 Dr. Junghyun Cho joined the Watson School as an assistant professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in Fall 2001 after finishing a postdoctoral appointment at University of California, Santa Barbara. During his entire research career, he has gained a broad experience through studies of various materials systems such as ceramics, metals, electronic packaging materials, and coatings by using both experimental and computational techniques. Before starting his graduate studies, he worked at Samsung Semiconductor R&D Center (Korea) for about 1 year in the area of electronics packaging materials and processes. His current research interests include materials reliability issues in electronics packaging, processing and mechanical testing of small length scale materials, ceramic protective coatings (e.g., TBC, EBC), and microstructural design of advanced ceramics. As director of the Cho Research Group their research goal is to study materials and mechanics to tackle various engineering problems encountered as a result of material failure, as well as to design enabling materials so that the most advanced concepts in technology can be realized. The emphasis is given to gain a basic understanding of material microstructures and properties and their relationships. Particularly, we have been involved with structure-property relationships of thin films/coatings (ceramics, polymers, metals), mechanical behavior of materials at nano- and microscales, and microstructure design. Current and future efforts encompass application of nano/micro-mechanics, computer simulation and modeling, and nanoscale characterization techniques to electronic and MEMS packaging, hybrid inorganic/organic systems, and polymeric materials. Further, we focus on novel processing sciences and techniques including biomimetic synthesis, template-directed nucleation and growth of inorganic materials, self-assembled materials, and nanoscale patterning.
He is also a member of several honor societies including Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Delta and several professional organizations including the American Ceramics Society and the TMS.
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