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  1. Strain-tunable perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in equiatomic Co–Pt: Orbital-resolved design rules from first-principles

    Article • Current Applied Physics, February 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  2. Magnetic and Crystal Symmetry Control on Spin Hall Conductivity in Altermagnets

    Article • Advanced Science, December 2025, Wiley

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  3. Thermal decoupling in high-T cuprate superconductors

    Article • Materials Today Physics, December 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  4. Colossal Spin Hall Conductivity in Charge-Massive Topologically Nontrivial Semimetal Phase of Bi 1– x Sb

    Article • ACS Nano, October 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  5. Generalized Energy Band Alignment Model for van der Waals Heterostructures with a Charge Spillage Dipole

    Article • ACS Nano, October 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  6. Interfacial magnetic anisotropy of iron-adsorbed ferroelectric perovskites: first-principles and machine learning study

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  7. Giant piezoelectricity in group-IV monochalcogenides with ferroelectric AA layer stacking

    Article • May 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  8. Atomic-scale characterization of V-shaped interface structure of η1 precipitates in Al–Zn–Mg alloy

    Article • Journal of Materials Research and Technology, March 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  9. Novel Polytype of III–VI Metal Chalcogenides Nano Crystals Realized in Epitaxially Grown InTe

    Article • Small, January 2024, Wiley

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  10. Establishing Epitaxial Connectedness in Multi‐Stacking: The Survival of Thru‐Holes in Thru‐Hole Epitaxy

    Article • Advanced Engineering Materials, December 2023, Wiley

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  11. Thermal decoupling in high-Tc cuprate superconductors

    Article • October 2023, Research Square

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  12. Mechanism for the Enhancement of the Oxygen Diffusivity by Cation Substitution in La2–xSrxCuO4

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, August 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  13. Unconventional hidden Rashba effects in two-dimensional InTe

    Article • npj 2D Materials and Applications, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  14. Martensitic transformation during electrochemical polishing of metastable austenitic stainless steel

    Article • Acta Materialia, February 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  15. Predicted THz-wave absorption properties observed in all-inorganic perovskite CsPbI3 thin films: Integrity at the grain boundary

    Article • Materials Today Physics, January 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  16. Thru‐Hole Epitaxy: A Highway for Controllable and Transferable Epitaxial Growth

    Article • Advanced Materials Interfaces, December 2022, Wiley

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  17. Study on CoAl intermetallic compound films for advanced interconnect applications: Experimental and DFT investigations

    Article • Vacuum, December 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  18. Phase change in GeTe/Sb2Te3 superlattices: Formation of the vacancy-ordered metastable cubic structure via Ge migration

    Article • Applied Surface Science, November 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  19. Charge-to-spin conversion in twisted graphene/WSe2 heterostructures

    Article • October 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  20. Atomic Reconstruction and Oxygen Evolution Reaction of Mn3O4 Nanoparticles

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, August 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  21. Role of Sr doping and external strain on relieving bottleneck of oxygen diffusion in La2−xSrxCuO4−δ

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  22. Oxygen-mediated selection of Cu crystallographic orientation for growth of single-crystalline graphene

    Article • Applied Surface Science, May 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  23. Current Status of Integrated Science in College Liberal Education

    Article • New Physics Sae Mulli, February 2022, Korean Physical Society

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  24. Transition Metal-Free Half-Metallicity in Two-Dimensional Gallium Nitride with a Quasi-Flat Band

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, December 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  25. Unusual terahertz-wave absorptions in δ/α-mixed-phase FAPbI3 single crystals: interfacial phonon vibration modes

    Article • NPG Asia Materials, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  26. Thru-Hole Epitaxy: Is Remote Epitaxy Really Remote?

    Article • October 2021, Research Square

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  27. Thru-Hole Epitaxy: Is Remote Epitaxy Really Remote?

    Article • October 2021, Research Square

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  28. Modulation of optical and electrical properties in hexagonal boron nitride by defects induced via oxygen plasma treatment

    Article • 2D Materials, October 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  29. Oxidation-enhanced thermoelectric efficiency in a two-dimensional phosphorene oxide

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  30. Role of anisotropic Coulomb interactions in the superexchange coupling of mixed-valent Mn3...

