Associate Professor

손준우

Junwoo Son

+82-2-880-7195

junuson@snu.ac.kr

Academic Experiences

Mar. 1999 – Feb. 2005 : B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Jan. 2007 – Jun. 2011 : Ph.D in Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Research Experiences

2024-Current : Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University

2022-2023 : Visiting Professor, ECE Department, UC San Diego, USA

2017-2024 : Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH

2012-2017 : Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, POSTECH

2007-2011 : Postdoctoral Research Associate, Materials Department and ECE Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

2011-2012 : Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

2007 : Visiting Researcher, Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Research Interests

Emerging Oxide and Quantum Materials

–  Oxide Materials with Phase Transition
–  Oxide Semiconductors with High Electron Mobility
–  Oxide Heterostructures and Quantum Wells

Emerging Devices and Sensors

–  Next-generation Electronic Devices
–  Ultrasensitive Gas and Bio Sensors
–  Threshold Mott Switches and Memory Devices

Thin Film Growth and Characterization

–  Epitaxial Thin Film Growth
–  Atomically Controlled Oxide Heterostructures
–  Synchrotron-based Characterization

Selected Publications

“Piezo-strain-controlled phase transition in single-crystalline Mott switches for threshold-manipulated leaky-integrate-and-fire neurons”, Science Advances (2024)
“Embedded metallic nanoparticles facilitate metastability of switchable metallic domains in Mott threshold switches”, Nature Communications, 13, 4609 (2022)
“Reversible manipulation of photoconductivity caused by surface oxygen vacancies in perovskite stannates with ultraviolet light”, Advanced Materials, 34, 2107650 (2022)
“Heterogeneous integration of single-crystalline rutile nanomembranes with steep phase transition on silicon substrates”, Nature Communications, 12, 5019 (2021)
“Reversible phase modulation and hydrogen storage in multivalent VO2 epitaxial films”, Nature Materials, 15, 1113 (2016)