News
Recent papers, awards, talks, member milestones, and lab events.
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Sang-Hyeok Yang received the Silver Prize in the Young Scientist Award at NANO KOREA 2026, held at KINTEX, for his presentation "Crystallographic Mapping of Polymorphic Phase Distributions in Doped Hafnia Thin Films using Deep Learning-Embedded 4D-STEM CBED," originally presented at NANO KOREA 2025.
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Eun-Byeol Park and Yerin Jeon represent the lab at the European EELS & EFTEM School at TU Graz, Austria — a week of hands-on training in electron energy-loss spectroscopy.
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Yerin Jeon received the Excellence Award (oral) and Eun-Byeol Park received the Encouragement Award (poster) at the 11th BK Department of Energy Science Thesis Competition in Suwon.
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Sang-Hyeok Yang, Min-Hyoung Jung, Eun-Byeol Park, and Yerin Jeon spent two weeks at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) user program.
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Prof. Young-Min Kim was named a 2024 SKKU Fellowship recipient — a university-level recognition of research excellence at Sungkyunkwan University.
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Min-Hyoung Jung, Sang-Hyeak Yang received the Excellence Award(oral) and Yerin Jeon received Excellence Award(poster) at the 2024 Korean Society of Microscopy Spring Conference held in Hongcheon.
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Hyeon-Ah Ju received the KCerS Excellence Award(oral) at the Korean Ceramic Society Spring Conference held in Busan.
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Hyeon-Ah Ju and Eun-Byeol Park received the Encouragement Prize at the 30th Samsung Humantech Paper Award for the paper titled “Oxygen Vacancy-Induced Directional Ordering of Li-Ion Pathways for Superior Ion-Conducting Solid Electrolytes.”
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Young-Hoon Kim received the Grand Prize (oral) and Min-Hyoung Jung received the Excellence Award (poster) at the 9th BK Department of Energy Science Thesis Competition in Suwon.
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Seon Je Kim received the Excellence Award in the Nano and Advanced Materials category at the 2023 SKKU Graduate Student Paper Award.
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Sang-Hyeok and Daehee took part in the EELS & EFTEM Analysis Training School in Pleasanton, California, gaining practical experience in electron energy-loss spectroscopy through an intensive week-long program.
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Young-Hoon Kim received the Silver Prize at the 29th Samsung Humantech Paper Award for the paper titled “Self-Oxidation Resistance of the Curved Surface of Achromatic Copper.”
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Woo-Sung Jang received a commendation from the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education as an outstanding participant in the fourth-phase BK21 program, in recognition of his exceptional research capabilities and potential for future development.
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Young-Hoon Kim received the Grand Prize (poster) and an Encouragement Award (oral), Woo-Sung Jang received the Excellence Award (oral) and an Encouragement Award (poster), and Sang-Hyeok Yang received an Encouragement Award (poster) at the 8th BK Department of Energy Science Thesis Competition in Suwon.
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Prof. Young-Min Kim received a commendation from the Minister of Science and ICT in recognition of his contributions to national scientific and technological advancement through the promotion of basic research and outstanding research achievements.
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Research by Prof. Se-Young Jeong of Pusan National University and Prof. Young-Min Kim of Sungkyunkwan University was selected as one of the 2022 Top 10 Nanotechnology R&D Achievements for elucidating the copper oxidation mechanism and developing a growth technique for oxidation-resistant, ultra-flat copper thin films.
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Young-Hoon Kim received the PACRIM Award at the 2022 Korean Ceramic Society Fall Conference for the paper titled “Deep Learning-Assisted Electron Crystallography of Polymorphic Phases in Hf₀.₅Zr₀.₅O₂ Thin Films.”
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Young-Hoon Kim and Wooseon Choi received Excellence Awards for their oral presentations at the 2022 Korean Society of Microscopy Spring Conference held in Daegu.
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Woo-Sung Jang received the First Prize (Presidential Award) in the Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy category at the 2nd SKKU Research Matters competition.
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Young-Hoon Kim received the Best Oral Presentation Award, and Sang-Hyeok Yang received the Best Poster Award at Symposium SF10 of the 2022 MRS Spring Meeting held in Salt Lake City.
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Young-Hoon Kim and Sang-Hyeok Yang received the Bronze Prize in the Basic Science category at the 28th Samsung Humantech Paper Award for the paper titled “A Hybrid Deep Learning Crystallographic Mapping of Polycrystalline High-k Oxide Thin Films.”
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Woo-Sung Jang received the PACRIM Award, Young-Hoon Kim received the KCerS Excellent Poster Award, and Hyeon-Ah Ju received the Yang Song Poster Excellence Award at the 2021 Korean Ceramic Society Fall Conference held in Jeju.
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Wooseon Choi received the Encouragement Award in the Basic Science, Nanotechnology, and Advanced Materials category at the 2021 SKKU Graduate Student Paper Award.
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Sang-Hyeok Yang received the Encouragement Award for his oral presentation titled “Deep Learning-Assisted Quantification of Atomic Defects in 2D Materials” at the 7th BK Department of Energy Science Thesis Competition.
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Woo-Sung Jang received the Best Poster Award at the 2020 Korean Society of Microscopy Fall Conference for the presentation titled “Atomic-Scale Investigation of Transition Metal Dopant Behavior in SnO₂ Nanoparticles.”
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Woo-Sung Jang and Young-Hoon Kim participated in the EELS & EFTEM Analysis Training School held at Gatan R&D Headquarters in Pleasanton, California.
