Kee Hoon Kim

Infrared reflectivity spectra were measured for a polycrystalline ${\mathrm{La}}_{0.7}$${\mathrm{Ca}}_{0.3}$Mn${\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ sample. The internal phonon modes, i.e., the bending and stretching modes, of the Mn${\mathrm{O}}_{6}$ octahedra show significant frequency shifts near the Curie temperature ${T}_{C}$. The frequency shifts of the internal phonon modes were found to have a linear relationship with the excess lattice expansion above ${T}_{C}$, which deviates from a prediction of the Gr\"

We measured thermal conductivity kappa, thermoelectric power S, and electric conductivity sigma of La(5/8-x)Pr(x)Ca(3/8)MnO3, showing an intricate interplay between metallic ferromagnetism (FM) and charge ordering (CO) instability. The change of kappa, S, and sigma with temperature (T) and x agrees well with the effective medium theories for binary metal-insulator mixtures. This agreement clearly demonstrates that with the variation of T as well as x, the relative volumes of FM and CO phases dra

Temperature dependent optical conductivity spectra of a ${\mathrm{La}}_{0.7}{\mathrm{Ca}}_{0.3}{\mathrm{MnO}}_{3}$ (LCMO) sample were measured. In the metallic regime at very low temperatures, they clearly showed two types of absorption features, i.e., a sharp Drude peak and a broad midinfrared absorption band, which could be explained as coherent and incoherent bands of a large lattice polaron. Electrodynamic analyses suggest that the elementary excitation in LCMO should be in a strong coupling

Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) and transparent oxide semiconductors (TOSs) have become necessary materials for a variety of applications in the information and energy technologies, ranging from transparent electrodes to active electronics components. Perovskite barium stannate (BaSnO 3 ), a new TCO or TOS system, is a potential platform for realizing optoelectronic devices and observing novel electronic quantum states due to its high electron mobility, excellent thermal stability, high tra

A comprehensive transport study, as a function of temperature and continuous magnetic fields of up to 45 T, reveals that URu2Si2 possesses all the essential hallmarks of quantum criticality at fields around 37+/-1 T. The formation of multiple phases at low temperatures at and around the quantum critical point suggests the existence of competing order parameters.