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Name Young Suh Song

Address Stanford, CA 94305, USA

E-mail youngsuh_at_stanford.edu

Biography

Young Suh Song is a semiconductor researcher with a focus on electro-thermal co-design for advanced semiconductor devices and systems. His research interests include semiconductor reliability for logic and memory applications, gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet transistors, 2D semiconductors for logic applications, oxide semiconductor devices for memory applications, and thermal management for next-generation computing systems.

He has authored and co-authored over 50 research papers in journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (IEEE TED), IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEEE IEDM), IEEE Device Research Conference (IEEE DRC), IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IEEE IRPS), and IEEE Electron Devices Technology & Manufacturing Conference (IEEE EDTM).

His academic contributions include editorial leadership for academic book projects with Springer and CRC Press, editorial contributions to Wiley publications, and trusted reviewer for ECS-IOP publications. He served on the technical committee for the IEEE International Conference on Circuits, Systems and Simulations (IEEE ICCSS) in 2022. He previously held a faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Korea Military Academy. He has served as a guest speaker at universities including VIT-AP University and VIT-Chennai University (India) in 2022, and NIT Delhi (India) in 2023. His interdisciplinary work has been recognized with several honors, including the Outstanding Reviewer Award for Semiconductor Science and Technology (IOP Publishing, 2025) and Best Paper Awards from IEEE ICCSS (2022) and IEIE (2020).

Outside his academic work, he enjoys traveling, coffee chats, and playing badminton.

Research Interests

Electro-thermal co-design for advanced semiconductor devices and systems
Semiconductor reliability for memory and logic applications
CMOS, 2D materials (for logic applications), amorphous oxide semiconductors (for DRAM & MRAM applications), vertically stacked gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet field-effect transistor (NSFET), thermal management for semiconductor systems, MRAM, DRAM, NAND Flash, NOR Flash, novel topological semimetal (TSM), interconnects and backside power delivery networks (BSPDN).

Education

2024.09 > Present PhD student @ Stanford University - Electrical Engineering

(became a PhD candidate in Feb. 2026)

2018.09 > 2024.02 MS @ Seoul National University - Electrical and Computer Engineering

(Military service as a professor : 2020.06 ~ 2023.05)

2014.03 > 2018.02 BS @ Seoul National University - Electrical and Computer Engineering (major) and Industrial Engineering (minor)

Professional Experience

2021.09 > 2023.05 Assistant Professor @ Korea Military Academy - Department of Computer Science

2020.06 > 2021.08 Full Time Lecturer @ Korea Military Academy - Department of Computer Science

Honors and Awards

Editor-in-Chief (EiC) - book projects with Springer, CRC Press [Link1] [Link2]
Editor - book project with Wiley [Wiley Link]
IOP Associate Member [IOP Link]
ECS-IOP Trusted Reviewer [ECS Link]
Journal Reviewer, Journal Paper Reviews including npj (Nature Partner Journal) 2d materials and applications, ACS Omega, Applied Physics Letters (APL), Discover Nano, Silicon, Nanotechnology, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (IEEE TED), IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation (IEEE TDEI), Micro and Nanostructures, Microelectronics Reliability, some IEEE journals, Nature Portfolio journal, etc.
Conference Reviewer, IEEE conferences, etc.
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Semiconductor Science and Technology (IOP Publishing), 2025
Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Circuits, Systems, and Simulation (IEEE ICCSS), 2022
Best Paper Award, Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE), 2020
Knight-Hennessy Scholarship, Stanford University, 2025-28
Departmental Fellowship, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2024
Brain Korea 21 Plus Fellowship, Seoul National University, 2018-19
Public Enterprise Scholarship, South Korean Public Enterprise, 2017
Merit-based Scholarship, Seoul National University, 2014-16

SCI/SCIE Journals 10 first author | 26 total
[Representative Journal: ACS Nano, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (IEEE TED)]

International Conferences 8 first author | 17 total
[Representative Conference: IEEE IEDM, IEEE DRC, IEEE IRPS, IEEE SNW, IEEE EDTM, and IEEE ICCSS]

The other journal/conference 8 first author | 16 total

Book Edited 2 lead editor roles | 4 total
[Representative publisher: Springer, Wiley]

Skills

Measurement

Ellipsometer (Woollam)
Atomic force microscopy (AFM)
Scanning thermal microscopy (SThM)
Raman-TERS: Horiba LabRAM (Raman)
Raman: Horiba XploRA+ (Raman)
Time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR)
Cascade electrical measurement (Id-Vg, etc.)
X-ray Diffraction (XRD) (scheduled)
TFS Spectra 300 (STEM EELS) (scheduled)

Nano-fabrication

Wet bench (SC1, SC2, HF, Lift-off, etc.)
Oxidation (dry oxidation, wet oxidation)
ALD (HfO₂, Al₂O₃, ZrO₂, TiO₂, Ta₂O₅, HZO, Si₃N₄, Pt, Ru, NiO, MoO₂, ITO)
PECVD, MOCVD, LPCVD (Si₃N₄, Poly-Si)
e-beam Evaporator (Ni, Pt, Pd, Ag, Al, Cu, Cr, Au, Ti)
Lesker Sputter (Al, Al2O3, AlSi, Cr, Co, Cu, Au, ITO, Fe, Ni, Nb, Pd, Si, SiO2, Ag, Ta, Ti, TiN, W, Mo, Ge, Sn, Sc)
SSCVD (~0.615 nm monolayer MoS2 deposition)
Transfer of 2D materials (on high-k dielectrics)
Photo (Heidelberg, Nikon Stepper, e-beam lithography)
Xactix Xenon Difluoride Etcher (XeF2)
Etching (dry etching, wet etching)
Samco PC300 Plasma Etch System (O2, CF4, SF6)
VST High Vacuum Oven (down to ~10⁻⁷ Torr)
Lift-Off
Headway (manual resist spinner)
Silicon Valley Group Resist Coat
Silicon Valley Group Developer
KLayout

Computer

TCAD
Synopsys - Sentaurus Device simulator (8+ years)
- Synopsys Sentaurus Process simulator
Silvaco - Atlas Device simulator
- Smart Spice simulator
Origin (8+ years)
Python (6+ years)
Linux (primarily CentOS, also experienced with Ubuntu)
Onshape (3D graphic modelling program)