MOON KIM
Professor, Louis Beecherl, Jr. Distinguished Chair
moonkim@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-6635
Office: RL 4.408
800 West Campbell Rd.
Mailstop: RL10
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Education
PhD, Materials Science, Arizona State University, 1988
MS, Materials Science, Arizona State University, 1986
BS, Materials Science, Arizona State University, 1984
Overview
Dr. Moon Kim’s research and technical expertise focus on nanofabrication and the manipulation and characterization of materials and devices for electronic and photonic applications. His expertise includes high-resolution electron microscopy, wafer bonding technology and 3D functional nanostructures and nanodevices. As an expert in nanotechnology in the 1990s, Kim became one of the first researchers in the world to build an ultra-high vacuum wafer bonding instrument. That machine, now housed in the Natural Science and Engineering Research Laboratory, was a cornerstone to enabling groundbreaking research in the region, international collaborations and the attainment of more advanced equipment and world class professors.
Kim has been instrumental in forming research collaborations with industry and other universities in the United States and abroad. One such collaboration was Texas FUSION (Future Semiconductor Commercialization), whose two biggest grants for the initial $14.4 million consortium included $6 million from the South Korean government and $5 million from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund. Texas FUSION research projects focus on nanostructures for medical and defense applications; flexible electronic structures for defense and entertainment applications; and large-scale nonvolatile information storage and retrieval devices.
One of Kim’s passions is educating children about science and engineering. He is the author of books aimed at making children aware of nanotechnology that is available to them in their everyday lives. Kim is also a professor in the Arts and Technology Program, in which his students have helped create interactive electronic versions of these books and other apps.
Research Interests
- Heterogeneous materials integration by wafer bonding
- Fabrication and characterization of various functional nanostructures for applications in nanoelectronics, power electronics, energy and electrochemical devices and biodevices
- Atomic scale characterization of low-dimensional materials
- In situ TEM study of electrochemical and biological systems
- Nanopore-based sequencing of biomolecules
- Nano 3D printing technology
- Fabrication of 3D nanostructures for nanorobots
- Virtual reality (VR) contents for enhanced education and new emerging applications