Orleans on November 16, 2011.
Invited talk at the MS&T 2011 Conference at Columbus, OH on October 19, 2011.
E-field control of AMR, GMR, and exchange bias, leading to great opportunities for spintronics based on multiferroic heterostructures (Appl. Phys. Lett., 98, 222509 (2011) and Adv. Funct. Mater., 21, 2593-2598 (2011)).
Yunume Obi and Xing Xing had their Ph.D. defense on July 27, 2011.
Invited Seminar: Prof. Hao Xin from the ECE Department, University of Arizona gave an invited talk on "Metamaterials for Microwave Applications" on June 15, 2011 in our department.
Xing Xing was awarded the IEEE Graduate Student Travel award to attend the Intermag (International Magnetics) Conference at Taipei, April 24~31, 2011.
Invited talk in the California Nanosystems Institute Seminar Series on March 1, 2011 at UCLA.
More news about our work http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-paper-magnetic.html
Invited seminar: Professor Kamran Entesari, TAMU, "Development of Hybrid Tunable Filters Using Packaged RF MEMS Switches" on November 22, 2010.
Our paper (Ming Liu, et al. "Giant Electric Field Tuning of Magnetic Properties in Multiferroic ferrite/ferroelectric Heterostructures", Advanced Functional Materials, 19, 1826 (2009).) is selected as the 10 most outstanding full papers in the past ten years in Advanced Functional Materials, which is also the most-accessed full paper in 2009. This paper will be included in a retrospective edition of Advanced Functional Materials which will appear in November 2010 for celebrating 10 years publishing of this journal. The news just came in and here is the link.
Invited talk "Giant Magnetoelectric Coupling in Multiferroic Heterostructures", MS T 2010, Oct. 19, 2010, Houston, TX, USA.
Invited talk "RF Magnetic Films and Their Applications in Integrated RF Magnetic Devices", International Workshop on Power Supply on Chip, Oct. 14, 2010, Cork, Ireland.
Invited talk at IEEE 7th International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers (MML2010), "E-field Control of Magnetism in Multiferroics", Sep 19-24, 2010 in Berkeley CA.
Ming Liu was awarded the Director Postdoctoral Fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory - August 2010.
Ming Liu was among the 2010 Outstanding Student Research Award Winners, Northeastern University, June 2010.
Guomin Yang joined the faculty at the School of Information Science and Engineering, Fudan University, China, May 2010.
