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Sungkyunkwan University SKKU-STEM Laboratory

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Young-Min Kim

Professor · Department of Energy Science
Sungkyunkwan University · Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea

Young-Min Kim is a Professor in the Department of Energy Science at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. He received his Ph.D. (2010) in Materials Science and Engineering from KAIST, Korea, and worked as a researcher at the Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) for 14 years, including during his Ph.D. studies. From 2010 to 2013, he was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting scientist in the STEM group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he developed expertise in aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and transition metal oxide thin films. His research group focuses on the atomic-scale structural and chemical characterization of functional nanomaterials and thin films using advanced STEM techniques, including electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), four-dimensional STEM (4D-STEM), and electron tomography. A central theme of his recent work is the integration of these multimodal microscopy capabilities with machine learning and deep learning frameworks, enabling quantitative and high-throughput analysis of complex material systems.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Materials Science

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea

  • M.S. in Materials Science

    Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

  • B.S. in Materials Science

    Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea

Research Experience

  • Professor

    Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

  • Associate Professor

    Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

  • Assistant Professor

    Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

  • Principal Researcher

    Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), Korea

  • Visiting Scientist

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA

  • Postdoctoral Fellow

    Materials Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA

  • Senior Researcher

    Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), Korea

  • Researcher

    Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI), Korea

Honors & Awards

  • 2024 SKKU Fellowship

  • Minister’s award by the Ministry of Science and Technology No. 22-03458

  • President’s award for research excellence in KBSI No. 2014-596

  • Scientist of the month in Daejeon City No. 30666

  • President’s grand award for research excellence in KBSI No. 2012-125

  • President’s award for research excellence in KBSI No. 2009-106

  • President’s award for research excellence in KBSI No. 2008-187

  • President’s award for research excellence in KBSI No. 2007-9

  • President’s award for the best staff of the year in KBSI

  • President’s award for research excellence in KBSI No. 2006-33

  • President’s award by KRCF (Korea Research Council of Fundamental Science & Technology) No. 04-02-01

  • Minister’s award by the Ministry of Science and Technology No. 9599

Selected Publications

Microscopy-based Materials Science

  1. Reports on Progress in Physics · 89(2), 028002

    Homoepitaxy-like heteroepitaxy via monolayer interface achieves grain-boundary-free ultraflat silver thin films

    Su Jae Kim†, Seon Je Kim†, Young-Hoon Kim†, Tae-In Jeong†, Min-Hyoung Jung, Hee-Beom Lee, Jongkyoon Park, Sehyeon Kim, Ganbat Duvjir, Yousil Lee, Jegon Lee, Woo Seok Choi, Jungdae Kim, Hu Young Jeong, Seungchul Kim*, Se-Young Jeong*, Young-Min Kim*

  2. Nature Communications · 16, 1462

    An impermeable copper surface monolayer with high-temperature oxidation resistance

    Su Jae Kim†, Young-Hoon Kim†, Bipin Lamichhane†, Binod Regmi, Yousil Lee, Sang-Hyeok Yang, Seon Je Kim, Min-Hyoung Jung, Jae Hyuck Jang, Hu Young Jeong, Miaofang Chi, Maeng-Je Seong, Hak Soo Choi, Seong-Gon Kim*, Young-Min Kim*, Se-Young Jeong*

  3. ACS Energy Letters · 9(11), 5606-5615

    Oxygen vacancy-induced directional ordering of Li-ion pathways for enhanced ion-conducting solid electrolytes

    Hyeon-Ah Ju†, Eun-Byeol Park†, Jaejin Hwang†, Young-Hoon Kim†, Min-Hyoung Jung, Min-Ji Yang, Seon Je Kim, Jaehan Lee, In Kim, Yoo-Shin Kim, Songhun Yoon, Jae Hyuck Jang, Hu Young Jeong, Jaekwang Lee*, Jae-Hyun Shim*, Young-Min Kim*

  4. ACS Energy Letters · 9(7), 3618-3627

    Uneven strain relaxation in formamidinium lead triiodide (FAPbI3) films upon aging

    Sooeun Shin, Sang-Hyeok Yang, Seongrok Seo, Hyoungmin Park, Urasawadee Amornkitbamrung, Yongjae In, Canjie Wang, Tomoya Nakamura, Atsushi Wakamiya, Young-Min Kim*, Hyunjung Shin*

  5. ACS Nano · 17(19), 19076-19086

    An Aqueous Route to Oxygen-Deficient Wake-Up-Free La-Doped HfO2 Ferroelectrics for Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistors

    Pavan Pujar†, Haewon Cho†, Young-Hoon Kim†, Nicolò Zagni†, Eunha Lee, Srinivas Gandla, Pavan Nukala*, Young-Min Kim*, Muhammad Ashraful Alam*, Sunkook Kim*

