Prof. Byungki Kim established Smart Microsystem and Advanced-materiaLs Lab (SMALL) on March 1st, 2013, with a primary aim to perform fundamental and applied research on sensors and materials. Under direct guidance of Prof. Kim, the lab has three thrusts. The first is smart composites and materials for functional structures. The second thrust is MEMS and NEMS sensors. The lab has a various research experience in MEMS microphones (omnidirectional and bio-inspired directional) and optomechanical scanners. The third thrust is dimensional metrology. We have developed miniaturized grating interferometer and encoder with various light sources of monochromatic laser, tunable laser, and femtosecond laser. Currently, three postdoctoral fellows, three graduate students, and a bunch of undergraduate students are actively continuing their research works. The lab has been nominated and awarded with the KOREATECH best research lab in 2017 and 2019.

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Current Funding

 

3D Sound Source Localization and its Applications, National Research Foundation of Korea (2021-2024)

Interaction Virtual Reality based immersive Training Platform, National Research Foundation of Korea (2018-2027)

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Past Funding

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Graphene Nanocomposite for Self-healing from National Research Foundation of Korea (2016-2019)

MEMS Microphone from National Research Foundation of Korea (2013-2016)

Graphene Composite from National Research Foundation of Korea (2013-2016)

Precision Displacement Measurement using a Tunable Laser and a Femtosecond Laser with Grating Interferometry from KoreaTech (2014)

Grating Interferometry with a Tunable Laser from National Research Foundation of Korea through LINC in KoreaTech (2013)

Equipment funding from KoreaTech (2013)

Various funding from US funding agencies and UMASS Lowell (2006-2012)

 

Please contact the lab director for more details.

 

Updated on April 2022