Hong Koo Kim

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1989
Summary:

The Kim group’s research has been centered on developing new photonic and electronic devices at micro and nanoscales involving various functional materials such as rare-earth doped oxides, wide bandgap semiconductors, ferroelectric films, and plasmonic nanostructured materials.

Their research in the nanotechnology area investigates multiscale vertical integration of nanostructures into hierarchical systems. Single-domain ordered nanochannel arrays with controlled symmetry have been developed on macroscale area of wafer surface using a directed self-organization method, and have been investigated as an interaction medium in optical, electrical, chemical, and biological domains. Surface-plasmon phenomena occurring in nano-optic structures are of particular interest, since many novel properties can be derived from those and can be incorporated into an on-chip configuration for interaction with other functional materials.

The Kim group investigates plasmonics as an enabling technology for implementing nanosystems-on-a-chip that offer multifunctionality across the heterogeneous domains.
 

Selected Publications: 
Most Cited Publications
  1. "Femtosecond imaging of surface plasmon dynamics in a nanostructured silver film," Kubo, Atsushi, Ken Onda, Hrvoje Petek, Zhijun Sun, Yun S. Jung, and Hong Koo Kim, Nano letters 5, no. 6 (2005)
  2. "Refractive transmission of light and beam shaping with metallic nano-optic lenses," Sun, Zhijun, and Hong Koo Kim, Applied Physics Letters 85, no. 4 (2004)
  3. "Ultraviolet detection with ultrathin ZnO epitaxial films treated with oxygen plasma," Liu, Mingjiao, and Hong Koo Kim, Applied Physics Letters 84, no. 2 (2004)
  4. "Epitaxial growth of ZnO films on Si substrates using an epitaxial GaN buffer," Nahhas, Ahmed, Hong Koo Kim, and Jean Blachere, Applied Physics Letters 78, no. 11 (2001)
  5. "Growth of ordered, single-domain, alumina nanopore arrays with holographically patterned aluminum films," Sun, Zhijun, and Hong Koo Kim,  Applied Physics Letters 81, no. 18 (2002)
Recent Publications
  1. "Electrically-triggered micro-explosion in a graphene/SiO2 /Si structure." Liu, S., Kim, M., Kim, H.K.     Scientific Reports
    8(1),25776z     (2018). 
  2. "Impact ionization in a graphene/SiO2 /Si structure under high-field pulsed drive." Liu, S., Kim, H.K. 2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2017
    8117315, pp. 449-452     (2017).     
  3. "Suspended nano scale QD-OLED on Si substrate."     Emon, D.H., Kim, H.K. 2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2017
    8117356, pp. 974-978     (2017).
  4. "Low-loss plasmonic metamaterial waveguides." Shi, Y., Kim, H.K. 2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2017
    8117318, pp. 890-893     (2017).
  5. "Fabrication of nanoscale quantum-dot organic light-emitting devices on Si substrate." Emon, D.H., Kim, H.K. 2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Nanotechnology, NANO 2017
    8117316, pp. 961-964     (2017)    .

More Members

Jung-Kun Lee

Jung-Kun Lee received his B.S and M.S. in Inorganic Materials Engineering from the Seoul National University in Korea. He also received his Ph.D in Materials Science & Engineering from the same university. He then won the highly competitive Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship of Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2002. He worked there for more than five years, with a promotion to technical staff member in January, 2005. He finally joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. Jung Kun Lee holds more than 10 patents on the dielectric and optical applications of functional materials.

Feng Xiong

Feng Xiong received his Bachelor of Engineering from the National University of Singapore and both his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was then a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University before joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He received several awards including the Stanford Nano and Quantum Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award, the Beckman Institute Graduate Fellowship, and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Outstanding Student Research Gold Award.

Gurudev Dutt

Gurudev Dutt received his M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Michigan. He then moved to Harvard University as a Research Associate where his team demonstrated coherent quantum control of electron and nuclear spin quantum bit (qubit) registers in diamond at room temperature. He then joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2008. He received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2009 and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2010, and his achievements have been reported in local (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) and national (NPR, NY Times) media.