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Recent papers, awards, talks, member milestones, and lab events.

2026

Award Featured

Sang-Hyeok Yang wins Silver at NANO KOREA 2026

Sang-Hyeok Yang received the Silver Prize in the Young Scientist Award at NANO KOREA 2026, held at KINTEX, for his presentation "Crystallographic Mapping of Polymorphic Phase Distributions in Doped Hafnia Thin Films using Deep Learning-Embedded 4D-STEM CBED," originally presented at NANO KOREA 2025.

Event

Eun-Byeol and Yerin attend the European EELS & EFTEM School

Eun-Byeol Park and Yerin Jeon represent the lab at the European EELS & EFTEM School at TU Graz, Austria — a week of hands-on training in electron energy-loss spectroscopy.

  • European EELS & EFTEM School at TU Graz

Award Featured

Two awards at the 11th BK DOES Thesis Competition

Yerin Jeon received the Excellence Award (oral) and Eun-Byeol Park received the Encouragement Award (poster) at the 11th BK Department of Energy Science Thesis Competition in Suwon.

  • 11th BK DOES Thesis Competition award (1)

2025

Event

Lab visits Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a CNMS user project

Sang-Hyeok Yang, Min-Hyoung Jung, Eun-Byeol Park, and Yerin Jeon spent two weeks at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) user program.

  • Lab members visiting Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Award Featured

Prof. Young-Min Kim selected as 2024 SKKU Fellowship

Prof. Young-Min Kim was named a 2024 SKKU Fellowship recipient — a university-level recognition of research excellence at Sungkyunkwan University.

  • Prof. Young-Min Kim — 2024 SKKU Fellowship (1)

Member

Congratulations to our 2025 graduates

Sang-Hyeok Yang, Hee-Beom Lee, and Hyeon-Ah Ju completed their doctoral studies in early 2025 — best wishes for the next chapter at KRISS, Lam Research, and KAIST.

  • 2025 doctoral graduates of the lab