The Advanced Photon Source
a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility

Jong-Woo Kim

Contact Information
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave
431/E004
Argonne, Il 60439

Phone: 252-0248 | Fax: 252-7392

E-Mail: jwkim@aps.anl.gov

Education/Experience
  • 2013 - present: Physicst, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.
  • 2008 - 2013:  Assistant Physicist, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.
  • 2005-2008:   Postdoctoral Research Associate, APS/μ-CAT, Ames Laboratory, Argonne, IL.
  • Ph. D. Condensed Matter Physics; Iowa State University, Ames, IA; 2005
  • M.S. Physics; Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea; 2000
  • B.S. Physics; Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea; 1995
Research Interests
  • Magnetic x-ray scattering
  • Imaging of magnetic domains in using x-ray diffraction
Selected Publications
  1. "Two-Dimensional Jeff =1=2 Antiferromagnetic Insulator Unraveled from Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Artificial Perovskite Iridate Superlattices,", Lin Hao, D. Meyers, Clayton Frederick,  Gilberto Fabbris, Junyi Yang, Nathan Traynor, Lukas Horak, Dominik Kriegner, Yongseong Choi, Jong-Woo Kim, Daniel Haskel, Phil J. Ryan, M.P.M. Dean, Jian Liu, Phys. Rev. Lett.  119, 027204 (2017).
  2. "Atomic-scale control of magnetic anisotropy via novel spin-orbit coupling effect in La2/3Sr1/3MnO3/SrIrO3 superlattices", Di Yi, Jian Liu, Shang-Lin Hsu, Lipeng Zhang, Yongseong Choi, Jong-Woo Kim, Zuhuang Chen, James D. Clarkson, Claudy R. Serrao, Elke Arenholz, Philip J. Ryan, Haixuan Xu, Robert J. Birgeneau, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113. 6397 (2016)
  3. "Polar metals by geometric design," T.H. Kim, D. Puggioni, Y. Yuan, L. Xie, H. Zhou, N. Campbell, P.J. Ryan, Y. Choi, J.-W. Kim, J.R. Patzner, S. Ryu, J.P. Podkaminer, J. Irwin, Y. Ma, C.J. Fennie, M.S. Rzchowski, X.Q. Pan, V. Gopalan, J.M. Rondinelli, C.B. Eom, Nature  533, 68 (2016).
  4. "Novel Electronic Behavior Driving NdNiO3 Metal-Insulator Transition,"  M.H. Upton , Yongseong Choi, Hyowon Park, Jian Liu, D. Meyers, J. Chakhalian, S. Middey, Jong-Woo Kim, Philip J. Ryan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 036401(2015)
  5. "Direct evidence for dominant bond-directional interactions in a honeycomb lattice iridate Na2IrO3," Sae Hwan Chun, Jong-Woo Kim, Jungho Kim, H. Zheng, Constantinos C. Stoumpos, C.D. Malliakas, J.F. Mitchell, Kavita Mehlawat, Yogesh Singh, Y. Choi, T. Gog, A. Al-Zein, M. Moretti Sala, M. Krisch, J. Chaloupka, G. Jackeli, G. Khaliullin, B.J. Kim, Nat. Phys.  11, 462 (2015).
  6. "Quantification of octahedral rotations in strained LaAlO3 films via synchrotron x-ray diffraction", R. L. Johnson-Wilke, D. Marincel, S. Zhu, M. P. Warusawithana, A. Hatt, J. Sayre, K. T. Delaney, R. Engel-Herbert, C. M. Schlepütz, J.-W. Kim, V. Gopalan, N. A. Spaldin, D. G. Schlom, P. J. Ryan, and S. Trolier-McKinstry, Phys. Rev. B 88, 174101 (2013)
  7. "Incommensurate antiferromagnetism in a pure spin system via cooperative organization of local and itinerant moments", Yejun Feng, Jiyang Wang, D. M. Silevitch, B. Mihaila, J. W. Kim, J.-Q. Yan, R. K. Schulze, Nayoon Woo, A. Palmer, Y. Ren, Jasper van Wezel, P. B. Littlewood, and T. F. Rosenbaum, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110, 3287 (2013)
  8. "Reversible control of magnetic interactions by electric field in a single-phase material", P. J. Ryan, J-W Kim, T. Birol, P. Thompson, J-H. Lee, X. Ke, P. S. Normile, E. Karapetrova, P. Schiffer, S. D. Brown, C. J. Fennie and D. G. Schlom, Nature Communications 4, 1334 (2013)
  9. "Emergent Superstructural Dynamic Order due to Competing Antiferroelectric and Antiferrodistortive Instabilities in Bulk EuTiO3", Jong-Woo Kim, Paul Thompson, Simon Brown, Peter S. Normile, John A. Schlueter, Andrey Shkabko, Anke Weidenkaff, and Philip J. Ryan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 027201 (2013)
  10. "Dimensionality Driven Spin-Flop Transition in Layered Iridates," J.W. Kim, Y. Choi, Jungho Kim, J.F. Mitchell, G. Jackeli, M. Daghofer, J. van den Brink, G. Khaliullin, B.J. Kim, Phys. Rev. Lett.  109, 037204 (2012).