Na Young Kim, Stanford University
We in modern society are beneficiaries of advanced electronics, photonics and the combination of two. As an effort to develop new platforms of electronics, photonics and optoelectronics harnessing quantum nature, I have studied transport properties of carbon nanotubes, where long-range interaction plays a significant role. In photonics domain, I have been studying exciton-polaritons in a quantum-well-microcavity structure, where dynamical macroscopic condensation emerge via stimulated scattering process arising from exchange interactions. Here I present the lessons from the study of carbon nanotubes and exciton-polaritons, and I give perspectives of the next actions.
Biography
Na Young Kim is a Physical Science Research Associate in Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto's group at E. L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Stanford University for her dissertation on Correlated Electron Transport in One-Dimensional Mesoscopic Conductors. She also holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Seoul National University. She was a specially appointed researcher at the University of Tokyo and a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. She was a recipient of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2012 from the Association of Korean Physicists in America. Her current research interests are to construct solid-state quantum emulators for studying macroscopic quantum phases and to develop novel optoelectronic devices based on exciton-polariton condensates.