Electronic and Hybrid Materials Research Center / Principal Research Scientist @ KIST
Address
Building L3, Room 3269,
Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
5, Hwarang-ro 14-gil Seongbuk-gu Seoul,
02792, Republic of Korea
(02792) 서울특별시 성북구 화랑로 14길5
한국과학기술연구원(KIST) L3269호
E-mail shbaek77@kist.re.kr
Tel +82 02-958-5382
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Thesis: "Multifunctional oxide thin films for magnetoelectric and electromechanical applications" advised by Prof. C. B. Eom
United States
2007. 6 ~ 2010. 8
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
M.S. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
United States
2004. 9 ~ 2007. 5
Seoul Nat’l Univ
B.S. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Korea
1997. 3 ~ 2004. 2
KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
Principal Research Scientist @ Electronic and Hybrid Materials Research Center
Seoul, Korea
2011. 12 ~ Present
KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)
HEAD @ Electronic Materials Research Center
Seoul, Korea
2021. 7 ~ 2024. 12
UST (University of Science and Technology)
Professor, Dept. of Nanomaterials Science and Technology
Korea
2012. 3 ~ Present
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Post-doc., Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
(Advisor: Chang-Beom Eom, Ph.D.)
United States
2010. 9 ~ 2011. 11
S.H. Baek et al. Giant piezoelectricity on Si for hyper-active MEMS. Science 334, 958 2011
S.H. Baek et al. Ferroelastic switching for nanosclae nonvolatile magnetoelectric devices. Nature Mater. 9, 309 2010
S.H. Baek et al. Nature of polarization fatigue in epitaxial BiFeO3 thin films. Adv. Mat. 23, 1621 2011
Multifunctional oxide thin films
- Synthesis & characterization of epitaxial oxide heterostructures
- Ferroelectrics, Piezoelectrics, Multiferroics, Oxynitrides
- MEMS for transducers and actuators for ultrasound imaging and microdispensors
- Ferroelectric Field-Effect-Transistors for logic-in-memory
- Microbolometers for infrared imaging
- Epitaxial transfer and bonding
Thermoelectrics
- Synthesis & characterization of thermoelectric materials (Bismuth telluride alloys, Zintl phases)
- Thermoelectric coolers and generators
Certificate from the minister of Science and ICT (2024)
KIST Young Fellow (2018)
KIST Excellent Research Team (2018)
Outstanding Professor of UST (2017)
KIST Researcher of the Month (2016, October)
KRCF (Korea Research Council of Fundamental Science and Technology) Outstanding Young Researcher (2013)
KIST Excellent Research Team (2012)
MRS Graduate Student Award, Silver (2010 Fall).
David Turnbull Graduate Student Award at UW-Madison (2010).
Travel Fellowship for Nanoferroelectrics summer school in China (2009).
Full scholarship supported by Korea Research Foundation (2004-2005).
Full scholarship supported by Dong-Bu Steel Foundation (2002-2003).
Citation for High Achievement of Private First Class from brigadier general (1999).
Jung, SY; Han, DH; Ning, R; Kim, MS; Choi, HJ; Jang, HW; Baek, SH*, “Extreme sputtering: Epitaxy of multifunctional oxides heterostructures”. J. Adv. Ceram. 13, 1919 (2024).
Dharmaiah, P; Jung, SJ; Kim, JS; Kim, SK; Baek, SH*, “Why is it challenging to improve the thermoelectric properties of n-type Bi2Te3 alloys?”. Appl. Phys. Rev. 11, 31312 (2024)
KC Kim, SK Kim, JS Kim*, SH Baek*, “Domain engineering of epitaxial (001) Bi2Te3 thin films by miscut GaAs substrate”. Acta Mater. 197, 309-315 (2020).
SI Kim, HJ Choi, G Lee, CJ Roh, I Jung, SY Jung, RG Ning, SO Won, HJ Chang, JS Lee, SK Kim, JS Kim, CY Kang, JW Choi, SH Baek*, “3D architectures of single-crystalline complex oxides”. Materials Horizon 7 1552-1557 (2020).
