User:Jun S. Rho

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Jun S. Rho (an artistic interpretation)

• Jun S. Rho
• Argonne National Laboratory
• Center for Nanoscale Materials, Nanoscience and Technology Division
• 9700 S. Cass Ave. Bldg 440,
• Argonne, IL, 60439-4855, USA
• jrho@anl.gov or jsrho@lbl.gov

Appointments

• 2013.08-present, Argonne Scholar (PI position), Nanoscience and Technology Division, Argonne National Laboratory, IL
• 2013.05-2013.08, Postdoctoral Fellow, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA
• 2009.01-2013.08, Affiliate Scientist, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA
• 2008.08-2013.05, Samsung Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, CA
• 2007.07-2010.09, Research Associate, Naraenanotech Co. Ltd., Yongin, Korea
• 2002.06-2005.06, Junior Research Associate, Naraenanotech Co. Ltd., Yongin, Korea

Education

• 2008-2013, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Nanoscale Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA (Advisor: Prof. Xiang Zhang)
• 2007-2008, M.S., Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
• 1999-2007, B.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Research interests

1. Metamaterials and plasmonic materials
2. Nanophotonics
3. Nanomanufacturing

Publications

1. Kevin O’Brien*, Junsuk Rho, Haim Suchowski and Xiang Zhang, “Mode matching for nonlinear generation in plasmonic nanostructures”, Nature Physics, 2013 (in review)

2. Haim Suchowski, Daniel Kimura, Kevin O’Brien, Junsuk Rho and Xiang Zhang, “Acoustic phonon – plasmon interactions in optical metamaterials”, Physical Review Letters, 2013 (in review)

3. Daniel Lanzillotti-Kimura*, Junsuk Rho*, Kevin O’Brien*, Haim Suchowski, and Xiang Zhang, “Ultra-high frequency acoustic phonons in plasmonic metasurface”, Nature Communications, 2013 (in review) * equally contributed first authorship

4. Xiaobo Yin, Ziliang Ye, Junsuk Rho, Yuan Wang and Xiang Zhang, “Anomalous photonic spin hall effect at metasurface”, Science, 339, 1405-1407, 2013 (doi: 10.1126/science.1231758) [IF: 31.02]

5. Featured in Korea Times, the Seoul Economic Daily, YTN Yonhap News, & the Korean LED Industry News, July, 2012 (in Korean)

5. Featured in MK Maeil Business News & Korea Times, July & November, 2012 (in Korean)

5. Featured in MK Maeil Business News, April, 2013 (in Korean)

5. Featured in the Korea Economic Daily, Feb, 2011 (in Korean)

5. Selected as cover article (“featured image”)

5. “Artificial molecules that switch ‘handedness’ at light-speed”, Featured in Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) News, July, 2012

5. “Far-field imaging: New dimension for hyperlens”, Featured in Research Highlights, Nature Photonics, 5, 128-129, Mar, 2011 (doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.23) [IF: 27.254]

5. “First 3D nanoscale optical cavities from metamaterials”, Featured in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) News, Jun., 2012

5. “Meramolecues that switch handedness at light-speed”, Featured in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) News, July, 2012

5. “Metamaterials observe photonic spin Hall effect”, Featured in Photonics Spectra, June, 2013

5. “Metamaterials to observe giant photonic spin hall effect”, Featured in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) News, March, 2013

5. “New class of 3-D optical cavities demonstrated”, Featured in Photonics Spectra Magazine, September, 2012

5. “New metamaterial switches handedness on demand”, Featured in IOP Physics World, Jul, 2012

5. “Photonic spin hall effect”, Featured in Editor’s summary “This Week in Science”, Science, 339, 1357, 2013 [IF: 31.02]

5. “Putting a new spin on photons”, Featured in IOP Physics World, March, 2013

5. “Quantum computers coming soon?”, Featured in Science Daily, March, 2013

5. “World smallest optical cavities lead to most intense nanolaser beams”, Featured in IEEE Spectrum, June, 2012

6. Zheng-Gao Dong, Jie Zhu, Junsuk Rho, Jia-Qi Li, Changgui Lu, Xiaobo Yin and Xiang Zhang, “Optical toroidal dipolar response by an asymmetric double-bar metamaterial”, Applied Physics Letters 101, 144105, 2012 (doi: 10.1063/1.4757613) [IF: 3.794]

