Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Department of Chemical Engineering
Prof. Rho is a Mu-Eun-Jae (无垠斋) Endowed Chair Associate Professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea, with a double appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with designated emphasis in Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley (2013), M.S. in Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2008) and B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea (2007). Prior joining POSTECH, he conducted postdoctoral research in Materials Sciences Division & Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, and also worked as a principal investigator (Ugo Fano Fellow) in Nanoscience and Technology Division & the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory, USA.
Prof. Rho has authored and co-authored more than 150 high-impact journal papers including Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Photonics and Nature Communications. He is also the recipients of several notable honors and awards such as MRS graduate student award (2011), SPIE scholarships in optics and photonics (2011,2012), OSA Incubic/Milton Chang Award (2013), Samsung Lee Kun-Hee fellowship (2008-2013), DOE Argonne Named fellowship (2014), Edmund Optics Award (2015), OSK Young Investigator Award (2016), SPIE Rising Researcher Award (2017), Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning Minister's Commendation (2017), Distinguished Teaching Award at POSTECH (2018), Proud POSTECHIAN Award (2018), Korean Ministry of Science and ICT Minister's Commendation (2019) and Korean Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019).
Spherical hyperlens for two-dimensional sub-diffractional imaging at visible frequencies.
Nature communications , 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21266993
Maskless plasmonic lithography at 22 nm resolution.
Scientific reports , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22355690
Photoinduced handedness switching in terahertz chiral metamolecules.
Nature communications Jul, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22781755
Photonic spin Hall effect at metasurfaces.
Science (New York, N.Y.) Mar, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23520105
Ultrafast acousto-plasmonic control and sensing in complex nanostructures.
Nature communications Jun, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24893773
Predicting nonlinear properties of metamaterials from the linear response.
Nature materials Apr, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25664451
Nanophotonic modal dichroism: mode-multiplexed modulators.
Optics letters Sep, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27628406
Deep sub-wavelength nanofocusing of UV-visible light by hyperbolic metamaterials.
Scientific reports Dec, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27924937
Metamaterials and imaging.
Nano convergence , 2015 | Pubmed ID: 28191408
Acoustic wave science realized by metamaterials.
Nano convergence , 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28239535
Demonstration of nanoimprinted hyperlens array for high-throughput sub-diffraction imaging.
Scientific reports Apr, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28393906
Control of light absorbance using plasmonic grating based perfect absorber at visible and near-infrared wavelengths.
Scientific reports Jun, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28572672
Fabrication of three-dimensional suspended, interlayered and hierarchical nanostructures by accuracy-improved electron beam lithography overlay.
Scientific reports Jul, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28751643
Corrigendum: Demonstration of nanoimprinted hyperlens array for high-throughput sub-diffraction imaging.
Scientific reports Aug, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28836623
Metasurfaces Based on Phase-Change Material as a Reconfigurable Platform for Multifunctional Devices.
Materials (Basel, Switzerland) Sep, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28878196
Tungsten-based Ultrathin Absorber for Visible Regime.
Scientific reports 02, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29403065
Amino-acid- and peptide-directed synthesis of chiral plasmonic gold nanoparticles.
Nature 04, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29670265
Geometric metasurface enabling polarization independent beam splitting.
Scientific reports Jun, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29930258
Effect of temperature on the oxidation of Cu nanowires and development of an easy to produce, oxidation-resistant transparent conducting electrode using a PEDOT:PSS coating.
Scientific reports Jul, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30006611
Polarization-sensitive tunable absorber in visible and near-infrared regimes.
Scientific reports Aug, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30120371
Recent Advances in Tunable and Reconfigurable Metamaterials.
Micromachines Oct, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30715059
Fabrication and characterization of zeolitic imidazolate framework-embedded cellulose acetate membranes for osmotically driven membrane process.
Scientific reports Apr, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30962494
Double-deep Q-learning to increase the efficiency of metasurface holograms.
Scientific reports Jul, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31358783
Accurate and instant frequency estimation from noisy sinusoidal waves by deep learning.
Nano convergence Aug, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31414287
Realization of broadband negative refraction in visible range using vertically stacked hyperbolic metamaterials.
Scientific reports Oct, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31575903
Twisted non-diffracting beams through all dielectric meta-axicons.
Nanoscale Nov, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31637386
Biomimetic ultra-broadband perfect absorbers optimised with reinforcement learning.
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP Jan, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 31932814
Moth-eye shaped on-demand broadband and switchable perfect absorbers based on vanadium dioxide.
Scientific reports 03, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32161273
Single-step manufacturing of hierarchical dielectric metalens in the visible.
Nature communications May, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32385266
Laser digital patterning of conductive electrodes using metal oxide nanomaterials.
Nano convergence Jul, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32632474
Deep Q-network to produce polarization-independent perfect solar absorbers: a statistical report.
Nano convergence Aug, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32748091
Complex-amplitude metasurface-based orbital angular momentum holography in momentum space.
Nature nanotechnology Sep, 2020 | Pubmed ID: 32958936