2023 News
Hongkun has been selected as one of the Highly Cited Researchers by Web of Science in 2023, recognized for multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations.
Our collaborative paper on orbital multiferroicity in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene was published in Nature.
Our collaborative paper on electron microscopy investigation of polar domain dynamics in twisted van der Waals homobilayers was published in Nat. Mater.
Congratulations to Ilya Esterlis who started as an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in July 2023!
Our review paper on atom-sized quantum sensors for biomedical applications was published in Nat. Rev. Phys.
Our collaborative paper on anisotropic polariton propagation in a ferroelectric van der Waals semiconductor was published in Nat. Nanotechnol.
2022 News
Hongkun has been selected as one of the Highly Cited Researchers by Web of Science in 2022, recognized for multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations.
Our collaborative paper on a robust multi-qubit quantum network node with integrated error detection was published in Science and is featured in a Perspective in the same issue.
Our paper on atomically thin beam steerer based on MoSe2 heterostructures was published in Nat. Commun.
Our paper on dark exciton drift and diffusion through a strain landscape in a WSe2 monolayer was published in Nat. Commun.
A group alumnus, Jeffrey Abbott, founded a company, Cytotronics, based on the CMOS-microelectrode array technology developed in Donhee Ham’s lab and our lab.
Our collaborative work with Donhee Ham’s group on multi-parametric functional imaging of cell ensembles using a CMOS microelectrode array was published in Lab on a Chip and was featured as a Cover.
Elise, Licheng, and Esther made a lab tour video. We hope that it’s a sign of everything getting back to normal. :)
2021 News
Hongkun has been selected as one of the Highly Cited Researchers by Web of Science in 2021, recognized for multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations.
Our collaborative perspective on “copying” and “pasting” the brain circuit is published in Nature Electronics. It results from the collaboration between the Harvard team and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and lays out the vision for new neuromorphic electronics based on the reverse engineering of the brain. You can read/hear more about it from Samsung Press Releases here and here.
Hongkun was selected as a recipient of the Scientist of the Year Award in 2021 given jointly by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) and the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST).
Our paper on bilayer Wigner crystals and their quantum melting in an atomically thin heterostructure was published in Nature. It was featured in the Harvard Gazette, Phys.Org, ChemistryWorld, and Quanta Magazine.
Our collaborative paper describing the effect of the moire potential on the excitons in twisted WSe2/WSe2 bilayers was published in Nature Materials.
Congratulations to You Zhou who started as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland in January 2021!
2020 News
Hongkun has been selected as one of the Highly Cited Researchers by Web of Science in 2020, recognized for multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations in 2009-2019.
Our paper on extracellular recording of synaptic signals using our CMOS-nanoelectrode array was published online in Lab on a Chip.
Our paper on broken inversion symmetry and its effect on the exciton properties in reconstructed domains of twisted MoSe2/MoSe2 bilayers was published in Nature Nanotechnology and is featured in a News & Views article in the same issue.
Our paper on controlling spin-valley properties of WSe2/WSe2 bilayers via twist angle and electric field was published in Phys. Rev. Lett. and was highlighted in Nature Reviews Materials.
Our collaborative paper on memory-enhanced quantum communication based on color centers in diamond was published in Nature and was featured in Harvard News and Harvard Crimson.
Congratulations to Nabeel Aslam who has been selected as the winner of the Bruker Thesis prize from the The ESR Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Our paper on controlling excitons in a MoSe2 monolayer via suspension over a mirror was published in Phys. Rev. Lett. and was selected as Editor's suggestion.
2019 News
Our collaborative paper on electrical control over interlayer excitons in atomically thin heterostructures was published in Science.
Hongkun has been selected as one of the Highly Cited Researchers by Web of Science in 2019, recognized for multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations in 2008-2018.
Our collaborative work with Donhee Ham’s group on a new CMOS-neuroelectronic interface was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering and was featured in Nature Blog and Harvard News. This new high-throughput intracellular-recording interface opens up new possibilities for functional connectome mapping and electrophysiological screening.
Congratulations to Helena Knowles who starts as a lecturer (equivalent to an assistant professor in the US) at the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge UK!
Our collaborative paper on electron-phonon Cerenkov instability in graphene was published in Science. This observation opens up possibilities for tunable terahertz generation and active phononic devices based on two-dimensional materials.
