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)    .

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Jill Millstone

Jill Millstone received her B.S. in Chemistry (and English) from Carnegie Mellon University and her Ph.D in Materials Chemistry from Northwestern University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley before joining the University of Pittsburgh in 2011. She has received several awards, including an NSF CAREER award, a Cottrell Scholar Award, and a Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Colloid and Surfactant Science. She has also received numerous honors as a student. She is a member of scientific societies such as the Materials Research Society, the American Chemical Society, and the Association for Women in Science.

Sunil Saxena

Sunil Saxena received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Cornell University, where he developed two dimensional and double quantum electron spin resonance methodology.  After his PhD, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech where he used solid state NMR to measure dynamics in polymer blends.  In 1999, he joined UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral Fellow.  At Berkeley he gained expertise in optical pumping and SQUID detected ultra-low field MRI methodology.  He started his independent career at University of Pittsburgh, where he rose through the ranks and is currently a Professor of Chemistry.  At Pitt, his research interests focus on the development of Electron Spin Resonance spectroscopy and its applications to biophysics, including protein-DNA interactions and metals in biology. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the Bellet Teaching Excellence Award.

Yang Wang

Yang Wang received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and an M.E. in Electronic Physics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also obtained an M.S. in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Physics from Florida Atlantic University. He holds a primary appointment as Senior Computational Scientist at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center since 1996 and is an Adjunct Faculty in the Physics Department of Duquesne University since 2010. He has received the 1998 Gordon Bell Prize for high performance computing and the Year 2000 Smithsonian Computerworld Program Award.