School of Computational Sciences
Son, Young-Woo
Professor
Theory of Materials
Young-Woo Son has studied physical properties of various materials based on first-principles computational approach.
- 2004 : Ph.D. in Physics at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- 2004−2006 : Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley and LBNL
- 2007−Aug. 2008 : Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
- Sep. 2008− : Professor, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
- 2004, Excellent Thesis Award. Seoul National Univ. Dept. of Physics
- 2012, IUPAP Young Scientist Award, C8 Commission, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
- 2013, Frontier Scientist, Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)
- 2013, Knowledge Creation Award (지식창조대상), Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (Korea Goverment)
- 2014, Excellent Research Award (학술상), Korea Physical Society (KPS).
- 2017, Young KAST Member, Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST).
- 2018, POSCO TJ Park Award (청암상), POSCO TJ Park Foundation.
Publications at KIAS
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Ultrafast van der Waals diode using graphene quantum capacitance and Fermi-level depinning
SCIENCE ADVANCES, 2023 -
In-plane anisotropy of graphene by strong interlayer interactions with van der Waals epitaxially grown MoO3
SCIENCE ADVANCES, 2023 -
Dimensionality-driven metal to Mott insulator transition in two-dimensional 1T-TaSe2
National Science Review, 2023 -
Intersite Coulomb Interactions in Charge-Ordered Systems
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2023 -
Anomalous optical excitations from arrays of whirlpooled lattice distortions in moire superlattices
NATURE MATERIALS, 2022 -
Lattice dynamical properties of antiferromagnetic oxides calculated using self-consistent extended Hubbard functional method
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER, 2022 -
Magnetic Ordering, Anomalous Lifshitz Transition, and Topological Grain Boundaries in Two-Dimensional Biphenylene Network
NANO LETTERS, 2022 -
Multiferroic-Enabled Magnetic-Excitons in 2D Quantum-Entangled Van der Waals Antiferromagnet NiI2
ADVANCED MATERIALS, 2022 -
Reshaped Weyl fermionic dispersions driven by Coulomb interactions in MoTe2
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2022 -
Robust Quantum Oscillation of Dirac Fermions in a Single-Defect Resonant Transistor
ACS NANO, 2021 -
TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS Double charge wave
NATURE PHYSICS, 2021 -
Anomalous Dimensionality-Driven Phase Transition of MoTe2 in Van der Waals Heterostructure
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 2021 -
Ab initio study of lattice dynamics of group IV semiconductors using pseudohybrid functionals for extended Hubbard interactions
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2021 -
Gate-tunable superconductivity and charge-density wave in monolayer 1T '-MoTe2 and 1T '-WTe2
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 2021 -
Dichotomy of saddle points in energy bands of monolayer NbSe2
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2021 -
Thermomechanical Manipulation of Electric Transport in MoTe2
ADVANCED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS, 2021 -
Engineering ferromagnetic lines in graphene by local oxidation and hydrogenation using nanoscale lithography
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS, 2021 -
First-Principles Approach with a Pseudohybrid Density Functional for Extended Hubbard Interactions
PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH, 2020 -
First-principles study of two-dimensional ferroelectrics using self-consistent Hubbard parameters
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2020 -
Proximate Kitaev system for an intermediate magnetic phase in in-plane magnetic fields
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2020 -
First-principles study on effects of local Coulomb repulsion and Hund's coupling in ferromagnetic semiconductor CrGeTe3
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 2020 -
Symmetry Dictated Grain Boundary State in a Two-Dimensional Topological Insulator
NANO LETTERS, 2020 -
Promising photovoltaic efficiency of a layered silicon oxide crystal Si3O
NANOSCALE, 2020 -
Coherent many-body exciton in van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS3
NATURE, 2020 -
Role of anionic vacancy for active hydrogen evolution in WTe2
