Lane W. Martin
Lane W. Martin | |
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Inaugural Director of the Rice Advanced Materials Institute | |
| Born | |
| Known for | Complex-oxide thin films Ferroelectrics, Multiferroics Functional Materials |
| Spouse | Sophi |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Carnegie Mellon University (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) |
| Thesis | Engineering multiferroic materials and new functionalities in materials (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ramamoorthy Ramesh |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Rice University |
Lane Wyatt Martin is an American materials scientist and engineer specializing in complex oxide thin films, their physics and properties, and applications of the same. He is best known for his work on ferroelectric and multiferroic thin films. Currently he is a Robert A. Welch Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Chemistry, and Physics and Astronomy, and serves as the director of the Rice Advanced Materials Institute (RAMI) at Rice University.