Sung-Yong Min, Ph.D

Education

• 2010. 3 - 2015. 8: Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering, 

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH),

Republic of Korea (Advisor: Prof. Tae-Woo Lee).

Dissertation Title: "Large-area, Controlled Nanowire Printing for Nano-lithography and Electronics".

• 2006. 3 - 2010. 2: B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering,

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea.

Professional Experiences

• 2023. 3 - Present: Principal Engineer, 

R&D Team, Visual Display (VD) Business, 

Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea.

Researches in “MicroLED Displays : Materials and Processes Development”.

• 2018. 12 - 2023. 2: Staff Engineer, 

Material Development, Visual Display (VD) Business, 

Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea.

Researches in “MicroLED Displays”.

• 2017. 1 - 2018. 11: Senior Research Scientist, 

IT&E Materials R&D, LG Chem R&D Campus Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

Researches in “Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs)”.

• 2015. 9 - 2016. 12: Postdoctoral Researcher in Polymer Research Institute, 

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Republic of Korea.

Researches in “Controllable metallic wire printing for all-wire electronics”.

Research Interests

• Organic Nano-materials & their electronic applications 

• Large-area electrohydrodynamic (EHD) printing 

• Nano/micro-patterning

• Interconnecting Process Development for Micro-LEDs and Micro-ICs

• Repair Process Development and Failure Analysis of Micro LED display

Research Experiences 

• 2013. 6 - 2016. 5: Research project entitled “Fundamental studies on controllable wire electronics” with Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning, Republic of Korea. 

• 2013. 3 - 2014. 2: Research project entitled “Fundamental studies on controlled organic/inorganic wire electronics” with POSTECH Basic Science Research Institute, Republic of Korea.

• 2012. 9 - 2016. 8: Research project entitled “Development of high density synapse and integration process for neuromorphic device” with Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning, Republic of Korea.

• 2011. 9 - 2016. 6: Research project entitled “Researches on soft nano-electronics using organic·inorganic nanowires” with Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning, Republic of Korea.

• 2010. 11 - 2014. 6: Research project entitled “Researches on patterned fiber OLEDs for large area display devices” with Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Korea.

• 2009. 6 - 2010. 2: Research project entitled “Organic optoelectronic devices using organic semiconductor nanowires” with POSTECH Basic Science Research Institute, Republic of Korea.

• 2009. 3 - 2011. 8: Research project entitled “Development of next generation high performance organic/nano materials and printing process technology” with Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Korea.

Honors and Awards

• 2016. 1. 8: Best Rising Ph.D Award (최우수 신진박사상), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH

• 2015. 12. 1: Best Poster Award, Nominee, 2015 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting

• 2015. 11. 1: Best Paper Award, the 1st prize (Golden Prize), Samsung Electro-Mechanics 11th Best Paper Award 

• 2013. 12. 26: Best Paper Award (논문상), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH 

• 2013. 11. 22: 1nside Edge Best Paper Award, the 3rd prize (Bronze Prize), Samsung Electro-Mechanics 9th ‘1nside Edge’ Best Paper Award 

• 2013. 8. 31: Excellent Poster Presentation Award, 2013 Korea-Japan Joint Forum (KJF) International Conference on Organic Materials for Electronics and Photonics 

• 2013. 5. 16: Best Poster Award, The 24th International Conference on Molecular Electronics and Devices (2013 ME&D) 

• 2012. 12. 26: Special Encouragement Award (특별 장려상), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH 

• 2012. 5. 31: Best Oral Presentation Award, 2nd International Conference on Electrospinning 2012 

• 2011. 12. 27: Best Patent Award (특허상), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH 

• 2006. 3−2010. 2: National Science and Technology Scholarship

Technical Skills 

• Materials science background

• Organic electronics background

• Electrohydrodynamic nanowire printing technique

• Micro- & Nano-scale lithography

• Electronic devices fabrication & characterization (Transistors, Circuits)

• Micro LED Display fabrication (Large-area bonding, Defect repair) & failure analysis

• Microstructural characterization (SEM, TEM, FIB, and AFM)

• Basic 3D modeling (AutoCAD, Solidworks, 3ds Max)

• Basic computer programming languages (C, Labview)