Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Interfacial engineering (e.g., metal-dielectric, metal-semiconductor) for tailoring multiple properties (electronic and thermal transport, adhesion, chemical stability), thermoelectric materials and interfaces for thermal management
Kwan, M., Braccini, M., Lane, M.W., Ramanath, G. (2018) Frequency-tunable fatigue fracture toughening at a polymer-metal-ceramic interface using a nanomolecular layer, Nature Comm. 9, 5249 (2018). Doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07614-y
Cardinal, T., Devender, Borca-Tasciuc, T., Ramanath, G. (2016) Tailoring electrical transport across metallized bismuth telluride interfaces using a nanomolecular monolayer, ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 8(7), 4275-79.
O’Brien, P.J., Shenogin, S., Liu, J., Chow, P., Laurencin, D., Mutin, P.H., Yamaguchi, M., Keblinski, P., Ramanath, G. (2013) Bonding-induced thermal conductance enhancement at inorganic heterointerfaces using nanomolecular monolayers, Nature Mater. 12, 118-122.
Murmu, P.P., Kennedy, J., Suman, S., Chong, S.V., Leveneur, J., Storey, J., Ramanath, G. (2019) Multifold improvement of thermoelectric power factor by tuning bismuth and antimony in nanostructured n-type bismuth antimony telluride thin films, Mater. Des. 163, 107549
Mehta, R., Zhang, Y., Karthik, C., Singh, B., Siegel, R., Borca-Tasciuc, T., Ramanath, G. (2012) A new class of doped nanobulk high figure of merit thermoelectrics by scalable bottom-up assembly, Nature Mater. 11, 233-40