Sung-Jin Jung, Byeong-Hyeon Lee, Byung Kyu Kim, Sang-Soon Lim, Seong Keun Kim, Dong-Ik Kim, Sung Ok Won, Hyung-Ho Park, Jin-Sang Kim*, Seung-Hyub Baek*, “Impurity-free, mechanical doping for the reproducible fabrication of the reliable n-type Bi2Te3-based thermoelectric alloys”. Acta Materialia 150, 153 (2018)
Tae-Hyeon Kil, Sanghyeon Kim, Dae-Han Jeong, Dae-Myeong Geum, Sooseok Lee, Sung-Jin Jung, Sangtae Kim, Chan Park, Jin-Sang Kim, Jeong Min Baik, Ki-Suk Lee, Chang Zoo Kim, Won Jun Choi*, Seung-Hyub Baek*, “A highly-efficient, concentrating-photovoltaic/thermoelectric hybrid generator”. Nano Energy 37, 242 (2017).
Hyo Jin Gwon, Na-Ri Kang, Yunju Lee, Sung Ok Won, Hye Jung Chang, Ji-Won Choi, Chong-Yun Kang, Seong Keun Kim, Beomjin Kwon, Sahn Nahm, Ju-Young Kim, Jin-Sang Kim, and Seung-Hyub Baek*, “Enhancement of Mechanical Hardness in SnOxNy with a Dense High-Pressure Cubic Phase of SnO2”. Chem. Mater. 28, 7051 (2016).
Kwang-Chon Kim, Joohwi Lee, Byung Kyu Kim, Won Young Choi, Hye Jung Chang, Sung Ok Won, Beomjin Kwon, Seong Keun Kim, Dow-Bin Hyun, Hyun Jae Kim, Hyun Cheol Koo, Jung-Hae Choi, Dong-Ik Kim, Jin-Sang Kim* & Seung-Hyub Baek*, “Free-electron creation at the 60° twin boundary in Bi2Te3”. Nature Commun. 7, 12449 (2016)
S.I. Kim, D.H. Kim, Y. Kim, S.Y. Moon, M.G. Kang, J.K. Choi, H.W. Jang, S.K. Kim, J.W. Choi, S.J. Yoon, H.J. Chang, C.Y. Kang, S. Lee, S.H. Hong, J.S. Kim, S.H. Baek*, “Non-Volatile Control of 2DEG Conductivity at Oxide Interfaces”. Adv. Mat. 25, 4612 (2013).
S.H. Baek, J. Park, D.M. Kim, V. Aksyuk, S.D. Bu, R.R. Das, D.A. Felker, J. Lettieri, V. Vaithyanathan, N. Bassiri-Gharb, S.S.N. Bharadwaja, Y.B. Chen, H.P. Sun, H.W. Jang, D.J. Kreft, V. Nagarajan, S.K. Streiffer, R. Ramesh, X.Q. Pan, S. Trolier-McKinstry, D.G. Schlom, M.S. Rzchowski, R. Blick, C.B. Eom, “Giant piezoelectricity on Si for hyper-active MEMS”. Science 334, 958 (2011).
S.H. Baek, C.M. Folkman, J.W. Park, S. Lee, C.W. Bark. T. Tybell, “Nature of polarization fatigue in epitaxial BiFeO3 thin films”. Adv. Mater. 23, 1621 (2011).
S.H. Baek, H.W. Jang, C.M. Folkman, Y.L. Li, B.Winchester, J.X. Zhang, Q. He, Y.H. Chu, C.T. Nelson, M.S. Rzchowski, X.Q. Pan, R. Ramesh, L.Q. Chen, C.B. Eom, “Ferroelastic switching for nanoscale non-volatile magnetoelectric devices”. Nature Mater. 9, 309 (2010).