Kim Lab

Department of Intelligent Semiconductor Engineering, Ajou University

FEATURED WORK Sub-stoichiometric zirconium oxide as a solution-processed dielectric for reconfigurable electronics
Nature Electronics 8, 461–473 (2025)
COVER ARTICLE Orthogonal photopatterning of two-dimensional percolated network films for wafer-scale heterostructures
Nature Electronics — March 2025 cover
FEATURED WORK Orthogonal photopatterning of two-dimensional percolated network films for wafer-scale heterostructures
Nature Electronics 8, 235–243 (2025)
FEATURED WORK Wafer-scale transistor arrays fabricated using slot-die printing of molybdenum disulfide and sodium-embedded alumina
Nature Electronics 6, 443–450 (2023)
COVER ARTICLE All-solution-processed van der Waals heterostructures for wafer-scale electronics
Advanced Materials — 2022 cover

Kim Lab designs materials at the atomic scale and engineers them into scalable, reproducible platforms for next-generation electronics.

Our guiding question: how do we translate control at the level of individual atomic layers into materials that can be made reliably, repeatedly, and at scale — and what devices become possible once we can? Answering it means working across materials characterizations, thin-film engineering, and device physics.

We are always looking for curious students who want to build things that do not exist yet.

news

Sep 01, 2026 Kim Lab officially opens at Ajou University. We are recruiting graduate students and undergraduate interns!

selected publications

  1. Adv. Funct. Mater.
    Multicolor optoelectronic synapse enabled by photon-modulated remote doping in solution-processed van der Waals heterostructures
    Jihyun Kim†, H. Kim†, G. Cheon, D. Lee, I. Kim, U. Won, J. Lee, S. Won*, and J. Kang*
    Advanced Functional Materials, 2025
  2. Nat. Electron.
    Sub-stoichiometric zirconium oxide as a solution-processed dielectric for reconfigurable electronics
    K. Kim†, Jihyun Kim†, M. Jung, I. Kim, B. Yu, S. Won, D. Son, H. Li, Z. Sofer, D. Hwang, D. Jariwala, and J. Kang*
    Nature Electronics, 2025
  3. Nat. Electron.
    Orthogonal direct photopatterning of two-dimensional percolated networks enabling wafer-scale van der Waals vertical heterostructures
    I. Kwak†, Jihyun Kim†, J. Moon, S. Kim, J. Park, O. Song, V. Mazánek, Z. Sofer, H. Jo, S. Park, M. Kang, J. Kang*, and J. Cho*
    Nature Electronics, 2025
  4. Nat. Electron.
    Wafer-scale transistor arrays fabricated using slot-die printing of molybdenum disulfide and sodium-embedded alumina
    Y. A. Kwon†, Jihyun Kim†, S. Jo, D. Roe, D. Rhee, Y. Song, B. Kang, D. Kim, J. Kim, D. Kim, M. Kang, J. Kang*, and J. Cho*
    Nature Electronics, 2023
  5. Adv. Mater.
    All-solution-processed van der Waals heterostructures for wafer-scale electronics
    Jihyun Kim†, D. Rhee†, O. Song†, M. Kim, Y. Kwon, D. Lim, I. Kim, V. Mazánek, L. Valdman, Z. Sofer, J. Cho, and J. Kang*
    Advanced Materials, 2022