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE, 2020 -
Magnetic structures in the locally inverted interlayer coupling region of a bilayer magnetic system
JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS, 2020 -
Basal-Plane Catalytic Activity of Layered Metallic Transition Metal Ditellurides for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL, 2020 -
Moire phonons in twisted bilayer graphene
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2019 -
Hybrid catalyst with monoclinic MoTe2 and platinum for efficient hydrogen evolution
APL MATERIALS, 2019 -
Quasicrystalline electronic states in 30 degrees rotated twisted bilayer graphene
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2019 -
A New Family of Two-Dimensional Crystals: Open-Framework T3X (T = C, Si, Ge, Sn; X = O, S, Se, Te) Compounds with Tetrahedral Bonding
NANO LETTERS, 2019 -
Topological properties controlled by light
NATURE, 2019 -
Dirac electrons in a dodecagonal graphene quasicrystal
SCIENCE, 2018 -
Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties in a New Silicon Crystal Si-24 with Intrinsic Nanoscale Porous Structure
NANO LETTERS, 2018 -
Role of Hyper-Reduced States in Hydrogen Evolution Reaction at Sulfur Vacancy in MoS2
ACS CATALYSIS, 2018 -
A new series of two-dimensional silicon crystals with versatile electronic properties
2D MATERIALS, 2018 -
Strain-shear coupling in bilayer MoS2
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2017 -
Quasiparticle energy bands and Fermi surfaces of monolayer NbSe2
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2017 -
Active hydrogen evolution through lattice distortion in metallic MoTe2
2D MATERIALS, 2017 -
Origins of the structural phase transitions in MoTe2 and WTe2
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2017 -
Poisson's ratio in layered two-dimensional crystals
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2016 -
Anisotropic phonon softening of uniaxially strained bilayer graphene
CARBON, 2016 -
Inhibiting Klein Tunneling in a Graphene p-n Junction without an External Magnetic Field
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2016 -
A metallic mosaic phase and the origin of Mott-insulating state in 1T-TaS2
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2016 -
Photocurrent generation at ABA/ABC lateral junction in tri-layer graphene photodetector
CARBON, 2016 -
Molecular Self-Assembly in a Poorly Screened Environment: F(4)TCNQ on Graphene/BN
ACS NANO, 2015 -
Manifestation of axion electrodynamics through magnetic ordering on edges of a topological insulator
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2015 -
Gate-tunable phase transitions in thin flakes of 1T-TaS2
NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY, 2015 -
Low-bias negative differential resistance effect in armchair graphene nanoribbon junctions
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 2015 -
Incommensurate double-walled carbon nanotubes as one-dimensional moire crystals
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2015 -
Anomalous excitonic resonance Raman effects in few-layered MoS2
NANOSCALE, 2015 -
Stripe states in photonic honeycomb ribbon
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES, 2015 -
Large magnetoresistance from long-range interface coupling in armchair graphene nanoribbon junctions
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 2014 -
Correlation between micrometer-scale ripple alignment and atomic-scale crystallographic orientation of monolayer graphene
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2014 -
Optical absorption of twisted bilayer graphene with interlayer potential asymmetry
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2014 -
Anomalous length-independent frontier resonant transmission peaks in armchair graphene nanoribbon molecular wires
CARBON, 2014 -
Polarization dependence of double resonant Raman scattering band in bilayer graphene
CARBON, 2014 -
Water Splitting over Graphene-Based Catalysts: Ab Initio Calculations
ACS CATALYSIS, 2014 -
Electrical control of nanoscale functionalization in graphene by the scanning probe technique
NPG ASIA MATERIALS, 2014 -
Minimal single-particle Hamiltonian for charge carriers in epitaxial graphene on 4H-SiC(0001): Broken-symmetry states at Dirac points
SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS, 2013 -
Fano resonance in Raman scattering of graphene
CARBON, 2013 -
Anomalous Optical Phonon Splittings in Sliding Bilayer Graphene
ACS NANO, 2013 -
