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Marjona met with the President of Uzbekistan during his state visit to Korea.

Marjona had the opportunity to meet President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and share her studies at Yonsei University, her community activities, and her ideas for advancing biomedical engineering in Uzbekistan.

Mabirizi Hassan joined our laboratory as an M.S. student.

Prof. Dasol Lee was appointed Director of the BK21 FOUR Education and Research Center of NBIT-integrated Medical System for Personalized Healthcare.

Prof. Dasol Lee was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Yonsei University.

Jihoon received the best prize (최우수상) at the BK startup competition.

Jihoon joined our laboratory as an M.S./Ph.D. student.

Prof. Lee delivered an invited talk at the UK-Korea Focal Point Workshop

Invited Talk · UK-Korea Focal Point Workshop on Flat Optics for Structured and Entangled Light · Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

Congratulations to alumnus Changhwan Hyeon on beginning his new journey as Associate Researcher at NEW&NEW Co., Ltd.

Prof. Lee delivered a plenary talk at the 2026 KOSOMBE Spring Conference

Plenary Talk · 2026년도 대한의용생체공학회 춘계학술대회 · Republic of Korea

Congratulations to alumnus Seokgyu Kwon on beginning his new journey as Associate Researcher at T&L Co., Ltd.

Multifunctional bilayer radiative cooling dressing for regenerative wound healing under heat stress

Published in Microsystems & Nanoengineering.

Recent advances in radiative cooling: From fundamentals to commercial applications (mega-review)

Published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Multifunctional nanofiber composites integrating pH-responsiveness and passive daytime radiative cooling

Published in Nanophotonics.

Unveiling the local origin of circular dichroism in chiral metasurfaces (News & Views)

Published in Light: Advanced Manufacturing.

Congratulations to alumni Sangmin Shim and Minseo Jeong on their new research journeys at GIST and KAIST.

Sangmin joined the Department of Mechanical and Robotics Engineering at GIST as a Postdoctoral Researcher, and Minseo began his Ph.D. in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST.

Our laboratory research was featured in Yonsei Mirae News No. 19 and 「여기 연세인」.

The feature introduced our research in optical and biomedical sensing and smart thermal-management materials.

SOL students presented at the 2025 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

Changhwan, Minseo, and Seokgyu presented their research, including oral presentations and a poster nominated for the Best Poster Award.

Hydrophobic radiative cooling using Zein-functionalized polyvinyl alcohol nanofibers with dielectric nanoparticles

Published in Small.

A multilayer-based visibly transparent radiative cooler with enhanced solar selectivity

Published in Advanced Optical Materials.

Our laboratory research was featured in BME Spectrum (Vol. 2025, No. 1).

Congratulations to Ph.D. alumnus Semere Araya Asefa on joining Soonchunhyang University as a Postdoctoral Researcher.

Department of Display Materials Engineering, Soonchunhyang University.

Marjona Murodkhuja Kizi Kiyomova joined our laboratory as an M.S. student.

Congratulations to Dr. Semere Araya Asefa, the first Ph.D. graduate of our laboratory.

Prof. Myeongsu Seong gave a guest talk on photoacoustic microscopy.

Topic: Photoacoustic microscopy for visualization of stents in multiple scenarios.

Numerical demonstration of switchable binary-state metasurface for spin Hall effect of circularly polarized light

Published in Scientific Reports.

Thermal protection of wearable devices under outdoor conditions using radiative cooling films

Published in Optical Materials.

Nanofabrication for nanophotonics (mega-review)

Published in ACS Nano.

Real-time observation of the spin Hall effect of light using metasurface-enabled single-shot weak measurements

Published in Nature Communications.

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과학기술정보통신부 · 한국연구재단 · 우수신진연구 · 2025.03.01 – 2030.02.28

Changhwan Hyeon won the Grand Prize in the BK startup competition

Changhwan Hyeon · BK startup competition

Minseo Jeong received the Best Student Presentation Award at KSMTE 2024

Minseo Jeong · KSMTE Annual Autumn Conference 2024

Changhwan Hyeon and Kyung-Hyun Yu received Gold & Silver poster awards at IBEC 2024

Changhwan Hyeon & Kyung-Hyun Yu · IBEC 2024

Prof. Lee delivered an invited talk at Photonics Conference 2024

Invited Talk · Photonics Conference 2024 (PC 2024) · Republic of Korea

Prof. Lee delivered an invited talk at the 2024 Korean Institute of Metals and Materials Fall Meeting

Invited Talk · 2024년도 대한금속·재료학회 추계학술대회 · Republic of Korea

Lawrence Naatey Terkper joined our laboratory as an M.S. student.

Integrated triboelectric nanogenerator and radiative cooler for all-weather transparent glass surfaces

Published in Nature Communications.

Experimental observation of the spin Hall effect of light using compact weak measurement

Published in Nanophotonics.

Prof. Lee delivered an invited talk at PIERS 2024

Invited Talk · PIERS 2024 · Chengdu, China

Nonlocal metasurfaces-enabled analog light localization for imaging and lithography

Published in Laser & Photonics Reviews.

Changhwan Hyeon (M.S.) and Kyung-Hyun Yu (M.S./Ph.D.) joined our laboratory.

Changhwan Hyeon won the Excellence Award in the BK startup competition

Changhwan Hyeon · BK startup competition

Ultrabroadband absorptive refractory plasmonics for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reactions

Published in NPG Asia Materials.

Radiative cooling for energy sustainability: From fundamentals to fabrication methods towards commercialization

Published in Advanced Science.

Minseo Jeong received a poster award at IBEC 2023

Minseo Jeong · IBEC 2023

Seokgyu Kwon and Minseo Jeong joined our laboratory as B.S./M.S. students.

Facile fabrication of titanium nitride nanoring broadband absorbers in the visible to near-infrared by shadow sphere lithography

Published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Spin Hall effect of light: fundamentals to recent advancements

Published in Laser & Photonics Reviews.

Reaching the highest efficiency of spin Hall effect of light in the near-infrared using all-dielectric metasurfaces

Published in Nature Communications.

Sangmin Shim joined our laboratory as an M.S./Ph.D. student.

Hyperbolic metamaterials: fusing artificial structures to natural 2D materials

Published in eLight.

Semere Araya Asefa joined our laboratory as a Ph.D. student.

Total reflection-induced efficiency enhancement of the spin Hall effect of light

Published in ACS Photonics.

Prof. Dasol Lee joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Yonsei University as an Assistant Professor.