User:Jun S. Rho

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Jun S. Rho (an artistic interpretation)

• Jun S. Rho, Ph.D.

Argonne Scholar, Ugo Fano Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Appointments

• 2014.08(scheduled), Assitant Professor, Departments of Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Pohang Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
• 2013.08-present, Argonne Scholar - Ugo Fano Postdocdoral Fellow (PI position), Center for Nanoscale Materials, 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 and Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA
• 2008.08-2013.05, Samsung Research Fellow, NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, 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, Korea
• 1996-1999, Major in English (Minors in French and Chinese), Myungduk Foreign Language High School, Seoul, Korea

Research interests

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

Selected Publications

• 6 published, ISI SCI citations:120+, h-index:5 (Oct. 2013)
  

1. Junsuk Rho* et al., “Experimental realization of 3D indefinite cavities at nanoscale with anomalous scaling law”, Nature Photonics 6, 450-454, 2012
   - "New class of 3-D optical cavitieis demonstrated" Photonics Spectra magzine (Sep, 2012)
   - “First 3D nanoscale optical cavities from metamaterials”, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory News (Jun, 2012)
   - “World smallest optical cavities lead to most intense nanolaser beams”, IEEE Spectrum magazine (Jun, 2012)
   - 한국일보 (Jul, 2012) 서울경제신문 (Jul, 2012) YTN 연합뉴스 (Jul, 2012) 한국LED산업신문 (Jul, 2012)
2. Junsuk Rho et al., “Spherical hyperlens for two-dimensional sub-diffractional imaging at visible frequencies”, Nature Communications 1, 143, 2010
   - “Far-field imaging: New dimension for hyperlens” Research Highlights, Nature Photonics, 5, 128-129 (Mar, 2011),
   - 한국경제신문 (Feb, 2011)
3. Xiaobo Yin and Junsuk Rho et al., “Anomalous photonic spin hall effect at metasurface”, Science, 339, 1405-1407, 2013
   - “Photonis spin Hall effect” Editor's summary "This week in Science", Science 339, 1357, 2013 (Mar, 2013)
   - “Metamaterials observe photonic spin Hall effect” Photonics Spectra magazine (jun, 2013)
   - “Metamaterials to observe giant photonic spin hall effect” LBL News (Mar, 2013)
   - "Putting a new spin on photons" IOP Physics World (Mar, 2013)
   - “Quantum computers coming soon?” Science Daily (Mar, 2013)
   - 매일경제신문 (Mar, 2013)
4. Shuang Zhang* and Junsuk Rho et al., “Photo-induced handedness switching in terahertz chiral meta-molecules”, Nature Communications 3, 942, 2012
   - “Meramolecues that switch handedness at light-speed” LBL News (Jul, 2012)
   - “Artificial molecules that switch ‘handedness’ at light-speed” LANL News (Jul, 2012)
   - 한국일보 (Nov, 2012) 매일경제신문 (Jul, 2012)
5. Liang Pan and Junsuk Rho et al., "Maskless Plasmonic Lithography at 22 nm Resolution", Scientific Reports 1, 175, 2011

Invited Talks

• KSEA Northwest Regional Conference (NWRC 2013), Seattle, WA, Sep, 2013
• Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Jun, 2013
• The 3rd Korea-Japan Metamaterials Forum, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea, Jun, 2013
• Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang Institute of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea, Jun, 2013
• Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang Institute of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea, Jun, 2013
• President’s and Provost’s office, King Abdulah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Jun, 2013
• Computer, Electrical & Mathematical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdulah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Apr, 2013
• Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, Feb, 2013
• Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY, Feb, 2013
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, Jan, 2013
• KUSCO-KSEA Graduate Scholarship Awards Talk, UKC2012, Garden Grove, CA, Aug, 2012
• MRS Graduate Student Awards talk, MRS spring meeting, San Francisco, CA, Apr, 2012
• Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Jun, 2011
• Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Korea, May, 2011

Selected Honors and Awards

• Junior Travel Award, Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter, U.S. National Science Foundation International Materials Institute Award, 2013
• 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
• Graduate Division Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 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
• Graduate Division Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
• Samsung Lee Kun-Hee Fellowship, 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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