Nian X. Sun

About

Nian Sun is professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and of Bioengineering, Director of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Integrated Ferroics, Northeastern University, and founder and chief technical advisor of Winchester Technologies, LLC. He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University. Prior to joining Northeastern University, he was a Scientist at IBM and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Dr. Sun was the recipient of the Humboldt Research Award, NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, the Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, Outstanding Translational Research Award, etc. His research interests include novel magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials, devices and microsystems, novel gas sensors and systems, etc. He has over 280 publications and over 30 patents and patent applications. One of his papers was selected as the “ten most outstanding full papers in the past decade (2001~2010) in Advanced Functional Materials”. Dr. Sun has given over 180 plenary/keynote/invited presentations and seminars. He is an editor of Sensors, and IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, and a fellow of the IEEE, Institute of Physics, and of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Selected Publications

• Zaeimbashi, M., Nasrollahpour, M., Khalifa, A., Romano, A., Liang, X., Chen, H., Sun, N., Matyushov, A., Lin H., Dong, C., Xu, Z., Mittal, A., Martos-Repath, I., Jha, G., Mirchandani, N., Das, D., Onabajo, M., Shrivastava, A., Cash, S., Sun, N.X. (2021). Ultra-compact Dual-band Smart NEMS Magnetoelectric Antennas for Simultaneous Wireless Energy Harvesting and Magnetic Field Sensing. Nature Communications, 12, 3141
• Emam, S., Nasrollahpour, M., Colarusso, B., Cai, X., Grant, S., Kulkarni, P., Ekenseair, A., Gharagouzloo, C., Ferris, C., Sun, N.X. (2020). Detection of Presymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease through Breath Biomarkers. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 12, e12088
• Nan, T., Anderson, T.J., Gibbons, J., Hwang, K., Campbell, N., Zhou, H., Dong, Y.Q., Kim, G.Y., Shao, D.F., Paudel, T.R., Reynolds, N., Wang, X.J., Sun, N.X., Tsymbal, E.Y., Choi, S.Y., Rzchowski, M.S., Kim, Y.B., Ralph, D.C., Eom, C.B. (2019). Anisotropic Spin-Orbit Torque Generation in Epitaxial SrIrO3 by Symmetry Design. PNAS,  116(33), 16186-16191
• Zhang, Y., Cai, D., Zhao, C., Zhu, M., Gao, Y., Chen, Y., Liang, X., Chen, H., Wang, J., Wei, Y., Sun, N.X. (2020). Nonreciprocal Isolating Bandpass Filter With Enhanced Isolation Using Metallized Ferrite. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 68, 5307-5316
• Shah, P.J., Bas, D.A., Lisenkov, I., Matyushov, A., Sun, N.X., Page, M.R., Page, M.R. (2020). Giant Nonreciprocity of Surface Acoustic Waves Enabled by the Magnetoelastic Interaction. Science Advances, 6, eabc5648
• Emori, S., Gray, B.A., Jeon, H.‐M., Peoples, J., Schmitt, M., Mahalingam, K., Hill, M., McConney, M.E., Gray, M.T., Alaan, U.S., Bornstein, A.C., Shafer, P., N’Diaye, A.T., Arenholz, E., Haugstad, G., Meng, K.‐Y., Yang, F., Li, D., Mahat, S., Cahill, D.G., Dhagat, Jander, P.A., Sun, N.X., Suzuki, Y., Howe, B.M. (2017). Coexistence of Low Damping and Strong Magnetoelastic Coupling in Epitaxial Spinel Ferrite Thin Films. Advanced Materials, 29, 1701130
• Nan, T., Lin, H., Gao, Y., Matyushov, A., Yu, G., Chen, H., Sun, N., Wei, S., Wang, Z., Li, M., Wang, X., Belkessam, A., Guo, R., Chen, B., Zhou, J., Qian, Z., Hui, Y., Rinaldi, M., McConney, M.E., Howe, B.M., Hu, Z., Jones, J.G., Brown, G.J., Sun, N.X. (2017). Acoustically Actuated Ultra-Compact NEMS Magnetoelectric Antennas. Nature Communications, 8, 296
• Liu, M., Zhou, Z., Nan, T., Howe, B.M., Brown, G.J., Sun, N.X. (2013). Voltage Tuning of Ferromagnetic Resonance with Bistable Magnetization Switching in Energy-Efficient Magnetoelectric Composites. Advanced Materials, 25, 1435
• Lou, J., Liu, M., Reed, D., Ren, Y., Sun, N.X. (2009). Giant Electric Field Tuning of Magnetism in Novel Multiferroic FeGaB/Lead Zinc Niobate Lead Titanate Heterostructures. Advanced Materials, 21, 4711
• Liu, M., Obi, O., Lou, J., Chen, Y., Cai, Z., Stoute, S., Espanol, M., Lew, M., Situ, X., Ziemer, K.S., Harris, V.G., Sun, N.X. (2009). Giant Electric Field Tuning of Magnetic Properties in Multiferroic ferrite/ferroelectric Heterostructures. Advanced Functional Materials, 19, 1826

Faculty

Sep 14, 2023

Improving Power Delivery for High-Performance Computing

ECE Professor Nian Sun and Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava, in collaboration with Khurram Afridi and Huili (Grace) Xing from Cornell University, were awarded a $2M NSF grant for “Heterogeneous Integration in Power Electronics for High-Performance Computing (HIPE-HPC).”

Faculty

Jul 20, 2023

Advanced Electrochemical Sensors for Early Disease Detection

ECE Professor Nian X. Sun and ChE Associate Teaching Professor Adam Ekenseair were awarded a patent for “Molecularly-imprinted electrochemical sensors.”

Faculty

Jun 09, 2022

Creating NME Antennas for Portable Electronic Applications

ECE Professor Nian X. Sun was awarded a patent for “Nanoscale radio frequency magnetoelectric antenna.” Abstract Source: USPTO A nanomechanical magnetoelectric antenna includes a thin film heterostructure that has a magnetic element and a piezoelectric element. The heterostructure is suspended on a substrate and is capable of resonating at acoustic resonance frequencies. In the transmission […]

Faculty

Jan 11, 2022

Creating a Device for Early Detection of Disease Using Exhaled Breath

ECE Professor Nian X. Sun and ChE Associate Teaching Professor Adam Ekenseair were awarded a patent for “Molecularly-imprinted electrochemical sensors.”

Faculty

Jul 07, 2021

Tracking Potential Outbreaks Through Wastewater

ECE Professor Nian Sun and MIE Professor Hongwei Sun are part of a team, led by Professor Sheree Pagsuyoin of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, which was awarded $660K in pledged funding as one of five third-place winners of the Trinity Awards, for their project, “Disease Surveillance with Multi-modal Sensor Network & Data Analytics”.

In the Media

Sep 16, 2020

Could Breathalyzers Make Covid Testing Quicker and Easier?

ECE Professor Nian Sun was featured in the Wired.com article “Could Breathalyzers Make Covid Testing Quicker and Easier?” for his efforts in using breathalyzer like devices to detect viral particles.

Faculty

Jul 23, 2020

Developing VLF Magnetoelectric Antennas for Communication Systems

ECE Professor Nian X. Sun was awarded a patent for creating a “Magnetoelectric very low frequency communication system.”

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