    Article • July 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  31. Simple linear response model for predicting energy band alignment of two-dimensional vertical heterostructures

    Article • May 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  32. Phase-change mechanism and role of each element in Ag-In-Sb-Te: Chemical bond evolution

    Article • Applied Surface Science, April 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  33. Strain Induced Topological Phase Transition in Si$_2$Bi$_2$ : First-Principles Study

    Article • New Physics Sae Mulli, March 2021, Korean Physical Society

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  34. Promoting the Reversible Oxygen Redox Reaction of Li‐Excess Layered Cathode Materials with Surface Vanadium Cation Doping

    Article • Advanced Science, January 2021, Wiley

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  35. Effects of paramagnetic fluctuations on the thermochemistry of MnO(100) surfaces in the oxygen evolution reaction

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  36. Enhanced reliability of phase-change memory via modulation of local structure and chemical bonding by incorporating carbon in Ge2Sb2Te5

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  37. Reactivity of different nitriding agents with chlorine-terminated surface during atomic layer deposition of silicon nitride

    Article • Applied Surface Science, January 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  38. Unveiling giant hidden Rashba effects in two-dimensional Si2Bi2

    Article • npj 2D Materials and Applications, December 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  39. Elucidating the origin of electroplasticity in metallic materials

    Article • Applied Materials Today, December 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  40. Unique phonon modes of a CH3NH3PbBr3 hybrid perovskite film without the influence of defect structures: an attempt toward a novel THz-based application

    Article • NPG Asia Materials, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  41. Ultra-low Energy Phase Change Memory with Improved Thermal Stability by Tailoring the Local Structure through Ag Doping

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, July 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  42. Symmetry Dictated Grain Boundary State in a Two-Dimensional Topological Insulator

    Article • Nano Letters, July 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  43. Selective Formation of the Li4Mn5O12 Surface Spinel Phase in Sulfur-Doped Li-Excess-Layered Cathode Materials for Improved Cycle Life

    Article • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, May 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  44. Suppression of the Hybridization of Surface States and Transport Property in Ultrathin Bi2Se3/graphene Heterostructure

    Article • Applied Science and Convergence Technology, November 2019, The Korean Vacuum Society

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  45. Phase-change like process through bond switching in distorted and resonantly bonded crystal

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  46. Strain effects on phase transitions in transition metal dichalcogenides

    Article • Current Applied Physics, June 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  47. Closing the Surface Bandgap in Thin Bi2Se3/Graphene Heterostructures

    Article • ACS Nano, April 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  48. Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity of a Two-Dimensional Phosphorene Oxide

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  49. Comparative evaluation of the polynomial and spline fitting methods for the B0 correction of CEST MRI data acquired from human brains

    Article • International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, February 2019, Wiley

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  50. A “non-dynamical” way of describing room-temperature paramagnetic manganese oxide

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  51. Two-dimensional Dirac fermions on oxidized black phosphorus

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  52. Understanding luminescence properties of grain boundaries in GaN thin films and their atomistic origin

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, March 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  53. Latent Order in High-Angle Grain Boundary of GaN

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  54. Surface reaction of silicon chlorides during atomic layer deposition of silicon nitride

    Article • Applied Surface Science, February 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  55. Extremely high electrical conductance of microporous 3D graphene-like zeolite-templated carbon framework

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  56. Ab initio study of aspirin adsorption on single-walled carbon and carbon nitride nanotubes

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  57. Erratum to: First-principles study on the adsorption properties of phenylalanine on carbon graphitic structures

    Article • Journal of the Korean Physical Society, January 2016, Korean Physical Society

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  58. Reactivity of different surface sites with silicon chlorides during atomic layer deposition of silicon nitride

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  59. Rigid unit modes insp−sp2hybridize...

    Article • Physical Review B, December 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  60. First-principles study on the adsorption properties of phenylalanine on carbon graphitic structures

    Article • Journal of the Korean Physical Society, December 2015, Korean Physical Society

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  61. The determining factor of a preferred orientation of GaN domains grown on m-plane sapphire substrates

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  62. Is hexagonal boron nitride always good as a substrate for carbon nanotube-based devices?

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  63. Enhancing mechanical toughness of aluminum surfaces by nano-boron implantation: An ab initio study

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  64. Laser irradiation-induced modification of the amorphous phase in GeTe films: the role of intermediate Ge–Te bonding in the crystallization mechanism

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon, Professor Mann-Ho Cho

  65. Architectured van der Waals epitaxy of ZnO nanostructures on hexagonal BN

    Article • NPG Asia Materials, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  66. Nanoscale Spin-State Ordering in LaCoO 3 Epitaxial Thin Films

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, April 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  67. Voltage-switchable photocurrents in single-walled carbon nanotube–silicon junctions for analog and digital optoelectronics

    Article • Nature Photonics, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon, Professor Swastik Kar

  68. First-principles investigation on dimerization of metal-encapsulated gold nanoclusters

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  69. Enhanced mechanical property of Fe–Al alloy due to Mn insertion: ab initio study

    Article • Journal of Alloys and Compounds, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  70. Linear and Hexagonal Porous Structures of an Organic Charge Acceptor Hexaaza-triphenylene-hexacarbonitrile on Au(111) with CN···CN Dipolar Interactions

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, October 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  71. Liquid metal nanodroplet dynamics inside nanocontainers

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  72. Molecular adsorption study of nicotine and caffeine on single-walled carbon nanotubes from first principles

