International Papers

†equally contributed first authorship

1. Eunbi Jang† , Jiwan Hong† , Ho-Jun Lee† , Seokju Choi† , Hyewon Suk , Chanik Kang , Sunae So*, and Haejun Chun*, Scaling Metasurface Design: From Reusable Unit Cells to Full-Metasurface Inverse Design, Opto-Electronic Science (accepted).

2. Harit Keawmuang, Junkyeong Park, Heonm Lee, Seokju Choi, Sunae So, Changhyeong Lim, Trevon Badloe, Changhwan Hyeong, Minseo Jeong, Dasol Lee, Ya Huang, Siming Zhao, Rufan Zhang, Juhoon Baek, Minkyung Kim, Fei Xie, Longnan Li, Wei Li, Xuzhe Zhao, Jiachen Li, Kaichen Dong, Saichao Dang, Qioqiang Gan, Shaowen Cao, Yi Long, Hyunkyu Kwak, Do Hyeon Kim, Young Min Song, Jung Bin Yang, Dong Rip Kim, Yansu Hou, Jia Zhu, Bin Zhu, Shengxi Bai, Kaixin Lin, Chi Yan Tso, Seonggon Kim Yong Tae Kang, Qingsong Fan, Qizhang Li, Po-Chun Hsu and Junsuk Rho, "Recent advances in radiative cooling: from fundamentals to commercial applications", ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 18, 15, 21363-21423, 2026

3. Minsung Kang†, Seokju Choi†, Kaixi Fu, Xiaoyuan Liu, Zhun Wei, Lei Jin, Hao Wang, Olivier J. F. Martin, Joel K. W. Yang, Sunae So*, Trevon Badloe*, "AI-assisted metaphotonics", Opto-Electronic Advances 9, 4, 2026

4. Ji‐Hwan Ha†, Jinhyeok Yang†, Dodam Kim, Wonjoon Lee, Channyeong Yun, Soon Hyoung Hwang, Sohee Jeon, Jungrak Choi, Hakhyun Lim, Minki Kim, Dahong Kim, Su A Park, Junhyuk Choi, Joong‐Won Song, Sunae So*, Junseong Ahn*, Jun‐Ho Jeong*, "SERS Sensor Integrated in Stretchable and Antimicrobial Wrapper for Food Quality Monitoring and Preservation", Small 21, 2501808, 2025 

5. Harit Keawmuang, Shiqi Hu, Trevon Badloe, Sunae So, Junsuk Rho, "Hybrid Frameworks Integrating Deep Learning and Optimization Methods for Inverse Design in Nanophotonics", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 17, 23,  33259-33270, 2025

6. Jinyoung Jeong, Sabiha Latif, Sunae So*, "A tutorial on inverse design methods for metasurfaces", Current Optics and Photonics 8, 6, 531-544, 2024

7. Joohoon Kim†, Jun-Hyung Im†, Sunae So†, Yeongseon Choi, Hyunjung Kang, Young-Ki Kim+ and Junsuk Rho*, "Dynamic Hyperspectral Holography Enabled by Inverse-Designed Metasurfaces with Oblique Helicoidal Cholesterics", Advanced Materials 36, 24, 2311785, 2024 [IF: 29.4] (JCR 3% in Chemistry, Multidisciplinary/Chemistry, Physical/Nanoscience & Nanotechnology/Materials Science, Multidisciplinary/Physics, Applied/Physics, Condensed Matter) 

8. Sunae So†, Jooyeong Yun†, Byoungsu Ko†, Dasol Lee†, Minkyung Kim, Jaebum Noh, Cherry Park, Junkyeong Park and Junsuk Rho*, "Radiative cooling for energy sustainability: From fundamentals to fabrication methods towards commercialization", Advanced Science 11, 2305067, 2024 (doi: 10.1002/advs.202305067) [IF: 15.1] (JCR 5% in Materials Science, Multidisciplinary) 

9. Pengfei Liu†, Sangwok Bae†, Jaebum Noh†, Minjeong Kim, Jae Won Heo, Donghee Son, Joohoon Kang, Junsuk Rho*, Sunae So*, Jin Gu Kang* and In Soo Kim*, "Functional radiative cooling: Basic concepts, materials, and best practices in measurements", ACS Applied Electronic Materials 5, 5755-5776, 2023 (doi: 10.1021/acsaelm.3c01023) [IF: 4.7]
   Featured as “Cover Article” of 2023 November 28 issue (Vol. 5, Issue 11, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 5, 5755-6489 , 2023

