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김정진 학생, 박사과정생연구장려금지원사업 선정

기계 시각 시스템의 적응형 광 조절을 위한 전기 변색 홍채 연구가 2026년 박사과정생연구장려금지원사업에 선정되었습니다.

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Bio-inspired artificial retina with receptive fields for in-sensor multiply-and-accumulate operations

Our collaborative work on bio-inspired artificial retinas has been published in InfoMat.

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김정진 학생, 2026 부산대학교 대학원 학술상 수상

공학계열 대학원생 중 1명에게 수여되는 부산대학교 대학원 학술상을 수상했습니다.

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HFSP Early Career 연구과제 선정

APOL 연구실이 Human Frontier Science Program의 Early Career 트랙에 선정되었습니다.

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박민서 학생, 한국센서학회 우수 발표 논문상 수상

2026년 한국센서학회 춘계학술대회 포스터 세션에서 우수 발표 논문상을 수상했습니다.

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임정미 학생, 한국정보디스플레이 학술대회 우수 포스터 상 수상

제2회 한국정보디스플레이 학술대회에서 우수 포스터 상을 수상했습니다.

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Low-bias, broadband photodetection enabled by MAPbI3/black silicon dual-mode photodetector for compact optoelectronic platforms

Our paper entitled "Low-bias, broadband photodetection enabled by MAPbI3/black silicon dual-mode photodetector for compact optoelectronic platforms" has been published in Chemical Engineering Journal.

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Multi-Level Optical Physical Unclonable Function Based on Random Surface Scattering for Hierarchical Cryptographic Protocols

Our paper entitled "Multi-Level Optical Physical Unclonable Function Based on Random Surface Scattering for Hierarchical Cryptographic Protocols" has been published in Advanced Science.

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Hierarchical assembly of upconversion nanoparticle-grating hybrids on flexible nanofibers for multi-level physical unclonable functions

Our paper entitled "Hierarchical assembly of upconversion nanoparticle-grating hybrids on flexible nanofibers for multi-level physical unclonable functions" has been published in Nanoscale.

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박민서 학생, 석사과정생 연구장려금 지원사업 선정

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Solvent-Programmable Photonic Hydrogels with Tunable Transmittance, Fluorescence, and Diffraction

Our paper entitled "Solvent-Programmable Photonic Hydrogels with Tunable Transmittance, Fluorescence, and Diffraction" has been published in Chemistry of Materials.

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Patternable Siloxane-Functionalized Carbon Dots for Solid-State Luminescent Microstructures and Optical Security

Our paper entitled "Patternable Siloxane-Functionalized Carbon Dots for Solid-State Luminescent Microstructures and Optical Security" has been published in ACS Applied Nano Materials.

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Color-Tunable Glass for Adaptable Thermal Management Based on Silver Phase Change

Our paper entitled "Color-Tunable Glass for Adaptable Thermal Management Based on Silver Phase Change" has been published in Advanced Science.

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김민주 학생, 대학원 대통령과학장학금 장학생 선정

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Self-Aligned Waveguide Array Integrated with Flat Microlenses for Environment-Adaptive and High-Resolution Compound Eye Vision

Our paper entitled "Self-Aligned Waveguide Array Integrated with Flat Microlenses for Environment-Adaptive and High-Resolution Compound Eye Vision" has been published in Advanced Optical Materials.

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Dual-Function Ceramic Pigments for Energy-Efficient and Secure Autonomous Vehicles

Our paper entitled "Dual-Function Ceramic Pigments for Energy-Efficient and Secure Autonomous Vehicles" has been published in Advanced Science.

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미래유망융합기술 파이오니어 과제 선정

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Harnessing Outer Space for Improved Electrocaloric Cooling

Our paper entitled "Harnessing Outer Space for Improved Electrocaloric Cooling" has been published in Advanced Functional Materials.

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Hee Jun Nam has won Best Poster Award in KMiD and SPIE Photonic West!

People

Seung Chae Lee has joined our group!

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Template-Guided Nondeterministic Assembly of Organosilica Nanodots for Multifunctional Physical Unclonable Functions

Our paper entitled "Template-Guided Nondeterministic Assembly of Organosilica Nanodots for Multifunctional Physical Unclonable Functions" has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

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Near-Ideal Copper Oxide Heterostructure Design for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting published

Our paper entitled "Near-Ideal Copper Oxide Heterostructure Design for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting" has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (IF: 8.3).

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Inspiration from Visual Ecology for Advancing Multifunctional Robotic Vision Systems: Bio-inspired Electronic Eyes and Neuromorphic Image Sensors published

Our paper entitled "Inspiration from Visual Ecology for Advancing Multifunctional Robotic Vision Systems: Bio-inspired Electronic Eyes and Neuromorphic Image Sensors" has been published in Advanced Materials (IF: 27.4, JCR < 10%).

