Faculty & Research

personnel profile

Hari C. Manoharan

 
Title:Assistant Professor of Physics in the School of Humanities and Sciences and, by courtesy, Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Department(s):School of Humanities and Sciences, Electrical Engineering by courtesy, Materials Science and Engineering by courtesy
Location:Laboratory for Advanced Materials, McCullough Bldg., Room 348
Mail Code:4045
Phone:650.723.7263       
Fax:650.725.5457
E-mail: manoharan@stanford.edu
URL: http://www.stanford.edu/people/manoharan
http://www.manoharan.org

Research Statement

Manoharan's research program seeks to apply the "bottom-up" approach of atomic and molecular manipulation to a variety of outstanding problems in science and technology. The effort is interdisciplinary in nature, centering on physics and engineering but involving ideas, techniques, and conundrums from other fields such as chemistry, biology, materials science, and information technology. The primary experimental apparatus for these investigations are custom-built low-temperature scanning probe microscopes capable of both studying and controlling matter at atomic length scales.

Research projects, whose motivations are drawn from several research frontiers, include: Nanoassembly using Atomic and Molecular Manipulation, Studies of Isolated and Interacting Magnetic Moments, Local Probes of Correlated Electrons in Reduced Dimensions, Local Response of Novel Superconductors, Exploring New Paradigms in Computation, Atomic and Molecular Electronics, Organic Molecules and the Structure of Life.

Degree Discipline Year School
PhD 1997 Princeton

Academic Honors & Awards

IBM Invention Achievement Award (2000).
IBM TEAM Patent Award (2000).
Research Corporation Research Innovation Award (2002).
ONR Young Investigator Award (2002).
NSF CAREER Award (2002).
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2002-2006).
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2004 PECASE).