Publications

FULL PUBLICATIONS                                

(#: first authors, *: corresponding authors)

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Under review (2026)

Jeail Kim#, Youngjae Kim#, EunJo Ryoo, Yeon Lee, Yeong-seon Lee, Daesu Lee, Dong-Eon Kim*

“Selective control of light induced lattice distortion in strained VO2 nanofilm”   

31

Under review (2026)

Gimin Bae#, Yeon Lee#, Youngjae Kim, Dong-Eon Kim*, and J. D. Lee*

“Multiband enhancing electron-hole coherence in high harmonic generation of monolayer MoS2”

30

Under review (2026)

Youngjae Kim# and Kwon Park*

“Floquet Chern Insulators and Radiation-Induced Zero Resistance in Irradiated Graphene”

29

Under review (2026)

Youngjae Kim#*, Sejoong Kim*, Jun-Won Rhim*

“Petahertz Electric Current Switching in Quantum Geometric Semimetals”

28

Adv. Sci. 13, 27, e22729 (2026).

Gimin Bae#, Youngjae Kim, and J. D. Lee*

“Superradiance and broadband emission driving fast electron dephasing in open quantum systems”

27

Journal of Materials Chemistry A 10.1039/d6ta01259k (2026)

Seoung-Hun Kang#, Youngjae Kim#, Bo Gyu Jang*, and Sejoong Kim*

“High Photovoltaic Efficiency in Bulk-Stacked One-Dimensional GeSe2 van der Waals Crystal”

26

(selected) Nano Letters 25, 44, 15883–15889 (2025).

Youngjae Kim#*

“Light-Wave Engineering for Selective Polarization of a Single Q Valley in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides”

*Highlighted as a Supplementary Cover

25

Nature Materials https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02173-2 (2025).

Seokho Moon#, Odongo Francis Ngome Okello, Adrien Rousseau, Chang-Won Choi, Youngjae Kim, Yunjae Park, Jiye Kim, Jaewon Kim, Minhyuk Kim, Pierre Valvin, Jaehee Cho, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Hu Young Jeong, Giorgia Fugallo, Wilfried Desrat, Feng Ding, JaeDong Lee, Bernard Gil, Guillaume Cassabois*, Si-Young Choi*, and Jong Kyu Kim*

“Wafer-scale AA-stacked hexagonal boron nitride grown on a GaN substrate”

24

Advanced Science 2417596, (2025).

Hyeon-Seo Choi#, Minjee Ko, Taejin Lee, Jin-Woo Jung, Young-Jun Lee, Hyeonjong Jeong, Youngjae Kim, Dongha Kim, Jinhee Heo, Shinbuhm Lee, JaeDong Lee, and Chang-HeeCho*

“Tunable Polariton Rabi Oscillation in Phase-Changing Perovskite Microcavities”

23

Small 2411378, (2025).

Ajit Kumar Katiyar#, Youngjae Kim, Beom Jin Kim, Jonggyu Choi, Anh Tuan Hoang, JaeDong Lee*, Jong-Hyun Ahn*

“Strain-Induced Bandgap Narrowing in Crumpled TMDs for NIR Light Detection”

22

(selected) npj Quantum materials 9, 86 (2024).

Youngjae Kim#*

“Pseudospins revealed through the giant dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect in massless Dirac materials”

21

Advanced Science 11, 22, 2310197 (2024).

Jin-Woo Jung#, Hyeon-Seo Choi, Young-Jun Lee, Youngjae Kim, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Min-Yeong Choi, Jae Hyuck Jang, Hee-Suk Chung, Dohun Kim, Youngwook Kim, and Chang-Hee Cho*

“Defect Passivation of 2D Semiconductors by Fixating Chemisorbed Oxygen Molecules via h-BN Encapsulations”

20

ACS Nano 18, 5, 4414–4423 (2024).

Heechang Shin#, Ajit Kumar Katiyar#, Anh Tuan Hoang, Seok Min Yun, Beom Jin Kim, Gwanjin Lee, Youngjae Kim, JaeDong Lee, Hyunmin Kim, and Jong-Hyun Ahn*

“Nonconventional Strain Engineering for Uniform Biaxial Tensile Strain in MoS2 Thin Film Transistors”

19

(selected) Nano Letters 24, 4, 1277–1283 (2024).

Youngjae Kim#, Min Jeong Kim, Soonyoung Cha, Shinyoung Choi, Cheol-Joo Kim, B. J. Kim, Moon-Ho Jo, Jonghwan Kim*, and J.D. Lee*

“Dephasing Dynamics Accessed by High Harmonic Generation: Determination of Electron-Hole Decoherence of Dirac Fermions”

18

Science Advances 10.1126/sciadv.adg7200 (2024).

