Haiping Sun, PhD
Project Scientist
Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI)
University of California – Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-2800
Office: 1150 Engineering Hall
Phone: 949-824-2368
Email: hatpins at uci.edu
Biography
Haiping Sun is a materials scientist and electron microscopist, specializing in materials characterization, using SEM, FIB, S/TEM, EDS, EELS, AFM, XPS. He currently serves as a project scientist in the Center for Transmission Electron Microscopy (CTEM) in UC Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI), a key research facility for NSF MRSEC at UC Irvine.
He has authored and co-authored over 56 peer-reviewed publications in various journals.
Experience
4/2025 – Present: Project Scientist, UC Irvine Materials Research Institute
1/2016 – 3/2025: Research Laboratory Specialist/Lead, Michigan Center for Materials Characterization, University of Michigan
3/2005 – 12/2015: Research Laboratory Specialist, Electron Microbial Analysis Laboratory, University of Michigan
2003: Visiting Senior Research Officer, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore
1997-2000: Research Staff, Beijing Laboratory of Electron Microscopy, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Education
BE (1994) in Optoelectronic Technology, Heilongjiang University, China
MS(1997) in Condensed Matter Physics, Jilin University, China
Ph.D.(2005) in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Selected Publications
Daniel B. Yin, Haiping Sun and Amit Misra, Optimal Geometry for Focused Ion Beam-Milled Samples for Direct-Pull Micro-Tensile Testing Performed In Situ in a Scanning Electron Microscope, Materials, 17 (2024) 5144.
Q. Li, A. Alfrey, J. Hu, N. Lydick, E. Paik, B. Liu, H. Sun, Y. Lu, R. Wang, S. Forrest, H. Deng, Macroscopic Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Monolayers with Uniformly High Optical Quality, Nature Communications 14 (2023) 1837.
L. Ma, W. Zhang, Y. Wang, X. Chen, W. Yu, K. Sun, H. Sun, J. Li, and J. Schwank, Catalytic Performance and Reaction Mechanism of NO Oxidation Over Co3O4 Catalysts, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 267 (2020) 118371.
L. Jiang, P. Xiu, Y. Yan, C. Lu, M. Huang, T. Liu, C. Ye, H. Sun, R. Shu and L. Wang, Effects of Ion Irradiation on Chromium Coatings of Various Thicknesses on a Zirconium Alloy, Journal of Nuclear Materials 526 (2019) 151740
I. Han, X. Xiao, H. Sun, and A. Shahani, A Side-by-side Comparison of the Solidification Dynamics of Quasicrystalline and Approximate Phases in the Al-Co-Ni System, Acta Crystallographica A75 (2019) 281.
E. Cheng, Y. Li, J. Sakamoto, S. Han, H. Sun, J. Noble, H. Katsui, and T. Goto, Mechanical Properties of Individual Phases of ZrB2-ZrC Eutectic Composite Measured by Nanoindentation. Journal of the European Ceramic Society 37 (2017) 4223.
S. Baek, et al. H.P. Sun (13th), Giant Piezoelectricity on Si for Hyperactive MEMS, Science 334 (2011) 958.
D.A. Tenne, et al. H.P. Sun (15th), Probing nanoscale ferroelectricity by ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy, Science 313, 1614 (2006).
H.P. Sun, Y.B. Chen, X. Q. Pan, D.Z. Chi, R. Nath, and Y.L. Foo, Formation and evolution of epitaxial Co5Ge7 on Ge (001) surface by solid state reaction in in situ ultrahigh-vacuum transmission electron microscope, Applied Physics Letters 87, 211909 (2005).
H.P. Sun, Y.B. Chen, D.Z. Chi, R. Nath, Y.L. Foo, and X.Q. Pan, Formation and evolution of epitaxial Co5Ge7 on Ge (001) surface by reactive deposition within in situ ultrahigh vacuum transmission electron microscope, Applied Physics Letters 86, 071904 (2005).
H.P. Sun, G.W. Graham, H.-W. Jen, R.W. McCabe, C. H. F. Peden, S. Thevuthasan, X.Q. Pan, Partical encapsulation of Pd particles by reduced ceria-zirconia, Applied Physics Letters 87, 201915 (2005).
H.P. Sun, X.Q. Pan, and X.L. Du, Microstructure and crystal defects in epitaxial ZnO film grown on Ga modified (0001) sapphire surface, Applied Physics Letters 85, 4385 (2004).
H.P. Sun, X.Q. Pan, Microstructure of ZnO shell on Zn nanoparticles, Journal of Materials Research 19 (2004) 3062.
H.P. Sun, X.Q. Pan,, J.H. Haeni, D.G. Schlom, Structural evolution of dislocation half-loops in epitaxial BaTiO3 thin films during high-temperature annealing, Applied Physics Letters 85, 1967 (2004).
H.P. Sun, W. Tian, X.Q. Pan, J.H. Haeni, D.G. Schlom, Evolution of dislocation arrays in BaTiO3 thin films grown on (100) SrTiO3, Applied Physics Letters 84, 3298 (2004).
H.P. Sun, Z. Zhang, W.D. Wang, H.W. Jiang and W.Y. Lai, Microstructure of columnar crystallites in Ni80Fe20/Cu magnetic multilayers, Journal of Applied Physics 87, 2835 (2000).