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Woo Lee is affiliated with the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science in South Korea. Their research spans various fields within engineering and materials science, with a focus on materials chemistry and applications in biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, and condensed matter physics.

The scientist has contributed to several areas of study, including:

  • Nanowire synthesis and applications
  • Anodic oxide films and nanostructures
  • Photonic and optical devices
  • Silicon nanostructures and photoluminescence
  • TiO2 photocatalysis and solar cells
  • Advanced photocatalysis techniques
  • Nanopore and nanochannel transport studies

Notable recent publications by Woo Lee include:

  • "Ionic Current Rectification of Porous Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO) with a Barrier Oxide Layer," 2020, published in ACS Nano
  • "Metal-assisted chemically etched silicon nanopillars hosting telecom photon emitters," 2022, published in Journal of Applied Physics
  • "Role of defect density in the TiOx protective layer of the n-Si photoanode for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting," 2023, published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • "Anodically Induced Chemical Etching of GaAs Wafers for a GaAs Nanowire-Based Flexible Terahertz Wave Emitter," 2020, published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Quantitative Local Probing of Polarization with Application on HfO2-Based Thin Films," 2021, published in Small Methods

Frequent coauthors working alongside Woo Lee include Yun Do Kim, Seungwook Choi, Ansoon Kim, M. Hollenbach, and Nagesh S. Jagtap.

The scientist's research has appeared in various respected journals, such as:

  • ACS Nano
  • Journal of Applied Physics
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Small Methods

Best Publications

  • Fast fabrication of long-range ordered porous alumina membranes by hard anodization

    Woo Lee;Ran Ji;Ulrich Gösele;Kornelius Nielsch

  • Porous anodic aluminum oxide: anodization and templated synthesis of functional nanostructures.

    Woo Lee;Sang-Joon Park

  • Nanostructuring of a polymeric substrate with well-defined nanometer-scale topography and tailored surface wettability.

    Woo Lee;Mi-Kyoung Jin;Won-Cheol Yoo;Jin-Kyu Lee

  • Structural engineering of nanoporous anodic aluminium oxide by pulse anodization of aluminium

    Woo Lee;Kathrin Schwirn;Martin Steinhart;Eckhard Pippel

  • Metal-assisted chemical etching of silicon and nanotechnology applications

    Hee Han;Zhipeng Huang;Woo Lee

  • Extended arrays of vertically aligned sub-10 nm diameter [100] Si nanowires by metal-assisted chemical etching.

    Zhipeng Huang;Xuanxiong Zhang;Manfred Reiche;Lifeng Liu

  • A template-based electrochemical method for the synthesis of multisegmented metallic nanotubes.

    Woo Lee;Roland Scholz;Kornelius Nielsch;Ulrich Gösele

  • Magnetic nanoparticles as a catalyst vehicle for simple and easy recycling

    Tae-Jong Yoon;Woo Lee;Yoon-Seuk Oh;Jin-Kyu Lee

  • Self-ordered anodic aluminum oxide formed by H2SO4 hard anodization.

    Kathrin Schwirn;Woo Lee;Reinald Hillebrand;Martin Steinhart

  • Individually addressable epitaxial ferroelectric nanocapacitor arrays with near Tb inch −2 density

    Woo Lee;Woo Lee;Hee Han;Andriy Lotnyk;Markus Andreas Schubert

  • Template-assisted large-scale ordered arrays of ZnO pillars for optical and piezoelectric applications.

    Hong Jin Fan;Woo Lee;Robert Hauschild;Marin Alexe

  • Thermoelectric materials by using two-dimensional materials with negative correlation between electrical and thermal conductivity

    Myoung-Jae Lee;Ji-Hoon Ahn;Ji Ho Sung;Hoseok Heo

  • Vortex Polarization States in Nanoscale Ferroelectric Arrays

    B. J. Rodriguez;X. S. Gao;L. F. Liu;W. Lee

  • Ordered arrays of vertically aligned [110] silicon nanowires by suppressing the crystallographically preferred etching directions.

    Zhipeng Huang;Tomohiro Shimizu;Stephan Senz;Zhang Zhang

  • Au/Ag Bilayered Metal Mesh as a Si Etching Catalyst for Controlled Fabrication of Si Nanowires

    Jungkil Kim;Jungkil Kim;Hee Han;Young Heon Kim;Suk-Ho Choi

  • Arrays of vertically aligned and hexagonally arranged ZnO nanowires: a new template-directed approach

    Hong Jin Fan;Woo Lee;Roland Scholz;Armin Dadgar

  • A continuous process for structurally well-defined Al2O3 nanotubes based on pulse anodization of aluminum.

    Woo Lee;Roland Scholz;Ulrich Gösele

  • Spontaneous Current Oscillations during Hard Anodization of Aluminum under Potentiostatic Conditions

    Woo Lee;Jae‐Cheon Kim;Ulrich Gösele

  • Wafer-scale Ni imprint stamps for porous alumina membranes based on interference lithography.

    Woo Lee;Ran Ji;Caroline A. Ross;Ulrich Gösele

  • Self-ordering behavior of nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) in malonic acid anodization

    W Lee;K Nielsch;U Gösele

Frequent Co-Authors

Marin Alexe
Marin Alexe University of Warwick
Kornelius Nielsch
Kornelius Nielsch Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
Ulrich Gösele
Ulrich Gösele Max Planck Society
Yunseok Kim
Yunseok Kim Sungkyunkwan University
Dietrich Hesse
Dietrich Hesse Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics
Roland Scholz
Roland Scholz Max Planck Society
Jin-Ho Choy
Jin-Ho Choy Ewha Womans University
Lifeng Liu
Lifeng Liu International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
Sergei V. Kalinin
Sergei V. Kalinin University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Seong-Ju Hwang
Seong-Ju Hwang Yonsei University

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