7. Shuang Zhang*, Jiangfeng Zhou*, Yong-Shik Park*, Junsuk Rho, Hou-tong Chen, Sunghyun Nam, Ranjan Singh, Abul Azad, Xiaobo Yin, Antoinette J. Taylor and Xiang Zhang, “Photo-induced handedness switching in terahertz chiral meta-molecules”, Nature Communications 3, 942, 2012 (doi:10.1038/ncomms1908) [IF: 10.015]

8. Junsuk Rho*, Xiaodong Yang*, Jie Yao*, Xiaobo Yin and Xiang Zhang, “Experimental realization of 3D indefinite cavities at nanoscale with anomalous scaling law”, Nature Photonics 6, 450-454, 2012 (doi:10.1038/nphoton.2012.124) [IF: 27.254] * equally contributed first authorship

9. Liang Pan*, Yongshik Park*, Yi Xiong*, Erick Ulin-Avila, Yuan Wang, Li Zeng, Shaomin Xiong, Junsuk Rho, Cheng Sun, David B. Bogy, Xiang Zhang, “Maskless plasmonic lithography at 22nm resolution”, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) 1, 175, 2011 (doi:10.1038/srep00175) [IF: 2.927]

10. Junsuk Rho, Ziliang Ye, Yi Xiong, Xiaobo Yin, Zhaowei Liu, Hyeunseok Choi, Guy Bartal, and Xiang Zhang, “Spherical hyperlens for two-dimensional sub-diffractional imaging at visible frequencies”, Nature Communications 1, 143, 2010 (doi:10.1038/ncomms1148) [IF: 10.015]

Selected Appointments, Honors and Awards

• 1st place in Best Poster Award, KSEA Northwest Regional Conference (NWRC), 2013
• Travel Grant, Argonne National Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy, 2013-2014
• Argonne Ugo Fano Named Postdoctoral Fellowship, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, 2013-2015
• Incubic/Milton Chang Award, CLEO, the Optical Society of America (OSA), 2013
• Junior Travel Award, Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter, U.S. National Science Foundation International Materials Institute Award, 2012
• SPIE Scholarship, the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), 2012
• KUSCO-KSEA Graduate Scholarship, Korea-US Science Cooperation Center & Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, 2012
• Travel Grant, US-Korea Conference on Science and Engineering (UKC), 2012
• Block Grant Fellowship, Graduate Division, University of California, Berkeley, 2012
• Silver Medal in Graduate Student Awards, Materials Research Society (MRS), 2012
• 1st place in Best Poster Award, Korean Student Technical Leadership Conference (KSTLC), 2012
• Travel Grant, Graduate Division, University of California, Berkeley, 2012
• Korean Honor Scholarship, Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the USA, 2011
• SPIE Scholarship, the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), 2011
• Travel Grant, US-Korea Conference on Science and Engineering (UKC), 2011
• Travel Grant, Graduate Division, University of California, Berkeley, 2011
• Travel Grant, the 5th International conference of Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP5), 2011
• Block Grant Fellowship (the fellowship awarded to top 3 research performance students), Graduate Division, University of California, Berkeley, 2011
• International Graduate Student Grant, UC Berkeley International Office, 2009-2012
• Samsung Lee Kun-Hee Fellowship (the most prestigious Korean fellowship for graduate study abroad), Samsung Foundation of Culture, Korea, 2008-2013
• Green Cross Fellowship, Green Cross Science Scholarship Foundation, Korea, 2008
• Nanoscience Advanced Studies Abroad Scholarship, Naraenanotech, Korea, 2007-2008
• Graduated with high honors, Seoul National University, 2007
• Undergraduate Excellence Fellowship, STX Scholarship Foundation, Korea, 2007
• Undergraduate Excellence Fellowship, S-Oil Scholarship Foundation, Korea, 2006
• 1st place in CAD/CAM contest, MAE department, Seoul National University, 2006
• Merit-based Fellowships, Seoul National University, Korea 1999F, 2000Sp, 2000F, 2001Sp, 2006Sp, 2006F

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