10. Sunae So†, Joohoon Kim†, Trevon Badloe†, Chihun Lee, Younghwan Yang, Hyunjung Kang and Junsuk Rho*, "Multicolor and 3D Holography Generated by Inverse-Designed Single-Cell Metasurfaces", Advanced Materials 35, 17, 2208520, 2023 [IF: 32.086] (JCR 3% in Chemistry, Multidisciplinary/Chemistry, Physical/Nanoscience & Nanotechnology/Materials Science, Multidisciplinary/Physics, Applied/Physics, Condensed Matter)

11. Sunae So†, Jungho Mun†, Junghyun Park and Junsuk Rho, "Revisiting the design strategies for metasurfaces: Fundamental physics, optimization, and beyond", Advanced Materials 35, 43, 2206399, 2023 [IF: 32.086] (JCR 3% in Chemistry, Multidisciplinary/Chemistry, Physical/Nanoscience & Nanotechnology/Materials Science, Multidisciplinary/Physics, Applied/Physics, Condensed Matter)

12. Chihun Lee†, Gunho Chang†, Jaekyung Kim, Gayea Hyun, Gwangmin Bae, Sunae So, Jooyeong Yun, Junhwa Seong, Younghwan Yang, Dong Yong Park, Seokwoo Jeon+ and Junsuk Rho, "Concurrent optimization of diffraction fields from binary phase mask for three-dimensional nanopatterning", ACS Photonics 10, 4, 919, 2023 (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01324) [IF: 7.077] (JCR 10% in Optics)

13. Sunae So†, Younghwan Yang†, Soomin Son†, Dasol Lee, Dongwoo Chae, Heon Lee and Junsuk Rho*, "Highly suppressed solar absorption in a daytime radiative cooler designed by genetic algorithm", Nanophotonics 11, 2107-2115, 2022 (doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0436) [IF: 7.923] (JCR 10% in Optics) 

14. Myeong Jung Lee†, Eunsil Lee†, Sejin Byun†, Jaegyeom Kim, Jooyeong Yun, Sunae So, Hyungseok Lee, Jae Hwan Pee, Wooyoung Shim, Sung-Pyo Cho, Junsuk Rho*, Jong-Young Kim* and In Chung*, "r-BN: A fine hyperbolic dispersion modulator for bulk metamaterials consisting of heterostructured nanohybrids of h-BN and graphene", Journal of Solid State Chemistry 309, 122937, 2022 (doi: 10.1016/j.jssc.2022.122937) [IF: 3.656]

15. Jooyeong Yun†, Seokwoo Kim†, Sunae So, Minkyung Kim and Junsuk Rho, "Deep learning for topological photonics", Advances in Physics X 7, 2046156, 2022 (doi: 10.1080/23746149.2022.2046156) [IF: 8.526] (JCR 10% in Physics, Multidisciplinary)

16. Dasol Lee†, Sunae So†, Guangwei Hu†, Minkyung Kim, Trevon Badloe, Hanlyun Cho, Jaekyung Kim, Hongyoon Kim, Cheng-Wei Qiu and Junsuk Rho, "Hyperbolic metamaterials: fusing artificial structures to natural 2D materials", eLight 2, 1, 2022 (doi: 10.1186/s43593-021-00008-6) [IF: pending] Cited by 110

17. Myeong Jung Lee†, Eunsil Lee†, Sunae So†, Sejin Byun†, Jaeseok Son, Bangzhi Ge, Hyungseok Lee, Hyung Sung Park, Wooyoung Shim, Jae Hwan Pee, Bumki Min, Sung-Pyo Cho, Zhongqi Shi, Tae Won Noh, Junsuk Rho, Jong-Young Kim and In Chung, "Three-dimensional bulk metamaterials exhibiting chemically tunable hyperbolic responses", Journal of the American Chemical Society 143, 20725-20734, 2021 (doi: 10.1021/jacs.1c08446) [IF: 16.383] (JCR 10% in Chemistry, Multidisciplinary)