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Ultrafast, Fano resonant colorimetric sensor with high chromaticity beyond standard RGB published

Our paper entitled "Ultrafast, Fano resonant colorimetric sensor with high chromaticity beyond standard RGB" has been published in Optica (IF: 8.4, JCR < 10%).

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Feline eye-inspired artificial vision for enhanced camouflage breaking under diverse light conditions published

Our paper entitled "Feline eye-inspired artificial vision for enhanced camouflage breaking under diverse light conditions" has been published in Science Advances as Cover Article (IF: 11.7, JCR < 10%).

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Nanowire-based artificial photoreceptors with multi-hyperuniformity inspired by chicken retina published

Our paper entitled "Nanowire-based artificial photoreceptors with multi-hyperuniformity inspired by chicken retina" has been published in Optics Express.

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Angular selective broadband radiative cooling based on Berreman mode published

Our paper entitled "Angular selective broadband radiative cooling based on Berreman mode" has been published in Optics Express.

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Anti-distortion bioinspired camera with an inhomogeneous photo-pixel array published

Our paper entitled "Anti-distortion bioinspired camera with an inhomogeneous photo-pixel array" has been published in Nature Communications (IF: 16.6, JCR < 7%).

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Avian eye-inspired perovskite artificial vision system for foveated and multispectral imaging published

Our paper entitled "Avian eye-inspired perovskite artificial vision system for foveated and multispectral imaging" has been published in Science Robotics (IF: 25, JCR < 2%).

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10년의 장기연구를 지원하는 '한우물파기 기초연구' 과제에 우리 연구실이 최종 선정되었습니다! 🥳

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Mi Jin, Jeong Jin, Min Ju, and Ik Hoon have been selected as the BK21 PNU Fellowship!

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우리 연구실의 홍미진, 박민서, 임정미, 류동균 학생이 여성대학원생 공학연구팀 지원사업에 선정되었습니다! 🥳

홍미진, 박민서, 임정미, 류동균 학생이 과학기술정보통신부 여성대학원생 공학연구팀 지원사업에 선정되었으며, 해당 소식이 PNU Focus에 소개되었습니다.

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Enhanced Color-Preserving Radiative Coolers for Versatile Architectural Applications published

Our paper entitled "Enhanced Color-Preserving Radiative Coolers for Versatile Architectural Applications" has been published in Advanced Optical Materials (IF: 9.0, JCR < 10%).

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Deep learning-assisted inverse design of nanoparticle-embedded radiative coolers published

Our paper entitled "Deep learning-assisted inverse design of nanoparticle-embedded radiative coolers" has been published in Optics Express.

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Bio-inspired tunable optics and photonics: bridging the gap between nature and technology published

Our paper entitled "Bio-inspired tunable optics and photonics: bridging the gap between nature and technology" has been published in International Journal of Optomechatronics.

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Fully bioresorbable hybrid opto-electronic neural implant system for simultaneous electrophysiological recording and optogenetic stimulation published

Our paper entitled "Fully bioresorbable hybrid opto-electronic neural implant system for simultaneous electrophysiological recording and optogenetic stimulation" has been published in Nature Communications (IF: 16.6, JCR < 7%).

People

Min Seong Kim, Min Ju Kim, Su Bo Lee, and Ik Hoon Jeong graduated from MS and BS courses!

People

Min Seo and Min Ju made our APOL logo!

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Check out APOL members' journey at CES 2024!

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Nanomaterial-Based Artificial Vision Systems: From Bioinspired Electronic Eyes to In-Sensor Processing Devices published

Our paper entitled "Nanomaterial-Based Artificial Vision Systems: From Bioinspired Electronic Eyes to In-Sensor Processing Devices" has been published in ACS Nano (IF: 17.1, JCR 7%).

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Flexible and Wearable Encryption Primitive Based on Optical Physically Unclonable Functions published

Our paper entitled "Flexible and Wearable Encryption Primitive Based on Optical Physically Unclonable Functions" has been published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.

People

Gyu Tae Park has joined our group!

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Parabolic Mirror-Assisted Thermoelectric and Radiative Cooling System for Maximizing Power Generation Utilizing Solar and Outer Space Thermodynamic Resources published

Our paper entitled "Parabolic Mirror-Assisted Thermoelectric and Radiative Cooling System for Maximizing Power Generation Utilizing Solar and Outer Space Thermodynamic Resources" has been published in Advanced Materials Interfaces.

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Scalable, Patternable Glass-Infiltrated Ceramic Radiative Coolers for Energy-Saving Architectural Applications published

Our paper entitled "Scalable, Patternable Glass-Infiltrated Ceramic Radiative Coolers for Energy-Saving Architectural Applications" has been published in Advanced Science (IF: 15.1, JCR 7%).

