Dr. Youngki Yoon

Biography

Youngki Yoon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on understanding physics in non-equilibrium phenomena in nanosystems, with particular relevance to device applications using modeling and simulations. Dr. Yoon developed his own quantum transport simulator based on the Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function (NEGF) method, which allows for predictive analysis of nanoscale devices. This work provides insights into direct experimental investigations, which can often be extremely challenging and prohibitively expensive. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville in 2008, where his research primarily focused on ballistic transport in carbon nanotube devices. Following this, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, making pioneering contributions in non-equilibrium quantum transport, including the demonstration of dissipative simulations using NEGF formalism for realistic device sizes and the first-ever attempt to incorporate phonon roughness scattering in graphene nanoribbon transistors.

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