Hyun-Woo Lee

Hyun-Woo Lee, Professor of Physics 

Department of Physics
Pohang University of Science and Technology
Pohang, Kyungbuk 37673
Republic of Korea

Hyun-Woo Lee is a Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology

  

E-mail: hwl(a)postech.ac.kr
FAX: +82-54-279-3099
Phone: +82-54-279-2092
Office: Science Building 3 Room 329

Research Group - Theoretical Nanoscale Transport Lab (TNTL)

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Selected Recent Publications

Young-Gwan Choi, Daegeun Jo, Kyung-Hun Ko, Dongwook Go, Kyung-Han Kim, Hee Gyum Park, Changyoung Kim, Byoung-Chul Min, Gyung-Min Choi (C), and Hyun-Woo Lee (C)

Observation of the orbital Hall effect in a light metal Ti

Nature 619, 52 (2023) published 6 July [arXiv:2109.14847]

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06101-9

(*) Highlighted by Tatiana G. Rappoport in News & Views  [Nature 619, 38-39 (2023) published  5 July]
(*) Highlighted by Debarchan Das in News & Views [Nature Physics 19, 1085 (2023) published 10 August] 

Seungyun Han, Hyun-Woo Lee (C), and Kyoung-Whan Kim (C)

Orbital dynamics in centrosymmetric systems

Physical Review Letters 128, 176601 (2022) published 29 April (online publication 28 April) [arXiv:2112.04659]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.176601 


Dongjoon Lee(†), Dongwook Go(†), Hyeon-Jong Park(†), Wonmin Jeong, Hye-Won Ko, Deokhyun Yun, Daegeun Jo, Soogil Lee, Gyungchoon Go, Jung Hyun Oh, Kab-Jin Kim, Byong-Guk Park, Byoung-Chul Min, Hyun Cheol Koo, Hyun-Woo Lee (C), OukJae Lee (C), and Kyung-Jin Lee (C)

Orbital torque in magnetic bilayers

Nature Communications 12, 6710 (2021) published 18 November
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26650-9
Cited 50+ times (Google scholar)


Dongwook Go (C), Daegeun Jo, Hyun-Woo Lee, Mathias Klaui, and Yuriy Mokrousov

Orbitronics: Orbital currents in solids

Europhysics Letters (Perspective) 135, 37001 (2021) published (online publication 13 September) [arXiv:2107.08478]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/ac2653
Cited 50+ times (Google scholar)

Kaixuan Zhang (C), Seungyun Han, Youjin Lee, Matthew J. Coak, Junghyun Kim, Inho Hwang, Suhan Son, Jeacheol Shin, Mijin Lim, Daegeun Jo, Kyoo Kim, Dohun Kim, Hyun-Woo Lee (C), and Je-Geun Park (C)

Gigantic current control of coercive field and magnetic memory based on nm-thin ferromagnetic van der Waals Fe3GeTe2

Advanced Materials 33, 2004110 (2021) published 27 January (online publication 6 December 2020)

DOI: doi.org/10.1002/adma.202004110

(*) Featured as the back cover

Junyeon Kim (C), Dongwook Go, Hanshen Tsai, Daegeun Jo, Kouta Kondou, Hyun-Woo Lee (C), and YoshiChika Otani (C)
Non-trivial charge-to-spin conversion in ferromagnetic metal/Cu/Al2O3 by orbital transport
Physical Review B 103, L020407 (2021) published 1 January (online publication 15 January)  [arXiv:2002.00596]
DOI: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.L020407
Cited 50+ times (Google scholar)

Dongwook Go, Frank Freimuth, Jan-Philipp Hanke, Fei Xue, Olena Gomonay, Kyung-Jin Lee, Stefan Blugel, Paul M. Haney (C), Hyun-Woo Lee, and Yuriy Mokrousov (C)

Theory of current-induced angular momentum transfer dynamics in spin-orbit coupled systems

Physical Review Research 2, 033401 (2020) published September [arXiv:2004.05945]
DOI:doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033401
Cited 50+ times (Google scholar)

Gyung-Min Choi (C), Jung Hyun Oh, Dong-Kyu Lee, Seo-Won Lee, Kun Woo Kim, Mijin Lim, Byoung-Chul Min, Kyung- Jee Lee (C), Hyun-Woo Lee (C)
Optical spin-orbit torque in heavy metal-ferromagnet heterostructures
Nature Communications 11, 1482 (2020) published 20 March
DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15247-3


Dongwook Go and Hyun-Woo Lee (C)

