Publications

Representative Papers (selected)

1. Nature Electronics, 3, 207-215 (2020)
   "Wafer-scale production of patterned transition metal ditelluride layers for two-dimensional metal–semiconductor contacts at the Schottky–Mott limit" (Link)

2. ACS Nano, 15, 8985-8996 (2025)
   “High Current and Carrier Densities in 2D MoS2/AlScN Field-Effect Transistors via Ferroelectric Gating and Ohmic Contacts”,  (Link). 

3. Matter, 6, 3483-3498 (2023).
   "Wafer-scale growth of two-dimensional, phase-pure InSe" (Link)

4. Nature Communications, 13, 4916 (2022).
   "Atomic transistors based on seamless lateral metal-semiconductor junctions with a sub-1-nm transfer length" (Link)

5. Nature Communications, 14, 4747 (2023).
   "Fabrication of p-type 2D single-crystalline transistor arrays with Fermi-level-tuned van der Waals semimetal electrodes" (Link)

6. ACS Nano, 18, 4180–4188 (2024).
   "Tuning Polarity in WSe2/AlScN FeFETs via Contact Engineering" (Link)

7. Advanced Science 6, 1801370 (2019).
   "Electrically Robust Single-Crystalline WTe2 Nanobelts for Nanoscale Electrical Interconnects" (Link)

8. Applied Physics Letters 123, 183501 (2023).
   "Negative capacitance field-effect transistors based on ferroelectric AlScN and 2D MoS2" (Link)

9. ACS Nano, 18, 10955-10978 (2024).
   "Can 2D Semiconductors Be Game-Changers for Nanoelectronics and Photonics?" (Link)

10.  iScience, 25, 105346 (2022).
    "Air-stable van der Waals PtTe2 conductors with high current-carrying capacity and strong spin-orbit interaction" (Link)

Peer-reviewed papers (†: co-first author, *: corresponding author): 

Pending

34. Seung-Hyun Ji, Chengyun Hong,  Joonsoo Kim, Seunghyun Noh, Dohun Gwak, Wonchan Lee, Yunjung Cho, Ji-Hee Kim*, Hyeon Suk Shin*, Seunguk Song*, and Taeyeon Kim* "Noninvasive optical inspection ...", submitted (September 2025)

33. Mahfujur Rahaman†, Seunguk Song†*, Aaliyah C. Khan, Bongjun Choi, Aaron M. Schankler, Kwan-Ho Kim, Wonchan Lee, Jason Lynch, Hyeon Suk Shin, Andrew M. Rappe, and Deep Jariwala* "Reconfigurable, non-volatile control of optical anisotropy in ReS2 via ferroelectric gating", under review (September 2025). Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11897 

32. Chloe Leblanc, Hyunmin Cho, Yinuo Zhang, Seunguk Song, Zachary Anderson, Yunfei He, Chen Chen, Joan M. Redwing, Roy H. Olsson, Deep Jariwala "Low-voltage Ferroelectric Field-Effect Transistors with Ultrathin Aluminum Scandium Nitride and 2D channels",  under review (May 2025).

31. Seunguk Song*, Michael Altvater, Wonchan Lee, Hyeon Suk Shin, Nicholas Glavin*, and Deep Jariwala* "Indium selenides for next-generation low-power computing devices", Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, accepted (Sep 2025). Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12708 

30. Seunguk Song,† Dhiren K. Pradhan,† Zekun Hu,† Yinuo Zhang, Rachael N. Keneipp, Michael A. Susner, Pijush Bhattacharya, Marija Drndić, Roy H. Olsson III*, and Deep Jariwala* "Observation of giant remnant polarization in ultrathin AlScN at cryogenic temperatures", under revision (June 2025). Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19491 

29. Jaewon Wang, Hyeonwoo Lee, Jaemin Kim, Haeng Un Yeo, Cheol Hwan Yoon, Min Seok Yoo, Sora Jang, Ju-Hyoung Han, Juwon Han, Junseop Noh, Kitae Park, Joonki Suh, Tae-Sik Yoon, Seunguk Song, Minsu Seol, Chanyong Hwang, Hyung-Joon Shin*, Zonghoon Lee*, Changwook Jeong*, and Soon-Yong Kwon* “Wafer-scale epitaxial growth of single-crystal bilayer hexagonal boron nitride for two-dimensional compatible dielectric integration”, under review (September 2025). 

