Nationality South Korean Fields Condensed matter physics Residence Seoul, South Korea | Name Noh Tae-won Doctoral advisor J. R. Gaines | |
Institutions Seoul National University, Institute for Basic Science Alma mater B.Sc. Seoul Nat’l Univ., South Korea
Ph.D. Ohio State University, United States
Post Doc. Cornell University, United States Known for Optical properties of solids, including composite materials, high-Tc superconductors, colossal magnetoresistance(CMR) manganites, and other transition metal oxides
Metal-insulator transitions and orbital physics in transition metal oxides.
Pulsed laser deposition of oxide films and artificial heterostructures
Physical phenomena at oxide surfaces or interfaces
Physics of oxide devices, such as FeRAM, RRAM, and spintronic devices Notable awards 9th Korean Science Award in physics (2004)
Gyeongam Award (Gyeongam Education Foundation, 2009)
National Honor Scientist (Ministry of Education, Science, and Technologies, South Korea, 2010)
Korean Best Scientist and Engineer Award (Ministry of Education, Science, and Technologies, South Korea, 2011) | ||
Noh Tae-won is a South Korean physicist
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Education
Noh graduated from Kyunggi High School in Seoul, South Korea, in 1976 and received his B.Sc.(1982) in Physics from Seoul National University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics in 1986 from Ohio State University, supervised by Dr. J. R. Gaines. He then conducted postdoctoral research in Dr. A. J. Sievers's group at Cornell University until 1989. During that period, he studied the optical properties of high-Tc superconductors, especially copper oxide. In August 1989, he joined the Faculty of Physics at Seoul National University.
Work
Noh performs research in condensed matter physics. His research has focused on transition metal oxides but has extended to other strongly correlated electron systems. His research interests include the growth of oxide thin films and artificial heterostructures, emerging phenomena in oxide surfaces and interfaces, the metal-insulator transition and orbital physics in transition metal oxides,the optical properties of numerous solids, and the physics of oxide devices such as ferroelectric random access memory (FeRAM), resistance RAM (RRAM), and spintronic devices.
He has worked on novel nanoscale physical phenomena, especially in informational devices such as FeRAMs and RRAMs. He elucidated the physical mechanism of the fatigue problem in FeRAMs. He also addressed the critical thickness of ultrathin films where they lose ferroelectricity. Additionally, he sought to explain resistance-switching phenomena, which are the basis of RRAM. Recently, he developed a new percolation model, called the "random circuit-breaker network model", which can explain reversible switching phenomena. He also discovered a novel quantum state of the correlated electron system in iridates that has attracted the interest of many researchers. He investigated the Mott physics of Sr2IrO4, which has a Mott insulator phase in the Jeff = 1/2 state.
He has contributed to the South Korean and international physics communities. In the Korean Physical Society (KPS), he has served as treasurer (FY 1999–2000), executive officer (FY 2003–04), and vice president (FY 2009–12). He has also helped to organize numerous international conferences as a member of international advisory or program committees. Currently, he is serving on the council of the Association of Asia and Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) and is a member of the International Union of Physics and Applied Physics (IUPAP). He has served on the editorial boards of several international journals, including Applied Physics Letter, and as Editor-in-chief of Current Applied Physics.
Currently, he is establishing the IBS Research Center for Functional Interfaces of Correlated Electron Systems (IBS CFI-CES) at Seoul National University. In the future, he and his research center will continue to search for new emerging phenomena at the interfaces of strongly correlated electron systems such as oxides.
Awards
Technical reports and conference/event proceedings
Noh was Chair of the 5th Korea–Japan Conference on Ferroelectricity (KJC-FE5, 2004), the International Workshop on Oxide Electronics(WOE-2007), and the Joint Conference of the Asian Meeting on Ferroelectricity and the Asian Meeting on Electroceramics(AMF-AMEC-2010). He has also severed on the International Advisory or Program Committees of over 40 other international conferences. He has given over 100 invited talks at international conferences. He has also delivered plenary talks at international conferences, including IMF-11 (2005, Brazil), JKC-FE6 (2006, Japan), AAPC-11 (2010, China), KPS (2011, Busan), and AMEC (2012, Malaysia).