Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Ramamoorthy Ramesh (* 1960 in Chennai , formerly Madras) is a physicist of Indian origin at the University of California, Berkeley .

Ramesh earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Madras in 1980 and a bachelor's degree in metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Science in 1983 . A Masters and a Ph.D. (1987) in materials science from the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . He also worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory before moving to Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) in 1989 .

In 1995 Ramesh received a first professorship (associate professor ) at the University of Maryland, College Park , and in 1999 a full professorship there. Since 2004 he has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ramesh deals with the electronics of oxides , especially permanent ferroelectric random access memory , and with the electrical and magnetic properties of thin, high-quality films of epitaxial bismuth - ferrites . In 2003 he and his research group at the University of Maryland, College Park were able to show that multiferroic BiFeO ₃ films have an extended ferroelectric polarization. There is also an electromagnetic influence on ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic properties. The discovery represented an important step in the development of modern storage media such as flash memory or solid-state drives .

Much of Ramesh's work deals with the production and physical properties of complex oxide materials. More recent work deals with thermoelectric and photovoltaic energy conversion within complex oxide heterostructures .

In 2001 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2005, Ramesh was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , and in 2020 an external member of the Royal Society . Since 2014 Thomson Reuters has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Physics ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of citations of his work on multiferroics .

Web links

• R. Ramesh and CV at the University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)
• Making the Impossible Possible: From Kennedy's Moonshot to Solar's SunShot . Ramesh article in the Huffington Post on inexpensive solar panels on June 18, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Can an Indian get a Nobel this year? Hindustan Times, September 29, 2014.
2. ↑ 2014 Predictions - Physics at Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.com); Retrieved October 3, 2014.