18. Hanlyun Cho, Younghwan Yang, Dasol Lee, Sunae So and Junsuk Rho, "Experimental demonstration of negative refraction at visible frequencies by critical layer thickness analysis in a vertical hyperbolic metamaterial", Nanophotonics 10, 3871-3877, 2021 (doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0337) [IF: 7.923] (JCR 10% in Optics) 

19. Anubhab Acharya, Sateesh Dubbu, Sumit Kumar, Nitee Kumari, Yeseul Kim, Sunae So, Taewan Kwon, Zhipeng Wang, Junbeom Park, Yoon-Kyoung Cho, Junsuk Rho, Sang Ho Oh, Amit Kumar and In Su Lee, "Atomically conformal metal-laminations on plasmonic nanocrystals for efficient catalysis", Journal of the American Chemical Society 143, 10582-10589, 2021 (doi: 10.1021/jacs.1c05753) [IF: 16.383] (JCR 10% in Chemistry, Multidisciplinary)

20. Jaebum Noh†, Yonghyun Nam†, Chihun Lee, Sunae So, Yongjune Kim, Sungyu Lee, Tae-Hyung Kim, Jeong-Hae Lee and Junsuk Rho, "Design of transmissive metasurface antenna using deep neural networks", Optical Materials Express 11, 2310-2317, 2021 (doi: 10.1364/OME.421990) [IF: 3.074]

21. Sunae So†, Dasol Lee†, Trevon Badloe† and Junsuk Rho, "Inverse design of ultra-narrowband selective thermal emitters designed by artificial neural networks", Optical Materials Express 11, 1863-1873, 2021 (doi: 10.1364/OME.430306) [IF: 3.074] 

22. Dongwoo Chae, Hangyu Lim, Sunae So, Soomin Son, Junsuk Rho and Heon Lee, "Spectrally selective nanoparticle mixture coating for passive daytime radiative cooling", ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 13, 21119-21126, 2021 (doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c20311) [IF: 10.383] (JCR 10% in Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)

23. Sunae So, Younghwan Yang, Taejun Lee and Junsuk Rho, "On-demand design of spectrally sensitive multi-band absorbers using an artificial neural network", Photonics Research 9, B153-B158, 2021 (doi: 10.1364/PRJ.415789) [IF: 7.254] (JCR 10% in Optics)

24. Hanlyun Cho, Sunae So, Trevon Badloe, Sanghun Bang and Junsuk Rho, "Critical layer thickness analysis of vertically stacked hyperbolic metamaterials for effective negative refraction generation", Advanced Theory and Simulations 3, 2000138, 2020 (doi: 10.1002/adts.202000138) [IF: 4.105]

25. Sunae So†, Trevon Badloe†, Jaebum Noh†, Jorge Bravo-Abad and Junsuk Rho, "Deep learning enabled inverse design in nanophotonics", Nanophotonics 9, 1041-1057, 2020 (doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2019-0474) [IF: 7.923] (JCR 10% in Optics) Cited by 228

26. Sunae So, Namkyoo Park, Hak Joo Lee and Junsuk Rho, "New trends in nanophotonics", Nanophotonics 9,983-985, 2020 (doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2020-0170) [IF: 7.923] (JCR 10% in Optics) 

27. Jungho Mun, Sunae So, Jaehyuck Jang and Junsuk Rho, "Describing meta-atoms using the exact higher-order polarizability tensors", ACS Photonics 7, 1153-1162, 2020 (doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01776) [IF: 7.077] (JCR 10% in Optics) [arXiv:1910.14386]

28. Inki Kim†, Sunae So†, Junho Mun†, Kwanghyun Lee, Junghwan Lee, Taejun Lee and Junsuk Rho, "Optical characterizations and thermal analyses of multilayered dielectric gratings for spectral beam combining", Journal of Physics: Photonics 2, 025004, 2020 (doi: 10.1088/2515-7647/ab7b0f) [IF: pending]

29. Jungho Mun†, Sunae So† and Junsuk Rho, "Spectrally sharp plasmon resonances in near-infrared: subwavelength coreshell nanoparticles", Physical Review Applied 12, 044072, 2019 (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.12.044072) [IF: 4.931]

