2017.08-present: Associate professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China; 2015. 10-2017. 07: Assistant professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China; 2012-2015: Research Associate, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley, USA; 2012-2012: Research Associate, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA; 2008-2011: Postdoc, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China; 2003-2008: Ph. D., Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, China; 1999-2003: Bachelor, Department of Applied Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China;

Prof. Sun has published 18 SCI papers as the first/corresponding author in journals like Adv. Funct. Mater., Nano Lett., Appl. Phys. Rev., Nano Res., Phys. Rev. B, Appl. Phys. Lett., etc. Cooperating with others, 23 SCI papers were published in the journals of Nat. Nanotechnol., Adv. Mater., ACS Nano, etc. The total number of SCI citations of all papers was more than 3800, and the H factor was 20. Besides, 11 US patents and 17 China patents were issued. Since 2016, she has undertaken 2 research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and participated the National Key Research and Development Program of China.

1-2 Master students per year

1. Bingxu Liu, Yinghui Sun*, Yonghuang Wu, et al. Enhanced Photoresponse of TiO2/MoS2 Heterostructure Phototransistors by the Coupling of Interface Charge Transfer and Photogating, Nano Research, 2021, 14 (4): 982-991 2. Yinghui Sun#, Yan Aung Moe#, Yingying Xu, et al. Evolution of local strain in Ag-deposited monolayer MoS2 modulated by interface interactions, Nanoscale, 2019, 11: 22432. 3. Yinghui Sun, Haofei Zhao, Dan Zhou, et al. Direct observation of epitaxial alignment of Au on MoS2 at atomic resolution, Nano Research, 2019, 12: 947-954 4. Yan Aung Moe#, Yinghui Sun#, Huanyu Ye, et al. Probing Evolution of Local Strain at MoS2-metal Boundaries by Surface-enhanced Raman scattering, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10: 40246-40254 5. Yinghui Sun, Rongming Wang, Kai Liu*, Substrate induced changes in atomically thin 2-dimensional semiconductors: Fundamentals, engineering, and applications, Applied Physics Reviews, 2017, 4: 011301