Sungjoon Kim
Postdoctoral Appointee
Biography
Sungjoon is a postdoctoral associate at the Argonne National Laboratory’s Functional Coatings Group in the Applied Materials Division. He is leading the effort of developing atomic layer deposition (ALD) process for 2-dimensional nanomaterials for energy-efficient microelectronics. Sungjoon specializes in thin film deposition including ALD and chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and is an expert on spectral analysis techniques such as Raman spectroscopy and X-ray Photoelectron spectroscopy.
Education
- Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
- M.S. & B.A. Chemical Engineering, Konkuk University, Korea
Awards and Honors
- IMPACT Argonne Award: for notable achievement through Extraordinary Effort, Argonne National Laboratory (2025)
- Laboratory directed research and development (LDRD) – Innovate ($25k): Atomic layer deposition of extrinsic p-type molybdenum disulfide for advanced low-power microelectronics, Argonne National Laboratory (2025)
- IMPACT Argonne Award: for notable achievement in Enhancing Argonne’s Reputation, Argonne National Laboratory (2024)
- Award for Graduate Research, University of Illinois at Chicago (2022)
- Best Poster Award, Postdoctoral Research and Career Symposium, Argonne National Laboratory (2022)
- NSF Innovation Corps (I-CorpsTM Teams) – National Innovation Network Teams Program Award (2022)
- Iowa State University I-Corps Site: Driving Innovation through Entrepreneurial Talent (provided by the National Science Foundation) (2022)
- Most Productive Graduate Student Award, University of Illinois at Chicago (2021)
Select Publications
- Angel Yanguas-Gil, Matthew T. Dearing, Jeffrey W. Elam, Jessica C. Jones, Sungjoon Kim, Adnan Mohammad, Chi Thang Nguyen, and Bratin Sengupta, “Benchmarking large language models for materials synthesis: The case of atomic layer deposition” Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A 2025, 43 (3) 032406.
- Sungjoon Kim, Manoj B. Jadhav, Vikas Berry, Jessica Metcalfe, and Anirudha V. Sumant, “Novel indium phosphide charged particle detector characterization with a 120 GeV proton beam” Journal of Instrumentation, 2024, 19, P08016.
- Sungjoon Kim, Vikas Berry, Jessica Metcalfe, and Anirudha V Sumant, “Thin film charged particle detectors” Journal of Instrumentation, 2023, 18, P07047.
- Bijentimala Keisham, Sungjoon Kim, Sheldon Cotts, and Vikas Berry, “Graphene Chemeo-Phononics for Biosensor Applications: an Interfacial Raman Transducer” Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 2200773
- Ngoc Hoang Lan Nguyen, Sungjoon Kim, Garrett Lindemann, and Vikas Berry, “COVID-19 spike protein induced phononic modification in antibody-coupled graphene for viral detection application” ACS nano 15, no. 7 (2021): 11743-11752.
- Sungjoon Kim, Bijentimala Keisham, Vikas Berry, “Cellular Nano-Transistor: An Electronic-Interface between Nanoscale Semiconductors and Biological Cells” Materials Today Nano 2020, 9, 100063.
- Sungjoon Kim, Sunyoung Lee, Dong-Hyun Ko, Seokhee Shin, Zhenyu Jin, and Yo-Sep Min, “Experimental determination of activation energy for diethylzinc adsorption in atomic layer deposition of ZnO thin film”, Applied Surface Science 2019, 469, 804
- Sunyoung Lee, Sungjoon Kim, Seokhee Shin, Zhenyu Jin, and Yo-Sep Min, “Band structure of amorphous zinc tin oxide thin films deposited by atomic layer deposition”, Journal of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 2018, 58, 328
- Dong-Hyun Ko, Sungjoon Kim, Zhenyu Jin, Seokhee Shin, Sungyoung Lee, and Yo-Sep Min, “A novel chemical route to atomic layer deposition of ZnS thin film from diethylzinc and 1,5-pentanedithiol”, Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society 2017, 38, 696