Ajit K. Katiyar#, Beom Jin Kim, Gwanjin Lee, Youngjae Kim, Justin S. Kim, Jin Myung Kim, SungWoo Nam, JaeDong Lee, Hyunmin Kim, and Jong-Hyun Ahn*

“Strain modulation in crumpled Si nanomembranes: Light detection beyond the Si absorption limit”

17

Phys. Rev. B 108, 035122 (2023).

Youngjae Kim#*

“Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy of strongly correlated Mott insulators”

16

(selected) Nature Communications 13, 6630 (2022).

Soonyoung Cha#, Minjeong Kim#, Youngjae Kim#, Shinyoung Choi, Sejong Kang, Hoon Kim, Sangho Yoon, Gunho Moon, Taeho Kim, Ye Won Lee, Gil Young Cho, Moon Jeong Park, Cheol-Joo Kim, B. J. Kim, JaeDong Lee*, Moon-Ho Jo*, and Jonghwan Kim*

“Gate-tunable quantum pathways of high harmonic generation in graphene”

15

Communications Physics 5, 235 (2022).

Si-Hong Lee#, Youngjae Kim#, Beopgil Cho, Jaemun Park, Min-Seok Kim, Kidong Park, Hoyeon Jeon, Minkyung Jung, Keeseong Park, JaeDong Lee*, and Jungpil Seo*

“Spin-polarized and possible pseudospin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy in kagome metal FeSn”

14

Carbon 201, 425-431 (2023).

Jiwon Jeon#, Youngjae Kim, and J. D. Lee*

“Phonon induced pseudospin rotation in graphene”

13

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13, 49, 59440–59449 (2021).

Seokho Moon#, Sung-Jae Chang, Youngjae Kim, Odongo Okello, Jiye Kim, Jaewon Kim, Hyun-Wook Jung, Ho-Kyun Ahn, Dong-Seok Kim, Si-Young Choi, J.D. Lee, Jong-Won Lim, and Jong Kyu Kim*

“Van der Waals Heterostructure of Hexagonal Boron Nitride with an AlGaN/GaN Epitaxial Wafer for High-Performance Radio Frequency Applications”

12

Materials Today Physics 21, 100525 (2021).

Youngjae Kim# and J.D. Lee*

“Ultrafast dynamics of phase and topology in Dirac semiconductors”

11

Physical Review B 103, 235135 (2021).

Hyosub Park#, Youngjae Kim, and J. D. Lee*

“Anisotropic photoelectron emission delay in two-dimensional atomic arrangements”

10

Physical Review Applied 15, 024020 (2021).

Jiwon Jeon#, Youngjae Kim, and J. D. Lee*

“Electrical Control of the Valley Magnetic Domain and Anomalous Electron Transport in Bilayer MoS2”

9

npj Computational Materials 6,132 (2020).

Youngjae Kim# and J.D. Lee*

“Time-resolved photoemission of infinitely periodic atomic arrangements: correlation-dressed excited states of solids”

8

(selected) Nano Letters 20, 4530-4536 (2020).

Youngjae Kim#, Hyunmin Kim*, Houk Jang, Jong-Hyun Ahn, and J.D. Lee*

“Dual Resonant Sum Frequency Generations from Two-Dimensional Materials”

7

(selected) Nano Letters 19, 6, 4166-4173 (2019).

Youngjae Kim# and J. D. Lee*

“Anomalous Electron Dynamics Induced through the Valley Magnetic Domain: A Pathway to Valleytronic Current Processing”

6

Physical Review Applied 11, 034048 (2019).

Youngjae Kim# and J. D. Lee*

“Proposed Valley Valve from Four-Channel Valley Manipulation”

5

Light: Science & Applications 7, 98 (2018).

Krishna P. Dhakal#, Hyunmin Kim*, Seonwoo Lee, Youngjae Kim, JaeDong Lee*, and Jong-Hyun Ahn*

“Probing the Upper Band Gap of the Atomic Rhenium Disulfide Layers”

4

Physical Review B 98, 195135 (2018).

Youngjae Kim# and J. D. Lee*

“Subfemtosecond charge driving with correlation-assisted band engineering in a wide-gap semiconductor”

3

New Journal of Physics 20, 093029 (2018).

J. D. Lee#*, Youngjae Kim, and Chil-Min Kim

“Model for petahertz optical memory based on a manipulation of the optical-field-induced current in dielectrics”

2

Physical Review B (Rapid Communications) 97, 041105(R) (2018).

Youngjae Kim# and J. D. Lee*

“Manipulating light-wave-controlled charges into a spin-asymmetric flow: Petahertz frequency control of spins”

1

Scientific Reports 6, 33395 (2016).

Youngjae Kim#, Won Seok Yun, and J. D. Lee*

“Topological band-order transition and quantum spin Hall edge engineering in functionalized X-Bi(111) (X = Ga, In, and Tl) bilayer”