Physicist Daniel C. Ralph named head of Cornell nanoscale facility
Daniel C. Ralph, the Horace White Professor of Physics, has been named the L.B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF), starting July 1.
The CNF is a national user facility that provides state-of-the-art resources for research projects that encompass physical sciences, engineering and life sciences. Researchers use CNF's fabrication, synthesis, computation, characterization and integration resources to build structures, devices and systems spanning the range of atomic to millimeter length scales.
Ralph first started working in the CNF in 1987, when he was a graduate student investigating electrical transport and quantum defects in metallic nanostructures as small as 15 atoms in diameter.
After a postdoctoral appointment at Harvard during which he continued to use the CNF for sample fabrication, Ralph joined the Cornell physics faculty in 1996 and has been an active CNF user ever since. He has served on the CNF Executive Committee since 1998 and has chaired that committee since 2007.
Ralph has led the nanomagnetics thrust in Cornell's Center for Nanoscale Systems since 2001, has served as director of the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics since 2006, and was appointed Horace White Professor of Physics in 2008. He is a founding member of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science.
His research focuses on the fabrication of nanometer-scale devices and the measurement of their electronic and magnetic properties. Recent highlights from his research group include measurements of the electrical properties of individual molecules and studies of magnetic devices controlled by torque from spin-polarized currents rather than by magnetic fields.
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