Sang-Gook Kim

Graduate Students

  • K. Smyth, Research Assistant, ME
  • R. Xu, Research Assistant, ME

Research engineers

  • Jeffrey Chou, Postdoctoral fellow, ME
  • Phillip Lee, Postdoctoral fellow, ME

Support Staff

  • R. Hardin, Senior Administrative Assistant

Publications

F. Sammoura and S.G. Kim, “Theoretical Modeling and Equivalent Electric Circuit of a Bimorph Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer,” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 59, No. 5, Page 990, 2012

De Volder M., Decoster J., Reynaerts D., Van Hoof C., Kim SG, High Damping Carbon Nanotube Hinged Micromirrors, Small, 2012

S.G. Kim, S. Priya, I. Kanno, “Piezoelectric MEMS for Energy Harvesting,” MRS Bulletin, V. 37, p.1039, 2012

S.G. Kim, S. Bathurst and F. Sammoura, “Design Framework for Micro and Nano-scale Products,” 22nd CIRP Design Conference, Bangalore, India, 2012 (invited)

B. Commeau, R. Karnik, S.G. Kim, “Development and Growth of an Undergraduate Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory Course,” ASEE Annual Conference, 2012

F. Sammoura and S.G. Kim, “Modeling of the Neutral Axes of a Circular Piezoelectric Micromachined Transducer in Transmit and Receive Mode,” Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Workshop, Hilton Head, SC, 2012

K. Smyth, F. Sammoura, S.G. Kim, “Modeling and Optimization of Electrode Configuration for Bimorph and Unimorph Piezoelectric Micro-Machined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUTs), International Workshop on Acoustic Transduction Materials and Devices, PA, 2012

H. Lee, S. Bathurst and S.G. Kim, “Thermal Stability of Nano-Structured Selective Emitters for Thermo Photovoltaic,” TechConnect World, Santa Clara, CA, 2012

F. Sammoura, K. Smyth, S.G. Kim, “Working Equations of a Circular Multimorph Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer,” IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2012), Montreal, Canada, 2012

F. Sammoura, K. Smyth, S.G. Kim, “An Analytical Analysis of the Sensitivity of Plate Deflection and Bandwidth of Circular Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUTs) to Residual Stress,” IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Dresden, Germany, 2012

H. Lee, S. Bathurst and S.G. Kim, “Thermally Stable Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal for Selective Emitters”, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, 2012

R. Xu and S.G. Kim, “Figures of Merit (FOMS) of Piezoelectric Materials in Energy Harvesters,” POWER MEMS 2012, Atlanta, GA, 2012 (Poster Presentation)

F. Sammoura and S.G. Kim, “Optimizing the Electrode Size of Circular Bimorph Plates with Different Boundary Conditions for Maximum Deflection of Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers,” Ultrasonics, v 53, P 328-334, 2013

S. Bathurst and S.G. Kim, “Printing of Uniform PZT Thin Films for MEMS Applications,” CIRP Annals -Manufacturing, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2013

K. Smyth, F. Sammoura, S. Bathurst and S.G. Kim, “Analytic Solution for N-electrode actuated Piezoelectric Disk with Application to Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers,” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, in press

H. Lee, K. Smyth and S.G. Kim, “Nanostructures which can survive the high temperature solar energy applications,” Nanotechnology for Solar Energy Collection and Conversion – NNI Signature Initiative Symposium, Washington D.C., 2013

R. Xu and S.G. Kim, “Wide Bandwidth Piezoelectric MEMS Energy Harvesting,” MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, 2013

K. Smyth, F. Sammoura, and S. G. Kim, “An Accurate Equivalent Circuit for the Clamped Circular Multiple-Electrode PMUT with Residual Stress,” 2013 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Prague, Czech Republic, (Oral presentation)

H.J. Lee, K. Smyth, S. Bathurst, J. Chou, M. Ghebrebrhan, N. Saka and S.G. Kim, “Hafnia-plugged microcavities for thermal stability of selective emitters”, Applied Physics Letters, accepted for publication

F. Sammoura, K. Smyth and S.G. Kim, “An Equivalent Network Representation of a Clamped Bimorph Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer with Circular and Annular Electrodes using Matrix Manipulation Techniques,” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, accepted for publication