Orbital torque: Torque generation by orbital current injection

Physical Review Research 2, 013177 (2020) published 20 February [arXiv:1903.01085]
DOI: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013177
Cited 100+ times (Google scholar)

Joolee Son, Kyung-Han Kim, Y. H. Ahn, Hyun-Woo Lee (C), and Jieun Lee (C)
Strain-engineering of Berry curvature dipole and valley magnetization in monolayer MoS2
Physical Review Letters 123, 036806 (2019) published 19 July (online publication 18 July)
DOI: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.036806
Cited 100+ times (Google scholar)

Kyung-Whan Kim(+), Seo-Won Lee(+), Jung-Hwan Moon, Gyungchoon Go, Aurelien Manchon, Hyun-Woo Lee, Karin Everschor-Sitte, and Kyung-Jin Lee (C)
Unidirectional magnon-driven domain wall motion due to interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
Physical Review Letters 122, 147202 (2019) published 12 April (online publication 9 April)  [arXiv:1803.10776]
DOI: doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.147202


Daegeun Jo, Dongwook Go (C), and Hyun-Woo Lee (C)

Gigantic intrinsic orbital Hall effects in weakly spin-orbit coupled metals

Physical Review B 98, 214405 (2018) published 1 December (online publication 4 December (2018))  [arXiv:1808.05546]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.214405
Cited 100+ times (Google scholar)

Dongwook Go, Daegeun Jo, Changyoung Kim, and Hyun-Woo Lee (C)
Intrinsic spin and orbital Hall effects from orbital texture
Physical Review Letters 121, 086602 (2018) published 24 August (online publication 24 August (2018)) [arXiv:1804.02118]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.086602
Cited 150+ times (Google scholar)


Kyoung-Whan Kim, Kyung-Jin Lee, Jairo Sinova, Hyun-Woo Lee (C), and M. D. Stiles (C)

Spin-orbit torques from interfacial spin-orbit coupling for various interfaces

Physical Review B 96, 104438 (2017) published 1 September (online publication 26 September)  [arXiv:1707.09847]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.104438
Cited by 50+ times (Google scholar)


Dongwook Go (C), Jan-Philipp Hanke, Patrick M. Buhl, Frank Freimuth, Gustav Bihlmayer, Hyun-Woo Lee, Yuriy Mokrousov, and Stefan Blügel

Toward surface orbitronics: Giant orbital magnetism from the orbital Rashba effect at the surface of sp-metals

Scientific Reports 7, 46742 (2017) published 25 April [arXiv:1611.04674]
DOI: 10.1038/srep46742
Cited 50+ times (Google scholar)

Young-Wan Oh, Seung-heon Chris Baek, Young Min Kim, Hae Yeon Lee, Kyeong-Dong Lee, Chang-Geun Yang, Eun-Sang Park, Ki-Seung Lee, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Gyungchoon Go, Jong-Ryul Jeong, Byoung-Chul Min, Hyun-Woo Lee, Kyung-Jin Lee (C), and Byong-Guk Park (C)
Field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization through spin-orbit torque in antiferromagnet/ferromagnet/oxide structures
Nature Nanotechnology 11, 878-884 (2016) published October (advance online publication 11 July 2016)
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2016.109
Cited 450+ times (Google scholar)

Kyoung-Whan Kim (C) and Hyun-Woo Lee (C)
Spintronics: Chiral damping
Nature Materials 15, 253-254 (2016) published March (onlinear publication 24 February 2016)
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT4565
(*) Invited article by Nature Materials Editor as News & Views

Xuepeng Qiu, Kulothungasagaran Narayanapillai, Yang Wu, Praveen Deorani, Dong-Hyuk Yang, Woo-Suk Noh, Jae-Hoon Park, Kyung-Jin Lee, Hyun-Woo Lee, and Hyunsoo Yang (C)
Spin-orbit torque engineering via oxygen manipulation
Nature Nanotechnology 10, 333 (2015) published April (advance online publication 2 March 2015) [arXiv:1311.3032]
DOI: 10.1038/NNANO.2015.18
Cited 300+ times (Google scholar)

Kyoung-Whan Kim (C) and Hyun-Woo Lee (C)
SHE's electric
Nature Physics 10 (8), 549-550 (2014) published August (online publication 20 July 2014)
(*) Invited article by Nature Physics Editor as News & Views

