Hong Koo Kim

 

Co-Director, Petersen Institute of NanoScience and Engineering

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

348 Benedum Hall

412-624-9673, 8003(fax)

kim@engr.pitt.edu

http://www.engr.pitt.edu/electrical/faculty-staff/kim/kim_hong.html

 

Hong Koo Kim’s research investigates hierarchical integration of nanoscale structures into systems by employing a directed self-assembly process.  Single-domain, ordered nanochannel arrays with controlled symmetry have been developed on macroscale area of wafer surface using a directed self-organization method, and have been investigated as an interaction medium in the optical, electrical, chemical, and biological domains.  Surface-plasmon phenomena occurring in metallic nano-optic structures are of particular interest, since many novel properties derived from the nanoscale structures can be incorporated into an on-chip configuration for interaction with other functional materials.  His group investigates plasmonics as an enabling technology for implementing nanosystems-on-a-chip that offer multifunctionality across heterogeneous domains. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images (clockwise from top-left): Optical transmission through a metal nanoslit array; a nanochannel array formed by directed self-organization; a metal nanolens; and a nano-optic filter array.