Profile
- 2015 ~ present Member, The National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK)
- 2017 ~ present Director, Environmentally Benign Surface Cleaning ICC
- 2012 ~ 2014 Vice Dean of Graduate School
- 2012 ~ 2019 President, Society of International Planrarization/CMP Technology
- 2009 ~ 2012 Visiting Research Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- 2006 ~ present Managing Director and Board Member of Korea Cleaning UGM
- 2004 ~ 2006 and 2011 ~ 2015 President of Korea CMPUGM
- 2003 ~ present Program Committee Member, SEMI Korea STS
- 2002 ~ 2003 Visiting Scholar, Department of Mechanical Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston,USA
- 1992 ~ 1994 Member Technical Staff, TexasInstrument,Dallas,TX
Research Topics
- Wet Cleaning Processes/Chemicals in Semiconductor and Electronic Materials Fabrication,
- Chemical Mechanical Planrization, Post CMP Cleaning,
- Mask and EUV Cleaning,
- Wettability of Surfaces,
- Particle/Metallic Adhesion and Removal,
PapersWritings
- Develoments in surface contamination and cleaning, Volume 9: Methods for Surface Cleaning (2017) ISBN: 978-0-3234-3157-6, Chapter 5. Contamination Removal From UV and EUV Photomasks, 2017 https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=emWfDAAAQBAJ&pg=PR2&dq=978-0-3234-3157-6&hl=ko&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx39rH6tfnAhUjIqYKHYuQD1cQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=978-0-3234-3157-6&f=false
- Handbook of Silicon Wafer Cleaning Technolgy, 3rd Ed., ISBN: 978-0-323-51084-4, Chapter 3. Particle Deposition and Adhesion and Chapter 10. Metal Surface Chemical Composition and Morphology, 2018 https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=3JOZDgAAQBAJ&pg=PR4&dq=978-0-323-51084-4&hl=ko&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjj69qp6tfnAhWKwZQKHf7AALIQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=978-0-323-51084-4&f=false
- Guest Editor, Focus Issue on Chemical Mechanical Planarization for Sub-10 nm Technologies, ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, 2019
Industry-Academia Collaboration
- Ebara (Japan), Post CMP Cleaning
- Samsung Electronics (Korea), Backside particles contamination
- BASF-Chemetall (USA), Ceria particle removal
- SKhynix (Korea), IPA impurity control
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