Paul M. Haney, Hyun-Woo Lee, Kyung-Jin Lee, Aurelien Manchon, and M. D. Stiles
Current-induced torques and interfacial spin-orbit coupling
Physical Review B 88 (21), 214417 (2013) 1 December (online publication 19 December 2013) [arXiv:1309.1356]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.214417
Cited 150+ times (Google scholar)

Kyoung-Whan Kim, Hyun-Woo Lee (C), Kyung-Jin Lee, and M. D. Stiles
Chirality from interfacial spin-orbit coupling effects in magnetic bilayers
Physical Review Letters 111 (21), 216601 (2013) 22 November (online publication 19 November 2013) [arXiv:1308.1198]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.216601
Cited 200+ times (Google scholar)

Kyung-Jin Lee (C), M. D. Stiles, Hyun-Woo Lee, Jung-Hwan Moon, Kyoung-Whan Kim, and Seo-Won Lee
Self-consistent calculation of spin transport and magnetization dynamics
Physics Reports 531 (2), 89-113 (2013) 10 October (online publication 5 June 2013) [arXiv:1305.5087]
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2013.05.006

Paul M. Haney, Hyun-Woo Lee, Kyung-Jin Lee, Aurelien Manchon, and M. D. Stiles
Current induced torques and interfacial spin-orbit coupling: Semiclassical modeling
Physical Review B 87 (17), 174411 (2013) 1 May (online publication 7 May 2013) [arXiv:1301.4513]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.174411
Cited 500+ times (Google scholar)

Sungjung Joo, Taeyueb Kim, Sang Hoon Shin, Ju Young Lim, Jinki Hong(C), Jin Dong Song(C), Joonyeon Chang, Hyun-Woo Lee, Kungwon Rhie, Suk Hee Han, Kyung-Ho Shin, and Mark Johnson
Magnetic-field-controlled reconfigurable semiconductor logic
Nature 494, 72 (2013) 7 February (online publication 30 January 2013)
DOI:10.1038/nature11817
Cited 100+ times (Google scholar)
Highlighted in News & Views, Nature 494, 43 (2013) and in News, Nature 493, 589 (2013)

Jin-Hong Park, Choong H. Kim, Hyun-Woo Lee(C), and Jung Hoon Han(C)
Orbital chirality and Rashba interaction in magnetic bands
Physical Review B 87 (04), 041301(R) (2013) January 15 (online publication date: 3 January 2013) [arXiv:1207.0089]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.041301
Cited 50+ times (Google scholar)

Kyoung-Whan Kim, Jung-Hwan Moon, Kyung-Jin Lee, and Hyun-Woo Lee(C)
Prediction of giant spin motive force due to Rashba spin-orbit coupling
Physical Review Letters 108 (21), 217202 (2012) 25 May (online publication date: 23 May 2012) [arXiv:1202.1406]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.217202
Cited 100+ times (Google scholar)

Kyoung-Whan Kim, Soo-Man Seo, Jisu Ryu, Kyung-Jin Lee(C), and Hyun-Woo Lee(C)
Magnetization dynamics induced by in-plane currents in ultrathin magnetic nanostructures with Rashba spin-orbit coupling
Physical Review B 85 (18), 180404(R) (2012) May 1 (online publication date: 8 May 2012) [arXiv:1111.3422]
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.180404
Cited 250+ times (Google scholar)

Kab-Jin Kim, Jisu Ryu(C), Gi-Hong Gim, Jae-Chul Lee, Kyoung-Ho Shin, Hyun-Woo Lee, and Sug-Bong Choe(C)
Electric current effect on energy barrier of magnetic domain wall depinning: Origin of quadratic contribution
Physical Review Letters 107, 217205 (2011) November 18 (online publication date: 28 November 2011)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.217205

Jae-Chul Lee, Kab-Jin Kim, Jisu Ryu, Kyoung-Woong Moon, Sang-Jun Yun, Gi-Hong Gim, Kang-Soo Lee, Kyung-Ho Shin, Hyun-Woo Lee(C), and Sug-Bong Choe(C)
Universality classes of magnetic domain wall motion
Physical Review Letters 107 (06), 067201 (2011) August 5 (online publication date: 1 August 2011)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.067201
Cited 50+ times (Google scholar)

Se-Chung Oh, Seung-Young Park, Aurelien Manchon, Mairbek Chshiev, Jae-Ho Han, Hyun-Woo Lee, Jang-Eun Lee, Kyung-Tae Nam, Younghun Jo, Yo-Chan Kong, Bernard Dieny, and Kyung-Jin Lee
Bias-voltage dependence of perpendicular spin-transfer torque in asymmetric MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions
Nature Physics 5 (12), 898-902 (2009) December (Advance online publication 25 October 2009)
Highlighted in NPG Asia Materials (1 March 2010)
Cited 250+ times (Google scholar)

