Welcome to EXcitonic ENgineering Lab. @ SKKU!
XNL@SKKU spans two fields of study: 1) Physical Chemistry of Molecular Semiconductors and 2) De Novo Optoelectronics Application. In specific, our aims are to explore breakthrough technologies for Molecule-level Design of Ideal Optoelectronic Materials and Architectural Design of Next Generation Photonic, Energy & Electronic Devices. To this end, our research is based on nanophysical and photophysical engineering of excited states, i.e. the Excitonic Engineering, for emerging optoelectronic molecular systems, comprising a broad range of optoelectronic / photonic / energy materials such as organic, polymeric, and organic-inorganic hybrid and low-dimensional semiconductors. Utilizing the chemical versatility of those materials, our primary focus has been the ground state engineering of their nano/micro-structures and the excited state engineering of their ultrafast dynamics. Ultimately, the goal is to overcome the predominant non-ideality of the materials and reach toward their theoretical limits. By doing so, we can realize a highly functioning material platform that can generate predictable, transferrable, reliable, and homogeneous properties. We believe it will have a great impact on future electronics such as solar cells, light emitting diodes, photosensors, optical switching and optoelectronic computing. If you are interested in advancing science and technology of molecular optoelectronics, Join US in the adventure!
(Dec. 2, 2024) Mr. Barma won the Best Oral Presentation Award from the 35th ISChE Meeting. Congrats!
(Nov. 21, 2024) New experimental system has been installed: Optical tables and clean booth for femtosecond lasers.
(Oct. 25, 2024) XNL@SKKU welcomes a new member: Sung Yeol Lim. Welcome!
(Oct. 25, 2024) Mr. Kwon has awarded ChEllengers Fellowship from BK21 Program of SKKU. Congrats!
(Oct. 8th, 2024) Mr. Kwon won the Best Research Presentation Award: Poster Session from PSK 2024 Fall Meeting. Congrats!
(Sep. 6th, 2024) Press release: Mr. Kwon & Mr. Barma's paper on the energy losses in photovoltaic blends got published in Advanced Energy Materials!
(Jun. 24th, 2024) Mr. Son has awarded research subsidies from NRF Fostering Next Generation Researchers Program!! (2024-2026)
(Jun. 5th, 2024) Mr. Kim had his M.Sc. defense. Congrats!
(May 23, 2024) New fabrication system has been installed: Mask aligner and yellow room for photolithography.
(Apr. 25, 2024) XNL@SKKU has awarded research fund from NRF Infrastructure Support Program - Advanced Track for Femtosecond Spectroscopy! Awesome!
(Apr. 1, 2024) XNL@SKKU has begun an Industry-Academy Cooperative Reserach with Samsung Display Coporation (SDC) for [Spectroscopic Analysis of High Performance OLED for OLEDoS]
(Nov. 2024) "Self-Defined Dual Charge Percolation Networks for Solution-Processed Multithreshold Transistors" npj Flexible Electronics, 2024
(Aug. 2024) "Molecular Design Motifs of Non-fullerene Acceptors for Mitigating All Inherent Non-Ideal Energy Losses in Organic Photovoltaics " Adv. Energy Mater., 2024, 2304558
(Nov. 2023) "Approaching Theoretical Limits in the Performance of Printed p-type CuI Transistors" Adv. Mater., 2023, 202307206
(Aug. 2023) "High-Speed Operation of Electrochemical Logic Circuits" Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 33, 2305440
(Jan. 2023) "Monolithic Tandem Electrochemical Transistors for Printed Multi-valued Logic" Adv. Mater., 2023, 2208757
(Oct. 2022) "3D-Meniscus-Guided Assembly for Perovskite Nanowires" Adv. Funct. Mater., 2022, 32, 2206264
(May 2022) "Gate-Deterministic Graphene-MXene Hybrid Memory" Adv. Funct. Mater., 2022, 32, 2111956
(Apr. 2022) "Molecular Ordering and Charge Generation in Multi-Scale Morphology" Adv. Mater., 2022, 34, 2108317
(Mar. 2022) "Comb-type polymer-hybridized MXene dispersible in arbitrary solvents" Sci. Adv., 2022, 8, eabl5299
(Mar. 2022) "A General Fruit Acid Chelation Route for 3D Printing of Metals" Nat. Commun., 2022, 13, 104
(Jan. 2022) "Dilution Effect for Highly Efficient Multi-component Organic Solar Cells" Nat. Nanotechnol., 2022, 17, 53