Origin of Anomalous Water Permeation through Graphene Oxide Membrane
NANO LETTERS, 2013 -
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Hydrophobic Graphene-Guided Water Diffusion on Hydrophilic Substrates
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2013 -
Graphene field effect transistor without an energy gap
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2013 -
Scattering theory approach to inelastic transport in nanoscale systems
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2013 -
Ideal strength of doped graphene
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2013 -
A Computational Investigation of the Catalytic Properties of Graphene Oxide: Exploring Mechanisms by using DFT Methods
CHEMCATCHEM, 2012 -
A single particle Hamiltonian for electro-magnetic properties of graphene nanoribbons
CARBON, 2012 -
Vortex dynamics in an annular Bose-Einstein condensate
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 2012 -
Microscopic Origin of Universal Quasilinear Band Structures of Transparent Conducting Oxides
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2012 -
Direct Experimental Evidence of Metal-Mediated Etching of Suspended Graphene
ACS NANO, 2012 -
Covalent Functionalization of Strained Graphene
CHEMPHYSCHEM, 2012 -
Enhanced Carrier Transport along Edges of Graphene Devices
NANO LETTERS, 2012 -
Oxygen reduction reactions on pure and nitrogen-doped graphene: a first-principles modeling
NANOSCALE, 2012 -
Electronic topological transition in sliding bilayer graphene
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2011 -
Nanoscale Lithography on Mono layer Graphene Using Hydrogenation and Oxidation
ACS NANO, 2011 -
Negative Thermal Expansion Coefficient of Graphene Measured by Raman Spectroscopy
NANO LETTERS, 2011 -
Friction Anisotropy-Driven Domain Imaging on Exfoliated Monolayer Graphene
SCIENCE, 2011 -
Graphene: Materials to devices (invited)
MICROELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, 2011 -
Field-induced recovery of massless Dirac fermions in epitaxial graphene on SiC
CARBON, 2011 -
Strain-Dependent Splitting of the Double-Resonance Raman Scattering Band in Graphene
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2011 -
Controlling Energy Gap of Bilayer Graphene by Strain
NANO LETTERS, 2010 -
Multiple localized states and magnetic orderings in partially open zigzag carbon nanotube superlattices: An ab initio study
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 2010 -
Controlling Half-Metallicity of Graphene Nanoribbons by Using a Ferroelectric Polymer
ACS NANO, 2010 -
Effects of strain on electronic properties of graphene
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2010 -
Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Partially Open Carbon Nanotubes
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2009 -
Interference effect on Raman spectrum of graphene on SiO2/Si
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2009 -
Landau Levels and Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene Superlattices
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2009 -
Molecular-Scale Quantum Dots from Carbon Nanotube Heterojunctions
NANO LETTERS, 2009 -
Strong Polarization Dependence of Double-Resonant Raman Intensities in Graphene
NANO LETTERS, 2008 -
New generation of massless Dirac fermions in graphene under external periodic potentials
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2008 -
Electron beam supercollimation in graphene superlattices
NANO LETTERS, 2008 -
Negative differential resistance in carbon atomic wire-carbon nanotube junctions
NANO LETTERS, 2008
Publications(Career)
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Role of Hyper-Reduced States in Hydrogen Evolution Reaction at Sulfur Vacancy in MoS2
ACS CATALYSIS, 8(5), 4508-4515, 2018 -
Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties in a New Silicon Crystal Si-24 with Intrinsic Nanoscale Porous Structure
NANO LETTERS, 18(8), 4748-4754, 2018 -
Dirac electrons in a dodecagonal graphene quasicrystal
SCIENCE, 361(6404), 782, 2018 -
A new series of two-dimensional silicon crystals with versatile electronic properties
2D MATERIALS v.5, 25013. 2018 -
Strain-shear coupling in bilayer MoS2
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS v.8, 1370. 2017 -
Quasiparticle energy bands and Fermi surfaces of monolayer NbSe2
PHYSICAL REVIEW B v.96(15), 155439. 2017 -
Active hydrogen evolution through lattice distortion in metallic MoTe2
