Research

Hanjong Paik is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. After receiving a B.S. degree from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea (2003), he did graduate work at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) receiving both M.S. (2004) and a Ph.D. (2009) in Materials Science and Engineering, Daejeon, South Korea. He was then a Post-doc and Research Associate at Cornell University in the combinatorial thin film synthesis group managed by Prof. R. Bruce van Dover, and the complex oxide molecular-beam epitaxy group managed by Prof. Darrell G. Schlom. In 2017, he joined as a Research Staff Scientist at the Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials (PARADIM), where the NSF-funded Materials Innovation Platform at Cornell University, before joining the faculty at the University of Oklahoma in 2022. His research interests involve the heteroepitaxial growth and characterization of Oxides/Nitrides/Alloys thin films grown by physical vapor deposition techniques including reactive Molecular-beam Epitaxy (MBE), Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), and Sputtering. He loves to utilize the concept of 'materials-by-design' to discover new materials and interfaces with superior properties to any known ones. He has published over 90 papers resulting in an h-index of 28 and over 2,900 citations