Faculty

The core of our research is to design artificially structured semiconductors to meet the growing material challenge for next-generation computing, memory technology, and thermal energy harvesting. It will be led by our vision is to innovate semiconductor nanotechnologies stepping from i) synthesis of novel nanomaterials including two-dimensional (2D) layered crystals and phase-change materials, ii) manipulation/assembly with atomic precision and spatial control, and ultimately iii) integrating them into high-performance devices, which will help our society enter the next chapter of semiconductor innovation.

– Curriculum Vitae

• 2019/07 – Present: Assistant Professor, UNIST
• 2016 – 2019: Postdoctoral associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago  

 

– Academic Credential

• 2015: Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
• 2009: M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
• 2006: B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University

 

– Research  Keywords and Topics

2D semiconductors, Phase-change memory, Neuromorphic computing, Semiconductor devices, Nanofabrication

 

– Publications (selected)   

• “Bottom-up growth of graphene nanospears and nanoribbons” 

1. Sun et al. Advanced Functional Materials 2022, 32, 2206961

• “Extremely anisotropic van der Waals thermal conductors” 

S.E. Kim et al. Nature 2021, 597, 660

• “Wafer-scale synthesis of monolayer two-dimensional porphyrin polymers for hybrid superlattices” 

1. Zhong et al. Science 2019, 366, 1379

• “Reconfiguring crystal and electronic structures of MoS2 by substitutional doping” 

J. Suh et al. Nature Communications 2018, 9, 199