Cornell professors Jon Kleinberg and Paul McEuen, and Weill Cornell professor Carl Nathan are among 72 new members of the National Academy of Sciences.

McEuen, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics and director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science and the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP), studies the electrical and mechanical properties of carbon nanomaterials.

McEuen’s group has conducted seminal studies of carbon nanotubes, quantum dots and single molecules. Recently he discovered that single photons can create multiple electron-hole pairs in carbon-nanotube photodiodes, suggesting a new strategy for enhancing efficiency in photovoltaic devices. more