30. Sanghun Bang†, Sunae So† and Junsuk Rho, "Realization of broadband negative refraction in visible range using vertically stacked hyperbolic metamaterials", Scientific Reports 9, 14093, 2019 (doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-50434-3) [IF: 4.996]

31. Sunae So†, Jungho Mun† and Junsuk Rho, "Simultaneous inverse design of materials and parameters of core-shell nanoparticle via deep-learning: Demonstration of dipole resonance engineering", ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 11, 24264-24268, 2019 (doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b05857) [IF: 10.383] (JCR 10% in Materials Science, Multidisciplinary) [arXiv:1904.02848] Cited by 173

32. Sunae So and Junsuk Rho, "Designing nanophotonic structures using conditional-deep convolutional generative adversarial networks", Nanophotonics 8, 1255-1261, 2019 (doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2019-0117) [IF: 7.923] (JCR 10% in Optics)  [arXiv:1903.08432] Cited by 158

33. Jungho Mun†, Dasol Lee†, Sunae So†, Trevon Badloe and Junsuk Rho, "Surface-enhanced spectroscopy: Toward practical analysis probe", Applied Spectroscopy Reviews 54, 142-175, 2019 (doi: 10.1080/05704928.2018.1467438) [IF: 5.01] (JCR 10% in Spectroscopy/Instruments & Instrumentation)

34. Sunae So and Junsuk Rho, "Geometrically flat hyperlens designed by transformation optics", Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 52, 194003, 2019 (doi: 10.1088/1361-6463/ab04c9) [IF: 3.409] 

35. Inki Kim†, Sunae So†, Ahsan Sarwar Rana, Muhammad Qasim Mehmood and Junsuk Rho, "Thermally robust ring-shaped chromium perfect absorber of visible light", Nanophotonics 7, 1827-1833, 2018 (doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2018-0095) [IF: 7.923] (JCR 10% in Optics) 

36. Sunae So†, Minkyung Kim†, Dasol Lee†, Duc Minh Nguyen and Junsuk Rho, "Overcoming diffraction limit: from microscopy to nanoscopy", Applied Spectroscopy Reviews 53, 290-312, 2018 (doi: 10.1080/05704928.2017.1323309) [IF: 5.01] (JCR 10% in Spectroscopy/Instruments & Instrumentation)

37. Gwanho Yoon†, Sunae So†, Minkyung Kim, Jungho Mun, Renmin Ma and Junsuk Rho, "Electrically tunable metasurface perfect absorber for infrared frequencies", Nano Convergence 4, 36, 2017 (doi:10.1186/s40580-017-0131-0) [IF: 10.038] (JCR 10% in Physics, Applied)

38. Dasol Lee†, Minkyung Kim†, Sunae So†, Inki Kim, Gwanho Yoon, Kyunghoon Kim and Junsuk Rho, "Demonstration of a Hyperlens-integrated Microscope and Super-resolution Imaging", Journal of Visualized Experiments 127, e55968, 2017 (doi: 10.3791/55968) [IF: 1.424] 

39. Gwanho Yoon†, Inki Kim†, Sunae So, Jungho Mun, Minkyung Kim and Junsuk Rho, "Fabrication of three-dimensional suspended, interlayered and hierarchical nanostructures by accuracy-improved electron beam lithography overlay", Scientific Reports 7, 6668, 2017 (doi:10.1038/s41598-017-06833-5) [IF: 4.996]

40. Sohail Abdul Jalil†, Mahreen Akram†, Gwanho Yoon†, Ayesha Khalid, Dasol Lee, Niloufar Raeis-Hosseini, Sunae So, Inki Kim, Qazi Salman Ahmed, Junsuk Rho and Muhammad Qasim Mehmood, "High Refractive index Ti3O5 films for dielectric metasurfaces", Chinese Physics Letters 34, 088102 (doi:10.1088/0256-307X/34/8/088102) [IF: 2.293]

41. Minkyung Kim, Sunae So, Kan Yao, Yongmin Liu and Junsuk Rho, "Deep sub-wavelength nanofocusing of UV-visible light by hyperbolic metamaterials", Scientific Reports 6, 38645, 2016 (doi:10.1038/srep38645) [IF: 4.996]