The research team led by Professor Yang-Kyu Choi and Daewon Kim, PhD of our department developed a nanogenerator that generates electricity from vibrations in any direction using polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) nanopowder in November.

This development has been covered by the press, including Yonhap News, and was published on the December 23rd online issue of the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) international journal, ACS Nano.
The generator is capable of leveraging vibrations of up to 30 Hz for generating enough electricity to light up 240 light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that are connected in series or even charge a smartphone.
These generators can be constructed in numerous different shapes or sizes and have shown to be much more cost efficient and commercializable than previous energy harvesting devices, due to the materials used and their manufacturing methods.
The title of the journal publication is “Triboelectric Nanogenerator Based on the Internal Motion of Powder with a Package Structure Design.”


Press release link (Yonhap News): http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/bulletin/2016/01/10/0200000000AKR20160110061500063.HTML
Journal publication link: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.5b06329
Tae-Wan Kim from Prof. Seong-Ook Park’s research group received the Best Paper Award at 2015 Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science Summer Symposium.
Conference Name : 2015 Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science Summer Symposium
Date : 2015/11/27
Venue : COEX, Seoul, Korea
Recipient: Tae-Wan Kim
Authors: Tae-Wan Kim, Byeong-Yong Park, Seong-Ook Park
Award : Best Paper Award
Title : Caculation of a Initial Permeability and Permittivity of Ferrites using a Cylindrical Ferrite Resonator

Original Upload Date : 2015/01/04
Byung-Hyun Lee from Prof. Yang-Kyu Choi’s research group received the Grand Prize at the 5th Lam Research Korea Paper Contest.
Conference Name : The 5th Lam Research Korea Paper Contest
Date : 2015/12/18
Venue : Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Seoul, Korea
Recipient: Byung-Hyun Lee
Authors: Byung-Hyun Lee and Yang-Kyu Choi
Award : Grand Prize
Title : End-of-the Roadmap Device: Vertically Integrated Multiple Silicon Nanowire based 3-Dimensional Transistor and Its Versatile Memory Application


Original Upload Date : 2015/01/04
Dr. Hanul Moon from Prof. Seunghyup Yoo’s research group received the Best Poster Award at 2015 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit.
Conference Name : 2015 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit
Date : 2015/11/29 – 2015/12/04
Venue : Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Recipient: Dr. Hanul Moon
Authors: Hanul Moon, Mincheol Kim, Seung Won Lee, Hyeok Yoon Kwon, and Seunghyup Yoo
Award : Best Poster Award
Title : Vacuum Processed Ultra-Thin Polymer Insulating Layers for Soft Electronics

Original Upload Date : 2015/01/04
Master’s Candidate Soo Chang Chae and Hye Won Jo of Prof. Jong-Won Yu’s Lab Receive Best Paper Award at 2015 Future Creative Idea Design and Fabrication Contest on Radiowave.
The topic of their research was ‘RFID English Education System using Near-field Antenna’
Conference : 2015 Future Creative Idea Design and Fabrication Contest on Radiowave
Date : 2015.12.17
Recipient : Soo Chang Chae and Hye Won Jo
Topic : RFID English Education System using Near-field Antenna
Award : Best Paper Award
The collaborative research conducted by Professor Sung-Yool Choi, Professor Jeong Yong Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Hu Young Jeong from UNIST has been published in the Advanced Functional Materials as the Inside Front Cover Paper of the November 18th issue.
The title of the paper is ‘Direct Observation of Conducting Nanofilaments in Graphene-Oxide-Resistive Switching Memory,’ and the authors are Sung Kyu Kim Jong Yoon Kim, Sung-Yool Choi, Jeong Yong Lee, and Hu Young Jeong.
Paper Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.201502734/full

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Hyeok Yoon Kwon from Prof. Seunghyup Yoo’s research group received the Best Paper Award at the 2015 KIEES Paper Contest
Conference Name : The Korea Physical Society 2015 Fall Meeing
Date : 2015/10/21 (Wed.) – 2015/10/23 (Fri.)
Venue : Gyeongju Hwabaek Convention Center
Recipient: Hyeok Yoon Kwon
Authors: Hyeok Yoon Kwon, Mincheol Kim, Hyunsu Cho, and Seunghyup Yoo
Award : Best Paper Award
Title : Fabrication and Analysis of Vertical Organic Field-Effect Transistor for Realization of High Current Performance

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Professor Changho Suh was granted the outstanding young engineer award by Haedong Science Foundation for his contributions in the fields of communications, distributed storage and big data.

Original Upload Date : 2015/11/27
Soo Ji Lee from Prof. Jong-Won Yu’s research group received the Best Paper Award at the 2015 KIEES Paper Contest
Conference Name : The 2015 KIEES Student Paper Contest
Date : 2015/11/27 (Friday)
Recipient: Soo Ji Lee
Award : Best Paper Award
Title : Local Positioning Beamforming Systems for Wide Scan Range in Multipath Environment


Original Upload Date : 2015/12/07
Professor Naehyuck Chang of our department was appointed as a 2015 ACM Fellow in recognition of his contributions in the fields of low-power computing systems.
He is the fourth Korean ever to be nominated as ACM Fellow.

Original Upload Date : 2015/12/17