Emmanuel Rashba
| Emmanuel Rashba Ukrainian: Еммануїл Йосипович Рашба,Russian: Эммануил Иосифович Рашба |
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October 30, 1927 Kiev, Ukraine |
| Institutions | Condensed matter physics, spintronics |
| Alma mater | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Physical Department |
| Known for | Rashba effect, EDSR, Giant oscillator strength |
Emmanuel I. Rashba (born October 30, 1927, Kiev) is a Soviet-American theoretical physicist of Jewish origin who worked at Ukraine, Russia and the US. His father Iosif was a prominent defense lawyer, a widely educated humanitarian, and his mother Rosalia was a teacher of English. Rashba is known for his contributions to different areas of condensed matter physics and spintronics, especially the Rashba effect in spin physics ("Rashba coupling" is a subject of PhySH Physics Subject Headings scheme of American Physical Society) and also for the prediction of Electric dipole spin resonance (EDSR), that was experimentally observed and widely investigated, Giant oscillator strength of impurity excitons, and coexistence of free and self-trapped excitons. The principal subject of spintronics is all-electric operation of electron spins, and EDSR was the first phenomenon predicted and experimentally observed in this field.
Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Rashba survived the Nazi invasion during the Second World War by fleeing with his family to Kazan where he started studying physics at the Kazan University. After returning to Kiev he graduated from the Physics Department of Kiev University in 1949. His Instructors were Alexander Davydov, Solomon Pekar and Kirill Tolpygo. Rashba' graduation fell onto the last years of Stalin' reign darkened by extreme national chauvinism. As a result, he had to change temporary jobs for five times during the five following years. During this time he initiated, as applied to dams, theory of gravitational stresses in growing elastic bodies, and also developed a theory of exciton-phonon coupling in molecular crystals. In 1954 Rashba was accepted to the Semiconductor Department of the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Science of the Ukraine where he initially worked on the theory of transistors but earned his PhD degree in 1956 on his work on exciton-phonon coupling. When the Institute for Semiconductors of the same Academy was established in 1960, Rashba headed there the Department for Theory of Semiconductor Devices. He earned his Doctor of Sciences degree from the A.F. Ioffe Institute in Leningrad in 1963 for his work on spin-orbit coupling in semiconductors and exciton spectroscopy of molecular crystals (deducing energy spectra of excitons in pure crystals from optical spectra of mixed crystals, in collaboration with Vladimir Broude). In 1966, after the institute of Theoretical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of USSR (currently the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics) was established in Chernogolovka, Rashba moved there and served as the Head of the Theory of Semiconductors Division and afterwards as a Principal Scientist until 1997. During 1968-1982, Rashba also served as a professor of physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MFTI).
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