News
Recent papers, awards, talks, member milestones, and lab events. 8 posts — reverse chronological.
Paper Featured
Our paper on homoepitaxy-like heteroepitaxy via monolayer interface — enabling wafer-scale, atomically flat, grain-boundary-free silver films on Cu buffers — appears in Reports on Progress in Physics, with coverage in Physics World.
Event
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.
Award
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.
Paper Featured
Our latest collaboration on copper surface chemistry is published in Nature Communications — an impermeable copper monolayer that resists oxidation up to high temperatures.
Award
Prof. Young-Min Kim was named a 2024 SKKU Fellowship recipient — a university-level recognition of research excellence at Sungkyunkwan University.
Event
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.
Event
Min-Hyoung Jung gave an oral presentation and Sang-Hyeok Yang presented a poster at Microscopy & Microanalysis 2025.
Member
Sang-Hyeok Yang, Hee-Beom Lee, and Hyeon-Ah Ju completed their doctoral studies in early 2025 — best wishes for the next chapter at KRISS, Lam Research, and KAIST.