About

Minjeong Ha is a pioneering researcher in flexible electronics, electronic skins, and soft robotics, whose work has fundamentally advanced how machines and wearable devices sense and interact with the physical world. Best known for her groundbreaking contributions to bioinspired electronic skin (e-skin) design, Ha introduced interlocked microdome array architectures that dramatically enhanced the sensitivity and multimodal capabilities of piezoresistive composite elastomers — work that has garnered nearly 900 citations and become a cornerstone reference in the field. Her subsequent research on tactile-direction-sensitive stretchable skins (639 citations) and ZnO nanowire-based hierarchical e-skin designs (396 citations) further established her as a leading voice in biomimetic sensor engineering. Ha has also made substantial contributions to wearable health-monitoring systems, exploring how flexible sensors can non-invasively track human biosignals in real time (343 citations). More recently, her research has expanded into soft robotics, investigating magnetic anisotropy for actuators and sensors, ionic smart skins with switchable conductivity, and reconfigurable magnetic origami actuators. Spanning materials science, bioelectronics, and robotics, Ha's body of work reflects a consistently innovative approach to creating adaptive, multifunctional interfaces between humans and intelligent systems.

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H-Index
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Papers
2,473
Total Citations
309
Avg Citations/Paper
🏆 Most Cited Paper
Giant Tunneling Piezoresistance of Composite Elastomers with Interlocked Microdome Arrays for Ultrasensitive and Multimodal Electronic Skins
894 citations · 2014
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2014 (2 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 29
🏛 Institutions: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Government of the Republic of Korea, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

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