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Assistant Professor Oded Rabin

Joint appointment with IREAP
Undergraduate Advisor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2004
Room 1110B Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
E-mail: oded@umd.edu
Web Site: www.ireap.umd.edu/materials
Phone: (301) 405-3382
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Research Interests

• Nanowires: Synthesis and Physical Properties
• Porous Thin Films: Synthesis and Physical Properties
• Electrical and Thermal Transport in Low Dimensional Systems
• Nanoporous Membranes: Applications in Sensing, Microfluidics, and Chromatography
• Interfacial Nanoscience: Organic-Inorganic Systems, Controlled Assembly, Scattering, Surface Plasmons
• Thermal and Eletrical Transport

Dr. Rabin conducts his research in the Materials and Interface Nanotechnology Lab, located in Room 0145, Energy Research Building.

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Teaching

Dr. Rabin is currently teaching "Nanosized Materials: Synthesis and Applications (ENMA 430/630)" at the undergraduate and graduate level; and undergraduate core courses "Materials for Emerging Technologies (ENMA301)" and "Introduction to Engineering Materials (ENMA300)."

Honors and Awards

• Research supported by the Department of Business and Economic Development's Nano-Biotechnology Initiative
• Best Poster Award, Electrochemical Society Meeting, Orlando, 2003.
• Cambridge Science Foundation Travel Grant, 2003.
• Electrochemical Society Membership Award, 2003.
• Best Poster Award, Thermoelectrics Symposium, Materials Research Society Conference, Boston, 2001.
• "Zeevi Fund" Fellowship for research in chemistry, 1995.
• President’s Honors, the Technion (1994, 1995, 1996).
• "Excellence Program" Fellowship during undergraduate studies.

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Publications

Cornett, J. E.; Rabin, O., Universal Scaling Relationships for the Thermoelectric Power Factor of Semiconducting Nanostructures. Physical Review B (accepted) 2011.

Lee, W.; Lee, S. Y.; Briber, R. M.; Rabin, O., Self-Assembled SERS Substrates with Tunable Surface Plasmon Resonances. Advanced Functional Materials 2011, 21, (18), 3424-3429.

Cornett, J. E.; Rabin, O., Thermoelectric figure of merit calculations for semiconducting nanowires. Applied Physics Letters 2011, 98, (18), 182104.

Tkachuk, S.; Lang, G.; Krafft, C.; Mayergoyz, I. D.; Rabin, O., Plasmon Resonance Enhancement of Faraday Rotation in Thin Garnet Films. Journal of Applied Physics 2011, 109, (7), 07B717 .

Lee, S. Y.; Hung, L.; Lang, G. S.; Cornett, J. E.; Mayergoyz, I. D.; Rabin, O., Dispersion in the SERS Enhancement with Silver Nanocube Dimers. ACS Nano 2010, 4, (10), 5763-5772.

Mayergoyz, I. D.; Lang, G.; Hung, L.; Tkachuk, S.; Krafft, C.; Rabin, O., Plasmon resonance enhancement of magneto-optic effects in garnets. Journal of Applied Physics 2010, 107, 09A925.

Liang, W.; Rabin, O.; Hochbaum, A. I.; Fardy, M.; Zhang, M.; Yang, P., Thermoelectric properties of p-type PbSe nanowires. Nano Research 2009, 2(5), 394-399.

Liang, W.; Hochbaum, A. I.; Fardy, M.; Rabin, O.; Zhang, M.; Yang, P., Field-effect modulation of Seebeck coefficient in single PbSe nanowires. Nano Letters 9 (4), 1689-1693 (2009).

Rabin, O.; Perez, J. M.; Grimm, J.; Wojtkiewicz, G.; Weissleder, R., An X-ray computed tomography imaging agent based on long-circulating bismuth sulphide nanoparticles. Nature Materials 5, (2), 118-122 (2006).

Rabin, O.; Nielsch, K.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Enhancement of weak anti-localization signatures in the magneto-resistance of bismuth anti-dot thin films. Applied Physics A-Materials Science & Processing 82, (3), 471-474 (2006).

Cronin, S. B.; Barnett, R.; Tinkham, M.; Chou, S. G.; Rabin, O.; Dresselhaus, M. S.; Swan, A. K.; Unlu, M. S.; Goldberg, B. B., Electrochemical gating of individual single-wall carbon nanotubes observed by electron transport measurements and resonant Raman spectroscopy. Applied Physics Letters84, (12), 2052-2054 (2004).

Rogacheva, E. I.; Nashchekina, O. N.; Tavrina, T. V.; Us, M.; Dresselhaus, M. S.; Cronin, S. B.; Rabin, O., Quantum size effects in IV-VI quantum wells. Physica E-Low-Dimensional Systems & Nanostructures 17, (1-4), 313-315 (2003).

