Ph.D. candidates Byeonggeol Lee and Dongju Jang from the Advanced Flexible Electronics Laboratory (AXEL), led by Professor Yongtaek Hong, received the KIDS Award (Silver) at the 26th International Meeting on Information Display (IMID 2026), an international conference organized by the Korean Information Display Society (KIDS). IMID is a leading international conference in the display field, co-organized by KIDS and the Society for Information Display (SID). This year, the conference was held at BEXCO in Busan from August 18 to 21. The research team delivered an oral presentation in the “Free Form Factor Displays: Backplane” session under the title “A Thermally Conductive Hydrogel Heatsink for Sustained Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting from Everyday Heat Sources under Ambient Air Condition.” The study applied thermoelectric energy harvesting technology, which converts thermal energy into electrical energy, to various everyday waste-heat sources. In particular, the team demonstrated a self-powered system that generates electrical energy from heat emitted by laptops and body heat, driving wireless communication devices and LEDs without an external power source. The KIDS Awards, sponsored by both LG Display and Samsung Display, recognize innovation and excellence in display research. Two papers are selected in each of the Gold, Silver, and Bronze categories. The research team received the Silver Award. This research is significant in that it addressed the heat dissipation problem that limited the performance of thermoelectric energy harvesting in the real ambient-air condition, presenting a novel method for effectively recycling various forms of waste heat generated in everyday life. It is expected to be used as a standalone energy source for various low-power electric devices, including wearables and self-powered sensor systems. Source: https://ece.snu.ac.kr/ece/news?md=v&bbsidx=58052 Translated by: JungHwan Kim, English Editor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, onzdavid@snu.ac.kr...

Ph.D. candidate Dahyun Kim from the Advanced Flexible Electronics Laboratory (AXEL), led by Professor Yongtaek Hong, received the Best Paper Award (Gold) at the 26th International Meeting on Information Display (IMID 2026), an international conference organized by the Korean Information Display Society (KIDS). IMID is a leading international conference in the display field, co-organized by KIDS and the Society for Information Display (SID). This year, the conference was held at BEXCO in Busan from August 18 to 21. The research team delivered an oral presentation in the Outstanding Students Conference (OSC) session under the title “Transparent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with Metal Mesh Electrodes Directly Formed on Organic Layers via Area-Selective Thermal Evaporation.” The study directly formed metal-mesh transparent electrodes on organic layers by utilizing the metal-vapor-desorption phenomenon and applied them to transparent organic light-emitting diodes (OLED). Of approximately 950 papers presented at IMID 2026, only four were selected for the Outstanding Students Conference. Following a review by the program committee based on the originality and technical significance of the research, Dahyun Kim was selected as the best presenter among them and received the Gold Award (Best Paper Award Certificate Gold). Meanwhile, the research was featured as the Outside Front Cover in the May 2026 issue of Materials Horizons. Paper Title: High-performance transparent metal mesh electrodes utilizing a metal-vapor-desorption layer for organic light-emitting diode applications DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MH02144H Source: https://ece.snu.ac.kr/ece/news?md=v&bbsidx=58051 Translated by: JungHwan Kim, English Editor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, onzdavid@snu.ac.kr...

On August 28, 2026, the following students received outstanding graduate thesis awards and were presented with their degree certificates as representative graduates at the 2025 Fall Semester (80th) Graduation Ceremony of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Congratulations to all graduates and award recipients. << Outstanding Graduate Thesis Awards >> < Bio Field Jiye Kim (Advisor: Professor Jongho Lee(B)) > < Semiconductor Field Sung-Ho Park (Advisor: Professor Jong-Ho Lee(S)) > < Electric Energy Field Jonghoon Yoon (Advisor: Professor Seungyong Hahn) > < Electronic Physics Field Jeong Han Song (Advisor: Professor Jeonghun Kwak) < Control Field Chaeeun Hong (Advisor: Professor Kyoung Mu Lee) > < Computer Field Jiho Kim (Advisor: Professor Bohyung Han) < Computer Field Jaeseok Byun (Advisor: Professor Taesup Moon) > < Communications Field Yongwan Kim (Advisor: Professor Jungsuek Oh) > < Communications Field Jihye Kim (Advisor: Professor Seong-Cheol Kim) > < Degree Certificate Presentation > Source: https://ece.snu.ac.kr/ece/news?md=v&bbsidx=58033 Translated by: JungHwan Kim, English Editor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, onzdavid@snu.ac.kr...