2D MATERIALS v.4(2), 25061. 2017 -
Origins of the structural phase transitions in MoTe2 and WTe2
PHYSICAL REVIEW B v.95(18), 180101. 2017 -
Poisson's ratio in layered two-dimensional crystals
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 94, 239901 (2016) -
Photocurrent generation at ABA/ABC lateral junction in tri-layer graphene photodetector
CARBON Volume 96, 2016, Pages 454–458 -
Inhibiting Klein Tunneling in a Graphene p-n Junction without an External Magnetic Field
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 117 (1), 016804. 2016 -
Anisotropic phonon softening of uniaxially strained bilayer graphene
CARBON Volume 103, 2016, Pages 473–479 -
A metallic mosaic phase and the origin of Mott-insulating state in 1T-TaS2
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 7(2016) 10956 -
Stripe states in photonic honeycomb ribbon
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES. 2015. 471(2177):20140765 -
Molecular Self-Assembly in a Poorly Screened Environment: F(4)TCNQ on Graphene/BN
ACS NANO 2015, 9 (12), pp 12168–12173 -
Manifestation of axion electrodynamics through magnetic ordering on edges of a topological insulator
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA vol. 112 no. 37. 11514–11518(2015) -
Low-bias negative differential resistance effect in armchair graphene nanoribbon junctions
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS106, 013302 (2015) -
Incommensurate double-walled carbon nanotubes as one-dimensional moire crystals
PHYSICAL REVIEW B91, 035405 (2015) -
Gate-tunable phase transitions in thin flakes of 1T-TaS2
NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY 10, 270–276 (2015) -
Anomalous excitonic resonance Raman effects in few-layered MoS2
NANOSCALE 2015,7, 3229-3236 -
Water Splitting over Graphene-Based Catalysts: Ab Initio Calculations
ACS CATALYSIS 2014, 4 (6), pp 2016–2021 -
Polarization dependence of double resonant Raman scattering band in bilayer graphene
CARBON Volume 72, June 2014, Pages 257–263 -
Optical absorption of twisted bilayer graphene with interlayer potential asymmetry
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 90, 155427 (2014) -
Large magnetoresistance from long-range interface coupling in armchair graphene nanoribbon junctions
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 105, 242413 (2014) -
Electrical control of nanoscale functionalization in graphene by the scanning probe technique
NPG ASIA MATERIALS (2014) 6, e102 -
Correlation between micrometer-scale ripple alignment and atomic-scale crystallographic orientation of monolayer graphene
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 4, Article number: 7263 (2014) -
Anomalous length-independent frontier resonant transmission peaks in armchair graphene nanoribbon molecular wires
CARBON / Volume 76, September 2014, Pages 285–291 -
Minimal single-particle Hamiltonian for charge carriers in epitaxial graphene on 4H-SiC(0001): Broken-symmetry states at Dirac points
SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS, v.175 no.SI (2013) 83-89 -
Fano resonance in Raman scattering of graphene
CARBON, v.31 (2013) 373-378 -
Anomalous Optical Phonon Splittings in Sliding Bilayer Graphene
ACS NANO, v.7 no.8 (2013) 7151-7156 -
Origin of Anomalous Water Permeation through Graphene Oxide Membrane
NANO LETTERS, v.13 no.8 (2013) 3930-3935 -
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Hydrophobic Graphene-Guided Water Diffusion on Hydrophilic Substrates
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v.3 (2013) 2309 -
Graphene field effect transistor without an energy gap
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, v.110 no.22 (2013) 8786-8789 -
Scattering theory approach to inelastic transport in nanoscale systems
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, v.87 no.19 (2013) 195423 -
Ideal strength of doped graphene
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, v.87 no.7 (2013) 075419 -
A Computational Investigation of the Catalytic Properties of Graphene Oxide: Exploring Mechanisms by using DFT Methods
CHEMCATCHEM, v.4 no.11 (2012) 1844-1849 -
A single particle Hamiltonian for electro-magnetic properties of graphene nanoribbons
CARBON, v.50 no.10 (2012) -
Vortex dynamics in an annular Bose-Einstein condensate
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, v.86 no.1 (2012) 011604 -
Microscopic Origin of Universal Quasilinear Band Structures of Transparent Conducting Oxides
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, v.108 no.19 (2012) 196404 -
