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Sung-Kwan Mo

Staff Scientist
ARPES, Photon Science Operations

Contact

skmo@lbl.govMailstop: 6R2100510-495-2101 (Lab)
510-495-2903 (Office)
Location(s): 006-2228

Websites

Responsibilities

Beamline scientist in charge of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy program at Beamline 10.0.1

Biographical Information

  • Physicist Staff Scientist, Advanced Light Source (2018 – )
  • Physicist Research Scientist, Advanced Light Source (2010 – 2018)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University (2006 – 2009)
  • Ph. D. Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (2006)
  • B. Sc. Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (1999)

Research Interests

  • Thin film growth and in situ characterization of their electronic structure using ARPES: transition metal dichalcogenides, topological matters, and their heterostructures
  • ARPES investigation of electronic structure: heavy fermion, functional oxides, low-dimensional systems, density wave systems, and other strongly correlated materials
  • Lineshape analysis of ARPES spectra: phenomena near quantum critical point, geometrical & magnetic frustration

Selected Publications

Full publication list can be found at Web of Science or Google Scholar.

  1. J. W. Hwang, W. Ruan, Y. Chen, S. J. Tang, M. F. Crommie, Z.-X. Shen, and S.-K. Mo*, “Charge density waves in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides,” Reports on Progress in Physics 87, 044502 (2024). (doi:10.1088/1361-6633/ad36d3)
  2. J.-E. Lee, S. H. Yan, S. H. Oh, J. W. Hwang, J. D. Denlinger, C. G. Hwang, H. Lei*, S.-K. Mo*, S. Y. Park*, and H. Ryu*, “Electronic structure of above-room-temperature van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GaTe2,” Nano Letters 23, 11526 (2023). (doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03203)
  3. Y. Zhong*, C. Peng, H. L. Huang, D. D. Guan, J. W. Hwang, K. H. Hsu, Y. Hu, C. J. Jia, B. Moritz, D. H. Lu, J.-S. Lee, J.-F. Jia, T. P. Devereaux, S.-K. Mo*, and Z.-X. Shen*, “From Stoner to local moment magnetism in atomically thin Cr2Te3,” Nature Communications 14, 5340 (2023). (doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40997-1)
  4. K. Song, C. J. Jia, H. Xiong, B. B. Wang, Z. C. Jiang, K. Huang, J. W. Hwang, Z. J. Li, C. G. Hwang, Z. K. Liu, D. W. Shen, J. A. Sobota, P. Kirchmann, J. M. Xue, T. P. Devereaux, S.-K. Mo*, Z.-X. Shen* and S. J. Tang*, “Signatures of the exciton gas phase and its condensation in monolayer 1T-ZrTe2,” Nature Communications 14, 1116 (2023). (doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36857-7)
  5. J. W. Hwang*, Y. Jin, C. Zhang, T. Zhu, K. Kim, Y. Zhong, J.-E. Lee, Z. Q. Shen, Y. Chen, W. Ruan, H. Ryu, C. G. Hwang, J. Lee, M. F. Crommie, S.-K. Mo*, and Z.-X. Shen*, “A novel √19 x √19 superstructure in epitaxially grown 1T-TaTe2,” Advanced Materials 34, 2204579 (2022). (doi:10.1002/adma.202204579)
  6. J. W. Hwang*, K. Kim, C. X. Zhang, T. C. Zhu, C. Herbig, S. Kim, B. Kim, Y. Zong, M. Salah, M. M. ElDesoky, C. G. Hwang, Z.-X. Shen, M. F. Crommie, and S.-K. Mo*, “Large-gap insulating dimer ground state in monolayer IrTe2,” Nature Communications, 13, 906 (2022). (doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28542-y)
  7. W. Ruan, Y. Chen, S. J. Tang, J. W. Hwang, H.-Z. Tsai, R. Lee, M. Wu, H. Ryu, S. Kahn, F. Liou, C. Jia, A. Aikawa, C. G. Hwang, F. Wang, Y. Choi, S. G. Louie, P. A. Lee, Z.-X. Shen, S.-K. Mo, and M. F. Crommie*, “Evidence for quantum spin liquid behavior in single-layer 1T-TaSe2  from scanning tunneling microscopy,” Nature Physics 17, 1154 (2021). (doi:10.1038/s41567-021-01321-0)
  8. Y. Chen, W. Ruan, M. Wu, S. Tang, H. Ryu, H.-Z. Tsai, R. Lee, S. Kahn, F. Liou, C. Jia, O. R. Albertini, H. Xiong, T. Jia, Z. Liu, J. A. Sobota, A. Y. Liu, J. E. Moore, Z.-X. Shen, S. G. Louie, S.-K. Mo, and M. F. Crommie*, “Strong correlations and orbital texture in single-layer 1T-TaSe2,” Nature Physics 16, 218 (2020). (doi:10.1038/s41567-019-0744-9)
  9. S. J. Tang, C. F. Zhang, D. Wong, Z. Pedramrazi, H.-Z. Tsai, C. J. Jia, B. Moritz, M. Claassen, H. Ryu, S. Kahn, J. Jiang, H. Yan, M. Hashimoto, D. H. Lu, R. G. Moore, C.-C. Hwang, C. G. Hwang, Z. Hussain, Y. L. Chen, M. M. Ugeda, Z. Liu, X. Xie, T. P. Devereaux, M. F. Crommie, S.-K. Mo*, and Z.-X. Shen*, “Quantum spin Hall state in monolayer 1T’-WTe2,” Nature Physics 13, 683 (2017). (doi:10.1038/nphys4174)
  10. C.-Z. Xu, Y.-H. Chan, Y. Chen, P. Chen, X.-X. Wang, C. Dejoie, M.-H. Wong, J. A. Hlevyack, H. Ryu, H.-Y. Kee, N. Tamura, M.-Y. Chou, Z. Hussain, S.-K. Mo*, and T.-C. Chiang*, “Elemental topological Dirac semimetal: α-Sn on InSb(111),” Physical Review Letters 118, 146402 (2017). (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.146402)