Byungjin Cho







Current Research

Organic resistive memory devices
Neural electronics


Experience

Post doctoral Scholar, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA, present.

Engineer of manufacturing technology, HYNIX Semiconductor, 2005 - 2007.


Education

Ph.D, Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), February, 2012
Thesis: Organic resistive memory devices: switching mechanisms, performance enhancement, and integration architectures

M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), February, 2009
Thesis: Unipolar nonvolatile memory devices with composites of poly(9-vinylcarbazole) and titanium dioxide nanoparticles

B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Chungbuk National University, February, 2005



Publication

  1. Nam-Goo Kang*, Byungjin Cho*, Beom-Goo Kang, Sunghoon Song, Takhee Lee, and Jae-Suk Lee, "Structural and electrical characterization of a block copolymer-based unipolar nonvolatile memory device", Advanced Materials, 24, 385 (2012). *Equally contributed first authors.

  2. Byungjin Cho*, Jin-Mun Yun*, Sunghoon Song, Yongsung Ji, Dong-Yu Kim, and Takhee Lee, “Direct observation of Ag filamentary paths in organic resistive memory device”, Advanced Functional Materials, 21, 3976 (2011). *Equally contributed first authors.

  3. Byungjin Cho, Sunghoon Song, Yongsung Ji, Tae-Wook Kim, and Takhee Lee, “Organic Resistive Memory Devices: Performance Enhancement, Integration, and Advanced Architectures”, Advanced Functional Materials, 21, 2806 (2011). *Invited Review Article. (It appeared as Front COVER picture article) *Introduced as research news at Materialsviews.com.

  4. Jin Ju Kim*, Byungjin Cho*, Ki Seok Kim, Takhee Lee, and Gun Young Jung, "Electrical characterization of unipolar organic resistive memory devices scaled down by a direct metal-transfer method", Advanced Materials, 23, 2104 (2011).*Equally contributed first authors.

  5. Byungjin Cho, Tae-Wook Kim, Sunghoon Song, Yongsung Ji, Minseok Jo, Hyunsang Hwang, Gun-Young Jung, and Takhee Lee, "Rewritable Switching of One Diode–One Resistor Nonvolatile Organic Memory Devices", Advanced Materials, 22, 1228 (2010).*It appeared as Inside COVER picture article.

  6. Byungjin Cho, Sunghoon Song, Yongsung Ji and Takhee Lee, "Electrical characterization of organic resistive memory with interfacial oxide layers formed by O2 plasma treatment", Applied Physics Letter 97, 063305 (2010). *Selected as a Research Highlight in Applied Physics Letters (one of six highlight papers in Organic Electronics and Photonics field).

  7. Byungjin Cho, Tae-Wook Kim, Minhyeok Choe, Gunuk Wang, Sunghoon Song, and Takhee Lee, “Unipolar nonvolatile memory devices with composites of poly(9-vinylcarbazole) and titanium dioxide nanoparticles", Organic Electronics, 10, 473 (2009).

  8. Byungjin Cho*, Kyu Hyun Nam*, Sunghoon Song, Yongsung Ji, Gun-Young Jung, and Takhee Lee, “The application of conventional photolithography to microscale organic resistive memory devices”, Current Applied Physics, 12, 940 (2012). *Equally contributed first authors.

  9. Sang Ho Lee, Byungjin Cho, Seungha Yoon, Huisu Jeong, Sangyong Jon, Gun Young Jung, Beong Ki Cho, Takhee Lee, and Won Bae Kim, "Printing of Sub-100-nm Metal Nanodot Arrays by Carbon Nanopost Stamps", ACS-NANO, 5, 5543, (2011).

  10. Yongsung Ji, Byungjin Cho, Sunghoon Song, Minhyeok Choe, Tae-Wook Kim, Joon-Seop Kim, Byung-Sang Choi, and Takhee Lee, "Unipolar Bistable Switching of Organic Non-Volatile Memory Devices with Poly(styrene-co-styrenesulfonic acid Na)", Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 11, 1385 (2011).

  11. Sunghoon Song, Byungjin Cho, Tae-Wook Kim, Yongsung Ji, Minseok Jo, Gunuk Wang, Minhyeok Choe, Yung Ho Kahng, Hyunsang Hwang, and Takhee Lee, "Three-dimensional integration of organic resistive memory devices",  Advanced Materials, 22, 5048, (2010). *It appeared as Front COVER picture article.

  12. Yongsung Ji, Byungjin Cho, Sunghoon Song, Tae-Wook Kim, Minhyeok Choe, Yung Ho Kahng, and Takhee Lee, "Stable switching characteristics of organic non-volatile memory on a bent flexible substrate", Advanced Materials, 22, 3071, (2010). *It appeared as Front COVER picture article.

  13. Sunghoon Song, Tae-Wook Kim, Byungjin Cho, Yongsung Ji, and Takhee Lee, "Nonvolatile Write-Once-Read-Many times memory devices based on the composites of Poly(4-vinylphenol)/Vulcan XC-72", Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 11, 4492 (2011).

  14. Tae-Wook Kim, Hyejung Choi, Seong-Whan Oh, Minseok Jo, Gunuk Wang, Byungjin Cho, Dong-Yu Kim, Hyunsang Hwang and Takhee Lee, “Resistive Switching Characteristics of Polymer Non-volatile Memory Devices in a Scalable Via-hole Structure”, Nanotechnology, 20, 025201 (2009). *Selected as one of Nanotechnology highlights 2009 (one of six highlight papers in Electronics and Photonics field).

  15. Gunuk Wang, Hana Yoo, Seok-In Na, Tae-Wook Kim, Byungjin Cho, Dong-Yu Kim, Takhee Lee, "Electrical conduction through self-assembled monolayers in molecular junctions: Au/molecules/Au versus Au/molecule/PEDOT:PSS/Au", Thin Solid Films, 518, 824 (2009).

  16. Yongsung Ji*, Sangchul Lee*, Byungjin Cho, Sunghoon Song, and Takhee Lee, "Flexible organic memory devices with transparent multi-layer graphene electrodes", ACS Nano, 5, 5995 (2011). *Equally contributed first authors.

Contact Information

44-116C Engineering IV
420 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095

310-283-8127
bjcho@ucla.edu