Direct Experimental Evidence of Metal-Mediated Etching of Suspended Graphene
ACS NANO, v.6 no.5 (2012) 4063-4071 -
Covalent Functionalization of Strained Graphene
CHEMPHYSCHEM, v.13 no.6 (2012) 1463-1469 -
Enhanced Carrier Transport along Edges of Graphene Devices
NANO LETTERS, v.12 no.4 (2012) 1839-1844 -
Oxygen reduction reactions on pure and nitrogen-doped graphene: a first-principles modeling
NANOSCALE, v.4 no.2 (2012) 417-420 -
Graphene: materials to devices (invited)
Microelectronic Engineering 88, 1211 (2011) -
Nanoscale lithography on monolayer graphene using hydrogenation and oxidation
ACS Nano 8, 6417 (2011) -
Negative thermal expansion coefficient of graphene measured by Raman spectroscopy
Nano Letters 11, 3227 (2011) -
Field-induced recovery of massless Dirac fermions in epitaxial graphene on SiC
Carbon 49, 2300 (2011) -
Friction anisotropy-driven domain imaging on exfoliated monolayer graphene
Science 333, 607 (2011) -
Strain-dependent splitting of the double-resonance Raman scattering band in graphene
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) -
Controlling energy gaps in bilayer graphene
Nano Letters, 10, 3486 (2010) -
Multiple localized states and magnetic orderings in partially open zigzag carbon nanotube superlattices: An ab inito study
J. Chem. Phys. 133, 084702 (2010) -
Controlling half-metallicity of graphene nanoribbons by using a ferroelectric polymer
ACS Nano 4, 1345 (2010) -
Effects of strain on electronic properties of graphene
Physical Review B 81, 081407(R) (2010) -
Electronic and magnetic properties of partially-open carbon nanotubes
Journal of American Chemical Society 131, 17919 (2009) -
First-principles study on the atomic and the electronic structures of unreconstructed 6H-SiC0001
Jounral of Korean Physical Society 55, 341 (2009) -
Interference effect on Raman spectrum of graphene on SiO2/Si
Physical Review B 80, 125422 (2009) -
Landau levels and quantum Hall effect in graphene superlattices
Physical Review Letters 103, 046808 (2009) -
Molecular-scale quantum dots from carbon nanotube heterojunctions
Nano Letters 9, 1544 (2009) -
Strong polarization dependence of double resonant Raman intensities in graphene
Nano Letters 8, 4270 (2008) -
New generation of massless Dirac fermions in graphene under external periodic potential
Physical Review Letters 101 126804 (2008) -
Negative differential resistance in carbon atomic wire-carbon nanotube junctions
Nano Letters 8, 2900 (2008) -
Electron beam supercollimation in graphene superlattice
Nano Letters 8, 2920 (2008) -
Origins of anomalous electronic structures of epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide
Physical Review Letters 100, 176802 (2008) -
Anisotropic behaviors of massless Dirac fermions in graphene under periodic potentials
Nature Physics 4, 213 (2008) -
Quasiparticle energies and band gaps in graphene nanoribbons
Physical Review Letters 99, 186801 (2007) -
Electric field effects on spin tranport in defective metallic carbon nanotubes
Nano Letters 7, 3518 (2007) -
Half-metallic graphene nanoribbons
Nature 444, 347 (2006) -
Energy gaps in graphene nanoribbons
Physical Review Letters 97, 216803 (2006) -
Magnetic orderings at the edges of graphitic fragments: magnetic tail interaction between the edge-localized states
Physical Review B 72, 174431 (2005) -
Electrical switching in metallic carbon nanotubes
Physical Review Letters 95, 216602 (2005) -
Electronic structure of straight semiconductor-semiconductor carbon nanotube junctions
Physical Review B 71, 205422 (2005) -
Field emission properties of double-wall carbon nanotubes
Nanotechnology 16, 125 (2005) -
Ferromagnetism at the edges of the stacked graphitic fragments: An ab initio study
Chemical Physics Letters 398, 207 (2004) -
Dynamic Jahn-Teller effect and superconductiviy in MgB2
Physica C 388-389, 135 (2003) -
Electronic structure and the field emission mechanism of MgO-coated carbon nanotubes
New Journal of Physics 5, 152 (2003) -
Direct observation of local defect states in semiconductor nanotube junctions
Physical Review Letters 90, 216107 (2003) -
Dynamic Jahn-Teller mechanism of superconductiviy in MgB2
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Bandgap modulation of carbon nanotubes by encapsulated metallofullerenes
Nature 415, 1005 (2002) -
Field emission of carbon nanotubes and electronic structure of carbon nanopeapod
Current Applied Physics 2[1], 57(2002)
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