Ki Wook Kim

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7911
Voice: (919) 515-5229
Fax: (919) 515-3027
E-mail: kwk@eos.ncsu.edu

Education

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering
  University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 1988
  
• M.S. Electrical Engineering
  University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 1985
  
• B.S. Electronics Engineering
  Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 1983
  

Professional Experience

• 1998-present
  Professor
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
  
• 1993-1998
  Associate Professor
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
  
• 1988-1993
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
  

Research Interests

Semiconductor physics and modeling of electronic/optoelectronic devices in the nanoscale, low dimensional effects, quantum effects, quantum information processing/computing, spin electronics, molecular electronics, bionics/biological computing, nonlinear physics of solids, phonon processes in nanostructures

Patents

• "Metal-Encapsulated Quantum Wire for Enhanced Charge Transport" - with M. Dutta, H. L. Grubin, G. J. Iafrate, and M. A. Stroscio (U.S. Patent No. 5264711 issued November 23, 1993)
• "Quantum Well Phonon Modulator" - with M. Dutta, G. J. Iafrate, and M. A. Stroscio (U.S. Patent No. 5374831 issued December 20, 1994)
• "TEM-Mode Quantum Wire or Well Laser for Enhanced Gain" - with Y. M. Sirenko, M. A. Stroscio, and M. Dutta (U.S. Patent No. 5661740 issued August 26, 1997)
• "Mesoscopic Electronic Devices with Tailored Energy-Loss Scattering" - with M. A. Stroscio, M. Dutta, Y. M. Sirenko, and G. J. Iafrate (U.S. Patent No. 5917194 issued June 29, 1999)
• "Quantum Well Embedded Quantum Wire Laser for Optimized Performance" - with N. S. Mansour, Y. M. Sirenko, M. A. Littlejohn, M. A. Stroscio, and M. Dutta (pending)
• "Doubly Resonant Quantum Wire Lasers for Enhanced Modulation Bandwidth" - with M. Dutta, Y. M. Sirenko, N. S. Mansour, and M. A. Stroscio (pending)