Semiconductor epitaxy
micro-LED displays
power devices (HEMT, high-power transistors)
Education
2004-2011: Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), Korea / Ph.D (Materials Science & Engineering) Thesis title: Position-controlled selective growth of wide bandgap semiconductor nano- and microstructures for light-emitting device applications (Advisors: Gyu-Chul Yi & Moon-Ho Jo)
1998-2004: Korea University, Korea / B.S. (Materials Science & Engineering)
Experience
2024−Current: Professor, Dept. Nano Engineering & SKKU Advanced Institute of Nano Technology, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
2023–2024: Center Head, Sejong Research Facilities Center, Sejong University, Korea
2021.9- present: Associate Provost, Office of Planning and Budgeting, Sejong University, Korea (기획처 부처장)
2020.9 - 2021.8: Associate Provost, Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation, Sejong University, Korea (연구처 산학협력단 부단장)
2020.8 - present: Academician Member & Board Member, the Korean Physical Society, Korea
2020.1 - present: Board Member, Materials Research Society of Korea, Korea
2019.3 - 2020.2: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Advanced Materials Science & Engineering, Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), Korea
2019.1 - present: Vice Executive Editor, Current Applied Physics (Elsevier, an official journal of the Korean Physical Society)
2017.2 - 2019.2: Department Chair, Dept. of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, Sejong University, Korea
2015.2 - 2017.1: Program Director in Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea (ABEEK), Sejong University, Korea
2012.9 - present: Assistant/Associate/Tenured Full Professor, Dept. of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, Sejong University, Korea
2011.3 - 2012.8: JSPS Research Associate, Research Center for Integrated Quantum Electronics, Hokkaido University, Japan
Journal Articles
(2025)
Future trends of display technology: micro-LEDs toward transparent, free-form, and near-eye displays.
LIGHT-SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS.
14,
1
(2025)
Roles of Nanoscale Defects of Graphene in Remote Epitaxy of GaN.
SMALL.
21,
38
(2025)
Strategic Development of Memristors for Neuromorphic Systems: Low-Power and Reconfigurable Operation.
ADVANCED MATERIALS.
37,
19
(2025)
Sequential multidimensional heteroepitaxy of chalcogen-sharing 3D ZnSe and 2D MoSe2 with quasi van der Waals interface engineering.
SCIENCE ADVANCES.
11,
8
(2024)
GaN remote epitaxy on a pristine graphene buffer layer via controlled graphitization of SiC.
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS.
125,
25
(2024)
Polaron Pair-Mediated Radiative Recombination of Singlet Excitons in a Conjugated Polymer Aggregate by Plasmonic and Semiconductor Nanocrystals.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS.
15,
47
Honors / Awards
Gold Medal, Best Invention Prize & Best Invertor Prize (2008 Salon International des Invention, Geneve, Switzerland)
Young Scientist Award (2007 E-MRS Spring Meeting, Strassburg, France)