Published

28. Sora Jang, Seunguk Song*, Juwon Han, Aram Yoon, Jaewon Wang, Hyeonwoo Lee, Yeoseon Sim, Zonghoon Lee, Changwook Jeong*, and Soon-Yong Kwon* “Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Edge-Contacted Nanosheet Transistors via Alloying-Mediated Phase Engineering”, Small Science, in print, https://doi.org/10.1002/smsc.202500320 (2025). 

27. Yunjung Cho, Wonchan Lee, Inbae Song, Kangpyo Cho, Jihwan Jeon, Nasir Ali, and Seunguk Song* “Metal-organic chemical vapour deposition of van der Waals 2D chalcogenides and heterostructures: a review”, Nanoscale, 17, 22606-22628 (2025) 

26. Yeoseon Sim, Se-Yang Kim, Soon-Dong Park, Hyeonwoo Lee, Jeong Hwa Kim, Sora Jang, Jaewon Wang, Seunguk Song, Jinsung Kwak, Zonghoon Lee, Changwook Jeong, Sung Youb Kim*, and Soon-Yong Kwon* "Interfacial Control of Degradation Pathways in 2D Heterostructures", Advanced Functional Materials, available online https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202516434 (2025). 

25. Dongjoon Rhee, Kwan-Ho Kim, Jeffrey Zheng, Seunguk Song, Lian-Mao Peng, Roy H. Olsson III, Joohoon Kang,* and Deep Jariwala,*  “Reconfigurable single-walled carbon nanotube ferroelectric field-effect transistors”, Nature Communications, 16, 7655 (2025). 

24. Kyungwu Kwon, Hyemyeong Lee and Seunguk Song* "Methodologies for Electrical Measurement and Parameter Analysis of 2D Semiconductor Transistors", Ceramist, 28, 334-355 (2025).

23. Seunguk Song,† Kwan-Ho Kim,† Rachael Keneipp, Myeongjin Jung, Nicholas Trainor, Chen Chen, Jeffrey Zheng, Joan M. Redwing, Joohoon Kang, Marija Drndi, Roy H. Olsson III, Deep Jariwala* “High Current and Carrier Densities in 2D MoS2/AlScN Field-Effect Transistors via Ferroelectric Gating and Ohmic Contacts”, ACS Nano, 15, 8985-8996 (2025). 

22. Gwangwoo Kim, Benjamin Huet, Christopher E Stevens, Kiyoung Jo, Jeng-Yuan Tsai, Saiphaneendra Bachu, Meghan Leger, Seunguk Song, Mahfujur Rahaman, Kyung Yeol Ma, Nicholas R Glavin, Hyeon Suk Shin, Nasim Alem, Qimin Yan, Joshua R Hendrickson, Joan M Redwing, Deep Jariwala* "Confinement of excited states in two-dimensional, in-plane, quantum heterostructures", Nature Communications, 15, 6361 (2024). 

21. Chloe Leblanc,† Seunguk Song,† and Deep Jariwala*, “2D ferroelectrics and ferroelectrics with 2D: materials and device prospects”, Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 32, 101178 (2024). 

20. Mahfujur Rahaman, Emanuele Marino, Alan G. Joly, Seunguk Song, Zhiqiao Jiang, Brian T. O'Callahan, Daniel J. Rosen, Kiyoung Jo, Gwangwoo Kim, Patrick Z. El-Khoury, Christopher B. Murray, and Deep Jariwala*, "Tunable Localized Charge Transfer Excitons in a Mixed Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructure", ACS Nano, 18, 15185 (2024).

19.   Seunguk Song,† Mahfujur Rahaman,† and Deep Jariwala*, “Can 2D semiconductors be game changers for nanoelectronics and photonics?”, ACS Nano, 18, 10955-10978 (2024).

18.   Kwan-Ho Kim,† Seunguk Song,† Bumho Kim, Pariasadat Musavigharavi, Nicholas Trainor, Keshava Katti, Chen Chen, Shalini Kumari, Jeffrey Zheng, Joan M. Redwing, Eric A. Stach, Roy H. Olsson III, and Deep Jariwala,* “Tuning Polarity in WSe2/AlScN FeFETs via Contact Engineering”, ACS Nano, 18, 4180–4188 (2024).

