Kwang‐Sun Kang

521 total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 386 citations indexed

About

Kwang‐Sun Kang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kwang‐Sun Kang has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 386 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 20 papers in Materials Chemistry and 13 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Kwang‐Sun Kang's work include Photonic Crystals and Applications (12 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (9 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (8 papers). Kwang‐Sun Kang is often cited by papers focused on Photonic Crystals and Applications (12 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (9 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (8 papers). Kwang‐Sun Kang collaborates with scholars based in South Korea and United States. Kwang‐Sun Kang's co-authors include Jaehwan Kim, Byoung‐Ju Kim, K. Daneshvar, Keunje Yoo, Suyoung Park, Hyunchul Ju, Seung‐Hoon Chae, Jung‐Hui Kim, Sang‐Young Lee and Yi Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering Journal.

In The Last Decade

Kwang‐Sun Kang

50 papers receiving 381 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Upscaling high-areal-capacity battery electrodes
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Peers

Kwang‐Sun Kang
M.O. Abdel‐Hamed Egypt
Junjun Liu China
Jorge Alejandro Torres-Ochoa Mexico
Won Young Choi South Korea
Zhiwei Xiao United States
Paweł Szroeder Poland
Mariano Palomba Italy
Jindřich Matoušek Czechia
Vladan Ćosović Serbia
Longfei Luo China
M.O. Abdel‐Hamed Egypt
Kwang‐Sun Kang
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Countries citing papers authored by Kwang‐Sun Kang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kwang‐Sun Kang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kwang‐Sun Kang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kwang‐Sun Kang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kwang‐Sun Kang based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kwang‐Sun Kang. Kwang‐Sun Kang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kang, Kwang‐Sun, et al.. (2018). Thermal effects and photoluminescence of zirconium doped hybrid sol gel waveguide. Materials Letters. 234. 272–274. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Byoung‐Ju & Kwang‐Sun Kang. (2017). Optical and Electrical Properties of Indium Doped PEDOT:PSS. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Byoung‐Ju, et al.. (2017). Enhancement of Fire Retardancy Using Surface-Modified Silica Spheres with Aluminum Hydroxide. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. 42(10). 4473–4477. 3 indexed citations
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Park, Eun Hye, Chang‐Gi Jeong, & Kwang‐Sun Kang. (2016). Photoluminescence Characteristics of the Light-Emitting Chromophores Obtained from Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Silica Spheres. 4(3). 93–97. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Byoung‐Ju & Kwang‐Sun Kang. (2015). Synthesis and Characterization of Soluble Polyaniline and TiO 2 Composite. 3(3). 71–74. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Byoung‐Ju & Kwang‐Sun Kang. (2014). Fluorescence resonance energy transfer of sulforhodamine B attached on silica spheres. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 148(3). 964–967. 2 indexed citations
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Kang, Kwang‐Sun. (2014). Photoluminescence of cellulose acetate and silica sphere composite. Superlattices and Microstructures. 72. 43–49. 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Byoung‐Ju & Kwang‐Sun Kang. (2013). Stopband attenuation of silica spheres by attaching aniline and polyaniline. Synthetic Metals. 169. 55–58. 7 indexed citations
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Kang, Kwang‐Sun. (2013). The aggregation effect on the absorption band shift of disperse red-13 attached on the surface of silica spheres. Optical Materials. 36(2). 283–286. 1 indexed citations
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Kang, Kwang‐Sun. (2010). Micromold fabrication for flexible display application. Chemical Engineering Journal. 161(1-2). 289–292. 3 indexed citations
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Mahadeva, Suresha K., Kwang‐Sun Kang, Jaehwan Kim, Sung Ho Ha, & Yoon‐Mo Koo. (2010). The Effect of Residual Ionic Liquid for Cellulose Based Electro-Active Paper Actuator. Soft Materials. 8(3). 254–262. 9 indexed citations
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Song, Kyo D., et al.. (2009). Effect of Electrode Pattern on the Actuator Performance of Cellulose Electro-Active Paper. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures. 21(4). 401–406. 4 indexed citations
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Yoo, Keunje, et al.. (2008). Feasibility of e-paper made with cellulose. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6931. 69310G–69310G. 1 indexed citations
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Kang, Kwang‐Sun, et al.. (2008). Investigation of surface morphology of cellulose acetate micro-mould after deacetylation. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 41(19). 195403–195403. 5 indexed citations
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Kim, Jaehwan, Yi Chen, Kwang‐Sun Kang, Young-Bin Park, & Mark Schwartz. (2008). Magnetic field effect for cellulose nanofiber alignment. Journal of Applied Physics. 104(9). 25 indexed citations
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Kim, Jaehwan, et al.. (2007). Au micro-pattern fabrication on cellulose paper: comparison of μ-contact printing and liftoff techniques. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 17(8). 1415–1419. 7 indexed citations
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Kang, Kwang‐Sun & K. Daneshvar. (2004). Matrix and thermal effects on photoluminescence from PbS quantum dots. Journal of Applied Physics. 95(9). 4747–4751. 12 indexed citations
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Kang, Kwang‐Sun & K. Daneshvar. (2003). CdS quantum dots in hybrid sol–gel matrix; absorption and room-temperature photoluminescence. Journal of Applied Physics. 95(2). 646–648. 10 indexed citations

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