  6. Advanced Materials · 35(42), 2210564

    Self-oxidation resistance of the curved surface of achromatic copper

    Young-Hoon Kim†, Seong-Gon Kim†, Seunghun Lee†, Miyeon Cheon, Su Jae Kim, Kideuk Nam, Bipin Lamichhane, Sung Heum Park, Min-Hyoung Jung, Ji-Soo Kim, Yu-Seong Seo, Taewoo Ha, Jungseek Hwang, Hu Young Jeong, Yusil Lee, Young Hee Lee, Young-Min Kim*, Se-Young Jeong*

  7. Nature Communications · 14, 685

    Coherent consolidation of trillions of nucleations for mono-atom step-level flat surfaces

    Taewoo Ha†, Yu-Seong Seo†, Teun-Teun Kim†, Bipin Lamichhane, Young-Hoon Kim, Su Jae Kim, Yousil Lee, Jong Chan Kim, Sang Eon Park, Kyung Ik Sim, Jae Hoon Kim, Yong In Kim, Seon Je Kim, Hu Young Jeong, Young Hee Lee, Seong-Gon Kim*, Young-Min Kim*, Jungseek Hwang*, Se-Young Jeong*

  8. Applied Catalysis B-Environmental · 322, 122140

    Enhanced selective photocatalytic oxidation of a bio-derived platform chemical with vacancy-induced core-shell anatase TiO2 nanoparticles

    Woo-Sung Jang†, Vy Ngoc Pham†, Sang-Hyeok Yang, Jaeyoon Baik, Hangil Lee*, Young-Min Kim*

  9. Science · 376(6594), 731-738

    Highly enhanced ferroelectricity in HfO2-based ferroelectric thin film by light ion bombardment

    Seunghun Kang†, Woo-Sung Jang†, Anna N. Morozovska†, Owoong Kwon, Yeongrok Jin, Young-Hoon Kim, Hagyoul Bae, Chenxi Wang, Sang-Hyeok Yang, Alex Belianinov, Steven Randolph, Eugene A. Eliseev, Liam Collins, Yeehyun Park, Sanghyun Jo, Min-Hyoung Jung, Kyoung-June Go, Hae Won Cho, Si-Young Choi, Jae Hyuck Jang, Sunkook Kim, Hu Young Jeong, Jaekwang Lee, Olga S. Ovchinnikova, Jinseong Heo*, Sergei V. Kalinin*, Young-Min Kim*, Yunseok Kim*

  10. Nature · 603(7901), 434-438

    Flat-surface-assisted and self-regulated oxidation resistance of Cu(111)

    Su Jae Kim†, Yong In Kim†, Bipin Lamichhane†, Young-Hoon Kim, Yousil Lee, Chae Ryong Cho, Miyeon Cheon, Jong Chan Kim, Hu Young Jeong, Taewoo Ha, Young Hee Lee, Seong-Gon Kim*, Young-Min Kim*, Se-Young Jeong*

  11. Applied Catalysis B-Environmental · 305, 121083

    Site-selective doping mechanisms for the enhanced photocatalytic activity of tin oxide nanoparticles

    Woo-Sung Jang†, Yeongrok Jin†, Young-Hoon Kim†, Sang-Hyeok Yang, Seon Je Kim, Jung A. Hong, Jaeyoon Baik, Jaekwang Lee*, Hangil Lee*, Young-Min Kim*

  12. Science Advances · 7(17), eabe9053

    Cooperative evolution of polar distortion and nonpolar rotation of oxygen octahedra in oxide heterostructures

    Taewon Min†, Wooseon Choi†, Jinsol Seo†, Gyeongtak Han, Kyung Song, Sangwoo Ryu, Hyungwoo Lee, Jungwoo Lee, Kitae Eom, Chang-Beom Eom, Hu Young Jeong, Young-Min Kim*, Jaekwang Lee*, Sang Ho Oh*

  13. Materials Today Physics · 17, 100347

    Atomic-scale chemical mapping of copper dopants in Bi2Te2.7Se0.3 thermoelectric alloy

    Young-Min Kim*,†, Kyu Hyoung Lee†, Liangwei Fu†, Min-Wook Oh, Sang-Hyeok Yang, Shoucong Ning, Gyeongtak Han, Min Young Kim, Ji-Soo Kim, Myoungho Jeong, Jaeduck Jang, Eunha Lee, Okunishi Eiji, Sawada Hidetaka, Sang-il Kim, Stephen J. Pennycook, Young Hee Lee, Sung Wng Kim*

  14. ACS Nano · 15(8), 13770-13780

    Doping-mediated lattice-engineering of monolayer ReS2 for modulating in-plane anisotropy of optical and transport properties

    Ganesh Ghimire†, Krishna P. Dhakal†, Wooseon Choi†, Yonas Assefa Esthete†, Seon Je Kim, Tran Thu Trang, Hyoyoung Lee, Heejun Yang, Dinh Loc Duong, Young-Min Kim*, Jeongyong Kim*

  15. Advanced Materials · 29, 1702091

    Direct observation of inherent atomic-scale defect disorders responsible for high thermoelectric performance of Ti1-xHfxNiSn1-ySby half-Heusler alloys

