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

Judith Yang

Judith “Judy” Yang received her B.S. in physics from the University of California and both her M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. After graduation, she became a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Metallforschung in Stuttgart, Germany. She continued her post-doctoral research and became a visiting lecturer when she joined the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign. She joined the  Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering of the University of Pittsburgh in 1999 and has received numerous awards including the 2005 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award.

Ken Jordan

Ken Jordan received his B.A. in Chemistry from Northeastern University and then his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then was an Instructor and then an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale before joining the University of Pittsburgh in 1978. He has received numerous academic honors, and the 2014 Kenneth Jordan Festschrift Issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry was dedicated to his lifetime achievements. He has held several positions on editorial, advisory, and executive boards, and is currently a Co-Director of the Center for Simulation & Modeling at Pitt.

Mostafa Bedewy

Dr. Mostafa Bedewy is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, where he leads the NanoProduct Lab (www.nanoproductlab.org).  Before that, he worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the area of bionanofabrication with Professor Karl Berggren in the Research Lab for Electronics (RLE).  Also, he was previously a Postdoc at the MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP), working with Professor John Hart on in situ characterization of carbon nanotube growth.  In 2013, he completed his PhD at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he worked with Professor Hart on studying the population dynamics and the collective mechanochemical factors governing the growth and self-organization of filamentary nanostructures.  He holds a Bachelor’s degree (honors) in Mechanical Design and Production Engineering (2006) and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (2009), both from Cairo University.  Dr. Bedewy recently received the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) in 2018, the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) in 2017, the Robert A. Meyer Award from the American Carbon Society in 2016, the Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement from the University of Michigan in 2014, and the Silver Award from the Materials Research Society (MRS) in 2013.  His research interests include advanced manufacturing, nanoscale fabrication, metrology and materials characterization, chemical vapor deposition, carbon nanotubes, hierarchical nanostructure self-assembly, and biomolecular engineering.