Kab-Jin Kim, Jae-Chul Lee, Sung-Min Ahn, Kang-Soo Lee, Chang-Won Lee, Young Jin Cho, Sunae Seo, Kyung-Ho Shin, Sug-Bong Choe, and Hyun-Woo Lee
Interdimensional universality of dynamic interfaces
Nature 458, 740-742 (2009)
Cited 150+ times (Google scholar)

Jaeuk U. Kim, W.-R. Lee, Hyun-Woo Lee, and H.-S. Sim
Revival of electron coherence in a quantum wire of finite length
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 076401 (2009)

S.-C. Youn, H.-W. Lee, and H.-S. Sim
Nonequilibrium dephasing in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 196807 (2008)
Cited 50+ times (Google scholar)
Highlighted in Physical Review Focus on May 21, 2008

S. W. Jung, W. Kim, T. D. Lee, K. J. Lee, and H.-W. Lee
Current-induced domain wall motion in a nanowire with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy
Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 202508 (2008)
Cited 200+ times (Google scholar)

Hyun-Woo Lee and Sejoong Kim
Correlation-induced resonances and population switching in a quantum dot Coulomb valley
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186805 (2007) 

Most Cited Publications

H. Lee, L. S. Levitov, and A. Yu Yakovets
Universal statistics of transport in disordered conductors
Phys. Rev. B 51, 4079 (1995)
Cited 150+ times (Google scholar)

L. S. Levitov, H. Lee, and G. B. Lesovik
Electron counting statistics and coherent states of electric current
J. Math. Phys. 37, 4845 (1996)
Cited 1100+ times (Google scholar)

D. A. Ivanov, H. Lee, and L. S. Levitov
Coherent states of alternating current
Physical Review B 56 (11), 6839-6850 (1997) September 15th [cond-mat/9501040]
Cited 200+ times (Google scholar)

H. Y. Lee, H.-W. Lee, and D. Kim
Origin of synchronized traffic flow on highways and its dynamics phase transitions
Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1130 (1998)
Highlighted in Science as Perspectives [Science 282, 2001 (1998)]
Cited 250+ times (Google scholar)

H.-W. Lee
Generic transmission zeros and in-phase resonances in time reversal symmetric single-channel transport
Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2358 (1999)
Cited 150+ times (Google scholar)

H.Y. Lee, H.-W. Lee, and D. Kim
Dynamic states of a continuum traffic equation with on-ramp
Phys. Rev. E 59, 5101 (1999)
Cited 150+ times (Google scholar)

Soon-Wook Jung, Woojin Kim, Taek-Dong Lee, Kyung-Jin Lee, and Hyun-Woo Lee
Current-induced domain wall motion in a nanowire with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy
Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 202508 (2008)
Cited 200+ times (Google scholar)

Kab-Jin Kim, Jae-Chul Lee, Sung-Min Ahn, Kang-Soo Lee, Chang-Won Lee, Young Jin Cho, Sunae Seo, Kyung-Ho Shin, Sug-Bong Choe, and Hyun-Woo Lee
Interdimensional universality of dynamic interfaces
Nature 458, 740-742 (2009)
Cited 150+ times (Google Scholar)

Jae-Seung Jeong and Hyun-Woo Lee
Curvature-enhanced spin-orbit coupling in a carbon nanotube
Phys. Rev. B 80 (07), 075409 (2009) August [arXiv:0904.1185]
Funded by MRP-NRF (HWLee 2007), BK21
Cited 100+ times (Google scholar)

Se-Chung Oh, Seung-Young Park, Aurelien Manchon, Mairbek Chshiev, Jae-Ho Han, Hyun-Woo Lee, Jang-Eun Lee, Kyung-Tae Nam, Younghun Jo, Yo-Chan Kong, Bernard Dieny, and Kyung-Jin Lee
Bias-voltage dependence of perpendicular spin-transfer torque in asymmetric MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions
Nature Physics 5 (12), 898-902 (2009) December (Advance online publication 25 October 2009)
Highlighted in NPG Asia Materials (1 March 2010)
Cited 250+ times (Google scholar)