    Ki Sung Kim†, Young-Min Kim†, Hyeona Mun†, Jisoo Kim, Jucheol Park, Albina Y. Borisevich, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Sung Wng Kim*

  16. Nature Materials · 13, 1019-1025

    Direct observation of ferroelectric field effect and vacancy-controlled screening at the BiFeO3-LaxSr1-xMnO3 interface

    Young-Min Kim, Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Mark P. Oxley, Rohan Mishra, Sverre M. Selbach, Tor Grande, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Sergei V. Kalinin, Albina Y. Borisevich

  17. Advanced Materials · 25(17), 2497-2504

    Interplay of octahedral tilts and polar order in BiFeO3 films

    Young-Min Kim, Amit Kumar, Alison Hatt, Anna N. Morozovska, Alexander Tselev, Michael D. Biegalski, Ilya Ivanov, Eugene A. Eliseev, Stephen J. Pennycook, James M. Rondinelli, Sergei V. Kalinin, Albina Y. Borisevich

  18. Nature Materials · 11, 888-894

    Probing oxygen vacancy concentration and homogeneity in solid-oxide-fuel-cell cathode materials on the subunit-cell level

    Young-Min Kim, Jun He, Michael D. Biegalski, Hailemariam Ambaye, Valeria Lauter, Hans M. Christen, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Stephen J. Pennycook, Sergei V. Kalinin, Albina Y. Borisevich

AI Microscopy

  1. npj Computational Materials · accepted

    High-precision texture analysis of Fe-Co metal thin films via deep-learning four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy

    Young-Hoon Kim†*, Sang-Hyeok Yang†, Su Jae Kim, Su-Hyeon Nam, Jeong-Hyeon Jo, Se-Young Jeong, Ho-Sup Kim*, Young-Min Kim*

  2. Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy · 382, 125911 (2026)

    Integrated probing of cycling-induced degradation of multi-component electrode in hydrogen fuel cells via machine learning-empowered spectroscopic imaging

    Daehee Yang†, Young-Hoon Kim†, Hyo June Lee†, Sang-Hyeok Yang, Min Hyoung Jung, Eun-Byeol Park, Hang Sik Kim, Yerin Jeon, Yuseong Heo, Ka Hyun Kim, Sungyong Cho, Yun Sik Kang, Ki Kang Kim, Hangil Lee, Sung-Dae Yim, Jae Hyuck Jang*, Sungchul Lee*, Young-Min Kim*

  3. Journal of Energy Chemistry · 104, 795-806

    Sparse section imaging-based deep learning electron tomography of porous carbon supports in proton exchange membrane fuel cells

    Sang-Hyeok Yang†, Yerin Jeon†, Min-Hyoung Jung†, Sungyong Cho†, Eun-Byeol Park, Daehee Yang, Hyo June Lee, Yun Sik Kang, Chang Hyun Lee, Sung-Dae Yim*, Hu Young Jeong*, Sungchul Lee*, Young-Min Kim*

  4. Journal of Analytical Science and Technology · 14, 47

    Deep learning image segmentation for the reliable porosity measurement of high-capacity Ni-based oxide cathode secondary particles

    Hee-Beom Lee†, Min-Hyoung Jung†, Young-Hoon Kim, Eun-Byeol Park, Woo-Sung Jang, Seon-Je Kim, Ki-ju Choi, Ji-young Park, Kee-bum Hwang, Jae-Hyun Shim, Songhun Yoon*, Young-Min Kim*

  5. Materials Today Energy · 36, 101348

    Deep learning morphological distribution analysis of metal alloy catalysts in proton exchange membrane fuel cells

    Sang-Hyeok Yang†, Eun-Byeol Park†, Sung Yong Cho†, Yun Sik Kang, Hyeon-Ah Ju, Yerin Jeon, Daehee Yang, Sung-Dae Yim*, Sungchul Lee*, Young-Min Kim*

  6. Small · 18(18), 2107620

    Hybrid deep learning crystallographic mapping of polymorphic phases in polycrystalline Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 thin films

    Young-Hoon Kim†, Sang-Hyeok Yang†, Myoungho Jeong†, Min-Hyoung Jung, Daehee Yang, Hyangsook Lee, Taehwan Moon, Jinseong Heo, Hu Young Jeong, Eunha Lee*, Young-Min Kim*

  7. Advanced Science · 8(16), 2101099

    Deep learning-assisted quantification of atomic dopants and defects in 2D materials

    Sang-Hyeok Yang, Wooseon Choi, Byeong Wook Cho, Frederick Osei-Tutu Agyapong-Fordjour, Sehwan Park, Seok Joon Yun, Hyung-Jin Kim, Young-Kyu Han, Young Hee Lee, Ki Kang Kim, Young-Min Kim*

† equal contribution · * indicates corresponding author(s)

Contact

Email
[email protected]
Phone
+82-(0)31-299-4059
ORCID
0000-0003-3220-9004
Office
Department of Energy Science Sungkyunkwan University 2066 Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea