Professor Jinwook Chung

Mean people talk about other people, Average people talk about matters, Noble people talk about ideas, Godly people talk about God's vision.
Imagination is more important than knowledge

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind

--Albert Einstein--


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Lectures : PHYS304 (Thermal Physics, Fall Semester 2012)

Education

1970-1974 : B.S in Physics, Seoul National Univ.
1974-1976 : M.S in Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
1979-1984 : Ph.D in Physics, Brown University

Research and Teaching Experience

1976-1979 : Researcher, Agency of Defence Department
1984-1987 : Post. Doctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1987-present : Assistant(-1990), Associate(-1995), and full Professor(1996-), POSTECH, Physics Department

Research Areas : Experimental Surface & Nanomaterials Physics

  • Structural/electronic phase transitions of surfaces and nanomaterials
  • Electronic/magnetic properties of surfaces & nanomaterials
  • Quantum Properties of low-dimensional nanosystems (nanodots, nanowires)
  • Fabrication of exotic properties of surface & nanomaterials

    Experimental methods : Angle/spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy using synchrotron radiations (ARPES), high-resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy (HREELS), low-energy-electron diffraction (LEED), grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIX) using mostly synchrotron hard x-ray radiation

    Current Research Projects

  • Study on the formation & characteristic properties of self-assembled graphene layers, Korea Science Foundation (2008.9-2011.8)
  • Study on the new quantum properties of Fe nanostructures, Steel Science Project : POSCO (2008.7-2009.6)
  • Study on the formation of iron nanofilms by using low energy gaseous ions, GIFT (2008.4-2009.3)
  • Development & Applications of Coherent x-ray Technology, NCRC, Korea Science Foundation (2008.9-2017.2)

    Representative Publications


    Coarsening kinetics of a spinodally decomposed vicinal Si(111) surface, Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 156103 (2009) PDF
    Kinetic Roughening of Ion-Sputtered Pd(001) Surface: Beyond the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Model, Phys. Rev. Lett., 92(24), 246104 (2004), PDF
    Adsorbate-induced pinning of a charge-density wave in the quasi-1D metallic chains ; Na-added In/Si(111)-4x1 system, Phys. Rev. Lett., 88(19), 196401-1 (2002), PDF
    Observation of a quasi-1D Mott-Hubbard insulator: The re-entrant Na /Si(111)-3 Ąż1 surface, Europhys.Lett.,57 (6), 859 (2002), PDF
    Observation of disorder-induced 2D Mott-Hubbard states of the alkali-earth metal (Mg, Ba)-adsorbed Si(111) surface, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84(8), 1748 (2000), PDF
    Spin-orbit-coupling induced surface band splitting in Li/W(110) and Li/Mo(110), Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4066 (1999), PDF
    Evidence for the origin of reconstruction of the Mo(001) surface, Phys. Rev. Lett., 69(15), 2228(1992), PDF
    Grazing-incidence x-ray study of the structure and phase transitions of hydrogen on tungsten(100), Phys. Rev. Lett., 59, 2192(1987), PDF
    Reconstruction of the W(110) surface induced by hydrogen adsorption, Phys. Rev. Lett., 56, 749(1986), PDF

    Contact Information

    Phone: +82 (054) 279-2071 (Office), 286-2071(Home), Fax : +82 54 279 3099
    E-mail: jwc@postech.ac.kr
    Office: Room 3-231, Department of Physics, POSTECH, San 31 Hoyja-Dong, Pohang 790-784, Korea(S)