Congratulations to Jellert Gaublomme who starts in January as an assistant professor of biological sciences at Columbia University in the City of New York!
2018 News
Our scanning electron microscope image of rat cortical neurons on top of a CMOS-nanoelectrode array has been selected as a winner of the 2018 Beauty of the Brain image contest by the Harvard Brain Science Initiative.
Hongkun has been selected as one of the Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics in 2018, recognized for multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations in 2006-2016.
Hongkun gave a TEDxKFAS talk on our work on CMOS-neuroelectronic interfaces. It gives an overview of the related field for general audience but also a flavor on our collaborative work with Professor Donhee Ham’s group.
Our collaborative paper on photon-mediated interactions between SiV color centers in a diamond nanocavity was published online in Science.
Congratulations to Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi who began a new faculty position at the University of California at Irvine in July! He joins the Department of Physics as an assistant professor.
Our collaborative paper on high-resolution NMR spectroscopy of chemical species using nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond was published in Nature and was featured in Physics Today Search & Discovery section.
Our paper on atomically thin mirrors made of monolayer semiconductors was published in Phys. Rev. Lett. This work was selected as Editor's suggestion and featured in a News & Views article in Nature, a News and Commentary article in Phys. Rev. Lett., and was covered in a news article in Chemistry World.
Our collaborative paper on electrical control over charge carriers and excitons in atomically thin semiconductors was published in Nature Nanotechnology. This work was selected as Editor's suggestion and featured in a News & Views article.
2017 News
Our paper on a new spectroscopy technique for two-dimensional materials based on near-field coupling to surface plasmon polaritons was published in Nature Nanotechnology. This work was featured in a News & Views article in the same issue and listed on the cover.
Congratulations to Alex High who begins a new faculty position at the University of Chicago! He joins the Institute for Molecular Engineering as an assistant professor.
Our paper on CMOS nanoelectrode array for electrophysiological imaging was published in Nature Nanotechnology and was covered in a news article in IEEE Spectrum.
Our paper on magnetic resonance spectroscopy of an atomically thin material using a diamond color center was published in Science.
News Archive
Hongkun Park recieved the 2016 National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship!
Our collaborative work with the groups of Aviv Regev and Vijay Kuchroo was published in Cell and was featured as a cover article. This work was profiled in Nature Reviews Immunology. [view article]
Congratulations to Dr. Nathalie de Leon who will begin a new faculty position at Princeton! She will be joining the Department of Electrical Engineering.
Congratulations to Dr. Alexander Sushkov who will begin a new faculty position at Boston University! He will be joining the Department of Physics.
Our work was profiled in Nature Methods. [view article]
Our work was published in Blood and featured as a cover article.
Congratulations to Dr. Alexander K. Shalek who will begin a new faculty position at MIT! He will be joining the Department of Chemistry and the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science.
Hongkun Park delivered a Kavli colloquim at the Institute of Nanoscience Delft, and is featured in their newsletter.
Our work was selected as a winner for the 2013 Koch Institute Image Awards.
Our collaborative work with Aviv Regev and Vijay Kuchroo was published in Nature and was featured in Scientific American, Nature, Science, CBS News, the Boston Globe, and at MS Discovery Forum. The work is explained in a short youtube video and two Broad news articles.
Congratulations to Dr. Jacob T. Robinson who will begin a new faculty position at Rice University! He will be joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering.
Our work was published in Nature Nanotechnology and featured as a cover article. The work is also mentioned in an article in Wired.
Our collaborative work with the groups of Aviv Regev and Nir Hacohen was published in Cell and was featured as a cover article.
Hongkun Park interview hosted by The Kavli Foundation with Nicholas Spitzer (UCSD), Kwabena Boahen (Stanford), Using Nanoscale Technologies to Understand and Replicate the Human Brain
http://www.kavlifoundation.org/Spitzer-Boahen-Park/
Park Group's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper highlighed in Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/24347/
Park Group's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper highlighed in Physics Today Physics Update
http://blogs.physicstoday.org/update/2010/01/nanowires-transport-biomolecul.html
Park Group's neurobiology research profiled in Harvard Magazine
http://harvardmag.com/pdf/2009/05-pdfs/0509-40.pdf
Hongkun Park receives 2008 NIH Director's Pioneer Award!
General News
A Harvard portrait of Professor Hongkun Park: http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/030588.html and: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/05.19/03-park.html