Journal

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• Min Young Kim*. Thermal transport control in electrical and electronic materials (in preparation)

• Min Young Kim*, Joon Sang Kang, Jangwoo Ha, Hyungyu Jin, Sandy A. Ekahana, Pratik Saud, Chris Jozwiak, Eli Rotenberg, Aaron Bostwick, Jyoti Katoch, Joseph P. Heremans.
  "Electrically tunable interfacial thermal conduction via electronic structure engineering in Au/Bi1-xSbx topological insulators" (in revision)

• Hyun Yu, Junyoung Park, Sang J. Park, Min Young Kim, Sang Guk Jeong, Seongjin Kim, Sung-Ho Kim, Hyoung Seop Kim, Jae Yong Song, Sung-Joon Kim, Hyungyu Jin*.

"Geometry-induced transverse Seebeck effect for high-performance thermoelectric legs" (submitted)

• Jangwoo Ha, Min Young Kim, Sang J. Park, Hyungyu Jin*.

"Realizing Seebeck-driven transverse thermoelectric generation in bulk composites"

Mater. Today Phys. 60 101976 (2026) [IF: 9.7, JCR 10.4% in Physics, Applied]

• Min Young Kim, Sang J. Park, Gi-Yeop Kim, Si-Young Choi, Hyungyu Jin*.

"Designing efficient spin Seebeck-based thermoelectric devices via simultaneous optimization of bulk and interface properties"

Energy Environ. Sci. 14, 3480-3493 (2021) [IF: 39.714, JCR 0.18% in Environmental Sciences] 

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• Min Young Kim, Sang J. Park, Hyungyu Jin*.

"Enhancing the spin Seebeck effect by controlling interface condition in Pt/polycrystalline nickel ferrite slabs"

J. Appl. Phys. 127, 085105 (2020) [IF: 2.877]

Conferences & Seminars

• "전고체 시스템에서의 열 및 에너지 수송 거동", KIEEME Annual Summer Conference, Busan, Republic of Korea, Jun. 2026.

• "Solid-state thermal thermal management via tunable interfacial thermal transport", 2026 The Korean Society of Thermophysical Properties, Pohang, Republic of Korea, Apr. 2026.

• “Electrically switchable contribution of topologically protected interface states to the interfacial thermal conductance of Au/Bi1-xSbx junctions,” The 2025 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Dec. 2025.

• "Electrically switchable contribution of topologically protected interface states to the interfacial thermal conductance of Au/Bi1-xSbx junctions," OSU Materials and Manufacturing Conference 2025, Columbus, Ohio, USA, Apr. 2025.

• "Interfacial thermal resistance associated with topologically protected interface states in topological phase," Joint APS March Meeting and April Meeting: Global Physics Summit 2025, Anaheim, California, USA, Mar. 2025.

• "Advancing thermal energy technologies: solid-state heat conversion and management," POSTECH Physics Seminar, Pohang, Republic of Korea, Dec. 2024.

• "The effect of oxygen-vacancy defects on anomalous Nernst thermopower," WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Transverse Effects in Thermoelectic Systems, Bonn, Germany, Oct. 2024.

• "Thermal switching using topological phases," Q-PHORIA 2024: Quantum Phenomena in Magnetic Materials, Columbus, Ohio, USA, Oct. 2024. 

• "Topologically protected surface states as a possible mechanism for heat switches," Micheal J. Moran Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, USA, Apr. 2024.

• "Interfacial thermal resistance in topological phases," 2024 APS March meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Mar. 2024.

• "The effect of oxygen-vacancy defects on anomalous Nernst effect in hopping semiconductor Sr3YCo4O10+d," 2023 Spin Caloritronics XII conference, Tsukuba, Japan, May 2023.

• "The effect of spin-orbital entropy on anomalous Nernst effect," The 7th International Conference on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment (ENGE), Jeju, Republic of Korea, Nov. 2022.

• "The effect of spin-orbital entropy on anomalous Nernst Effect," 2022 Spin Caloritronics XI conference (MRL), Urbana, Illinois, USA, May 2022.

• "Effect of spin-orbital entropy on anomalous Nernst effect," The 2nd Asian Conference on Thermal Sciences (ACTS), online, Oct. 2021.

• "Enhancing thermoelectric performance via relaxed spin polarization," Virtual Conference on Thermoelectrics (VCT), online, Jul. 2021.

• "High thermoelectric performance of transition-metal (Fe and Co) and Al co-doped higher manganese silicide," The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME), online, Dec. 2020.

• "Efficiency enhancement of spin-based thermoelectrics via separation of phonon and magnon currents," The 38th International Conference on Thermoelectrics and the 4th Asian conference on Thermoelectrics, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, Jul. 2019.

• "Efficiency enhancement of spin based thermoelectrics via separation of phonon and magnon currents," 2018 Spin Caloritronics IX conference (TML), Columbus, Ohio, USA, Jun. 2018.

• "Efficiency enhancement of spin-based thermoelectrics via length scale tuning," The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME) - Thermal Engineering, Jeju, Republic of Korea, Apr. 2018.