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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David Waldeck

David Waldeck received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati and his Ph.D. also in Chemistry from the University of Chicago. After a postdoctoral appointment funded by an IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California Berkeley, he joined the Department of Chemistry of the University of Pittsburgh in 1985. He has received several awards including the Chancellors Distinguished Research Award in 1994. He was also a Belkin Visiting Professor at the Weizmann Institute in Israel a few years later. He is affiliated with both the American Chemical Society and the American Physical Society and has authored three books.

 

Robert Griffiths

Robert Griffiths received his B.A. in Physics from Princeton University, then his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University. Since joining the Department of Physics of Carnegie Mellon University, he has won several fellowships and awards, including the US Senior Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Cressy Morrison Award of the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. He was also elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He is the originator of the consistent histories approach to quantum mechanics, and a correlation inequality for ferromagnetic spin systems was named after him.

Elias Towe

Elias Towe received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At this time, he was also a Vinton Hayes Fellow. He then worked simultaneously as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia and a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He is a recipient of several awards and honors. He is currently a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Prior to joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, which he joined in 2001.