(2025.12) New publication. A paper entitled "Influence of mild fluorination on strain and charge doping in graphene" was published in Applied Surface Science.
(2025.11) Outstanding Presentation award. Daekwon Lee's presentation entitled "Uniaxial strain effects in few-layer MoS2" was selected as one of the outstanding oral presentations at the Korean Physical Society Fall Meeting. Congratulations, Daekwon Lee!
(2025.07) New publication. A paper entitled "Observation of low-frequency vibrational modes in anisotropic two-dimensional violet phosphorus" was published in Advanced Functional Materials.
(2025.06) New publication. A paper entitled "Giant modulation of interlayer coupling in twisted bilayer ReS2" was published in Advanced Science.
(2025.05) Best poster award. Eunsung Lee's presentation entitled "Raman spectroscopy of Janus WSSe monolayer" was selected as one of the best poster presentations at the Korean Physical Society Spring Meeting. Congratulations, Eunsung Lee!
(2025.03) New publication. A paper entitled "Charge carrier localization in monolayer WS2 influenced by hBN microbubbles" was published in Surfaces and Interfaces.
(2025.02) New publication. A paper entitled "Controlling structural phases of Sn through lattice engineering" was published in Physical Review Materials (Editor's suggestion).
(2024.09) New publication. A paper entitled "Gate Modulation of Dissipationless Nonlinear Quantum Geometric Current in 2D Te" was published in Nano Letters.
(2024.07) New publication. A paper entitled "Explanation of the atomic force microscope-based nanoscale 3D printing of quantum dots" was published in Physica Status Solidi B.
(2023.07) New publication. A paper entitled "Microscale spectroscopic mapping of defect evolution and filling in large-area growth of monolayer MoS2" was published in Applied Surface Science.
(2023.05) New publication. A paper entitled "Lyotropic boron nitride nanotube liquid crystals: preparation, characterization, and wet-spinning for fabrication of composite fiber" was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (Cover article).
(2023.04) CAP Young Researcher Award. Dr. Taegeon Lee received the CAP Young Researcher Award at the Korean Physical Society Spring Meeting (2023) for his excellent research contributions to physics. Congratulations!
(2023.03) New publication. A paper entitled "Suppression of substrate-induced charge doping in hBN-encapsulated monolayer WS2" was published in Current Applied Physics.
(2023.02) New publication. A paper entitled "Direct 3D-printed CdSe quantum dots via scanning micropipette" was published in Nanoscale Advances (Front cover paper).
(2022.10) Best poster award. Taegeon Lee's presentation was selected as one of the best poster presentations at the Korean Vacuum Society Summer Meeting. Congratulations, Taegeon Lee!
Title: Strain-driven phonon splitting and charge fluctuation in wrinkled WS2 monolayer
(2022.10) Best teacher award. Prof. H. Rho received the 2022 JBNU Best Teacher Award for teaching excellence.
(2022.08) Graduation award. Dr. Taegeon Lee received the Excellence Research Award from the President of JBNU at the graduation ceremony. Congratulations!
(2022.08) Graduation. Congratulations to Dr. Taegeon Lee for his completion of Ph.D. program and Kyoung-Yeon Lee for her completion of MS. program!
(2022.08) New publication. A paper entitled "Raman imaging of strained bubbles and their effects on charge doping in monolayer WS2 encapsulated with hexagonal boron nitride" was published in Applied Surface Science.
(2022.05) Best poster award. Taegeon Lee's presentation was selected as one of the best poster presentations at the Korean Physical Society Spring Meeting. Congratulations, Taegeon!
Title: Unusual optical phonon behaviors in strained monolayer WS2.
(2022.02) New research project. Our lab was selected as a Basic Research Lab: Dynamic control of energy landscape. The total amount of ₩1.375 billion will be supported by National Research Foundation of Korea.
(2022.02) New publication. A paper entitled "Polarized Raman study of large built-in strain in monolayer WS2 grown on Au/W substrate" was published in Current Applied Physics 37, 33 (2022).
(2022.02) Best poster award. Taegeon Lee's presentation was selected as one of the best poster presentations at the 1st Winter Workshop of the Korean Physical Society Semiconductor Division. Congratulations, Taegeon Lee!
Title: Bandgap Modulation and its Effects on the Doping Levels in Bi2Te3/MoS2/SiO2 Heterostructure.
(2022.01) New publication. A paper entitled "Unveiling the origin of two distinct routes of interlayer charge transfer doping in Bi2Te3/MoS2/SiO2 heterostructure" was published in Applied Surface Science 579, 152208 (2022). (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169433221032360?via%3Dihub)
(2021.10) Conference award. Taegeon Lee's presentation was selected as one of the best oral presentations at the Korean Physical Society Fall Meeting. Congratulations, Taegeon Lee!
Title: Effects of laser irradiation on two-dimensional Bi2Te3/MoS2.
(2021.08) New publication. Giant thermoelectric Seebeck coefficients in tellurium quantum wires formed vertically in an aluminum oxide layer by electrical breakdown, N.-W. Park, H. Kim, W.-Y. Lee, G.-S. Kim, D. Y. Kang, T. G. Kim, E. Saitoh, Y.-G. Yoon, H. Rho, S.-K. Lee, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 12, 8212 (2021). (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01842)
(2021.04) KPS Semiconductor Research Prize. Prof. H. Rho was selected for Semiconductor Research Prize at the Korean Physical Society Spring Meeting for his outstanding research contributions to semiconductor physics and valuable activities in the Korean Physical Society.
(2021.04) Contribution. Prof. H. Rho contributed a column (Vacuus Field) to the Vacuum Magazine published by the Korean Vacuum Society. (http://www.kvs.or.kr/file/story/210429_01.pdf)
(2021.03) New publication. A paper entitled "Temperature dependent Raman spectroscopy of shear and layer breathing modes in bilayer MoS2" was published in Current Applied Physics. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567173921000511)
(2021.01) New publication. A paper entitled "Origins of genuine Ohmic van der Waals contact between indium and MoS2" was published in npj 2D Materials and Applications. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-020-00191-z)
(2020.11) New publication. A paper entitled "Influence of chemical treatment on strain and charge doping in vertically stacked monolayer–bilayer MoS2" was published in Applied Physics Letters. (https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0024652)
(2020.11) New publication. A paper entitled "Evolution of optical phonons in epitaxial Ge1−ySny structures" was published in Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jrs.5986)
(2020.11) Conference award. Two presentations were listed as the best poster presentations at the Korean Physical Society Fall Meeting. Congratulations to Young Chan Kim, Taegeon Lee, and Dr. Hanul Kim!
Unusual optical phonon behaviors in Ge1-xSnx layers.
Simultaneous Raman and photoluminescence studies of chemically doped two-dimensional MoS2 layers.
(2020.09) Graduation. Congratulations to Dr. Hanul Kim for his completion of Ph.D. program and new job at KISTEP!
(2025.11) Outstanding Presentation award. Daekwon Lee's presentation entitled "Uniaxial strain effects in few-layer MoS2" was selected as one of the outstanding oral presentations at the Korean Physical Society Fall Meeting. Congratulations, Daekwon Lee!