Ramamoorthy Ramesh
                          
LBNL Faculty Senior Scientist
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics
University of California, Berkeley

rramesh@berkeley.edu
phone: 510-642-2347

Education
B.S. and B.E Chemistry and Metallurgy Indian Institute of Science
Ph.D.  Materials Science, University of California, Berkeley
Postdoc,  National Center for Electron Microscopy, LBL

Major Awards
2007 MRS David Turnbull Lectureship Award
2005  APS David Adler Lectureship Award  
2001 Fellow of American Physics  Society
2001 Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Prize

 

 

General Research Interests
Thin film growth and materials physics of complex oxides: Structure-Property-Processing interrelationships ; Crystalline Oxides on Semiconductors ; Functional metal oxide thin film deposition and processing for microelectronic, magneto-electronic, optical and high frequency applications.
Oxide thin film heterostructures: growth mechanisms and defect structures; physics of magneto-transport and electro-transport ; half-metallic ferromagnets; transport phenomena in highly correlated systems ; Multiferroic oxide heterostructures ; size effects ; self-assembled oxide nanostructures.
Thermoelectric Oxide Heterostructures and Nanostructures: Decoupling electron and phonon transport through defect control and nanostructuring;
Photovoltaic Oxide Heterostructures:  Solar energy conversion using ferroelectric oxide heterostructures; band gap engineering in perovskite ferroelectrics;
Nanoscale Characterization: Understanding Materials Physics at the nanoscale using Scanned Probes; Applications of scanning force microscopy to study domains, switching and polarization dynamics in ferroic thin films ; scaling studies using electric and magnetic force microscopy.
Application of TEM techniques to solving materials problems; high resolution imaging of defect and crystal structure; analytical electron microscopy and micro-diffraction techniques; Lorentz imaging of domains.
Materials Processing for Devices: Nano-fabrication technologies; novel physical phenomena in complex electronic and magnetic materials with shrinking dimensions; dry etching technologies for device fabrication.
Information Technologies: Non-volatile information storage technologies ; Ferroelectric Memories ; Dynamic Random Access Memories ; Field effect devices ; Thin film magnetic and magneto-resistive devices; Electric field control of magnetism

MSD Research Projects:

Nanostructured Materials for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion
Quantum Materials
Helios SERC

Personal website: http://www.mse.berkeley.edu/faculty/ramesh/ramesh.html

Figure:Schematic coupling scheme for electric-field control of ferromagnetism and schematic of incident x-rays, sample, and PEEM electron collector. PEEM's element specificity allows one to probe the magnetism of multiple layers simultaneously, making this method an ideal choice for coupling studies