Sunggook Park , Ph.D

Professor Sunggook Park received his Ph.D. in 2002 in Physics at Technical University Chemnitz, Germany with Professor Dietrich R.T. Zahn. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology at Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland where he gained expertise in nanofabrication with nanoimprint lithography as the key technology. H joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at Louisiana State University in 2005. He was a recipient of the prestigious Young Investigator’s CAREER Award from NSF. He currently holds the rank of Associate Professor and L.R. Daniel Professorship in the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department. He is also serving as the Graduate Advisor and Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee of Mechanical Engineering.

Professor Park's research focuses on developing low cost and high throughput technologies to produce micro/nanostructured tools and platforms that enable controlling and manipulating matter in the component, device and system levels. While at LSU, he has developed innovative molding technologies for complex and multi-scale structures comprising 2D/3D micro/nanostructures for bioanalytic micro and nanofluidic applications, and also contributed to understanding and improving demolding process for nanoimprint lithography by studying interfacial properties and deformation behavior at the resist/stamp interfaces. He is an author or co-author of over 65 publications in archival journals and 38 publications in conference proceedings, on topics concerning thermal and mechanical properties of polymer thin films on Si wafers, electronic structures and electrical transport behavior at interfaces between organic semiconductors and inorganic substrates, and fundamentals and applications of nanoimprint lithography, NIL, and nanofabrication including low cost manufacturing of nanopore and nanochannel-based fluidic devices, patterning of biomaterials, polymer optical components, liquid crystal displays and surface coating for anti-adhesive layer of NIL stamps.