MSE professor’s article among journal’s most read

A materials science and engineering professor at North Carolina State University has achieved a milestone in the Journal of Applied Physics, an international publication of the American Institute of Physics.

Dr. Jagdish “Jay” Narayan’s 2007 article, “Gallium-doped zinc oxide films as transparent electrodes for organic solar cell applications” was recently named one of the journal’s most read articles. The journal, which reports significant new experimental and theoretical results of applied physics research, is the second most highly cited journal in the applied physics field, according to Thomson Reuters.

Narayan is the John C.C. Fan Family Distinguished Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at NC State. His research has proven pivotal to our understanding of basic phenomena in metals, ceramics and electronic materials and processing. His work includes seminal contributions in laser processing, semiconductor alloys and many other areas.

The many honors for Narayan include being named one of the Materials Research Society’s 34 inaugural Fellows, and he is a life member and Fellow of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, an honor limited to 100 living members. Narayan is also a life member and Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in India, an honor limited to 100 foreign members, and has received a Gold Medal from ASM International, the world’s largest materials science and engineering society.

Among Narayan’s most recent honors were the 2011 Acta Materialia Gold Medal and Prize, which honors one person annually for accomplishments in leadership and materials science research worldwide, and the 2011 Materials Research Society Forum organized in his honor. He also received the 2011-12 Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence and the 2011 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Extension, the highest honors bestowed on faculty from NC State and the College of Engineering, respectively.

Narayan received his master’s degree in 1970 and his doctoral degree in 1971 from the University of California, Berkeley, and his bachelor’s degree with highest honors from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1969 in Kanpur, India, all in materials science and engineering.

He joined the faculty at NC State in 1983 after serving as senior scientist and group leader for more than a dozen years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.