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Min Seo Park has joined our group!

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Jung Mi Im has joined our group!

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Heejun Nam has won Best Poster Award in IEIE 2023!

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Dong Gyun Ryu has joined our group!

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Min Seong Kim, Hee Jun Nam, Jeong Jin Kim, and Mi Jin Hong have been selected as the BK21 PNU Fellowship!

People

Han Gyeol Kim has joined our group!

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Polarization-mediated multi-state infrared system for fine temperature regulation published

Our paper entitled "Polarization-mediated multi-state infrared system for fine temperature regulation" has been published in APL Photonics as Featured article!

People

Mi Jin Hong, Jeong Jin Kim, and Heejun Nam graduated from their undergraduate programs!

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Min Seong Kim has won Outstanding Research Paper Award in BK21 EE!

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Cuttlefish eye-inspired artificial vision for high-quality imaging under uneven illumination conditions published

Our paper entitled "Cuttlefish eye-inspired artificial vision for high-quality imaging under uneven illumination conditions" has been published in Science Robotics (IF: 27.541, JCR 2%).

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Zebra-inspired stretchable, biodegradable radiation modulator for all-day sustainable energy harvester published

Our paper entitled "Zebra-inspired stretchable, biodegradable radiation modulator for all-day sustainable energy harvester" has been published in Science Advances (IF: 14.980, JCR 9%).

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Visually Hidden, Self-Assembled Porous Polymers for Optical Physically Unclonable Functions published

Our paper entitled "Visually Hidden, Self-Assembled Porous Polymers for Optical Physically Unclonable Functions" has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

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Compact zooming optical systems for panoramic and telescopic applications based on curved image sensor published

Our paper entitled "Compact zooming optical systems for panoramic and telescopic applications based on curved image sensor" has been published in Journal of Optical Microsystems.

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An amphibious artificial vision with a panoramic visual field published

Our paper entitled "An amphibious artificial vision with a panoramic visual field" has been featured on the July cover of Nature Electronics!

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An amphibious artificial vision with a panoramic visual field published

Our paper entitled "An amphibious artificial vision with a panoramic visual field" has been published in Nature Electronics (IF: 33.255, JCR 1%).

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Chang Hwan Kim has joined our group!

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Heat-shedding with photonic structures: radiative cooling and its potential published

Our paper entitled "Heat-shedding with photonic structures: radiative cooling and its potential" has been published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

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Self-Cooling Gallium-Based Transformative Electronics with a Radiative Cooler for Reliable Stiffness Tuning in Outdoor Use published

Our paper entitled "Self-Cooling Gallium-Based Transformative Electronics with a Radiative Cooler for Reliable Stiffness Tuning in Outdoor Use" has been published in Advanced Science (IF: 16.806, JCR 6%).

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June Tae Kim and Heejun Nam have joined our group!

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Min Seong Kim has been selected as the BK21 PNU Fellowship!

People

Mi Jin Hong has joined our group!

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Gires-Tournois Immunoassay Platform for Label-Free Bright-Field Imaging and Facile Quantification of Bioparticles published

Our paper entitled "Gires-Tournois Immunoassay Platform for Label-Free Bright-Field Imaging and Facile Quantification of Bioparticles" has been published in Advanced Materials (IF: 30.849, JCR 3%).

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Spatially-segmented colored radiative cooler with angle-robustness published

Our paper entitled "Spatially-segmented colored radiative cooler with angle-robustness" has been published in IEEE Photonics Journals.

People

Jeong Jin Kim has joined our group!

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Revisiting silk: a lens-free optical physical unclonable function published

Our paper entitled "Revisiting silk: a lens-free optical physical unclonable function" has been published in Nature Communications (IF: 14.919, JCR 5%).

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Single-material, near-infrared selective absorber based on refractive index-tunable Tamm plasmon structure published

Our paper entitled "Single-material, near-infrared selective absorber based on refractive index-tunable Tamm plasmon structure" has been published in Advanced Optical Materials (IF: 9.926, JCR 7%).

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Su Bo Lee has joined our group!

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Determining the effectiveness of radiative cooler-integrated solar cells published

Our paper entitled "Determining the effectiveness of radiative cooler-integrated solar cells" has been published in Advanced Energy Materials (IF: 29.368, JCR 3%).

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Jun Soo Kim and Min Ju Kim have joined our group!

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Ik Hoon Jeong has joined our group!

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Min Seong Kim has joined our group!

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Sang-Wook Park has joined our group!

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Ultra-thin and near-unity selective emitter for efficient cooling published

Our paper entitled "Ultra-thin and near-unity selective emitter for efficient cooling" has been published in Optics Express.

People

Prof. Lee lab opens at PNU

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Group website is online