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  • 2002 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Ronald E. Cohen is affiliated with the Carnegie Institution for Science in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Materials Science, with specific focus areas in geophysics and materials chemistry.

The scientist's main subfields of study include Geophysics, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Their research covers topics such as high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, electronic and structural properties of oxides, ferroelectric and negative capacitance devices, semiconductor materials and devices, and inorganic chemistry and materials.

Frequent co-authors of Ronald E. Cohen include:

  • Vitali B. Prakapenka
  • Timothy A. Strobel
  • Li Zhu
  • Piotr A. Guńka
  • Yue Meng

Their work has been published extensively in several scientific venues, with the most frequent being:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review B
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent papers from Ronald E. Cohen include:

  • "Carbon-boron clathrates as a new class of sp 3 -bonded framework materials," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Measuring the melting curve of iron at super-Earth core conditions," 2022, Science
  • "Reconciliation of Experiments and Theory on Transport Properties of Iron and the Geodynamo," 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Superconductivity in SrB3C3 clathrate," 2023, Physical Review Research
  • "Hydrous SiO2 in subducted oceanic crust and H2O transport to the core-mantle boundary," 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Ronald E. Cohen has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by the American Geophysical Union titled "Carbon in Earth's Interior" released in 2020.

The scientist received the Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) award in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Origin of ferroelectricity in perovskite oxides

    Ronald E. Cohen

  • Polarization rotation mechanism for ultrahigh electromechanical response in single-crystal piezoelectrics

    Huaxiang Fu;Ronald E. Cohen

  • Origin of morphotropic phase boundaries in ferroelectrics

    Muhtar Ahart;Maddury Somayazulu;R. E. Cohen;P. Ganesh

  • Lattice dynamics and origin of ferroelectricity in BaTiO3: Linearized-augmented-plane-wave total-energy calculations.

    R. E. Cohen;H. Krakauer

  • First-principles elastic constants for the hcp transition metals Fe, Co, and Re at high pressure

    Gerd Steinle-Neumann;Lars Stixrude;Ronald E. Cohen

  • ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE STUDIES OF THE DIFFERENCES IN FERROELECTRIC BEHAVIOR OF BATIO3 AND PBTIO3

    Ronald E. Cohen;Henry Krakauer

  • Transformation of stishovite to a denser phase at lower-mantle pressures

    Kathleen J. Kingma;Ronald E. Cohen;Russell J. Hemley;Ho-kwang Mao

  • Pressure-induced anomalous phase transitions and colossal enhancement of piezoelectricity in PbTiO3.

    Zhigang Wu;Ronald E. Cohen

  • Magnetic Collapse in Transition Metal Oxides at High Pressure: Implications for the Earth

    Ronald E. Cohen;I. I. Mazin;Donald G. Isaak

  • Hard superconducting nitrides.

    Xiao-Jia Chen;Viktor V. Struzhkin;Zhigang Wu;Maddury Somayazulu

  • High-Pressure Elasticity of Iron and Anisotropy of Earth's Inner Core

    Lars Stixrude;R. E. Cohen

  • Elasticity of iron at the temperature of the Earth's inner core

    Gerd Steinle-Neumann;Lars Stixrude;R. E. Cohen;R. E. Cohen;Oguz Gülseren;Oguz Gülseren

  • First-Principles Study of Piezoelectricity in PbTiO 3

    Gotthard Sághi-Szabó;Ronald E. Cohen;Henry Krakauer

  • Tight-binding total-energy method for transition and noble metals

    Ronald E. Cohen;Michael J. Mehl;Dimitrios A. Papaconstantopoulos

  • Iron at high pressure: Linearized-augmented-plane-wave computations in the generalized-gradient approximation

    Lars Stixrude;R. E. Cohen;D. J. Singh

  • Theoretical determination of strong electron-phonon coupling in YBa2Cu3O7.

    RE Cohen;WE Pickett;H Krakauer

  • Trends in elasticity and electronic structure of transition-metal nitrides and carbides from first principles

    Zhigang Wu;Xiao-Jia Chen;Viktor V. Struzhkin;Ronald E. Cohen

  • Thermal properties of iron at high pressures and temperatures

    Evgeny Wasserman;Lars Stixrude;Ronald E. Cohen

  • Accuracy of equation-of-state formulations

    Ronald E. Cohen;Oguz Gülseren;Russell J. Hemley

  • LATTICE INSTABILITIES, ISOTOPE EFFECT, AND HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN LA2-XBAXCUO4

    W. E. Pickett;W. E. Pickett;W. E. Pickett;R. E. Cohen;R. E. Cohen;R. E. Cohen;H. Krakauer;H. Krakauer;H. Krakauer

  • Composition and temperature of Earth's inner core

    Lars Stixrude;Evgeny Wasserman;Ronald E. Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell J. Hemley
Russell J. Hemley University of Illinois at Chicago
Warren E. Pickett
Warren E. Pickett University of California, Davis
Ho-kwang Mao
Ho-kwang Mao Carnegie Institution for Science
Kristjan Haule
Kristjan Haule Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
David J. Singh
David J. Singh University of Missouri
Michael J. Mehl
Michael J. Mehl Duke University
Richard J. Needs
Richard J. Needs University of Cambridge
Maddury Somayazulu
Maddury Somayazulu Carnegie Institution for Science
Zuo-Guang Ye
Zuo-Guang Ye Simon Fraser University
Viktor V. Struzhkin
Viktor V. Struzhkin Carnegie Institution for Science

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