Ks Narayan

K. S. Narayan (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in physics from IIT, Bombay, India, and the Ph.D. degree from Ohio State University, Columbus, in low dimensional molecular magnetism in 1991. He was a Scientist at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton. Since 1994 he has been at JNCASR, Bangalore, India, where he is a professor and heads the molecular electronics laboratory. He has also held visiting positions at the University of Illinois, University of Michigan, and Motorola Labs. He has over 70 publications and a U.S. Patent on optical control of polymer field effect transistors. He has been actively involved in studying electronic, optical, and magnetic phenomena and exploring device structures in synthetic polymeric/organic/nanoparticle based systems. His current research activities are focused on: i) device physics of soft-electronic materials which involves fabrication of FETs, solar cells, large area imaging structures; ii) photophysical and transport studies of conjugated polymers and carbon nanotube systems using quasi-near field scanning and spectroscopic techniques; iii) electric field induced instabilities in soft elastic films; and iv) photoinduced charge transport processes in membrane proteins and functional biological molecules such as bacteriorhodopsin systems. Prof. Narayan is an Editorial Board Member of Pramana Journal of Physics, Synthetic Metals, Journal of Sensors and a Senior IEEE member. He is also actively involved in community efforts related to usage, implementation and information dissemination of alternative energy resources.