Focusing on laser application technologies such as laser micro/nano processing and laser surgery, the research proposes and realises a series of novel laser micro/nano processing methods for optoelectronic materials and devices by exploiting the diverse, interrelated or coupled chemical and physical effects in laser-matter interactions, thereby advancing functional integrated photonic/electronic advanced manufacturing technologies. It further extends to “laser processing” of diseased human tissues for the development of new laser surgical techniques and devices.

The research directions are both cutting-edge and application-oriented, and highly interdisciplinary. Main research interests include:

New principles, technologies and equipment for laser processing and laser surgery

Laser micro/nano processing for micro/nano optical devices and systems

Laser micro/nano processing for laser medicine and other medical-engineering interdisciplinary fields

Laser micro/nano processing for pan-semiconductor manufacturing and chip manufacturing

Image-based sensing and bio-inspired perception assisted by micro/nano optoelectronic devices

Collaboration is welcome from researchers and students with backgrounds in laser micro/nano processing, laser opto-mechatronic systems, micro/nano optics, laser medicine, integrated optoelectronics, advanced packaging, microelectronics, artificial intelligence, mechanical engineering, control, and related fields. Students interested in these areas are encouraged to apply for Master’s/PhD positions or joint training programmes.

Student destinations:

Liang Qi (Class of 2021): pursuing PhD at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Jiao Yuexuan (Class of 2022): pursuing PhD at Fudan University

Liu Yun (Class of 2022): employed at Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

China Laser Magazine, Significant Achievements in Chinese Optics (Principal Contributor)

National Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Optical Engineering

Education:

Ph.D. in Physical Electronics, Jilin University (Supervisor: Academician SUN HongBo)

M.Eng. in Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics, Jilin University (Supervisor: Academician DONG WenFei)

B.Eng. in Microelectronics, Jilin University

Work Experience:

Young Research Fellow, School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University

Research Fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA

Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Research Fellow, Microbiology Department & Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Undergraduate Course:

Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence

Postgraduate Course:

Advanced Semiconductor Packaging Technologies

Focused on laser-based micro/nano fabricationet al.and laser application technologies; published as first or corresponding author inNature Communications（2 papers），Light: Science & Applications (Cover)， Advanced Materials (Cover) ， Angewandte Chemie International Edition (Inside Cover/highlighted/hot paper paper)， Laser & Photonics Reviews， Materials Horizons (Inside Cover)et al.top SCI papers. The research has received+ academicians from various countrieset al.distinguished experts and domestic and international peers broadly cited and positively evaluated，covered by China《Chinese Science Bulletin》、《ChinaLasers》、GermanWiley Angew.Chem.Int.Ed. press release/room, MaterialsViewsChina, the UK Royal Society of Chemistry’s ChemistryWorld, Laser Focus World (USA), ScienceDaily, Nanowerk and EuropeanElectroOpticset al. authoritative international and domestic academic media。

Wang Chenxu，Qu Chen，Huang Hanxuan，Xiao Zifeng，Xin Yueran，Zhu Xinjie，Shen Yang，Wang Xiaoying，Zhou Xingtao， Sun Yunlu * . 《Ultrafast-laser-induced micro/nano structuring of ultra-soft matter — from on-chip micro/nano engineering to in-vivo microsurgery》 ， 《Chinese Journal of Lasers and Optoelectronics Progress》 2025 (Cover) .

Zifeng Xiao, Zhenxin Zhu, Qi Wang, Xuyang Zhao, Yun Liu, Hanxuan Huang, Yang Shen, Xiaoqin Wu, Xiang Wu, Chao Chen, Qiwen Zhan, Xiaoying Wang, Xingtao Zhou, Yun-Lu Sun * . Intracavity Light Field Shaping by Micro-Optics Integrated Inside Fabry-Pérot Microlasers , Laser & Photonics Reviews , DOI:10.1002/lpor.202501907, 2025.

Hanxuan Huang, Shijie Song, Yun Liu, Zhenyu Liu, Zifeng Xiao, Yanyang Li, Yi Wang, Ruifan Li, Qianru Zhao, Xudong Wang, Yu Chen, Lei Wang, Zhishan Hou, Peilei Zhang, and Yun-Lu Sun * . Near-field-regulated Multi-physical Ultrafast Laser Supra-wavelength Structuring Directly on Ultrahard Metallic Glasses , Advanced Materials 36(45), 2405766, 2024 (Cover) .

Yuxiang Li, Zhihe Guo, Xuyang Zhao, Sheng Liu, Zhenmin Chen, Wen-Fei Dong, Shixiang Wang, Yun-Lu Sun * , Xiang Wu. An all-optical multidirectional mechano-sensor inspired by biologically mechano-sensitive hair sensilla , Nature Communications 15(1), 2906, 2024.

Xuyang Zhao, Zhihe Guo, Yi Zhou, Junhong Guo, Zhiran Liu, Man Luo, Yuxiang Li, Qi Wang, Meng Zhang, Xi Yang, You Wang, Yun-Lu Sun * , Xiang Wu. Highly sensitive, modification-free, and dynamic real-time stereo-optical immuno-sensor , Biosensors and Bioelectronics 237, 115477, 2023.

Qi Liang, Qian Xu, Gongwen Yang, Yanting Xu, Hanxuan Huang, Zhishan Hou, Zhengzhong Shao, Ming Wang, and Yun-Lu Sun* . Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing Bombyx-mori-sericin-based Nanocomposites into Intrinsically Soft Wearable Micro/nano-electronics , Nanoscale 16, 21869-21880 , 2024.

