Young Yeal Song    [ yysong@lamar.colostate.edu ]

Young Yeal Song obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Chungbuk National University in Cheongju, Korea in 1999. He investigated the magnetic and microwave properties of Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) substituted with rare earth and transition metal elements. During the course of his Ph. D. he was also involved in research at Component Technology Development Section, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), for International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000).

Young-Yeal joined the Colorado State University Magnetics Laboratory in October of 2000 as a Post-doctoral researcher. He has set up a pulsed laser deposition (PLD) system to make magnetic thin films and succeeded in the deposition of low-loss single-crystalline M-type barium ferrite and lithium-zinc ferrite. In 2003, he took a Research Professor position in the Department of Physics at Chungbuk National University. In March 2007, he joined in the CSU Magnetics Group again as a Research Scientist III (equivalent to an Associate Professor). His current research interests have been focused on the deposition of magnetic and electric thin films and their magnetic and microwave properties.