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Venky Narayanamurti

Faculty
  • Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy; Professor of Physics
  • Director of Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School
Venky Narayanamurti

Contact Information

Nickname: Venky
Office: Pierce Hall 107D
Email: venky [ AT ] seas [ DOT ] harvard [ DOT ] edu
Office Phone: (617) 384-8211
Office Fax: (617) 496-3742
Lab Name: The Narayanamurti Group
Lab Room: McKay 309
Lab Phone: (617) 496-5471
Assistant: Sarah Lefebvre
Office: Cruft Hall 217
Email: sarahl [ AT ] seas [ DOT ] harvard [ DOT ] edu
Office Phone: 617/495-6304

Recruitment Status

Not accepting graduate students

Websites

Education

  1. B.Sc., 1958, Physics, University of Delhi
  2. M.Sc., 1960, Physics, University of Delhi
  3. Ph.D., 1965, Physics, Cornell University

Research Interests

    • Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    • Social Enterprise
    • Materials & Devices
    • Electromagnetics and Nanoelectronics
    • Materials Science
    • Surface and Interface Science
    • Science, Technology, & Public Policy
    • Energy, Environment, and Sustainability
    • Governance of Emerging Technologies/Innovation Policy
    • Science and Engineering Education

Primary Teaching Area

Applied Physics

Profile

Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti is the Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). He is also the Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy and a Professor of Physics at Harvard.

He has done research in many different areas of condensed matter and applied physics. He is well known for his work on ballistic phonons and phonon optics, superconductivity and tunneling and transport in semiconductor nanostructures using Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy. He is currently engaged in many different aspects of science and technology policy.

Narayanamurti was formerly the John L. Armstrong Professor and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dean of Physical Sciences at Harvard. Previously he served as the Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Also see: Full Biography

Positions & Employment

Harvard School/Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences

  • 1998-2008: John L. Armstrong Professor and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dean of Physical Sciences at Harvard

University of California, Santa Barbara

  • 1992-1998: Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering

Sandia National Laboratories

  • 1987-1992: Vice President of Research and Exploratory Technology

AT&T Bell Laboratories

  • 1981-1987: Director of the Solid State Electronics Research Laboratory
  • 1976-1981: Head of the Semiconductor Electronics Research Department in 1976 and served as
  • 1968-1976: Research Staff

Other Experience

  • Member, National Academy of Engineering
  • Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Fellow of the the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Fellow of the the Indian Academy of Sciences

Selected Publications

Recent Policy Publications

  1. Narayanamurti, Venkatesh, Laura D. Anadon, Hanna Breetz, Matthew Bunn, Henry Lee, and Erik Mielke.  “Transforming the Energy Economy: Options for Accelerating the Commercialization of Advanced Energy Technologies.” Cambridge, Mass.: Report for Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, February 2011.
  2. Mielke, Erik, Laura Diaz Anadon, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti. "Water Consumption of Energy Resource Extraction, Processing, and Conversion." Discussion Paper 2010-15, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, October 2010.
  3. Anadon, Laura Diaz, Matthew Bunn, Gabriel Chan, Melissa Chan, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Charles Jones, Ruud Kempener, Audrey Lee, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti. DOE FY 2011 Budget Request for Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment: Analysis and Recommendations.Cambridge, Mass.: Report for Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, April 2010.
  4. Anadon, Laura D., Matthew Bunn, Charles Jones, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti. "U.S. Public Energy Innovation Institutions and Mechanisms: Status & Deficiencies." Policy Memo, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, January 14, 2010.
  5. Narayanamurti, Venkatesh, Laura D. Anadon, and Ambuj D. Sagar. "Transforming Energy Innovation."Issues in Science and Technology (Fall 2009): 57-64.

Other Publications

  1. Direct Measurement of Quasiparticle Lifetime Broadening in a Strong Coupled Superconductor,” R.C. Dynes, V. Narayanamurti, and J.P. Garno, Phys. Rev. Lett., 41, 1509 (1978).
  2. “Density of States and de Haas-van Alphen Effect in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems,” J.P. Eisenstein, H.L. Stormer, V. Narayanamurti, A.Y. Cho, A.C. Gossard, and C.W. Tu, Phys. Rev. Lett., 55, 875 (1985).
  3. “Scanning capacitance microscopy imaging of threading dislocations in GaN films grown on (0001) sapphire by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition,” P.J. Hansen, Y.E. Strausser, A.H. Erickson, E.J. Tarsa, P.Kozodoy, E.G. Brazel, J.P. Ibbetsen, U. Mishra, V. Narayanamurti, S.P. DenBaars, and J.S. Speck, Appl. Phys. Lett.  72 (18), 2247-2249 (1998).
  4. “Zero-resistance states induced by electromagnetic-wave excitation in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures,” R.G. Mani, J.H. Smet, K. von Klitzing, V. Narayanamurti, W.B. Johnson and V. Umansky, Nature, Vol. 420, 646 (December 12, 2002)
  5. “Size-dependent surface luminescence in ZnO nanowires,” I. Shalish, H. Temkin and V. Narayanamurti, Phys. Rev. B. 69, 245401, (2004).
  6. “Ballistic Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Metal and Semiconductor Nanostructures,” W. Yi, A. Stollenwerk, V. Narayanamurti, Surface Science Reports 64 (2009) 169-190.