People Bong Jae LeeAssistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science bjl39@pitt.edu EducationPhD in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007. Professional InterestsDr. Lee’s research interests include nanoscale energy transport phenomena, light-matter interaction at the nanoscale, plasmonics, and metamaterials. In particular, he is interested in investigating fundamental physics of near-field thermal radiation, tailoring radiative properties of nanostructures, and employing engineered nanostructures to photovoltaic/thermophotovoltaic energy conversion and biosensing devices. For more details, please visit his personal web site. selected publicationsLee, B.J., Wang, L.P., and Zhang, Z.M., 2008, “Coherent Thermal Emission by Excitation of Magnetic Polaritons between Periodic Strips and a Metallic Film,” Optics Express, Vol. 16,pp. 11328-11336. Lee, B.J., Chen, Y.-B., and Zhang, Z.M., 2008, “Surface Waves Between Metallic Films and Truncated Photonic Crystals Observed with Reflectance Spectroscopy,” Optics Letters, Vol. 33,pp. 204-206. Lee, B.J., Chen, Y.-B., and Zhang, Z.M., 2008, “Transmission Enhancement through Nanoscale Metallic Slit Arrays from the Visible to Mid-infrared,” Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Vol. 5, pp. 201-213 (invited). Lee, B.J., Chen, Y.-B., and Zhang, Z.M., 2008, “Confinement of Infrared Radiation to Nanometer Scales through Metallic Slit Arrays,” Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, Vol. 109, pp. 608-619. Lee, B.J., Park, K., and Zhang, Z.M., 2007, “Energy Pathways in Nanoscale Thermal Radiation," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 91, 153101 [Figure selected as the cover image for the October 8, 2007 issue]. Lee, B.J., and Zhang, Z.M., 2006, “Design and Fabrication of Planar Multilayer Structures with Coherent Thermal Emission Characteristics,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 100, 063529. Lee, B.J., Fu, C.J., and Zhang, Z.M., 2005, “Coherent Thermal Emission from One-dimensional Photonic Crystals,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 87, 071904 [Selected for the August 22, 2005 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology]. Park, K., Lee, B.J., Fu, C.J., and Zhang, Z.M., 2005, “Study of the Surface and Bulk Polaritons with a Negative Index Metamaterial,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 22, pp. 1016-1023. Curriculum VitaeDr. Bong Jae Lee joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science as an Assistant Professor in 2008. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology prior to his faculty appointment. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea in 2001 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He is the winner of the Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in 2008 and is the recipient of the Hewlett Packard Best Paper Award (2nd place) in 2007. |
Faculty
Adjunct/Joint Faculty
Emeritus Faculty
Research Faculty
Lecturers
|
Benedum Hall
Dedicated in 1971, Benedum Hall is home to exploration and discovery.