Dresselhaus, M. S.; Lin, Y. M.; Rabin, O.; Jorio, A.; Souza, A. G.; Pimenta, M. A.; Saito, R.; Samsonidze, G. G.; Dresselhaus, G., Nanowires and nanotubes. Materials Science & Engineering C-Biomimetic And Supramolecular Systems23, (1-2), 129-140 (2003).

Dresselhaus, M. S.; Lin, Y. M.; Rabin, O.; Dresselhaus, G., Bismuth nanowires for thermoelectric applications. Microscale Thermophysical Engineering7, (3), 207-219 (2003).

Rabin, O.; Herz, P. R.; Lin, Y. M.; Akinwande, A. I.; Cronin, S. B.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Formation of thick porous anodic alumina films and nanowire arrays on silicon wafers and glass. Advanced Functional Materials13, (8), 631-638 (2003).

Fu, R. W.; Lin, Y. M.; Rabin, O.; Gresselhaus, G.; Dresselhaus, M. S.; Satcher, J. H.; Baumann, T. F., Transport properties of copper-doped carbon aerogels. Journal Of Non-Crystalline Solids 317, (3), 247-253 (2003).

Cronin, S. B.; Lin, Y. M.; Rabin, O.; Black, M. R.; Ying, J. Y.; Dresselhaus, M. S.; Gai, P. L.; Minet, J. P.; Issi, J. P., Making electrical contacts to nanowires with a thick oxide coating. Nanotechnology 13, (5), 653-658 (2002).

Bendikov, M.; Quadt, S. R.; Rabin, O.; Apeloig, Y., Addition of nucleophiles to silenes. A theoretical study of the effect of substituents on their kinetic stability. Organometallics 21, (19), 3930-3939 (2002).

Cronin, S. B.; Lin, Y. M.; Rabin, O.; Black, M. R.; Dresselhaus, G.; Dresselhaus, M. S.; Gai, P. L., Bismuth nanowires for potential applications in nanoscale electronics technology. Microscopy And Microanalysis 8, (1), 58-63 (2002).

Lin, Y. M.; Rabin, O.; Cronin, S. B.; Ying, J. Y.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Semimetal-semiconductor transition in Bi1-xSbx alloy nanowires and their thermoelectric properties. Applied Physics Letters 81, (13), 2403-2405 (2002).

Black, M. R.; Lin, Y. M.; Cronin, S. B.; Rabin, O.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Infrared absorption in bismuth nanowires resulting from quantum confinement. Physical Review B 65, (19) (2002).

Lin, Y. M.; Cronin, S. B.; Rabin, O.; Ying, J. Y.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Transport properties of Bi1-xSbx alloy nanowires synthesized by pressure injection. Applied Physics Letters 79, (5), 677-679 (2001).

Rabin, O.; Lin, Y. M.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Anomalously high thermoelectric figure of merit in Bi1-xSbx nanowires by carrier pocket alignment. Applied Physics Letters 79, (1), 81-83 (2001).

Black, M. R.; Padi, M.; Cronin, S. B.; Lin, Y. M.; Rabin, O.; McClure, T.; Dresselhaus, G.; Hagelstein, P. L.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Intersubband transitions in bismuth nanowires. Applied Physics Letters77, (25), 4142-4144 (2000).

Koga, T.; Rabin, O.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Thermoelectric figure of merit of Bi/Pb1-xEuxTe superlattices. Physical Review B 2000, 62, (24), 16703-16706.

Rabin, O.; Vigalok, A.; Milstein, D., A novel approach towards intermolecular stabilization of para-quinone methides. First complexation of the elusive, simplest quinone methide, 4-methylene-2,5-cyclohexadien-1-one. Chemistry-A European Journal 6, (3), 454-462 (2000).

Rabin, O.; Vigalok, A.; Milstein, D., Metal-mediated generation, stabilization, and controlled release of a biologically relevant, simple para quinone methide: BHT-QM. Journal Of The American Chemical Society 120, (28), 7119-7120 (1998).

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Book Chapters

Nanowires. M.S. Dresselhaus, et al., in Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology, 2nd Ed., editor B. Bhushan, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2007.

Carbon nanotubes and Bismuth Nanowires, M. S. Dresselhaus, Ado Jorio, O. Rabin, in Nanoengineering of Structural, Functional, and Smart Materials, editor M. J. Shultz, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2006.

Nanowires. M.S. Dresselhaus, et al., in Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology, 1st Ed., editor B. Bhushan, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 99-145, 2004.

Overview of Bismuth Nanowires for Thermoelectric Applications, M. S. Dresselhaus, et al., in Chemistry, Physics and Materials Science of Thermoelectric Materials: Beyond Bismuth Telluride, editor M. G. Kanatzidis, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY, pp. 1-17, 2003.