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, August 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  73. Electronic properties of carbon nanotubes partially unzipped by oxygenation or fluorination

    Article • Solid State Communications, August 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  74. Entropy-Based Analysis and Bioinformatics-Inspired Integration of Global Economic Information Transfer

    Article • PLOS One, January 2013, PLOS

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  75. High-performance H2S detection by redox reactions in semiconducting carbon nanotube-based devices

    Article • The Analyst, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  76. Binding properties of a nitrogen atom onto an anionic golden fullerene

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, August 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  77. Electronic structures of one-dimensional metal–molecule hybrid chains studied using scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  78. Adsorption properties of chalcogen atoms on a golden buckyball Au 16 − from first principles

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, November 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  79. Universal Parameters for Carbon Nanotube Network-Based Sensors: Can Nanotube Sensors Be Reproducible?

    Article • ACS Nano, June 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  80. Erratum: Orientational Melting in Carbon Nanotube Ropes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1483 (2000)]

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  81. Structure Controlled Synthesis of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Using Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition Process

    Article • Journal of Heat Transfer, January 2011, ASME International

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  82. Interplay between structural and electronic properties of bundled Mo 6 S 9 − x I x nanowires

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, November 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  83. Effect of bundling on the stability, equilibrium geometry, and electronic structure of Mo 6 S 9 − x I x nanowires

    Article • Physical Review B, November 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  84. Tunable charge donation and spin polarization of metal adsorbates on graphene using an applied electric field

    Article • Physical Review B, November 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  85. Hydrogen Adsorption on sp$^2$-Bonded Carbon Structures: Ab-initio Study

    Article • Journal of the Korean Physical Society, October 2010, Korean Physical Society

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  86. Band gap control of small bundles of carbon nanotubes using applied electric fields: A density functional theory study

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, August 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  87. Designing rigid carbon foams

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, August 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  88. Large-scale assembly of ‘type-switchable’ field effect transistors based on carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles

    Article • Nanotechnology, July 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Yo-Sep Min, Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  89. Electrical transport in small bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes: Intertube interaction and effects of tube deformation

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, April 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  90. “Textured” Network Devices: Overcoming Fundamental Limitations of Nanotube/Nanowire Network-Based Devices

    Article • Small, July 2009, Wiley

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  91. Ethylene oxides as hydrogen storage material with pockets in the electronic binding energy distribution

    Article • Physical Review B, February 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  92. Nanowire and nanotube transistors for lab-on-a-chip applications

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  93. Diameter Selective Growth of Vertically Aligned Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Study on Their Growth Mechanism

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, November 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  94. Morphology transformation of patterned, uniform and faceted GaN microcrystals

    Article • Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, December 2007, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  95. Self-Clusterized Glycines on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Alcohol Sensing

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, December 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  96. Linker-free directed assembly of high-performance integrated devices based on nanotubes and nanowires

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  97. Kwon, Berber, and Tománek Reply:

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  98. Glassy materials as a hydrogen storage medium: Density functional calculations

    Article • Physical Review B, January 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  99. Hydrogen adsorption on boron nitride nanotubes: A path to room-temperature hydrogen storage

    Article • Physical Review B, June 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  100. Hydrogen storage by physisorption: beyond carbon

    Article • Solid State Communications, March 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  101. Thermal Contraction of Carbon Fullerenes and Nanotubes

    Article • Physical Review Letters, January 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  102. Bonding and Energy Dissipation in a Nanohook Assembly

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  103. MAGNETO-CONDUCTANCE IN TWISTED CARBON NANOTUBES

    Article • March 2003, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  104. Giant magneto-conductance in twisted carbon nanotubes

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), July 2002, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  105. Microscopic Formation Mechanism of Nanotube Peapods

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  106. Characterization of spatial correlations in carbon nanotubes-modelling studies

    Article • Journal of Alloys and Compounds, October 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  107. Effect of van der Waals Interactions on the Raman Modes in Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  108. Electronic and structural properties of carbon nanohorns

    Article • July 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  109. Unusually High Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  110. Fractional Quantum Conductance in Carbon Nanotubes

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  111. Orientational Melting in Carbon Nanotube Ropes

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  112. “Bucky Shuttle” Memory Device: Synthetic Approach and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 1999, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  113. Electronic and structural properties of multiwall carbon nanotubes

    Article • December 1998, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  114. Effect of intertube coupling on the electronic structure of carbon nanotube ropes

    Article • November 1998, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  115. Do Carbon Nanotubes Spin When Bundled?

    Article • Journal of Materials Research, September 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon, Prof. KeeHag Lee

  116. Morphology and Stability of Growing Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

    Article • Physical Review Letters, September 1997, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  117. Unusually High Thermal Conductivity in Carbon Nanotubes

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon

  118. The potential of carbon-based memory systems

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Young-Kyun Kwon