G. Ramanath

Professor and Director of the Center for Future Energy Systems

Contact & Personal Information

Phone: (518) 276-6844

Email: ramanath@rpi.edu

Mailing Address:
Materials Research Center
rm: 111
110 8th Street
Troy, New York
12180

G. Ramanath's homepage

Research Center Affiliations

The Focus Center: Interconnections for Gigascale Integration

The Center for Advanced Interconnect Systems Technologies

Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center

National Science Foundation Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures

Center for Integrated Electronics

Center for Future Energy Systems

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Materials Science and Engineering

M.S., University of Cincinnati
Materials Science and Engineering

B.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (now Chennai)
Metallurgical Engineering

Professional Background

Professor Ramanath received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1997. His doctoral work won him a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award (now known as the Gold Award). He obtained his B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from the IIT, Madras, India, and his M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. He was a staff member at Novellus Systems, CA, and a Visiting Scientist at the Physics Department of Linköping University, Sweden, before he joined the Rensselaer faculty in Fall 1998 as an Assistant Professor. He became a tenured Associate Professor in 2003, and was promoted to full Professor in 2006. Since May 2008, he is the Director of the Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES), a New York State Center for Advanced Technology (CAT).

He is a recipient of a Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2000), Prof. Bergmann Memorial Young Scientist Award from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (2003), and is a co-recipient of IBM Research Partnership Award (1999-2006), Best paper award IEEE Nano (Hong Kong, 2007). He has been a Visiting Professor at the International Center for Young Scientists, Tsukuba, Japan (summer 2004), the Nanoscale Science Department at the Max Planck Institute für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (2004-2005), the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (summer 2006), and the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollogong, Australia. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology since October 2003, and serves on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Experimental Nanoscience and the The Open Materials Science Journal.

Research

Thin Film

Nanomaterials

Sensors

Semiconductors

Electronic Devices

Nanotechnology

Microstructures

Materials Processing

Microelectronics Technology

Materials for Microelectronic Systems

Manufacturing Processes

Interfacial Phenomena

Integrated Electronics

Electronic Materials

Crystals

Biomaterials

Research Bio

Directed synthesis, assembly and modification of nanostructures and mesoarchitectures, and molecular nanolayer-tailored surfaces and interfaces, for nanodevice and energy applications, wtih emphasis is on creating new materials, understanding atomic-/molecular-level relationships between structure, chemistry and properties using multiple microscopy and spectroscopy techniques.

Awards

Career Award, National Science Foundation

Best paper award, 7th IEEE conference on Nanotechnology “IEEE Nano 2007”, Hong Kong.
Work on nanoglue was featured as Science/Tech News CNN, MSNBC, Scientific American, PC World, MIT Tech Review, Reuters, AVS, MRS, Washington Post, Discovery Channel, Chemistry World, Science Daily, EETimes, AOL news, EurekaAlert, PC World, and local newspapers (May 2007). Google keywords: “Ramanath nano glue”
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2004)
Prof. Bergmann Memorial Young Scientist Award, US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (2003)
School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2003)
National Science Foundation early CAREER Award (2000)
IBM Research Partnership Award–University Partnership Program—co-recipient (1999-present)
MRS Graduate Student Award (a.k.a. Gold award), MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA (1996)
Best Poster, High-temperature Intermetallics Symposium, MRS Fall, Boston (1992)
Ph.D. work was Technology News in Solid State Technology (2/97) & Wafer News (12/96)
Recent works featured on the cover page and editorial of the Wiley journal Small (Aug 2005), cited as Research News in Materials Today (Jan ‘05), and in the first issue of Small (Jan ’05)
Works on nanotubes growth and properties were featured in Science News, Business Review, Washington Times, C&E News, Eetimes, local TV channels (April/May 2002)
Elected member, Alpha Sigma Mu honor society (1990—); Phi Kappa Phi honor society (1995—)

Publications

Surfactant Synthesis of Micro-sized Nanolatelets of Gold from a Chemically Active Mixed Surfactant Mesophase (2008)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Directed Synthesis of Ultra-long Single-crystal Lead Telluride Nanorods by Organic-inorganic Templating (2007)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Thermal Stability of Molecularly Functionalized Mesoporous Silica Thin Films (2007)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Molecular-Nanolayer-induced Suppression of In-plane Cu Transport at Cu-silica Interfaces (2007)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Defect-induced Electrical Conductivity Increase in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes (2007)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
UV-oxidized Mercaptan-terminated Organosilane Nanolayers as Diffusion Barriers at Cu-silica Interfaces (2007)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Cu Diffusion and Mechanical Toughness at Cu-silica Interfaces Glued with Polyelectrolyte Nanolayers (2007)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Annealing-induced Interfacial Toughening using a Molecular Nanolayer (2007)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Multishell Carrier Transport in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes (2007)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Surfactant-directed Synthesis of Branched Bismuth Telluride-sulfide Core-shell Nanorods (2007)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Electro-actuation of Microdroplets of Aqueous Bismuth Telluride Nanoparticle Suspensions (2007)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Directed Synthesis of Molecularly Braided Magnetic Nanoparticle Chains using Polyelectrolyte and Difunctional Couplers (2007)
Type: Article
Topic: Nanotechnology
Site-selective functionalization of carbon nanotubes,
Type: Paper
Topic: Nanotechnology

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