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Seongil Im is affiliated with Yonsei University in South Korea and has a research focus centered on materials science and engineering, particularly in the domain of 2D materials and their applications.

Their research is prominently situated within the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. More specifically, Subfields of study include:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Key research topics covered by Seongil Im span several advanced and emerging areas in materials science, including:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Nanowire Synthesis and Applications
  • Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Seongil Im has contributed articles to multiple scientific journals, with notable frequent appearances in:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Electronic Materials
  • ACS Nano
  • npj 2D Materials and Applications

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Seongil Im include:

  • Low-temperature growth of MoS2 on polymer and thin glass substrates for flexible electronics, 2023, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Ultrafast 27 GHz cutoff frequency in vertical WSe2 Schottky diodes with extremely low contact resistance, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Ambipolar Channel p-TMD/n-Ga2O3 Junction Field Effect Transistors and High Speed Photo-sensing in TMD Channel, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Engineering MoSe2/MoS2 heterojunction traps in 2D transistors for multilevel memory, multiscale display, and synaptic functions, 2022, npj 2D Materials and Applications
  • 2D TMD Channel Transistors with ZnO Nanowire Gate for Extended Nonvolatile Memory Applications, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Sungjae Hong
  • Kwanpyo Kim
  • Yeonsu Jeong
  • Heesun Bae
  • Hyunmin Cho

Best Publications

  • MoS2 Nanosheet Phototransistors with Thickness-Modulated Optical Energy Gap

    Hee Sung Lee;Sung Wook Min;Youn Gyung Chang;Min Kyu Park

  • 42.3: Transparent ZnO Thin Film Transistor for the Application of High Aperture Ratio Bottom Emission AM‐OLED Display

    Sang Hee Ko Park;Minki Ryu;Chi Sun Hwang;Shinhyuk Yang

  • Improving the Gate Stability of ZnO Thin-Film Transistors with Aluminum Oxide Dielectric Layers

    Min Suk Oh;Kimoon Lee;J. H. Song;Byoung H. Lee

  • Violet and UV luminescence emitted from ZnO thin films grown on sapphire by pulsed laser deposition

    B.J Jin;S Im;S.Y Lee

  • Ultraviolet-enhanced photodiode employing n-ZnO/p-Si structure

    I.-S. Jeong;Jae Hoon Kim;Seongil Im

  • Effects of native defects on optical and electrical properties of ZnO prepared by pulsed laser deposition

    B.J. Jin;S.H. Bae;S.Y. Lee;S. Im

  • Transparent and Photo‐stable ZnO Thin‐film Transistors to Drive an Active Matrix Organic‐Light‐ Emitting‐Diode Display Panel

    Sang Hee K. Park;Chi Sun Hwang;Minki Ryu;Shinhyuk Yang

  • Electric and Photovoltaic Behavior of a Few-Layer α-MoTe2/MoS2 Dichalcogenide Heterojunction

    Atiye Pezeshki;Seyed Hossein Hosseini Shokouh;Tavakol Nazari;Kyunghwan Oh

  • MoS2 nanosheets for top-gate nonvolatile memory transistor channel.

    Hee Sung Lee;Sung Wook Min;Min Kyu Park;Young Tack Lee

  • Optimizing n-ZnO/p-Si heterojunctions for photodiode applications

    J.Y Lee;Y.S Choi;J.H Kim;M.O Park

  • Photodetecting properties of ZnO-based thin-film transistors

    H. S. Bae;M. H. Yoon;J. H. Kim;Seongil Im

  • Comparative studies on the stability of polymer versus SiO2 gate dielectrics for pentacene thin-film transistors

    D. K. Hwang;Kimoon Lee;Jae Hoon Kim;Seongil Im

  • Hysteresis mechanisms of pentacene thin-film transistors with polymer/oxide bilayer gate dielectrics

    D. K. Hwang;Min Suk Oh;Jung Min Hwang;Jae Hoon Kim

  • Ultrasensitive PbS quantum-dot-sensitized InGaZnO hybrid photoinverter for near-infrared detection and imaging with high photogain

    Do Kyung Hwang;Young Tack Lee;Hee Sung Lee;Yun Jae Lee;Yun Jae Lee

  • Black Phosphorus–Zinc Oxide Nanomaterial Heterojunction for p–n Diode and Junction Field-Effect Transistor

    Pyo Jin Jeon;Young Tack Lee;June Yeong Lim;Jin Sung Kim

  • Low-temperature growth of MoS2 on polymer and thin glass substrates for flexible electronics.

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  • Ultraviolet enhanced Si-photodetector using p-NiO films

    Jeong M. Choi;Seongil Im

  • Nonvolatile Ferroelectric Memory Circuit Using Black Phosphorus Nanosheet-Based Field-Effect Transistors with P(VDF-TrFE) Polymer.

    Young Tack Lee;Hyeokjae Kwon;Jin Sung Kim;Hong Hee Kim

  • Homogeneous 2D MoTe2 p–n Junctions and CMOS Inverters formed by Atomic-Layer-Deposition-Induced Doping

    June Yeong Lim;Atiye Pezeshki;Sehoon Oh;Jin Sung Kim

  • Relationship between photoluminescence and electrical properties of ZnO thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition

    B.J. Jin;H.S. Woo;S. Im;S.H. Bae

  • Rapid vapor-phase fabrication of organic-inorganic hybrid superlattices with monolayer precision.

    Byoung H. Lee;Min Ki Ryu;Sung-Yool Choi;Kwang-H. Lee

  • Optimum channel thickness in pentacene-based thin-film transistors

    Jiyoul Lee;Kibum Kim;Jae Hoon Kim;Seongil Im

Frequent Co-Authors

Do Kyung Hwang
Do Kyung Hwang Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Myung M. Sung
Myung M. Sung Hanyang University
Byoung Hun Lee
Byoung Hun Lee Pohang University of Science and Technology
Hyoung Joon Choi
Hyoung Joon Choi Yonsei University
Keun Hwa Chae
Keun Hwa Chae Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Hong Koo Baik
Hong Koo Baik Yonsei University
Nathan W. Cheung
Nathan W. Cheung University of California, Berkeley
Hyungjun Kim
Hyungjun Kim Yonsei University
Won Kook Choi
Won Kook Choi Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Seong Chan Jun
Seong Chan Jun Yonsei University

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