Optical Properties of Metallic and Semiconducting Polymers
Photoexcitation and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers
Development of Polymer Electronic Devices : Polymer LEDs, Solar Cells and FETs
Development of Flexible Displays Using Metallic and Semiconducting Polymers
Physical Properties and Device Applications of Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Composites
Development of Polymer Solar cell with Highest efficiency
Development of Printing Electronics Using Metallic and Semiconducting Polymers
EDUCATION
1990-1995
Ph.D. in Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Ph.D. Thesis : “Infrared Reflectance Studies of Conducting Polymers”
Thesis Advisor : Alan J. Heeger (2000 Nobel laureate in Chemistry)
1983-1985
M.Sc. In Physics, KAIST, Seoul, Korea
1979-1983
B.S. in Nuclear Engineering,
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
WORK EXPERIENCE
2012-Present
Director of Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Energies (RISE),
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea
2012-Present
Board Member of Korea Photovoltaics Society
-2011-Present
Project Head of Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Energies (RISE),
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea
2007-Present Professor, Materials Science and Engineering,
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea
2007-Present
Associate Director, Heeger Center for Advanced Materials (HCAM), GIST, Korea
2007-2011
Director, Global Research Lab (GRL), GIST, Korea
2004-2005
Visiting Professor,
Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, UCSB, USA
1997-2006
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Pusan National University (PNU), Korea
2003-2006
Associate Professor,
Center for Dielectric and Advanced Materials, PNU, Korea
2004-2006
Scientific Consultant, Konarka Technologies, Lowell, MA, Korea
2003-2005
Co-Director, Center of Plastic Information System, PNU, Korea
1995-1997 Post-Doctorate, Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, UCSB, USA
1985-1990
Staff Researcher, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), Daejon, Korea
REPRESENTATIVE_PUBLICATIONS
“Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Internal Quantum Efficiency Approaching 100%”
Sung Heum Park, Anshuman Roy, Serge Beaupre, Shinuk Cho, Nelson Coates, Ji Sun Moon, Daniel Moses, Mario Leclerc, Kwanghee Lee* and Alan J. Heeger*, Nature Photonics, 3, p.297-303 (2009)
“Extended Lifetime of Organic Field-Effect Transistors Encapsulated with Titanium Sub-Oxide as an 'Active' Passivation/Barrier Layer”
Shinuk Cho*, Kwanghee Lee*, and Alan J. Heeger*, Advanced Materials, 21(19), p.1941-1944 (2009)
"Air-stable polymer electronic devices“
Kwanghee Lee*, Jin Young Kim, Sung Heum Park, Sun Hee Kim, Shinuk Cho, Advanced Materials, 19, 2445-2449 (2007)
"Efficient Tandem Polymer Solar Cells Fabricated by All-Solution Processing”
Jin Young Kim, Kwanghee Lee*, Nelson E. Coates, Daniel Moses, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Mark Dante, Alan J. Heeger, Science, 317, 222 (2007)
“Metallic transport in polyaniline : Beyond the insulator to metal transition ”
Kwanghee Lee*, Shinuk Cho, Sung Heum Park, A. J. Heeger, Chan-Woo Lee, Suck-Hyun Lee*, Nature, 441, 65 (2006)
