Jagdish Narayan

Summary

Jagdish Narayan[1] is an Indian-born American engineer. Since 2001, he has been the John C. C. Fan Family Distinguished Chair Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. Narayan has co-authored over 500 publications and is listed as a co-inventor on over 40 US and international patents. He has conducted research on non-equilibrium laser processing of novel nanomaterials, including Q-carbon, Q-BN, diamond and c-BN related materials.

Jagdish Narayan
Born
NationalityIndian
Other namesJay Narayan
CitizenshipUnited States
OccupationProfessor
EmployerNorth Carolina State University
Known forQ-carbon, Domain matching epitaxy, Laser annealing
Children1

Early life and education edit

Narayan moved to the United States in 1969 from India.[2] After completion of his bachelor's degree (with distinction and honors) from IIT Kanpur, India,[citation needed] he joined UC Berkeley in 1969 and completed his MS (1970) and PhD (1971) in materials science and engineering.

Professional career edit

After finishing his PhD, Narayan served as a research metallurgist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory[citation needed] from 1971 to 1972. He later joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he retired as a senior scientist and group leader of the Thin Films and Electron Microscopy Group (1972–84). In 1984, he joined the North Carolina State University as NC Microelectronics Professor and director of the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina. He was appointed as a Distinguished University Professor in 1989. In 2001, he was appointed as the John C. Fan Distinguished Chair Professor. He was also the director of the Division of Materials Research (DMR) of US National Foundation (1990–92). He received the NSF's Distinguished Service Award.[3]

Research edit

He has conducted research on nanosecond laser annealing, laser-solid interactions, transient thermal processing of nanomaterials and epitaxial thin films. He has contributed to the fields of pulsed laser deposition and epitaxial growth of thin-films. He has contributed to epitaxial growth mechanisms of lattice mismatched films [20][21][22][23].

His research group at NC State focuses on the controlled fabrication and processing of novel nanomaterials utilizing the pulsed laser deposition using PLD and Laser MBE units, thermal processing of materials using nanosecond laser annealing and generating new epitaxial heterostructures across the misfit scale, utilizing domain matching epitaxy.

Honors and awards edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Jay Narayan". Materials Science and Engineering. 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  2. ^ "Previous Distinguished Alumni Awardees4". Indian Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  3. ^ "TMS news". JOM. 50 (2): 61–68. 1998-02-01. Bibcode:1998JOM....50b..61.. doi:10.1007/s11837-998-0252-3. ISSN 1543-1851. S2CID 189951215.
  4. ^ "Professor Jagdish Narayan". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  5. ^ "National Academy of Inventors Names 170 New Fellows" (Press release). National Academy of Inventors. December 16, 2014. Retrieved 2019-10-07 – via PR Newswire.
  6. ^ "Narayan Receives UNC Board of Governors' Highest Faculty Honor". University of North Carolina u. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  7. ^ "Professor Narayan Receives 2014 ABM-TMS RF Mehl Medal from Professor Ted Massalski of Carnegie Mellon University". The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. 2014-08-01. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  8. ^ "2011 Acta Materialia Gold Medal". Materials Today. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  9. ^ "Narayan receives 2011 RJ Reynolds Award". College of Engineering, NC State University. 2011-11-02. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  10. ^ "Narayan honored by U of North Carolina". Asian American Press. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  11. ^ "ASM Gold Medal Awarded to Narayan". MRS Bulletin. 25 (3): 7. March 2000. doi:10.1557/mrs2000.9. ISSN 1938-1425.

External links edit

  • Oral history interview transcript with Jagdish Narayan on 17 March 2021, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives