Professors

• · 1985 B.S. Seoul National University, Physics,
• · 1987 M.S. Seoul National University, Physics
• · 1991 M.S. Brown University, Engineering
• · 1994 Ph.D. Brown University, Physics

• · 1998 - present Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Seoul National University
• · 2018 - 2022 Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy
• · 2014 - 2016 Associate Dean (Student Affairs), College of Natural Sciences
• · 2010 - 2012 Associate Dean (Planning), College of Natural Sciences
• · 2005 - 2011 Vice President, Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology
• · 1995 - 1998 Research Scientist, SDL, Inc.
• · 1994 - 1995 Research Associate, Brown University

Studying fundamental physical phenomena occurring in photonic structures in the scale of submicrons (or photon wavelength) and developing next-generation photonic devices based on new concepts

1. Resonant cavity phosphor, Nature Communications 14:6661 (2023)
2. Structurally engineered colloidal quantum dot phosphor using TiO2 photonic crystal backbone, Light: Science and Applications 11(1) 318 (2022)
3. Submicrometer-scale pattern generation via maskless digital photolithography, Optica 7(12) 1788 (2020)
4. Taming of random lasers, Nature Photonics 13(7), 445 (2019)
5. Lasing at topological edge states in a photonic crystal L3 nanocavity dimer array, Light: Science and Applications 8(1) 40 (2019)
6. Anderson localizations and photonic band-tail states observed in compositionally disordered platform, Science Advances 4(1) e1602796 (2018)