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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to electronic structure methodology, understanding mechanisms of chemisorption bonding and energy exchange with surfaces, and for relating chemical identity to material response in ferroelectric oxides
  • 1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Andrew M. Rappe is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with significant contributions within the subfields of Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials
  • Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Graphene research and applications

Andrew M. Rappe has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, with frequent venues including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review B
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Chemistry of Materials

Their recent papers reflect a focus on perovskite materials and nanocrystals, as well as energy-related topics. Selected publications are:

  • Comprehensive defect suppression in perovskite nanocrystals for high-efficiency light-emitting diodes, 2021, Nature Photonics
  • The Significance of Polarons and Dynamic Disorder in Halide Perovskites, 2021, ACS Energy Letters
  • Recent progress in the theory of bulk photovoltaic effect, 2023, Chemical Physics Reviews
  • Strongly Anharmonic Octahedral Tilting in Two-Dimensional Hybrid Halide Perovskites, 2021, ACS Nano
  • Imidazolium-functionalized Mo3P nanoparticles with an ionomer coating for electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to propane, 2023, Nature Energy

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Zhenbang Dai
  • Jiahao Zhang
  • Zhen Jiang
  • Aaron M. Schankler
  • Sayan Banerjee

Andrew M. Rappe has received recognition through honors such as being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2006 for work on electronic structure methodology, chemisorption bonding, and material responses in ferroelectric oxides. They were also a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Dirac semimetal in three dimensions.

    Steve M Young;Saad Zaheer;Jeffrey C Teo;Charles L Kane

  • Perovskite oxides for visible-light-absorbing ferroelectric and photovoltaic materials

    Ilya Grinberg;D. Vincent West;Maria Torres;Gaoyang Gou

  • Donor and acceptor modes in photonic band structure.

    E Yablonovitch;TJ Gmitter;RD Meade;AM Rappe

  • Optimized pseudopotentials.

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  • Thin-film ferroelectric materials and their applications

    Lane W. Martin;Lane W. Martin;Andrew M. Rappe

  • Dirac Line Nodes in Inversion-Symmetric Crystals.

    Youngkuk Kim;Benjamin J. Wieder;C. L. Kane;Andrew M. Rappe

  • Comprehensive defect suppression in perovskite nanocrystals for high-efficiency light-emitting diodes

    Young Hoon Kim;Sungjin Kim;Arvin Kakekhani;Jinwoo Park

  • Accurate theoretical analysis of photonic band-gap materials.

    R. D. Meade;A. M. Rappe;K. D. Brommer;J. D. Joannopoulos

  • Local Polar Fluctuations in Lead Halide Perovskite Crystals.

    Omer Yaffe;Yinsheng Guo;Liang Z. Tan;David A. Egger

  • First principles calculation of the shift current photovoltaic effect in ferroelectrics.

    Steve M. Young;Andrew M. Rappe

  • Rashba Spin–Orbit Coupling Enhanced Carrier Lifetime in CH3NH3PbI3

    Fan Zheng;Liang Z. Tan;Shi Liu;Andrew M. Rappe

  • Existence of a photonic band gap in two dimensions

    Robert D. Meade;Karl D. Brommer;Andrew M. Rappe;J. D. Joannopoulos

  • Measurement of photonic band structure in a two-dimensional periodic dielectric array.

    W. M. Robertson;G. Arjavalingam;R. D. Meade;K. D. Brommer

  • Nucleation and growth mechanism of ferroelectric domain-wall motion

    Young-Han Shin;Ilya Grinberg;I-Wei Chen;Andrew M. Rappe

  • Power conversion efficiency exceeding the Shockley–Queisser limit in a ferroelectric insulator

    Jonathan E. Spanier;Vladimir M. Fridkin;Vladimir M. Fridkin;Andrew M. Rappe;Andrew R. Akbashev

  • Electromagnetic Bloch waves at the surface of a photonic crystal

    Robert D. Meade;Karl D. Brommer;Andrew M. Rappe;J. D. Joannopoulos

  • Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskites (HOIPs): Opportunities and Challenges

    Joseph Berry;Tonio Buonassisi;David A. Egger;Gary Hodes

  • Ferroelectric Phase Transition in Individual Single-Crystalline BaTiO3 Nanowires

    Jonathan E. Spanier;Alexie M. Kolpak;Jeffrey J. Urban;Ilya Grinberg

  • Terahertz field–induced ferroelectricity in quantum paraelectric SrTiO3

    Xian Li;Tian Qiu;Jiahao Zhang;Edoardo Baldini

  • What Remains Unexplained about the Properties of Halide Perovskites

    David A. Egger;Achintya Bera;David Cahen;Gary Hodes

  • Double Dirac Semimetals in Three Dimensions.

    Benjamin J. Wieder;Youngkuk Kim;A. M. Rappe;C. L. Kane

  • Ferroelectricity in ultrathin perovskite films

    Na Sai;Alexie M. Kolpak;Andrew M. Rappe

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilya Grinberg
Ilya Grinberg Bar-Ilan University
Lane W. Martin
Lane W. Martin Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Eugene J. Mele
Eugene J. Mele University of Pennsylvania
Leeor Kronik
Leeor Kronik Weizmann Institute of Science
Valentino R. Cooper
Valentino R. Cooper Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Charles L. Kane
Charles L. Kane University of Pennsylvania
Masoud Soroush
Masoud Soroush Drexel University
Aaron M. Lindenberg
Aaron M. Lindenberg Stanford University
Peter K. Davies
Peter K. Davies University of Pennsylvania

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