DUONG, DINH LOC

• 9/2024-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Frontier Institute for Research in Sensor Technologies (FIRST), University of Maine, Orono, ME 04473, USA

• 11/2022-8/2024: Assistant Research Professor, Department of Physics, MonArk Foundry Scientist and Liaison, Montana State University, MT 59717, USA

• 9/2019-11/2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

• 7/2018-11/2022: Team leader of 2D Magnetism group (core project), IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

• 5/2016-6/2018: Research Professor, IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

• 9/2014-4/2016: Scientist at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

• 12/2012-8/2014: Post-doc at IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

• 9/2012-12/2012: Post-doc at Institute of New Paradigm of Energy Science Convergence, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

• 3/2008-9/2012: Ms-PhD at Sungkyunkwan Advanced Institute of NanoTechnology, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

• 9/2002-9/2007:  Undergraduate student of Advanced Materials-PFIEV Program- at Hồ Chí Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam

• Representative Projects

• • Room-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductor in monolayer WSe2 via V dopant  

• • Phase transition in TiSe2

• • Hot carrier extraction from graphene

• • Control growth graphene on copper and its properties

• • Gap-opening in graphene

• Experiments

  • Scanning Probe Microscopy: AFM, MFM, KFM, C-AFM

• • Raman Spectroscopy

• • Microfabrication process: Photolithography, E-beam lithography

• • Low-temperature measurements

• • Chemical vapor deposition (CVD), Atomic layer deposition (ALD)

• Theoretical simulations

o   Using ab-initio (VASP, Quantum Espresso, DMOL3) tools as simulation tool to design and understand physical chemistry process at nanoscale in carbon nanotube and graphene

o   Phase transition and superconductivity dome in TiSe2 (Quantum Espresso)

2003: The 2nd National Prize in 7th Physic Olympic for Students.