Quantum Wells and Quantum Wires for Potential Thermoelectric Applications. M.S. Dresselhaus, et al., in Semiconductors and Semimetals: Recent Trends in Thermoelectric Materials Research III, "Low dimensional thermoelectricity", editor T. M. Tritt, Academic Press, vol. 71, pp. 1-121, 2001.

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Conference Papers and Proceedings

Cornett, J. and Rabin, O., Thermoelectric Figure of Merit Calculations for Nanowires–The Moderate Confinement Regime, in Thermoelectric Materials 2010—Growth, Properties, Novel Characterization Methods and Applications, MRS Symposium Proceedings, vol. 1267, pp. 97-102, edited by J.D. Baniecki and G.J. Snyder, Materials Research Society, Warrendale, PA, 2010.

Rabin, O.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Anomalous Magnetoresistance Behavior of Bismuth Antidot Arrays, in Continuous Nanophase and Nanostructured Materials, MRS Symp. Proc., Boston, vol. 788, L12.1, edited by S. Komarneni, J.C. Parker, J. Watkins, MRS Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004.

Rabin, O.; Chen, G.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Crystallographically-oriented electrochemically-deposited bismuth nanowires, in Thermoelectric Materials 2003 - Research and Applications, MRS Symp. Proc., Boston, vol. 793, pp. 127-132, edited by J. Nolas, eth al., MRS Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2004.

Rabin, O.; Herz, P. R.; Cronin, S. B.; Lin, Y. M.; Akinwande, A. I.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Arrays of Nanowires on Silicon Wafers, in The 21st International Conf. on Thermoelectrics; ICT Symp. Proc., Long Beach, pp. 276-279, edited by T. Caillat and J. Snyder, IEEE, Inc. Piscataway, NJ, 2002.

Lin, Y. M.; Rabin, O.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Segmented Nanowires: A Theoretical Study of Thermoelectric Properties, in The 21st International Conf. on Thermoelectrics; ICT Symp. Proc., Long Beach, pp. 265-268, edited by T. Caillat and J. Snyder, IEEE, Inc. Piscataway, NJ, 2002.

Rabin, O.; Lin, Y. M.; Cronin, S. B.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Thermoelectric Nanowires by Electrochemical Deposition, in Thermoelectric Materials 2001 - Research and Applications,MRS Symp. Proc., Boston, vol. 691, G8.20, edited by G.S. Nolas, et al., MRS Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2002.

Rabin, O.; Herz, P. R.; Cronin, S. B.; Lin, Y. M.; Akinwande, A. I.; Dresselhaus, M. S., Nanofabrication Using Self-Assembled Alumina Templates, in Nonlithographic and Lithographic Methods of Nanofabrication, MRS Symp. Proc., Boston, vol. 636, D4.7, edited by L. Merhari, et al., MRS Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 2001.

Invited Talks

Trends in the Thermoelectric Power Factor of Semiconducting Nanowires and Quantum Wells, DFG Priority Program 1386 meeting Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials: Theory, Model Systems and Controlled Synthesis, Lutherstadt-Wittenberg, Germany, July 2011.

Trends in the Thermoelectric Power Factor of Semiconducting Nanowires and Quantum Wells, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Ma., April 2011.

Thermoelectricity in Nanowires: Confinement and Degeneracy Effects, 2010 Advanced Concepts in Semiconductor Materials and Devices for Energy Conversion (ACSMDEC) workshop, Beltsville, Md., December 2010.

Thermoelectricity in Nanowires: Confinement and Degeneracy Effects, MS&T '10 Conference, ASM/TMS Distinguished Lecture Technical Session, Houston, Tx., October 2010.

Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: Localized Plasmons in the Service of Chemical Sensin, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Md., September 2010.

Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with Silver Nanocube Dimers: Experiment and Calculations, 240th ACS National Meeting, Division of Inorganic Chemistry, Boston, Ma., August 2010.

Directed Self-Assembly of Silver Nanocubes: A Method for Regenerable Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) Substrates, SPIE NanoScience + Engineering symposium, San Diego, Ca., August 2009.

Directed Self-Assembly of Silver Nanocubes: A Method for Regenerable Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) Substrates, AVS Mid-Atlantic Chapter Meeting, Gaithersburg, Md., April 2009.

Nanostructured Materials for Molecular Sensing and Thermoelectrics, Laboratory of Physical Sciences, College Park, Md., 2009.

An X-ray Computed Tomography Imaging Agent Based on Inorganic-Core Polymer-Shell Nanoparticles. Small Animal Imaging Resource Program, School of Medicine, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 2008.

Nanomaterials for Thermoelectric and Medical Imaging Applications. NIST Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory - Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Md., 2007.

Nanowire Studies Motivated by Thermoelectric Applications. Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2004.

Nanotechnology for Engineers: Nanowire Synthesis. IEEE Boston Section Workshop (Bedford, Ma.), 2003.