Kyoung-Whan Kim, Soo-Man Seo, Jisu Ryu, Kyung-Jin Lee(C), and Hyun-Woo Lee(C)
Magnetization dynamics induced by in-plane currents in ultrathin magnetic nanostructures with Rashba spin-orbit coupling
Physical Review B 85 (18), 180404(R) (2012) May 1 (online publication date: 8 May 2012) [arXiv:1111.3422]
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.180404
Cited 200+ times (Google Scholar)

Paul M. Haney, Hyun-Woo Lee, Kyung-Jin Lee, Aurelien Manchon, and M. D. Stiles
Current induced torques and interfacial spin-orbit coupling: Semiclassical modeling
Physical Review B 87 (17), 174411 (2013) 1 May (online publication 7 May 2013) [arXiv:1301.4513]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.174411
Cited 450+ times (Google scholar)

Jung-Hwan Moon, Soo-Man Seo, Kyung-Jin Lee (C), Kyoung-Whan Kim, Jisu Ryu, Hyun-Woo Lee, R. D. McMichael, and M. D. Stiles
Spin-wave propagation in the presence of interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
Physical Review B 88 (18), 184404 (2013) 1 November (online publication 4 November 2013) [arXiv:1308.3341]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.184404
Cited 300+ times (Google scholar)

Kyoung-Whan Kim, Hyun-Woo Lee (C), Kyung-Jin Lee, and M. D. Stiles
Chirality from interfacial spin-orbit coupling effects in magnetic bilayers
Physical Review Letters 111 (21), 216601 (2013) 22 November (online publication 19 November 2013) [arXiv:1308.1198]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.216601
Cited 150+ times (Google scholar)

Paul M. Haney, Hyun-Woo Lee, Kyung-Jin Lee, Aurelien Manchon, and M. D. Stiles
Current-induced torques and interfacial spin-orbit coupling
Physical Review B 88 (21), 214417 (2013) 1 December (online publication 19 December 2013) [arXiv:1309.1356]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.214417
Cited 150+ times (Google scholar)

Xuepeng Qiu, Praveen Deorani, Kulothungasagaran Nrayanapillai, Ki-Seung Lee, Kyung-Jin Lee, Hyun-Woo Lee, and Hyunsoo Yang (C)
Angular and temperature dependence of current induced spin-orbit effective fields in Ta/CoFeB/MgO nanowires
Scientific Reports 4, 4491 (2014) 27 March
DOI: 10.1038/srep04491
Cited 200+ times (Google scholar)

Satoru Emori, Eduardo Martinez, Kyung-Jin Lee, Hyun-Woo Lee, Uwe Bauer, Sung-Min Ahn, Parnika Agrawal, David C. Bono, and Geoffrey S. D. Beach (C)
Spin Hall torque magnetometry of Dzyaloshinskii domain walls
Physical Review B 90 (18), 184427 (2014) published 1 November (online publication 25 November 2014) [arXiv:1308.1432v2]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.90.184427
(*) Highlighted as Editor's Suggestion
Cited 200+ times (Google scholar)

Xuepeng Qiu, Kulothungasagaran Narayanapillai, Yang Wu, Praveen Deorani, Dong-Hyuk Yang, Woo-Suk Noh, Jae-Hoon Park, Kyung-Jin Lee, Hyun-Woo Lee, and Hyunsoo Yang (C)
Spin-orbit torque engineering via oxygen manipulation
Nature Nanotechnology 10, 333 (2015) published April (advance online publication 2 March 2015) [arXiv:1311.3032]
DOI: 10.1038/NNANO.2015.18
Cited 250+ times (Google Scholar)

Young-Wan Oh, Seung-heon Chris Baek, Young Min Kim, Hae Yeon Lee, Kyeong-Dong Lee, Chang-Geun Yang, Eun-Sang Park, Ki-Seung Lee, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Gyungchoon Go, Jong-Ryul Jeong, Byoung-Chul Min, Hyun-Woo Lee, Kyung-Jin Lee (C), and Byong-Guk Park (C)

Field-free switching of perpendicular magnetization through spin-orbit torque in antiferromagnet/ferromagnet/oxide structures

Nature Nanotechnology 11, 878-884 (2016) published October (advance online publication 11 July 2016)

DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2016.109
Cited 350+ times (Google scholar) 

Dongwook Go, Daegeun Jo, Changyoung Kim, and Hyun-Woo Lee (C)

Intrinsic spin and orbital Hall effects from orbital texture

Physical Review Letters 121, 086602 (2018) published 24 August (online publication 24 August (2018)) [arXiv:1804.02118]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.086602
Cited 100+ times (Google scholar)