Fundamentals and Principles of Electromagnetic Wave Absorbers: From Theory, Design, and Materials to Measurement

Prof. (Dr.) Sung-Soo Kim received the B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, in 1978, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1980 and 1983, respectively. In 1984, he joined the Agency for Defense Development, Korea, where he was a senior researcher and engaged in research and development of radar absorbing materials. From 1987 to 1988, he was a post-doc. research fellow at Materials Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, USA. Since 1992, he has been with Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Korea, as an Assistant (from 1992 to 1996), Associate (from 1996 to 2001), Full Professor (from 2001 to 2020), and Emeritus Professor (from 2020 to present). During 2003, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. His research includes the design and fabrication of various types of microwave absorbers (particulate and fiber composites, thin and thick films), design of ultrathin and ultra-wideband absorbers with metamaterials and frequency selective surfaces (FSSs), and evaluation of high frequency and microwave absorption properties using waveguides and free-space method. Recently, he invented the ultrawide bandwidth absorbers (4.7–50.0 GHz for −10 dB refection loss with a small total thickness of 7 mm) with the multi-layering technique of FSSs. He won multiple awards for outstanding papers. He has been a reviewer for many scientific journals. He has been supervising various research projects related to electromagnetic wave absorbers supported by national institutions and companies.