Advanced Laser Materials Processing and Energy Technology Lab.
Kang Group research areas: Our advanced laser materials processing research area is composed of light-matter interaction studies, advanced manufacturing and applications. Our Energy technology division is composed of in-situ characterization studies, piezoelectrochemical energy harvesting and lithium ion battery research.

Our group focuses on two research areas: advanced laser materials processing and energy technology.

In advanced laser materials processing, ultrafast lasers are used to understand light-matter interactions and to develop direct-writing techniques to fabricate functional material structures in 2D and 3D. Ultrafast lasers allow confinement in temporal space, in addition to the spatial component, enabling increased control over heat transfer and photon dynamics for various applications. In energy technology, we explore various energy storage materials and perform characterization studies to acquire fundamental understanding of the energy storage mechanism.

The two research areas create a synergy through exchange of fundamental knowledge acquired in each area and by utilizing laser processing techniques as a powerful tool-kit to ablate, modify, or create materials. Our long term goal is to resolve the imbalance between theoretical advancements and experimental realizations and to aid in technology transfer from lab-scale to manufacturing. For example, development in advanced laser materials processing techniques will resolve many problems arising during large-scale manufacturing and the understanding gained from studying the mechano-electrochemical coupling will resolve the mechanical stress evolution issue which is one of the main problems in large-scale manufacturing of energy storage systems.

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News

  • Kang’s group wins Phase II of DOE award!
    Team “PECWEC,” consisting of PhD student Md. Abdul Aziz and ME professor SeungYeon Kang, has won Phase II of the American-Made Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP) awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO). This achievement, which focuses on novel wave energy technology, builds on our success in winning […]
    Posted on August 8, 2024
  • Dr. Kang teaches ME 3295, ME 5895 in Fall ’24
    ME 3295, ME5895 Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering : Additive Manufacturing Technologies https://catalog.uconn.edu/directory-of-courses/course/ME/3295/ https://gradcatalog.uconn.edu/course-descriptions/course/ME/5895/ This course introduces 7 different types of additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing) technologies based on ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers) standards; Powder bed Fusion, Binder Jetting, Directed Energy Deposition, Material Extrusion, Material, Jetting, Sheet Lamination, and Vat […]
    Posted on August 8, 2024
  • Actively recruiting PhD students
    We are actively recruiting PhD students! Please reach out if you are or you know anyone who may be interested. Looking for students with some background in lasers, optics, or multi-material 3D printing via light assisted methods. Please send us (seung_yeon.kang@uconn.edu) your CV and transcript if interested. Thanks!  
    Posted on January 31, 2024

Contact the Kang Group

Phone: (860) 486-5934
seung_yeon.kang@uconn.edu
Address: University of Connecticut
Engineering Science Building #511
181 Auditorium Rd.
Storrs CT 06269