Professor
SOOHWAN JANG
E-mail: jangmountain@dankook.ac.kr
Professor, Chair of Department of Chemical Engineering, Dankook University
Room#510 Eng. BLD#3 Phone, Mobile: 82-10-2963-0719
126, Jukjeon-ro, Suji-gu, Yongin-si Office: 82-31-8005-3623
Gyeonggi-do, 16890, Korea
Area Compound Semiconductors (Advisor: Dr. Fan Ren)
Thesis Design, fabrication, and characterization of compound semiconductors for electronic and photonic devices
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 2007
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea, 2003
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dankook University, Korea Mar. 2009-present
Professor Mar. 2020-present
Chair of Department of Chemical Engineering Jan. 2020-present
Jan. 2016-Dec. 2016 Mar. 2020-present
Associate Professor Mar. 2015-Feb. 2020
Assistant Professor Mar. 2009-Feb. 2015
Department of Chemical Engineering
Responsible for the development of photonic and electronic materials and devices including light emitting diodes (LEDs), sensors, rf and power devices, and photo-detectors based on III-N, II-O semiconductors, and nano-materials.
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Jan. 2017 - Feb. 2018
Visiting Research Scholar
Department of Chemical Engineering
Responsible for the development of compound semiconductor based sensors and power devices including GaN, Ga2O3, and ZnO
Samsung Electronics, Korea Sep. 2007-Jan. 2009
Senior Engineer
Flash Memory Process Architecture Team
Responsible for process control and device characterization of 32 Gb NAND flash memory using 35 nm technology
Responsible for process control and device characterization of 16 Gb NAND Flash memory using 51 nm technology
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ Jan. 2007-Feb. 2007
INTERN
Semiconductor Physics Research
Responsible for ZnO nanowires growth and characterization
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Aug. 2005-May. 2006
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Chemical Engineering
Teaching Unit Operation Lab and Separation Process for undergraduate student
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Aug. 2003-May. 2007
Graduate Research Assistant
Semiconductor Materials and Devices Labs, Department of Chemical Engineering
Responsible for development of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors, InGaAs based metal-semiconductor-metal photo-detectors, and ZnO based light emitting diodes
PORFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES / SEVICE
Technical Conference Organization
Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials and Devices 20,235th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Dallas, TX, May 2019
Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials and Devices 18, 231th Electrochemical Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 2017
Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials and Devices 17, 229th Electrochemical Society Meeting, San Diego, CA, June 2016
State-of-the-Art Program on Compound Semiconductors 58, 228th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Oct. 2015
Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials and Devices 16, 227th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2015
Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials and Devices 15, 225th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Orlando, FL, May 2014
State-of-the-Art Program on Compound Semiconductors 55, 224th Electrochemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 2013
Professional Associations
Secretary of Electronics and Photonics division of Electrochemical Society (ECS, 2015-)
Chair for the Gove and Deal Young Award Selection Committee of ECS (2014-)
Committee member for Henry B Linford Award for Distinguished Teaching of ECS (2015-)
Member of Electrochemical Society
Senior Member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Member of American Ceramic Society
Member of Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers
Lifetime Member of Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
Board member of Korean Sensor Society
Reviewer of Technical Journals
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, American Chemical Society
ACS Omega, American Chemical Society
Advanced Electronic Materials
Analyst, Royal Society of chemistry
Analytical Chemistry, American Chemical Society
Applied Physics Letters, American Institute of Physics
Electrochemical Society Transactions, Electrochemical Society
Electronics, Sensors, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
IEEE Electron Device Letters, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE Sensors Journal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Elsevier
Journal of Electrochemical Society, Electrochemical Society
Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, American Scientific Publishers
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Institute of Physics
Journal of Vacuum Society A/B, American Vacuum Society
Materials, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Materials Research Express, Institute of Physics
Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Elsevier
Nanotechnology, Institute of Physics
Microelectronic Engineering, Elsevier
Optics Express, Optics Society of America
Optics Letters, Optics Society of America
Photonics Research Review, Optics Society of America
Physica status solide A, Wiley-VCH
Sensors, Mutidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Sensors and Materials, MYU, Scientific Publishing Devision
Thin Solid Films, Elsevier
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Elsevier
Semiconductor Science and Technology, Institute of Physics
Smart Materials and Structures, Institute of Physics
Solid State Electronics, Elsevier
Solid State Letters, Electrochemical Society
Solid State Science and Technology, Electrochemical Society
Superlattices and Microstructures, Elsevier
Vacuum, Elsevier
ARCADEMIC ACHIEVENTS
1. Gas Sensors
- Effect of atomic configuration of (-201) and (010) Ga2O3 single crystal planes on the hydrogen sensing characterization of Pt Schottky diodes was investigated.
- Ammonia and carbon dioxide sensor based on AlGaN/GaN HEMT with ZnO nanorods on gate region was developed
- Highly sensitive ammonia sensor based on AlGaN/GaN HEMT with ZnO nanorods on gate region was developed.
- AlGaN/GaN HEMT hydrogen sensor with PMMA or polyimide based moisture barrier was developed for humid ambient application.
- Ethanol sensor based on AlGaN/GaN HEMT with catalytic silver was developed.
- Highly sensitive (11-20) and (11-22) plane GaN hydrogen sensors using photo-chemical etching was developed.
- Hydrothermally grown a-plane ZnO hydrogen sensor was demonstrated
- AlGaN/GaN HEMT based hydrogen sensors using Pt nano-networks with large surface to volume ratio were developed.
- Dependence of crystal plane and polarity in GaN on hydrogen sensing was investigated.
2. Light Emitting Diodes
- Nonpolar a-plane n-type ZnO or or ZnCdO (grown by facile solution method) / p-GaN hybrid LED was realized.
- Organic LED with improved cryogenic LiF/Al electrode was developed.
- Self-annealing process of neutron irradiated InGaN/GaN LEDs was investigated.
3. GaN based RF and Power Devices
- Degradation mechanisms of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) were elucidated.
- Effects of neutron and proton irradiation on GaN based HEMTs were investigated.
- Enhancement Mode GaN metal oxide semiconductor (MOSFET) using Si diffusion was developed.
4. InGaAs based Photodetectors
- Optimal design of InGaAs based metal semiconductor metal (MSM) photodector was established.
- Effect of transparent ITO electrode on MSM photodetector was investigated.
ACADEMIC HONORS
Best Teaching Award at Dankook University 2010
University of Florida Korean Graduate Student Award 2007
Student Travel Grant at 2006 Electrochemical Society Meeting
Honorable Mentions at 2005 Florida Chapter AVS
TEACHING/INSTRUCTION DEVELOPMENT
Undergraduate Courses Developed/Taught (Dankook University)
Chemical Reactor Design (spring semesters, 2009-present)
Semiconductor Processing and Chemical Engineering (fall semesters, 2010-present)
Chemical Reaction Engineering (fall semesters, 2009-present)
Graduate Courses Developed/Taught (Dankook University)
Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering (fall semester 2009, spring semester 2011, spring semester 2013, spring semester 2015, spring semester 2018)