17.   Jihoon Yang, Aram Yoon, Donghyun Lee, Seunguk Song, IL John Jung, Dong-Hyeok Lim,, Hongsik Jeong, Zonghoon Lee, Mario Lanza, and Soon-Yong Kwon*, “Wafer-scale memristor array based on aligned grain boundaries of 2D molybdenum ditelluride for application to artificial synapses”, Advanced Functional Materials, 34, 2309455 (2024).

16.   Mahfujur Rahaman, Gwangwoo Kim, Kyung Yeol Ma, Seunguk Song, Hyeon Suk Shin, and Deep Jariwala*, “Tailoring Exciton Dynamics in TMDC Heterobilayers in the Ultranarrow Gap-Plasmon Regime”, npj 2D Materials and Applications, 7, 66 (2023).

15.   Chloe Leblanc, Dinusha H. Mudiyanselage, Seunguk Song, Huairuo Zhang, Albert Davydov, Houqiang Fub and Deep Jariwala*, “Vertical van der Waals Heterojunction Diodes comprising 2D Semiconductors on 3D β-Ga2O3”, Nanoscale, 15, 9964-9972 (2023).

14.   Kwan-Ho Kim, Seyong Oh, Merrilyn Mercy Adzo Fiagbenu, Jeffrey Zheng, Pariasadat Musavigharavi, Pawan Kumar, Nicholas Trainor, Areej Aljarb, Yi Wan, Hyong Min Kim, Keshava Katti, Seunguk Song, Gwangwoo Kim, Zichen Tang, Jui-Han Fu, Mariam Hakami, Vincent C. Tung, Joan M. Redwing, Eric A. Stach, Roy H. Olsson III*, Deep Jariwala* " Scalable CMOS back-end-of-line-compatible AlScN/two-dimensional channel ferroelectric field-effect transistors", Nature Nanotechnology, 18, 1044-1050, (2023).

13.   Seunguk Song,† Kwan-Ho Kim,† Srikrishna Chakravarthi,† Zirun Han, Gwangwoo Kim, Kyung Yeol Ma, Hyeon Suk Shin, Roy H. Olsson III, and Deep Jariwala*, "Negative capacitance field-effect transistors based on ferroelectric AlScN and 2D MoS2", Applied Physics Letter, 123, 183501 (2023). (Included in Collection of ‘Critical Issues on the 2D-materials-based field-effect transistors’)

12.   Seunguk Song, Sungho Jeon, Mahfujur Rahaman, Jason Lynch, Dongjoon Rhee, Pawan Kumar, Srikrishna Chakravarthi, Gwangwoo Kim, Xingyu Du, Eric Blanton, Mike Snure, Kim Kisslinger, Nicholas R. Glavin, Eric A. Stach, Troy Olsson, and Deep Jariwala*, "Wafer-scale growth of two-dimensional, phase-pure InSe", Matter, 6, 3483-3498 (2023). (Selected as Featured Article, and featured with a preview article: Matter 6, 3121-3131 (2023).)

11.   Seunguk Song,† Aram Yoon,† Sora Jang,† Jason Lynch, Jihoon Yang, Juwon Han, Young Ho Jin, Cindy Yueli Chen, Yeryun Cheon, Jinsung Kwak, Changwook Jeong, Hyeonsik Cheong, Deep Jariwala, Zonghoon Lee,* and Soon-Yong Kwon* "Fabrication of p-type 2D single-crystalline transistor arrays with Fermi-level-tuned van der Waals semimetal electrodes", Nature Communications, 14, 4747 (2023).

10.   Gwangwoo Kim,† Seunguk Song,† and Deep Jariwala* “Spatially controlled two-dimensional quantum heterostructures", Materials Research Letters, 11, 327-346 (2023).

9.   Seunguk Song,† Inseon Oh,† Sora Jang, Ahram Yoon, Juwon Han, Zonghoon Lee, Jung-Woo Yoo,* and Soon-Yong Kwon* "Air-stable van der Waals PtTe2 conductors with high current-carrying capacity and strong spin-orbit interaction", iScience, 25, 105346 (2022). (Featured in a special issue: “2D materials readiness for industry: From lab to fab”)

8.   Seunguk Song, Aram Yoon, Jong-Kwon Ha, Jihoon Yang, Sora Jang, Chloe Leblanc, Jaewon Wang, Yeoseon Sim, Deep Jariwala, Seung Kyu Min, Zonghoon Lee,* and Soon-Yong Kwon* " Atomic transistors based on seamless lateral metal-semiconductor junctions with a sub-1-nm transfer length", Nature Communications, 13, 4916 (2022). (Included in Collection of ‘Top 25 Physics Articles of 2022’ in Nature Communications, and in Collection of '2D materials research towards industrialization' in Nature Communications)