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Y un-Lu Sun , Qi Li, Si-Ming Sun, Jing-Chun Huang, Bo-Yuan Zheng, Qi-Dai Chen, Zheng-Zhong Shao, Hong-Bo Sun. Aqueous multiphoton lithography with multi-functional silk-centred bio-resists , Nature Communications 6, 8612, 2015.

Yun-Lu Sun , Wen-Fei Dong, Rui-Zhu Yang, Xiang Meng, Lu Zhang, Qi-Dai Chen, Hong-Bo Sun. Dynamically Tunable Protein Microlenses , Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 51, 1558-1562, 2012. (Inside cover, hot paper, highlighted)

Y un-Lu Sun , Wen-Fei Dong, Li-Gang Niu, Tong Jiang, Dong-Xu Liu, Lu Zhang, Ying-Shuai Wang, Dong-Pyo Kim, Qi-Dai Chen, Hong-Bo Sun. Protein-based soft micro-optics fabricated by femtosecond laser direct writing, Light Sci. Appl. (NPG) 2014, 3, e129; doi:10.1038/lsa.2014.10. (Cover)

Meng-Dan Qian, Yun-Lu Sun* , Zhi-Yong Hu, Xiao-Feng Fang, Jin-Long Zhu, Xudong Fan, Qing Liao, Chang-Feng Wu, Hong-Bo Sun. Fluorescent Chemo-sensors Based on Dually Smart Optical Micro/nano-waveguides Lithographically Fabricated with AIE Composite Resins , Materials Horizons 7, 1782-1789, 2020. (Inside cover) (corresponding author)

Zhifeng Shi, Faming Zheng, Zhitao Zhou, Meng Li, Zhen Fan, Huanpeng Ye, Shan Zhang, Ting Xiao, Liang Chen, Tiger H Tao, Yun-Lu Sun * , Ying Mao. Silk-Enabled Conformal Multifunctional Bioelectronics for Investigation of Spatiotemporal Epileptiform Activities and Multimodal Neural Encoding/Decoding , Advanced Science 1801617, 2019. (Back cover) (corresponding author)

Yu n-Lu Sun , Si-Ming Sun, Pan Wang, Wen-Fei Dong, Lei Zhang, Bin-Bin Xu, Qi-Dai Chen, Li-Min Tong, Hong-Bo Sun. Customization of protein single-nanowires for optical biosensing , Small 11, 2869-2876, 2015.

Yun-Lu Sun , Hai-Yan Tang, Alexander Ribbe, Volodimyr Duzhko, et al. Conductive Composite Materials Fabricated from Microbially Produced Protein Nanowires , Small 14 (44), 1802624, 2018.

Yun-Lu Sun, Brian Montz, Ryan Selhorst, Hai-Yan Tang, Jiaxin Zhu, Kelly P. Nevin, Trevor L. Woodard, Alexander E. Ribbe, Thomas P. Russell, Stephen S. Nonnenmann*, Todd Emrick*, Derek R. Lovely*. Solvent-induced Assembly of Microbial Protein Nanowires into Superstructured Bundles , Biomacromolecules 22 (3), 1305-1311, 2021.

Yun-Lu Sun , Zhi-Shan Hou, Si-Ming Sun, Bo-Yuan Zheng, Jin-Feng Ku, Wen-Fei Dong, Qi-Dai Chen, Hong-Bo Sun. Protein-based t hree-dimentional whispering-gallary-mode micro-lasers with stimulus-responsiveness , Scientific Reports 5, 12852, 2015.

Yun-Lu Sun , Dong-Xu Liu, Wen-Fei Dong, Qi-Dai Chen, Hong-Bo Sun. Tunable Protein Harmonic Diffractive Micro-optical Elements Constructed by Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing , Opt. Lett. 37, 2973-2975, 2012.

Yun-Lu Sun , Si-Ming Sun, Bo-Yuan Zheng, Zhi-Shan Hou, Pan Wang, Xu-Lin Zhang, Wen-Fei Dong, Lei Zhang, Qi-Dai Chen, Li-Min Tong, Hong-Bo Sun. Protein-based multi-mode interference optical micro-splitters , IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 28, 629, 2016.

Yujia Zhang, Zhitao Zhou, Zhen Fan, Shaoqing Zhang, Faming Zheng, Keyin Liu, Yulong Zhang, Zhifeng Shi, Liang Chen, Xinxin Li, Ying Mao, Fei Wang, Yun-Lu Sun * , Tiger H Tao. Self-Powered Multifunctional Transient Bioelectronics , Small 14 (35), 1802050, 2018. (corresponding author)

Zhi-Shan Hou, Yun-Lu Sun * , Qi-Song Li * , Xudong Fan, Rong Cheng * . Smart Bio-gel Optofluidic Mach-Zehnder Interferometers Multiphoton-lithographically Customized with Chemo-mechanical-opto Transduction and Bio-triggered Degradation , Lab on a chip 20, 3815-3823, 2020. (corresponding author)

Si-Ming Sun, Yun-Lu Sun * , Bo-Yuan Zheng, Pan Wang, Zhi-Shan Hou, Wen-Fei Dong, Lei Zhang, Qi-Dai Chen, Li-Min Tong, Hong-Bo Sun * . Protein-based Y-junction optical micro-splitters with environment-stimulus-actuated adjustments , Sens. Actuators B 232, 571, 2016. (corresponding author)

Zhi-Yong Hu, Yun-Lu Sun * , Jian-Guan Hua, Yan-Hao Yu, Qi-Dai Chen, Hong-Bo Sun * . Femtosecond laser nano-fabrication with extended processing range , IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 31 (2), 133-136, 2018. (corresponding author)

Dong-Xu Liu, Yun-Lu Sun , et al. Dynamic laser prototyping for biomimetic nanofabrication , Laser Photon. Rev. 8 (6), 882-888, 2014.