Minkyung Kim

Over the past decade, topology has emerged as a major branch in broad areas of physics, from atomic lattices to condensed matter. In particular, topology has received significant attention in photonics because light waves can serve as a platform to investigate nontrivial bulk and edge physics with the aid of carefully engineered photonic crystals and metamaterials. Simultaneously, photonics provides enriched physics that arises from spin-1 vectorial electromagnetic fields. Here, we review recent

Abstract Transparency is an important characteristic in practical applications of radiative cooling, but the transmitted sunlight trapped in an inner space is generally the main cause of the increasing temperature. A transparent radiative cooler that can lower a temperature during the daytime by transmitting visible light, reflecting near‐infrared (NIR) light, and radiating thermal energy through the atmospheric window is proposed. In contrast to transparent selective emitters that transmit most

Hyperbolic metamaterials, horizontally stacked metal and dielectric multilayer, have recently been studied as a platform to observe optical spin Hall effect. However, the large optical spin Hall effect in the horizontal hyperbolic metamaterials accompanies extremely low transmission, which obstructs its practical applications. Reducing the sample thickness to augment the transmission causes diminishment of the optical spin Hall effect. In this Article, we demonstrate that a vertical hyperbolic m

Confocal and scanning electron microscopic observations have previously shown the strong bacterial association of Microcystis aeruginosa cells on their surfaces. DNA-based analyses of the associated bacterial communities were carried out using two M. aeruginosa strains grown in the laboratory and eight newly collected cyanobacterial bloom samples. M. aeruginosa was the most predominant species (66-100%) within the phylum Cyanobacteria. Rhizobium, Hydrogenophaga and Brevundimonas species were com

Abstract Implementation of topology on photonics has opened new functionalities of photonic systems such as topologically protected boundary modes. We theoretically present polarization‐dependent topological properties in a 2D Su‐Schrieffer‐Heeger lattice by using a metallic nanoparticle array and considering the polarization degree of freedom. We demonstrate that when eigenmodes are polarized parallel to the plane of the 2D lattice, it supports longitudinal edge modes that are isolated from the

This paper presents design and simulation of a switchable radiative cooler that exploits phase transition in vanadium dioxide to turn on and off in response to temperature. The cooler consists of an emitter and a solar reflector separated by a spacer. The emitter and the reflector play a role of emitting energy in mid-infrared and blocking incoming solar energy in ultraviolet to near-infrared regime, respectively. Because of the phase transition of doped vanadium dioxide at room temperature, the

The spin Hall effect of light refers to a spin-dependent transverse splitting of light at a planar interface. Previous demonstrations to enhance the splitting have suffered from exceedingly low efficiency. Achievements of the large splitting with high efficiency have been reported in the microwave, but those in the optical regime remain elusive. Here, an approach to attain the large splitting with high efficiency in the near-infrared is proposed and experimentally demonstrated at 800 nm by using

Resolution of the conventional lens is limited to half the wavelength of the light source by diffraction. In the conventional optical system, evanescent waves, which carry sub-diffraction spatial information, has exponentially decaying amplitude and therefore cannot reach to the image plane. New optical materials called metamaterials have provided new ways to overcome diffraction limit in imaging by controlling the evanescent waves. Such extraordinary electromagnetic properties can be achieved a

Use of compounds that contain fluorine (F) as electrode materials in lithium ion batteries has been considered, but synthesizing single-phase samples of these compounds is a difficult task. Here, it is demonstrated that a simple scalable single-step solid-state process with additional fluorine source can obtain highly pure LiVPO₄F. The resulting material with submicron particles achieves very high rate capability ≈100 mAh g^-1 at 60 C-rate (1-min discharge) and even at 200 C

Abstract The spin Hall effect of light (SHEL) is the microscopic splitting of light into two circular polarizations at the optical interface along the perpendicular direction. With the advent of metamaterials/metasurfaces and their fast‐developing applications, the SHEL has been garnering significant scientific interest. Here, the principle and recent developments in SHEL research is reviewed. A theoretical description of the SHEL is provided, including the formalism and general techniques. Also

As an analog of electrical diodes, optical diodes enable asymmetric transmission or one‐way transmission of light. Here, a thin bilayer metamaterial supporting asymmetric transmission is experimentally demonstrated for linearly polarized light but not for circularly polarized light over a broad bandwidth up to 50 terahertz in the near‐infrared region. A simple and intuitive working principle based on the symmetry inherent in the metamaterial design is provided, along with full‐wave simulations t

Abstract The spin Hall effect of light (SHEL) refers to a transverse and spin‐dependent shift of light in real space at an optical interface. Previous studies of enhancing the SHEL have involved extremely low efficiency, and achieving a large SHEL and high efficiency simultaneously has never been reported. Here, an approach using anisotropic impedance mismatching to attain a large SHEL with near‐unity efficiency in the microwave spectrum is proposed. A wire medium that has a near‐unity transmiss

Generating colors by employing metallic nanostructures has attracted intensive scientific attention recently, because one can easily realize higher spatial resolution and highly robust colors compared to conventional pigment. However, since the scattering spectra and thereby the resultant colors are determined by the nanostructure geometries, only one fixed color can be produced by one design and a whole new sample is required to generate a different color. In this paper, we demonstrate active m

While Ni-rich Li[NixMnyCo1–x–y]O2 (NMC, x ≥ 0.8) compounds are considered the most promising cathode materials for high-energy lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), a significant challenge is the higher reactivities caused by the increased Ni content, especially under high-voltage operation conditions. In the present study, we synthesize three single-crystal NMC (SC-NMC) samples with the same particle size and morphology: LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2 (NMC811), LiNi0.80Mn0.15Co0.05O2 (NMC80155), and LiNi0.85Mn0.1