On August 28, 2026, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering held its 2025 fall semester (80th) graduation ceremony, conferring degrees upon 63 doctoral graduates, 20 master’s graduates, and 63 bachelor’s graduates. The ceremony featured degree conferrals for representative graduates, the presentation of outstanding graduate thesis awards, and the recognition of summa cum laude graduates. Professor Seong-Cheol Kim delivered a message of encouragement and best wishes for the bright future of the graduating class. In particular, the ceremony concluded with graduates and current students singing the graduation song while watching a video made from photographs capturing memories of the graduates’ time at the university. Source: https://ece.snu.ac.kr/ece/news?md=v&bbsidx=58032 Translated by: JungHwan Kim, English Editor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, onzdavid@snu.ac.kr...

A paper by researcher Sung-Ho Park from Professor Jong-Ho Lee’s research team in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Seoul National University has been selected as the cover article for the November 2026 issue (issue 61) of Advanced Science (IF: 14.1), a world-renowned scientific journal. This research proposes a novel Triple-Level Content-Addressable Memory (TLCAM) architecture that directly compares the stored data with input data in parallel inside the memory, utilizing eight data states per cell of the commercial three-dimensional NAND flash memory. Compared to the sequential read approach of the conventional NAND flash memory, it increases the read throughput by up to 24 times and reduces the read energy for searching by approximately 98%. As three-dimensional NAND flash memory is a representative nonvolatile memory with high integration density and solid commercial viability, this research is expected to significantly contribute to the advancement of high-performance memory-centric computing technologies for accelerating large-scale data searches and enabling low-power artificial intelligence computation. Paper Title: Triple-Level Content-Addressable Vertical NAND Flash Memory (https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.77390) Source: https://ece.snu.ac.kr/ece/news?md=v&bbsidx=58028 Translated by: JungHwan Kim, English Editor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, onzdavid@snu.ac.kr...

(From left) Professor Hak-Rin Kim of Kyungpook National University, Yong-Kuk Yoon, Head of Optronics Korea Business at Merck, and Professor Soo-Yeon Lee of Seoul National University. Professor Soo-Yeon Lee received the Merck Young Scientist Award at the 2026 Merck Awards. The Merck Awards started as a technical paper award established at the International Meeting on Information Display (IMID) in 2004 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Merck’s liquid crystal research and to recognize outstanding scientific achievements in display technologies. In 2006, the awards were expanded to include the Merck Young Scientist Award. Professor Lee, this year’s recipient of the Merck Young Scientist Award, has contributed to the advancement of next generation display and semiconductor technologies through her research on oxide thin film transistor (TFT) devices and related circuit technologies. She has identified the mechanism of the optical reliability and instability of oxide TFTs, developed a novel device structure to suppress the short channel effect, and developed device-degradation modeling along with panel compensation technologies. She has also conducted research on ultra-high-resolution, low-power display driving technologies through the design of OLED and micro-LED pixel circuits. More recently, she has expanded her research into low-power synaptic devices and neuromorphic systems by utilizing the low off-current and multi-level operating characteristics of oxide semiconductors. Professor Lee stated, “This award is a joyful recognition of my efforts so far and a great encouragement to go even further. By gaining a deep understanding of devices and connecting that knowledge to circuits and systems, I hope to produce outcomes that are both academically meaningful and practically useful.” Source: https://ece.snu.ac.kr/ece/news?md=v&bbsidx=58010 Translated by: JungHwan Kim, English Editor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, onzdavid@snu.ac.kr...

2026년 8월 28일, 2025학년도 후기(제80회) 전기·정보공학부 졸업행사를 열고 박사 61명, 석사 20명, 학사 63명에게 학위를 수여하였다. 대표자 학위수여 및 대학원 우수논문상 상패 전달, 최우등 졸업자 상장수여를하였고, 김성철 교수가 졸업생들의 밝은 미래를 위해 축하와 격려의 메시지를 전달하였다. 특히 이번 행사에서는 졸업생과 재학생이 함께 졸업생들의 재학중의 추억사진으로 만든 동영상과 함께 졸업축가 노래를 부르며 행사를 마무리하였다....

▲ (From left) Professor Woo Young Choi and Ph.D. student Jin Ho Chang ▲ Samsung Electronics Industry-Academia Cooperation Paper Awards Jin Ho Chang, a Ph.D. student in the Three-Dimensional Integration & Device Lab (TIDL) led by Professor Woo Young Choi, received the Excellence Award at the Samsung Electronics Industry-Academia Cooperation Paper Awards, hosted by Samsung Electronics on August 19. The award-winning paper, titled “Large-Scale and Highly Reliable Hopfield Neural Networks Using Vertical NAND Flash Memory for In-Memory Associative Computing,” presents a large-scale, highly reliable Hopfield neural network based on vertical NAND flash memory and demonstrates its application to in-memory associative computing. The research was also published as the front cover article in the April 2026 issue of Advanced Intelligent Systems. Source: https://ece.snu.ac.kr/ece/news?md=v&bbsidx=58000 Translated by: Changhoon Kang, English Editor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, changhoon27@snu.ac.kr...