7.        Shi-Hyun Seok, Seungjun Choo, Jinsung Kwak, Hyejin Ju, Ju-Hyong Han, Woo-Seok Kang, Joonsik Lee, Se-Yang Kim, Do Hee Lee, Jaewon Wang, Seunguk Song, Wook Jo, Byung Mun Jung, Han Gi Chae, Jae Sung Son, and Soon-Yong Kwon* "Synthesis of high-quality 2D carbide MXene flakes using a highly purified MAX precursor for ink applications", Nanoscale Advances, 3, 517-527 (2021).

6.   Yeoseon Sim, Aram Yoon, Hee Seong Kang, Jinsung Kwak, Se-Yang Kim, Yongsu Jo, Daeseong Choe, Woongki Na, Min Hee Lee, Seunguk Song, Jung-Woo Yoo, Hyeonsik Cheong, Jae Sung Lee, Chul-Ho Lee, Zonghoon Lee, and Soon-Yong Kwon* "Design of two-dimensional layered catalyst by coherent heteroepitaxial conversion for robust hydrogen generation", Advanced Functional Materials, 31, 2005449 (2021).

5.   Seunguk Song, Yeoseon Sim, Se-Yang Kim, Jung Hwa Kim, Inseon Oh, Woong Ki Na, Do Hee Lee, Jaewon Wang, Shili Yan, Yinan Liu, Jinsung Kwak, Jian-Hao Chen, Hyeonsik Cheong, Jung-Woo Yoo, Zonghoon Lee, and Soon-Yong Kwon* "Wafer-scale production of patterned transition metal ditelluride layers for two-dimensional metal-semiconductor contacts at the Schottky–Mott limit", Nature Electronics 3, 207-215 (2020). (Featured in Nature Electronics 3, 187-188 (2020) (News & Views))

4.   Jung Hwa Kim, Se‐Yang Kim, Sung O. Park, Gwan Yeong Jung, Seunguk Song, Ahrum Sohn, Sang‐Woo Kim, Sang Kyu Kwak, Soon‐Yong Kwon*, and Zonghoon Lee*, "Antiphase Boundaries as Faceted Metallic Wires in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides", Advanced Science 7, 2000788 (2020).

3.   Do Hee Lee, Hyung Duk Yun, Eui Dae Jung, Jae Hwan Chu, Yun Seok Nam, Seunguk Song, Shi-Hyun Seok, Myoung Hoon Song, Soon-Yong Kwon*, "Ultrathin Graphene Intercalation in PEDOT:PSS/Colorless Polyimide-Based Transparent Electrodes for Enhancement of Optoelectronic Performance and Operational Stability of Organic Devices", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 11, 21069 (2019). 

2.   Seunguk Song, Se-Yang Kim, Jinsung Kwak, Yongsu Jo, Jung Hwa Kim, Jong Hwa Lee, Jae-Ung Lee, Jong Uk Kim, Hyung Duk Yun, Yeoseon Sim, Jaewon Wang, Do Hee Lee, Shi-Hyun Seok, Tae-il Kim, Hyeonsik Cheong, Zonghoon Lee, Soon-Yong Kwon* "Electrically robust single-crystalline WTe2 nanobelts for nanoscale electrical interconnects", Advanced Science 6, 1801370 (2019). (Featured as Journal Frontispiece Article (Vol. 6, Issue. 3))

1.   Jinsung Kwak, Yongsu Jo, Seunguk Song, Jung Hwa Kim, Se-Yang Kim, Jae-Ung Lee, Sungwoo Lee, Jungmin Park, Kangwon Kim, Gun-Do Lee, Jung-Woo Yoo, Sung Youb Kim, Young-Min Kong, Gwan-Hyoung Lee, Wan-Gyu Lee, Jucheol Park, Xiaodong Xu, Hyeonsik Cheong, Euijoon Yoon, Zonghoon Lee, Soon-Yong Kwon*, "Single-crystalline nanobelts composed of transition metal ditellurides", Advanced Materials, 30, 1707260 (2018).

PhD thesis

1. Seunguk Song "Synthesis and Integration of Transition-Metal Ditellurides for Atomically Thin Nanoelectronics" (2021 June)  (Link)