Since coming to Boise State University in 2004, Dr. Kim has served as an Associate Professor for the Department of Physics and as an Affiliate Faculty member of the Materials Science and Engineering graduate program with the College of Engineering. His extensive scholarship includes such work as interdisciplinary nanoscale biophysics research using atomic force microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy. Dr. Kim teaches several physics courses, supervises a variety of Undergraduate Research projects, and serves as a reviewer for publications such as: Nanotechnology, Ultramicroscopy, and Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.
Articles
Separation of Topographic Features from Magnetic Force Images Using Capacitive Coupling Effect, Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2009)
Separation of topographic features from magnetic images has been an issue for the past two...
Cantilever Based Optical Interfacial Force Microscope (with Jeremy R. Bonander), Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2008)
We developed a cantilever based optical interfacial force microscopy (COIFM) that employs a microactuated silicon...
Direct Comparison Between Phase Locked Oscillator and Direct Resonance Oscillator in the Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy Under Ultrahigh Vacuum, Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations (2004)
I have demonstrated the advantage of the phase locked oscillator (PLO) over the conventional direct...