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Yong-Joon Kim

Pohang University of Science and Technology · Physics and Astronomy

About the Lab

Professor Yong-Joon Kim's research lab specializes in magnetic fusion energy research, focusing on advanced tokamak plasma physics and steady-state operation relevant to ITER and future fusion reactors. The lab conducts experimental and computational studies on plasma equilibrium, stability, and confinement in the KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) device, with emphasis on achieving high-performance, long-pulse H-mode plasmas. The team also explores active and passive control of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instabilities and develops advanced diagnostics and data analysis techniques, including real-time plasma control and neutron tagging in neutrino detection experiments.

fusion energytokamak plasmasplasma stabilityneutron taggingadvanced reactor design

Research Overview

Papers
6
Total Citations
191
Papers (5y)
6
Primary Field
Physics and Astronomy

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
6total
2009
2011
2013
2022
2024
Citations per year (5y)
191total
20092011201320222024

Selected Papers

6
1
Article|81 citations·2011
Overview of KSTAR initial operation
M. Kwon, Y.K. Oh, H.L. Yang, Hanah Na, Y.S. Kim, J.G. Kwak, Woochang Kim, J.Y. Kim, J.-W. Ahn, Y.S. Bae, Seunghan Baek, J.G. Bak
SJR Q1Nuclear Fusion

Since the successful first plasma generation in the middle of 2008, three experimental campaigns were successfully made for the KSTAR device, accompanied with a necessary upgrade in the power supply, heating, wall-conditioning and diagnostic systems. KSTAR was operated with the toroidal magnetic field up to 3.6 T and the circular and shaped plasmas with current up to 700 kA and pulse length of 7 s, have been achieved with limited capacity of PF magnet power supplies. The mission of the KSTAR exp

Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsPhysics and Astronomy
2
Article|56 citations·2013
An overview of KSTAR results
J.G. Kwak, Y.K. Oh, H.L. Yang, K.R. Park, Y.S. Kim, Woochang Kim, J.Y. Kim, S.G. Lee, Hanah Na, M. Kwon, G.S. Lee, H.S. Ahn
SJR Q1Nuclear Fusion

Since the first H-mode discharges in 2010, the duration of the H-mode state has been extended and a significantly wider operational window of plasma parameters has been attained. Using a second neutral beam (NB) source and improved tuning of equilibrium configuration with real-time plasma control, a stored energy of Wtot ??? 450 kJ has been achieved with a corresponding energy confinement time of ??E ??? 163 ms. Recent discharges, produced in the fall of 2012, have reached plasma ??N up to 2.9 a

Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsPhysics and Astronomy
3
Article|42 citations·2011
KSTAR equilibrium operating space and projected stabilization at high normalized beta
Y.S. Park, S.A. Sabbagh, J.W. Berkery, J. Bialek, Y.M. Jeon, S.H. Hahn, N.W. Eidietis, T.E. Evans, S.W. Yoon, J.-W. Ahn, Jayhyun Kim, H.L. Yang
SJR Q1Nuclear FusionOA

Along with an expanded evaluation of the equilibrium operating space of the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research, KSTAR, experimental equilibria of the most recent plasma discharges were reconstructed using the EFIT code. In near-circular plasmas created in 2009, equilibria reached a stored energy of 54 kJ with a maximum plasma current of 0.34 MA. Highly shaped plasmas with near double-null configuration in 2010 achieved H-mode with clear edge localized mode (ELM) activity, and transi

Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsPhysics and Astronomy
4
Article|11 citations·2022
Neutron tagging following atmospheric neutrino events in a water Cherenkov detector
K. Abe, Y. Haga, Y. Hayato, K. Hiraide, K. Ieki, M. Ikeda, S. Imaizumi, K. Iyogi, J. Kameda, Y. Kanemura, Y. Kataoka, Y. Kato
SJR Q3Journal of InstrumentationOA

Abstract We present the development of neutron-tagging techniques in Super-Kamiokande IV using a neural network analysis. The detection efficiency of neutron capture on hydrogen is estimated to be 26%, with a mis-tag rate of 0.016 per neutrino event. The uncertainty of the tagging efficiency is estimated to be 9.0%. Measurement of the tagging efficiency with data from an Americium-Beryllium calibration agrees with this value within 10%. The tagging procedure was performed on 3,244.4 days of SK-I

Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsPhysics and Astronomy
5
Article|1 citations·2009
Physics validation for design change of KSTAR passive stabilizer
Y.M. Jeon, J.Y. Kim, Yoojin Oh, H.L. Yang, W.C. Kim, H.K. Kim, S.A. Sabbagh, J. Bialek, David Humphreys, A.S. Welander, M.L. Walker
Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
6
Article|0 citations·2024
New private information retrieval codes for imperfect privacy
탁준우, 김상효, 김용준, 노종선

In this paper, we introduce new codes for the private information retrieval (PIR). The conventional Tian-Sun-Chen (TSC) scheme achieves PIR capacity under the perfect privacy conditions with the minimum message length. Based on the TSC scheme, weakly PIR (WPIR) schemes have been developed to benefit download costs by relaxing privacy. We show that the proposed scheme has lower download cost than the TSC scheme in the weak privacy setting. While our scheme is not capacity-achieving under perfect

Research Areas

Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsElectrical and Electronic Engineering

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