Wins in various research sectors such as ‘best poster’ at international academic conference
Recognized for research achievements regardless of undergraduate or graduate students
Received attention from academic and industrial circles for studies on semiconductor applied new material and energy harvesting materials
[December 18, 2020]
<Undergraduate and graduate school students of the School of Materials Science and Engineering win numerous thesis awards at major academic conferences>
Students of the YU School of Materials Science and Engineering were awarded in several major academic conferences this year, thus being recognized for their research capacities. In particular, both undergraduate and graduate students displayed outstanding research capacities in various research sectors.
Two YU graduate school students received the ‘Best Poster Award’ at the international academic conference, ‘ENGE (Electronic materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment) 2020’ held at the Ramada Plaza Jeju Hotel from November 1 to 4. Researchers from universities and research institutes from 17 countries around the world presented about 1,700 recent research outcomes at this international academic conference. Among them, Park Yang-gyu (25, second term in master’s course) and Choi Han-seung (26, first term in master’s course) from the YU Graduate School of Materials Science and Engineering both won the best poster award by presenting the research results for ‘Study on Hafnium Oxide (HfO2) New Materials Thin Film for Application in Thin Film Transistors’ and ‘Magnetic Field Energy Harvesting Technology.’
Students from the YU School of Materials Science and Engineering won thesis awards at the two academic conferences of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers as they continued their research achievements. The KIEEME academic conference is Korea’s largest specialized academic conference related to electronic materials in Korea. An undergraduate research team composed of School of Materials Science and Engineering seniors Jang Jong-gwan (26), Seo Min-woo (25), Lee Sae-bom (25), Ha Dong-rim (25), Lim So-hee (24), Chae Yeon-gyeong (22), Baek Ga-eun (22), Kim Na-young (22), and Doh Ji-eun (22) presented the results of the ‘High Ductile Ceramic Materials Research’ at the fall academic conference, thus receiving the best poster award. In the summer academic conference held in July, Lee Seung-ah (21, junior) won the best poster award for the research achievements of the ‘Magnetic Energy Harvesting Technology Using Ceramic Materials’ and Lee Geon (21, junior) won the poster award for the research achievements for ‘Energy Storage Thin Film Capacitor Materials.’
The research of the winners were high performance new materials research applied to semiconductor transistor materials such as LCD and OLED and on energy storage materials and energy harvesting materials that can be used for electric vehicles and IoT devices. These have high academic research value and they are research contents of levels that can be applied in actual industry sites, thus receiving attention from the academic and industrial circles.
School of Materials Science and Engineering Professor Lee Hee-young and Professor Ryu Jung-ho who advised these students said, “The students have been displaying outstanding research capacities from their undergraduate years, thus enhancing the qualitative levels of research they conduct when they go on to graduate school. As research capacities are passed on naturally from undergraduate to graduate school students, the research lab has been continuously pumping out excellent research achievements.”
