Kisung Kang, Ph.D. Materials Science

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Member: Fall 2016 to Spring 2022
Contact information: kkang14@illinois.edu
Office: MSEB 306
Research Interest: I am interested in excited electronic states and magnetic properties of materials through computational methods. In order to understand their dynamics, the relationship between materials and excitations is crucial. This relationship can describe the unique properties of excited materials. In terms of application, optoelectronic devices, photovoltaics, or data storage devices with spin polarization are developed by using these properties. Density functional theory or further many-body perturbation theory will be able to open the road to study excited electronic states and magnetic properties of materials. Framework of ab initio method that can describe these kind of materials is going to be developed and then next step is supposed to optimize existing materials or find new ones. Also, electronic properties of two dimensional materials is one of my interests. Previously, I participated in a few projects about recent 2D material, phosphorene. Twisting strain-engineered band gap tuning and line defects with stacking and growth faults were investigated through density functional theory. Also, I am looking for the property change according to dimension of phosphorus.

Journal Articles

2023

Kang, Kisung; Cahill, David G.; Schleife, André

Phonon, Electron, and Magnon Excitations in Antiferromagnetic L1$_0$-type MnPt Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. B, vol. 107, pp. 064412, 2023.

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Nguyen, Kayla X.; Huang, Jeffrey; Karigerasi, Manohar K.; Kang, Kisung; Cahill, David G.; Zuo, Jian-Min; Schleife, André; Shoemaker, Daniel P.; Huang, Pinshane Y.

Angstrom-Scale Imaging of Magnetization in Antiferromagnetic Fe2As via 4D-STEM Journal Article

In: Ultramicroscopy, vol. 247, pp. 113696, 2023.

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2022

Karigerasi, Manohar H.; Kang, Kisung; Huang, Jeffrey; Peterson, Vanessa K.; Rule, Kirrily C.; Studer, Andrew J.; Schleife, André; Huang, Pinshane Y.; Shoemaker, Daniel P.

High-resolution diffraction reveals magnetoelastic coupling and coherent phase separation in tetragonal CuMnAs Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. Materials, vol. 6, pp. 094405, 2022.

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Kang, Kisung; Yang, Kexin; Puthalath, Krithik; Cahill, David G.; Schleife, André

Polar magneto-optical Kerr effect in antiferromagnetic M2As (M=Cr, Mn, Fe) under an external magnetic field Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. B, vol. 105, pp. 184404, 2022.

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2021

Zhao, Chengxi; Kang, Kisung; Neuefeind, Joerg C.; Schleife, André; Shoemaker, Daniel P.

In-plane magnetic structure and exchange interactions in the high-temperature antiferromagnet Cr$_2$Al Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. Materials, vol. 5, pp. 084411, 2021.

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2020

Karigerasi, Manohar H.; Kang, Kisung; Granroth, Garrett E.; Banerjee, Arnab; Schleife, André; Shoemaker, Daniel P.

Strongly two-dimensional exchange interactions in the in-plane metallic antiferromagnet Fe$_2$As probed by inelastic neutron scattering Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. Materials, vol. 4, pp. 114416, 2020.

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Yang, Kexin; Kang, Kisung; Diao, Zhu; Karigerasi, Manohar H.; Shoemaker, Daniel P.; Schleife, André; Cahill, David G.

Magnetocrystalline anisotropy of the easy-plane metallic antiferromagnet Fe$_2$As Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. B, vol. 102, pp. 064415, 2020.

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Siddiqui, Saima A.; Sklenar, Joseph; Kang, Kisung; Gilbert, Matthew J.; Schleife, André; Mason, Nadya; Hoffmann, Axel

Metallic antiferromagnets Journal Article

In: J. Appl. Phys., vol. 128, pp. 040904, 2020.

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2019

Yang, Kexin; Kang, Kisung; Diao, Zhu; Ramanathan, Arun; Karigerasi, Manohar H.; Shoemaker, Daniel P.; Schleife, André; Cahill, David G.

Magneto-optic response of the metallic antiferromagnet Fe$_2$As to ultrafast temperature excursions Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. Materials, vol. 3, pp. 124408, 2019.

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Karigerasi, Manohar H.; Kang, Kisung; Ramanathan, Arun; Gray, Danielle L.; Frontzek, Matthias D.; Cao, Huibo; Schleife, André; Shoemaker, Daniel P.

In-plane hexagonal antiferromagnet in the Cu-Mn-As system Cu$_{0.82}$Mn$_{1.18}$As Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. Materials, vol. 3, pp. 111402, 2019.

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Kang, Kisung; Kononov, Alina; Lee, Cheng-Wei; Leveillee, Joshua A.; Shapera, Ethan P.; Zhang, Xiao; Schleife, André

Pushing the frontiers of modeling excited electronic states and dynamics to accelerate materials engineering and design Journal Article

In: Comput. Mater. Sci., vol. 160, pp. 207-216, 2019.

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2018

Kim, Youngseok; Kang, Kisung; Schleife, André; Gilbert, Matthew J.

Voltage-induced switching of an antiferromagnetically ordered topological Dirac semimetal Journal Article

In: Phys. Rev. B, vol. 97, pp. 134415, 2018.

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Conferences

2021

Kang, Kisung; Krogstad, Jessica Anne; Leal, Cecília; Trinkle, Dallas; Huang, Pinshane; Schleife, André

Incorporating the use of a materials database into a Materials Science and Engineering freshman course Conference

2021 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education 2021.

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Kisung selected for Racheff award

Congratulations to Kisung for being selected as one of this year’s Racheff award recipients. We just finished our Colloquium series

Kisung Kang was selected for the competitive Global Young Scientists Summit

Graduate student Kisung Kang has been selected for the competitive Global Young Scientists Summit. For more details: https://t.co/HPO2YN1OIF pic.twitter.com/5M15kguJPl —

Andre and Kisung Participate in I-MRSEC Workshop on Outreach

“Intent on improving their scientific communication, particularly public engagement, 22 folks, mostly researchers from I-MRSEC (the Illinois Materials Research Science and

Kisung Went To Poland For European School On Magnetism 2018

This September, there was the European School on Magnetism 2018 (ESM 2018) at Kraków in Poland. Main topic in this year