Son, Young-Woo
Professor
Theory of Materials
Prof. Son has contributed to developments of first-principles calculations methods and their applications to understand physical properties of solids. His works on various computational methods on interactions in solids and on theories of electronic, optical, structural and magnetic properties of solids have been cited about 25,000 times in 2024. For his achievements, he has received several important international and domestic awards such as the international Young Scientist Award by International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the Knowledge Creation Award 2013 of Ministry of Science of Korea Government, Excellent Research Award by Korea Physical Society, Young Member of Korea Academy of Science and Technology and the POSCO TJ Park Science Award.
- Oct. 2024- : Member, C20 Commission, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, Geneva, Switzerland
- Sep. 2015-: Director, Center for Advanced Computations, KIAS, Seoul, Korea
- Sep. 2008−: Professor, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
- May. 2017-Jun.2017: Visiting Professor, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Aug. 2014-Jul. 2015: Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley, CA, USA
- Sep. 2009-Jul.2014: Chair, School of Computational Sciences, KIAS, Seoul, Korea
- 2007−Aug. 2008: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
- 2004−2006: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley and LBNL, CA, USA
- 2004: Ph.D. in Physics at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- 2024, Leading Scientist, Science Network Center of KAST
- 2018, POSCO TJ Park Award (청암상), POSCO TJ Park Foundation
- 2017, Young KAST Member, Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)
- 2014, Excellent Research Award (학술상), Korea Physical Society (KPS)
- 2013, Knowledge Creation Award (지식창조대상), Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (Korea Goverment)
- 2013, Frontier Scientist, Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)
- 2012, IUPAP Young Scientist Award, C8 Commission, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
- 2004, Excellent Thesis Award. Seoul National Univ. Dept. of Physics
Publications at KIAS
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Effects of self-consistent extended Hubbard interactions and spin-orbit couplings on energy bands of semiconductors and topological insulators
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2024 -
Twist angle-dependent transport properties of twisted bilayer graphene
NPG ASIA MATERIALS, 2024 -
Dimensionality-driven metal to Mott insulator transition in two-dimensional 1T-TaSe2
NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 2024 -
Transferable empirical pseudopotenials from machine learning
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2024 -
Rapid Suppression of Quantum Many-Body Magnetic Exciton in Doped van der Waals Antiferromagnet (Ni,Cd)PS3
NANO LETTERS, 2023 -
Condensation of preformed charge density waves in kagome metals
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2023 -
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 -
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
Selected Publications
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Condensation of preformed charge density waves in kagome metals
Nature Communications 14, 7309 (2023) -
Intersite Coulomb interactions in charge-ordered systems
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 136401 (2023) -
Anomalous optical excitations from arrays of whirlpooled lattice distortions in moire superlattices
Nature Materials 21, 890 (2022) -
Magnetic ordering, anomalous Lifshitz transition and topological grain boundaries in two-dimensional biphenylene network
Nano Letters 22, 3112 (2022) -
First-principles approach with a peudohybrid density functional for extended Hubbard interactions
Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043410 (2020) -
Coherent many-body exciton in van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS3
Nature 583, 785 (2020) -
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 19, 2694 (2019) -
Dirac electrons in a dodecagonal graphene quasicrystal
Science 361, 782 (2018) -
Strain-Shear Coupling in bilayer MoS2
Nature Communication 8, 1370 (2017) -
Manifestation of axion electrodynamics through magnetic ordering in a topological insulator
PNAS 112, 11514 (2015) -
Origin of anomalous water permeation through graphene oxide membrane
Nano Letters 13, 3930 (2013) -
Strain-dependent splitting of double resonant Raman scattering band in graphene
Physical Review Letters 106, 155502 (2011) -
Origins of anomalous electronic structures of epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide
Physical Review Letters 100, 176802 (2008) -
Energy gaps in graphene nanoribbons
Physical Review Letters 97, 216803 (2006). -
Half-metallic graphene nanoribbons
Nature 444, 347 (2006)
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