Group Members

 • Group Leader

 • PostDocs & Staff

    – Yolande Berta
    – Yong Ding
    – Yong Qin
    – Rusen Yang
    – Jinhui Song
    – Jun Zhou
    – Jung-il Hong
    – Yaguang Wei
    – Youfan Hu
    – Yeh Ping-Hung

 • Graduate Students

    – Wenjie Mai
    – Ben Weintraub
    – Melanie Kirkham
    – Yifan Gao
    – Sheng Xu
    – Cheng Li
    – Calvin Chen Xu
    – Peng Fei
    – Yudong Gu
    – Zhou Li
    – Xiaomei Zhang
    – Wenzhuo Wu
    – Guang Zhu
    – Ming-Yen Lu

 • Memories

 • Prior Members

Biosketch

• February 1996; Department of Physics, Seoul National University (BS), Korea
• February 1998; Department of Physics, Seoul National University (MS), Korea
• May 2007; Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.), USA
• September 2007 ?Present; School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

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Research Area

• Co-Principal Investigator (PI) of a project related with nanogenerators. Funding from Samsung Electronics, Inc.
• Co-Principal Investigator (PI) of a project related with growth control of ZnO nanowires. Funding from Korea Electronics Technology Institute. (contract work in progress)
• Synthesis of ZnO, Si nanowires
• Next-generation energy devices using nanowires: nanogenerators, solar cells, photodetectors

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Publications

1. " Novel ITO-Si nanowire Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor photodetectors as efficient light harvestors ", Joonho Bae , Hyunjin Kim, Xiao-Mei Zhang, Yue Zhang , Arto Nurmikko, and Z. L. Wang, In preparation .
2. " Si-MIS photodetectors using ZnO nanowire as an efficient antireflective coating ", In preparation .
3. " Enhanced photocatalytic activity of ZnO nanotubes grown at low temperature using gallium as catalysts ", Joonho Bae , Jingbin Han, Xiaomei Zhang, Min Wei, Xue Duan, Yue Zhang, and Z. L. Wang, Submitted to JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, In Press .
4. " Superior Field Emission Properties of ZnO Nanocones Synthesized by Pulsed Laser Deposition ", Joonho Bae , Jung-Il Hong, Won Hee Han, Young Jin Choi, and Robert L. Snyder, Submitted to CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS, Under revision of manuscript upon the request of editor.
5. " Formation of ZnO nanocones using wet chemical etching of ZnO nanorods in an aqueous solution of HCl ", Joonho Bae , Ee-Le Shim, T. Y. Park, C. J. Kang, and Young Jin Choi, JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY, In Press .
6. " Fabrication of ZnO nanocone arrays by using chemical etching of ZnO nanowire arrays and their enhanced field emission properties ", Joonho Bae , Ee-Le Shim, Mi Na Park, C. J. Kang, and Young Jin Choi, JOURNAL OF KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY , 54 (2009) 1603.
7. " ZnO NANOCONES PREPARED USING WET CHEMICAL ETCHING IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF HCl AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF ", Joonho Bae , Young Jin Choi, Mi Na Park, Ee Le Shim, Korean Patent application number: 10-2009-0006715 (2009) .
8. " METHOD FOR PREPARING ZnO NANOWIRES HAVING ENHANCED FIELD EMISSION PROPERTY AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING FIELD EMISSION PROPERTY OF DEVICES USING ZnO NANOWIRES BY APPLYING DC VOLTAGE ", Joonho Bae , Young Jin Choi, Mi Na Park, Ee Le Shim, Korean Patent application number: 10-2009-0008621 (2009) .
9. " Room-temperature texture-controlled growth of ZnO thin films on general substrates and their application for growing aligned ZnO nanowire arrays ", Jung-Il Hong, Joonho Bae, Zhong Lin Wang, and Robert L. Snyder, NANOTECHNOLOGY , 20 (2009) 085609.
10. " Pattern formation of nanoflowers during the vapor–liquid–solid growth of silicon nanowires ", Joonho Bae, Rebecca Thompson-Flagg, John G. Ekerdt, and Chih-Kang Shih, PHYSICA B , 403 (2008) 3514.
11. " VLS growth of Si nanocones using Ga and Al catalysts ", Joonho Bae, Niraj N. Kulkarni, Ji Ping Zhou, John G. Ekerdt, and Chih-Kang Shih, JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH , 310 (2008) 4407.
12. " Density-controlled, solution-based growth of ZnO nanorod arrays via layer-by-layer polymer thin films for enhanced field emission ", Benjamin Weintraub, Sehoon Chang, Srikanth Singamaneni, Won Hee Han, Young Jin Choi, Joonho Bae, Melanie Kirkham, Vladimir V Tsukruk, and Yulin Deng, NANOTECHNOLOGY , 19 (2008) 435302.
13. " Low Threshold Field Emission from Cesiated Silicon Nanowires ", N. N. Kulkarni, Joonho Bae, S. K. Stanley, S. S. Coffee, J. G. Ekerdt, and C. K. Shih, APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS , 87 (2005) 21315.
14. " High- Resolution Confocal Detection of Nanometric Displacement by use of a 2X1 Optical Fiber Coupler ", Joonho Bae, Ki-Hyun Kim, Mun-Heon Hong, Chang Hun Gim, and Wonho Jhe, OPTICS LETTERS , 25 (2000) 1696.
15. " Scanning nanolithography using a material-filled nanopipette ", Mun-Heon Hong, Ki-Hyun Kim, Joonho Bae, and Wonho Jhe, APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS , 77 (2000) 2604.

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Honors & Awards

• 1. Co-Principal Investigator (PI) of a project, which is funded by Samsung Electronics, Inc.
• 2. Co-Principal Investigator (PI) of a project, which is funded by Korea Electronics Technology Institute.
• 3. Scholarship grant from VNF Innovation, Inc (spin-out company of a Samsung’s Partner company.) 2007
• 4. A winner of Nano micrographs competition at the University of Texas at Austin, 2006

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