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
Large Oscillatory Forces Generated by Interfacial Water Under Lateral Modulation Between Two Hydrophilic Surfaces (with Jared Rasmussen and Edward J. Kim), Applied Physics Letters (2011)
We observed remarkable oscillatory forces with amplitude of 60-90 nN and periodicity of 3–4 water...
Long-Term Structural Changes of Plasmid DNA Studied by Atomic Force Microscopy (with Reilly Clark and Tyler Clark), Scanning (2011)
Long-term stability of plasmid DNA (pDNA) conformations is critical in many research areas, especially those...
Simultaneous Measurement of Normal and Friction Forces Using a Cantilever-Based Optical Interfacial Force Microscope (with Jeremy R. Bonander and Jared A. Rasmussen), Review of Scientific Instruments (2011)
We measured normal and friction forces simultaneously using a recently developed cantilever-based optical interfacial force...
Separation of Topographic Features from Magnetic Force Images Using Capacitive Coupling Effect, Review of Scientific Instruments (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), Applied Physics Letters (2008)
We developed a cantilever based optical interfacial force microscopy (COIFM) that employs a microactuated silicon...