Awards & Honors

► The UKC 2016 Best Poster Award - Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA), USA (Aug. 2016).

Title: "Wholly integrated plasmonic fabrics", J. W. Leem, S. H. Choi, K. H. Choi, and Y. L. Kim

► The Best Presentation Paper Award - The Korean Physical Society, Korea (Apr., 2015).

Title: “Study of nano/micro structured polymer films for photovoltaic cell applications”, B. Dudem, J. W. Leem, J. H. Lim, and J. S. Yu

► The Winners of the Young Researcher Award (Best Poster Presentation)

- 16th International Conference on Thin Films, Croatia (Oct., 2014)

Title: “Fabrication and characteristics of glancing-angle deposited metal oxide nanocolumnar strcutures for antireflection layers and reflectors”, S. H. Lee, J. W. Leem, X. Y. Guan, and J. S. Yu

► The best Ph.D. dissertation award - Kyung Hee University, Korea (Feb., 2014).

► The YungMun semiconductor paper award - The Korean Physical Society, Korea (Apr., 2012).

► The best presentation paper award - The Korean Physical Society, Korea (Oct., 2011).

Title: “Antireflection characteristics of periodic and aperiodic subwavelength semiconductor nanostructures”, J. W. Leem, K. S. Chung, and J. S. Yu

► The best paper award - The Optical Society of Korea, Korea (May, 2011).

Title: “Effect of porous ITO films on a-Si:H single-junction solar cells”, J. W. Leem, D. H. Joo, and J. S. Yu

► Merit based scholarships for outstanding students

- Won the scholarships for eight times at Kyung Hee University, Korea (Mar., 2000 ~ Feb., 2008/Mar. 2010 ~ Feb., 2011).

► Scholarship supported by BK21 Project (Mar., 2010 ~ Feb., 2014).

► Won a president’s prize for graduating with top honors - Kyung Hee University, Korea (Feb., 2008).