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Young-Sang Yu

Research Scientist
Experimental Systems Group

Contact

ysyu@lbl.govMailstop: 2R0400510-856-7477
Location(s): 002-0410

Responsibilities

  • Manage the user program at BL5.3.2.2.
  • Developing methods on BL5.3.2.2. & BL5.3.2.1.

Biographical Information

Education:

Feb. 2012

 Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea:
Ph.D. in Material Science & Engineering.

Mar. 2003

~ Jan. 2012

 Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea:
M.S. & Ph.D. course in Materials Science & Engineering.

Mar.1998

~ Feb. 2003

 Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea:
B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering.

 

Past positions:

Oct. 2015

~ present

 Scientist

  • Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Jul. 2014

~ Sep. 2015

 Advanced Light Source Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow

  •  Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
  • Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.

Nov. 2012

~ Jun. 2014

 Joint Postdoctoral Fellow

  •  Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
  • Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92121, USA.

Mar. 2012

~ Oct. 2012

 Postdoctoral Fellow

  • National Creative Research Initiative Center for Spin Dynamics & Spin-Wave Devices (ReC-SDSW), Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.

 

Research Interests

  1. Magnetism
  2. Energy related materials
  3. X-ray microscopy

Selected Publications

  1. Y.-S. Yu, C. Kim, D. A. Shapiro, M. Farmand, D. Qian, T. Tyliszczak, A. L. D. Kilcoyne, S. Marchesini, J. Joseph, P. Denes, T. Warwick, F. C. Strobridge, C. P. Grey, H. Padmore, Y. S. Meng, R. Kostecki, and J. Cabana, “Dependence on crystal size of the nanoscale chemical phase distribution and fracture in LixFePO4” Nano Lett. 15, 4282-4288 (2015).
  2. Y.-S. Yu, C. Kim, Y. Liu, A. van der Ven, Y. S. Meng, R. Kostecki, and J. Cabana, “Nonequilibrium Pathways during Electrochemical Phase Transformations in Single Crystals Revealed by Dynamic Chemical Imaging at Nanoscale Resolution.” Adv. Energy Mater. 5, 1402040 (2015).
  3. Y.-S. Yu, K.-S. Lee, H. Jung, Y.-S. Choi, M.-W. Yoo, D.-S. Han, M.-Y. Im, P. Fischer, and S.-K. Kim, “Polarization-selective vortex-core switching by tailored orthogonal Gaussian-pulse currents.” Phys. Rev. B. 83, 174429 (2011).
  4.  D. A. Shapiro, Y.-S. Yu, T. Tyliszczak, J. Cabana, R. Celestre, W. Chao, K. Kaznatcheev, K. A. L. David, F. Maia, S. Marchesini, Y. S. Meng, T. Warwick, L. L. Yang, and H. A. Padmore, “Chemical composition mapping with nanometer resolution by soft X-ray microscopy.” Nat. Photonics 8, 765 (2014).