RESEARCH INTERESTS

Bose-Einstein condensation in solids with photon-polariton to realize bosonic at room temperature；Realization of hot-carrier solar cells beyond SQ limit；Room-temperature electrical switching of pin flip in 2D ferromagnetic semiconductors；Reaching high mobility and on/off ratio in 2D semiconductors beyond Si；Ultimate Ohmic contact in 2D semiconductors

EDUCATION

1978–1982, B.S., School of Physics, Chonbuk National University

1982-1986,  PhD,School of Physics, Kent State University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2001–Present: Professor in physics, Sungkyunkwan University, SKKU fellow

1996–1997: Visiting professor in physics, Michigan State University, United States

1993–1993: Visiting researcher, Zurich IBM Research Center, Switzerland

1989–1990: Visiting professor in physics, Iowa State University Ames National Laboratory, United States

1987–2001: Assistant Professor, full professor in physics, Chonbuk National University

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1.Ko, H., Choi, S. H., Park, Y., Lee, S., Oh, C. S., Kim, S. Y., ... & Kim, K. K. (2024). Atomic sawtooth-like metal films for vdW-layered single-crystal growth. Nature Communications, 15(1), 5848.

2.Mondal, A., Biswas, C., Ghising, P., Moon, B. H., Kim, K. K., & Lee, Y. H. (2025). Switching polariton screening in MoS2 microcavity toward polaritonics. Science Advances, 11(8), eadr7202.

3.Mondal, A., Biswas, C., Park, S., Cha, W., Kang, S. H., Yoon, M., ... & Lee, Y. H. (2024). Low Ohmic contact resistance and high on/off ratio in transition metal dichalcogenides field-effect transistors via residue-free transfer. Nature Nanotechnology, 19(1), 34-43.

4.Sebait, R., Rosati, R., Yun, S. J., Dhakal, K. P., Brem, S., Biswas, C., ... & Lee, Y. H. (2023). Sequential order dependent dark-exciton modulation in bi-layered TMD heterostructure. Nature Communications, 14(1), 5548.

5.Nguyen, L. A. T., Jiang, J., Nguyen, T. D., Kim, P., Joo, M. K., Duong, D. L., & Lee, Y. H. (2023). Electrically tunable magnetic fluctuations in multilayered vanadium-doped tungsten diselenide. Nature Electronics, 6(8), 582-589.

6.Won, U. Y., An Vu, Q., Park, S. B., Park, M. H., Dam Do, V., Park, H. J., ... & Yu, W. J. (2023). Multi-neuron connection using multi-terminal floating–gate memristor for unsupervised learning. Nature Communications, 14(1), 3070.

7.Choi, S. H., Yun, S. J., Won, Y. S., Oh, C. S., Kim, S. M., Kim, K. K., & Lee, Y. H. (2022). Large-scale synthesis of graphene and other 2D materials towards industrialization. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1484.

8.Paul, K. K., Kim, J. H., & Lee, Y. H. (2021). Hot carrier photovoltaics in van der Waals heterostructures. Nature Reviews Physics, 3(3), 178-192.

9.Nguyen, V. L., Duong, D. L., Lee, S. H., Avila, J., Han, G., Kim, Y. M., ... & Lee, Y. H. (2020). Layer-controlled single-crystalline graphene film with stacking order via Cu–Si alloy formation. Nature Nanotechnology, 15(10), 861-867.

10.Jang, Y. J., Paul, K. K., Park, J. C., Kim, M., Tran, M. D., Song, H. Y., ... & Kim, J. H. (2023). Boosting internal quantum efficiency via ultrafast triplet transfer to 2H-MoTe2 film. Science advances, 9(25), eadg2324.