Topological Quantum Device Lab

2025

2025.03.07 Youngwook was awarded a renewed research stay under the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship as a former fellow for his sabbatical year.
2025.02.24 Minseo and Seungwoo join our group ;-) welcome!
2025.02.24 Finally, Dohun becomes Dr. Dohun Kim and he received the Minister's Award from the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea.
2025.01.03 Welcome our new postdoc Dr.Hyeongyu Bae who will continue to research on TaS2/graphene at MPI-FKF
2025.01.02 Dohun's paper is now available in the Nature Communications

2024

2024.11.22 Dohun's third paper has been accepted to Nature Communications! Yay!
2024.11.14 Dohun successfully completed his defense presentation 🎉 He is officially the first Ph.D. in our group! 😊
2024.09.01 Junsik officially joined our group 🎉 Welcome junsik ;-)
2024.08.26 Minjun's proposal for mobility funding to ETH Zurich has been accepted! 🎉 Yay!
2024.08.16 Yanni has finally got her master's degree. Wishing her the best of luck with her next step at Caltech!
2024.07.25 Youngwook's News & View about charge transfer in WSe2 has been published in Nature Nanotechnology.
2024.07.25 We are going to start new Global Young Connect project for devleloping topological Qubits in twisted materials with Sogong Univ (Minsoo Kim), POSTECH(Gil-Ho Lee), KAIST(Gil Young Cho), and MIT(Long Ju).
2024.07.02 Yanni has been awarded a five-year scholarship for her Ph.D. program at Caltech from The Kwanjeong Educational Foundation. Fingers crossed for her new journey!
2024.04.20 Our group has joined the Quantum Graduate School program (양자대학원) at POSTECH. Newbies will join the POSTECH-DGIST-UNIST Quantum Graduate School program for their Ph.D. degrees.
2024.03.31 Our project for collaborative research with Klaus Ensslin and Thomas Ihn at ETH Zurich has been accepted. The project, titled 'Spin and Valley Qubit in an All Van der Waals Heterostructure,' now receives support in Switzerland.
2024.03.20 Yanni has been selected for the 2024 Lindau Meeting as the representative graduate student from Korea.
2024.02.16 Yanni has been accepted into the Ph.D. program at Caltech! Yay!
2024.01.29 Youngwook's final project as a postdoc has been accepted for publication in Nano Letters. This achievement comes nearly 8 years after the initial observation of the parabolic fan diagram feature. LINK

2023

2023.11.29 Youngwook will have an invited presentation at AC2MP LINK
2023.11.14 Youngwook received an invitation to ICPS 2024!!! LINK
2023.11.13 Dohun's third paper has been accepted to CAP ;-). This paper is also the result of a collaboration with Joseph Falson.
2023.10.12 Soyun's second paper collaborated with Joseph Falson (Caltech) and Jeongwoo Kim (INU) has been accepted to APL ;-)
2023.08.22 Soyun's application for the NRF Ph.D. fellowship (박사과정연구장려금) has been accepted. Hurray!
2023.07.18 I'm pleased to announce that our research proposal on spin qubits research with ETH Zurich, Prof. Klaus Ensslin, has been accepted! This exciting opportunity allows us to establish a collaborative partnership with Klaus Ensslin, an esteemed expert in the field.
2023.05.22 Soyun and Dohun's paper has been accepted to Advanced Science. Congratulation to Soyun for her very first paper and Dohun for second paper. Yay!
2022.02.27 Minjun and Yanni join our group as a graduate student.

News from 2019 to 2022

2022

2022.12.13 Dohun's paper has been accepted to Nano Letters. This is the very first paper from our group! Yay!
2022.12.06 We are starting a new project "Study of artificial anyon paring for topological quantum computer" supported by NRF( 양자정보과학 리더급 연구역량강화사업)
2022.06.01 Our new research project "Microwave based quantum circuit for quantum communication" is starting as of 2022.06.01. This funding is for "DGIST-US collabration research", our partner is Joseph Falson @ Caltech. Finally, we can start an official collaboration research.
2022.05.19 See this news about The Partner Group of MPI at DGIST
2022.04.28 Research fund so-called "BrainLink" supported by NRF has been accepted. So we are now linked to HYU-SKKU-SNU-PNU-KNU-POSTECH - Korean Link, HARVARD-MPI-NHMFL-CHMFL-HPSTAR - foreign Link for3 years
2022.04.28 Our group has been supported by Samsung Electronics about contact engineering 2D semiconductor for 3 years
2022.03.02 Minjun and Yanni again join our group as an undergrad student researcher
2022.02.25 We become a member of MPI "The partner group of Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research at DGIST". Our group will support Max Planck Society up to 5 yeras. We will strongly collaborate with Dr. Jurgen Smet's group (Solid State Nanophysics) @ MPI-FKF in Stuttgart.

2021

2021.06.29 Finally Graphene 2nd Edition is published. We contribute Chapter 3.Electronic transport in graphene. Here is the chapter LINK, for full book, you can find here LINK.
2021.06.08 Our lab has anti-static floor, we are now free from discharging!
2021.05.06 New paper about Bose Einstein condensation is now available in Nano Letters. LINK
2021.04.01 We changed main photo. So Yun made this wonderful device
2021.04.01 과학동아 Interview is online. LINK1 (official site of 과학동아), LINK2 (DGIST blog)
2021.03.02 So Yun officially becomes our group member. Hopefully she will discover interesting phenomena
2021.02.05 Four students finished their internship in our lab! .

2020

2020.12.14 Finally, Janis system is here E2-620. Keep it cold!
2020.09.01 Now all electronics found their position. See rough setup of our rack
2020.06.25 Finally, we made devices. Now time to cooldown these devices
2020.06.24 Our group has been supported by NRF-신진연구사업 (total 670M KRW for 5 years). Plus, we will get more money from NRF 최초혁신실험실-(100M KRW for 1 year). We can do Low T experiment !! Make us famous!!
2020.06.18 Sung Eun joined our group for summer internship. WelcomeS
2020.05.01. Youngwook is awarded the Young Scientist prize in condensed matter physics
2020.01.28. Dohun Kim joined our group as a Ph.D student. He is the first graduate student in our group. Welcome!
2020.01.06. So Yun and Heemyoung have joined our group as a research intern. They are our first student!! welcome! here hard working photo

2019

2019.12.24. Collaboration work with Eli Zeldov has been published in Nature Physics.
2019.11.27. Youngwook and Patrick's paper is accepted in ACS Nano
2019.06.24. Soudabeh and Youngwook's new paper is accepted in Nano Letters!
2019.05.20. New International System of Units has been officially announced. See vK's Essay in PRL and celebrate his new achievement.
2019.04.15. Dr. Youngwook Kim will start professorship at Department of Emerging Materials Science, DGIST from 10th of June
2019.04.15. New homepage for Youngwook Kim's lab has been launched! This lab aims to discovery of new correlated phenomena in 2D materials