Karin M. Rabe

Karin M. Rabe (born 1961)[1] is an American condensed matter and computational materials physicist known for her studies of materials near phase transitions, including ferroelectrics, multiferroics, and martensites.[2][3] She also works on the theoretical design of new materials.[4] She is a distinguished professor and Board of Governors Professor of Physics at Rutgers University.[5]

This article is about the American physicist. For the Swedish orienteer, see Karin Rabe.

Education and career

Rabe graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1982, with a bachelor's degree in physics. She completed her Ph.D. in 1987 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; her dissertation Ab initio Statistical Mechanics of Structural Phase Transitions was supervised by John Joannopoulos.[1][6]

After postdoctoral research at AT&T Bell Laboratories, she joined Yale University as Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Physics in 1989. She became full professor at Yale in 1999, and moved to Rutgers in 2000.[1][6] At Rutgers, her doctoral students have included 2013 MacArthur "Genius" Award winner Craig Fennie.[7]

Rabe also served as chair of the board of the Aspen Center for Physics from 2018 to 2021, as president from 2013 to 2016, and as vice president from 2007 to 2013.[8]

Recognition

Rabe was named Board of Governors Professor by Rutgers in 2013.[9]

In 2002, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Materials Physics "for fundamental contributions to the development and application of theoretical and computational methods for the study of structural phase transitions in solids".[10] Rabe won the David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics for 2008 "for research, writings and presentations on the theory of structural phase transitions and for the application of first-principles electronic structure methods to the understanding of technologically important phenomena in ferroelectrics".[11][6]

She was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011,[12] and elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.[2][3]

Research

Rabe’s research has focused on the computational analysis of the physics of crystalline solids using first-principles. She has examined material systems which are close to structural, electronic, and magnetic phase transitions. Such systems include ferroelectrics,[13] antiferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, high-k dielectrics, multiferroics, shape-memory compounds, magnetic and nonmagnetic martensites. These materials exhibit properties which support a wide range of technological applications, including information and energy storage and conversion.[14]

Rabe’s research has also examined the effects of epitaxial strain and the properties of interfaces in thin films, superlattices,[15] and other artificially structured systems.[16]

Finally, Rabe has applied first-principles approaches to theoretically design new materials with optimized or useful properties, as well as to discover new classes of functional materials.[17]

References
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  6. 2008 David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics Recipient, American Physical Society, retrieved 2020-11-23
  7. "Craig Fennie, former graduate student of Karin Rabe, has won a 2013 MacArthur "Genius" Award", 2013 News, Rutgers Physics, September 25, 2013, retrieved 2020-11-23
  8. Aspen Center for Physics (2021). "Past Board Chairs and Officers," Aspen Center for Physics". www.aspenphys.org. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  9. "Physicists Eva Andrei and Karin Rabe Named Rutgers Board of Governors Professors", Rutgers Today, Rutgers University, December 3, 2013, retrieved 2020-11-23
  10. APS Fellows Archive: 2002 fellows from DMP, American Physical Society, retrieved 2020-11-23
  11. "2008 APS Prizes and Awards", Physics Today, October 18, 2007, doi:10.1063/PT.4.1466
  12. "Six Rutgers Professors Named Fellows of Top National Science Association", Rutgers Today, Rutgers University, January 11, 2011, retrieved 2020-11-23
  13. Seleznev, Daniel; Singh, Sobhit; Bonini, John; Rabe, Karin M.; Vanderbilt, David (May 2, 2023). "Cyclic Ferroelectric Switching and Quantized Charge Transport in CuInP2S6". arXiv:2305.01182 [cond-mat.mtrl-sci].
  14. "Karin Rabe". Simons Foundation. August 14, 2017. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  15. "Karin M. Rabe". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. April 25, 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  16. Du, Dongxue; Manzo, Sebastian; Zhang, Chenyu; Saraswat, Vivek; Genser, Konrad T.; Rabe, Karin M.; Voyles, Paul M.; Arnold, Michael S.; Kawasaki, Jason K. (May 3, 2021). "Epitaxy, exfoliation, and strain-induced magnetism in rippled Heusler membranes". Nature Communications. 12 (1): 2494. arXiv:2006.10100. Bibcode:2021NatCo..12.2494D. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22784-y. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 8093223. PMID 33941781.
  17. "Karin Rabe". Simons Foundation. August 14, 2017. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
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