Junsoo Shin received his BS degree from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea in Electrical Engineering and a MS degree in Physics for the same institution.  He started his Ph.D. work at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and then move to the University of Tennessee, where his thesis work was conducted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory working primarily with Dr. Art Baddorf.  He received his Ph.D in 2007 completing a thesis with the title “Structure and Transport Properties of Epitaxial Oxide Thin Films:  From Synthesis to Characterization.”  The picture below shows Junsoo in the laboratory where the thin films are grown and characterized.

Below are several of Junsoo’s papers:

• Layer-by-layer and Pseudo-two dimensional growth modes for heteroepitaxial BaTiO3 films by exploiting kinetic limitations” Junsoo Shin, S.V. Kalinin, A.Y. Borisevich, E.W. Plummer, and A.P. Baddorf, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 202901 (2007), Selected for the Virtual Journal of Nanoscience November 26, 2007.
• “Polar distortion in ultra-thin BaTiO3 films by in situ LEED I-V” Junsoo Shin, V.B. Nascimento, A.Y. Borisevich, E.W. Plummer, S.V. Kalinin, and A.P. Baddorf, Phys. Rev. B 77, 245437 (2008).
• “Electronic transport through in situ grown ultra-thin BaTiO3 films” Junsoo Shin, S.V. Kalinin, E.W. Plummer, and A.P. Baddorf, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 032903 (2009).

After graduation Junsoo went to work as a postdoc at ORNL working in the group of Dr. Amit Goyal.