1. Vision of NGON Lab   

   The future society will be based on "the Metaverse", which is a fusion of the real world and the virtual world, and accordingly, the importance of hyper-realistic displays as a medium of virtual communication is increasing. To realize such immersive AR/VR near-eye displays, the development of high color-purity light emitters is indispensable to expand the color reproduction range of displays. 

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 2. Vision of NGON Lab   

 The NGON lab dedicates to bringing technological breakthroughs to overcome the current limitations and challenges of optoelectronic nanomaterials and devices to realize the next-generation hyper-realistic displays. Especially, we are interested in luminescent high-color purity nanomaterials, including metal halide perovskites (e.g., cesium lead halides, etc.), colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (e.g., II-VI quantum dots (CdSe, ZnSe, etc.), III-V quantum dots (InP, InGaP, InAs, InSb, etc.)), and their light-emitting diode applications. 

 

 We chemically tailor the composition, structure, and surface ligands of the nanomaterials based on novel synthetic routes and surface chemistry to improve their optical/electrical properties and stability. Also, we seek to in-depth understand the fundamental aspects of nanomaterials and devices including structure/property relationships and device mechanisms.

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 On the other hand, we don't just focus on existing research fields. We aim at pioneering new fields of study by discovering new classes of optoelectronic nanomaterials and devices, which are unprecedented. By using a totally different synthetic approach, for example, molten salt-based colloidal synthesis, we develop new nanomaterials which can exhibit outstanding optical/electrical properties for applications to next-generation optoelectronics and displays, lithography, image sensors, quantum computing, energy, healthcare, etc.

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미래사회는 현실·가상 융합 세계인 메타버스(metaverse) 기반의 사회가 될 것이며, 그에 따라 소통의 매개가 되는 초실감형(hyper-realistic) 디스플레이의 중요성이 점점 커지고 있습니다. 이에 , 우리 NGON Lab에서는 차세대 디스플레이의 핵심 구성 요소인 고색순도 발광나노재료, LED 소자 및 초미세 광학 패터닝에 대한 혁신적인 연구를 통해 메타버스 세계 구현에 기여하고자 합니다.

  한 편으로는, 합성의 어려움 등으로 구현이 어려웠던 광전나노재료를 신개념 합성법을 통해 세계 최초로 구현하고 소자에 응용하는 연구를 통해 새로운 소재 및 소자 분야를 개척하는 연구실을 지향합니다.

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 2. Research fields

- Metal halide perovskites and colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals

- Perovskite and QD LEDs

- Surface chemistry and interface engineering of luminescent nanomaterials

- High-resolution patterning of nanomaterials

- Machine learning-based nanomaterial discovery and synthesis

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For example, our specific research interest includes

- High-stability Quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes

- Environmentally benign (i.e., lead-free) metal halide perovskites

- Colloidal semiconductor magic-sized clusters and other low-dimensional nanostructures

- "Photoresist free" direct optical patterning of colloidal nanocrystals