Philip Kim | |
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Residence | United States |
Nationality | Republic of Korea |
Fields | condensed matter physics, carbon nanotubes, graphene |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University |
Alma mater | Seoul National University Harvard University |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Lieber |
Known for | quantum transport in carbon nanotubes and graphene |
Notable awards | Ho-Am Prize in Science (2008) |
Philip Kim is a condensed matter physicist known for study of quantum transport in carbon nanotubes and graphene, including observations of quantum Hall effects in graphene.
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Kim studied physics at Seoul National University and earned his bachelor's degree in 1990 and a master's degree in 1992, and a doctorate in applied physics at Harvard University in 1999 under the supervision of Charles Lieber. He worked at the University of California, Berkeley as a Miller Research Fellow until 2001, when he joined the faculty at Columbia University.
Kim and coworkers have made important contributions in the field of nanoscale low-dimensional materials. In 1999, he and Lieber published a highly cited paper on electrostatically controlled carbon nanotube NEMS devices.[1] In Feb. 2005, his group at Columbia reported electrical measurements of thin graphite films produced by an atomic force microscope technique.[2] In Sept. 2005, they reported observation of the quantum Hall effect in single graphene layers[3] simultaneously with the group of Andre Geim,[4] and in 2007, the two groups jointly published observations of the quantum Hall effect in graphene at room temperature.[5] Kim's group authored an influential paper in 2007 describing a transport gap introduced by lithographic patterning of graphene to form nanoribbons. This was an important proof of principle in the development of graphene electronics as it allowed on-off switching of the graphene devices by a factor of 1000 at low temperature.[6] In Feb. 2009, his group and coworkers have synthesized the large-scale graphene films by CVD method. He indicated that the quality of CVD-grown graphene is comparable to that of mechanically cleaved graphene, as observation of the half-integer quantum Hall effect in CVD-grown graphene.[7] The group reported observation of the fractional quantum Hall effect in suspended graphene in Nov. 2009.[8]
Kim received a National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award in 2004. In 2006, he was named as one of the "Scientific American 50", a list of individuals/organizations honored for their contributions to science and society during the preceding year.[9] Kim was awarded the 2008 Ho-Am Prize in Science "for his pioneering work on low-dimensional carbon nanostructures".[10] He received an IBM Faculty award in 2009.[11]