George W. Crabtree

Professional experience

• 2001-present: Director, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• 1989-2003: Professor, (25 percent) Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
• 1986: Research Scientist, CRTBT/CNRS and Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, University of Grenoble, France
• 1985-present: Senior Physicist, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

Education

• Ph.D., Condensed Matter Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago
• M.S., Solid State Physics, University of Washington, Seattle
• B.S., Science Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston IL

Selected awards

• Kamerlingh Onnes Prize, 2003, “for pioneering and seminal experiments which elucidated the vortex phase diagram in high temperature superconductors under various conditions of disorder and anisotropy.”
• University of Chicago Award for Distinguished Performance at Argonne National Laboratory, 1998 and 1982.
• U.S. Department of Energy Awards for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Solid State Physics, 1997, 1995, 1985, and 1982.
• R&D 100 Award, “Magnetic Flux Imaging System,” 1996
• Fellow, American Physical Society, 1983
• ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Physics since 2001

Selected professional activities

• Congressional Witness, Fueling the Future: On the Road to the Hydrogen Economy, Hearing of the House Science Committee, Subcommittees on Energy and Research, July 20, 2005
• Co-Chair and Report Editor, Workshop on Basic Research Needs for Solar Energy Utilization, April 2005 (with Nathan S. Lewis, Caltech)
• Associate Chair and Report Co-Editor, Workshop on Basic Research Needs for the Hydrogen Economy, May 2003 (Millie Dresselhaus, Chair, and Michelle Buchanan, Associate Chair)
• Editor, Physica C, 1987- 2003.
• Editor, Special Review Issue Superconductivity in MgB2: Electrons, Phonons, and Vortices, Physica C 385, 1-305 (2003).
• Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters, 1998 - 2001.
• Chair, Executive Committee of Division of Condensed Matter Physics, APS, 2001-2002.
• Review Panel, United Kingdom Theme Day on Superconductivity, June 16-18, 2001.
• Co-Editor, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers of High Tc Superconductivity, Morioka, Japan, Physica C 263, 1-576, 1996.
• Gordon Research Conference on Superconductivity: Vice-Chairman, 1991; Chairman, 1992.
• Chairman, External Advisory Committee for the National High Field Magnet Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1998-2000; Member 1991- present.

Research interests

• Materials science
• Nanoscale superconductors and magnets
• Vortex matter in superconductors
• Correlated electrons in metals
• Novel routes for energy conversion

Selected invited talks (from more than 90)

• Superconducting Vortices: Lattice, Liquid, and Plastic Motion, Plenary Session of the National Conference on Solid State Physics, Madrid, Spain, February 5-8, 2001
• Vortices in Dense Self-Assembled Hole Arrays, Third International Workshop on Magnetism and Superconductivity of Advanced Materials, Ladek Zdroj, Poland, July 14-19, 2002
• Perspectives in Superconductivity: electron-phonon interaction, multiple gaps, and vortices, Symposium on Future Oriented Interdisciplinary Materials Science 2003, Tsukuba, Japan, February 28-March 1, 2003
• Vortices in Self-Assembled Dense Hole Arrays, G. W. Crabtree, Kamerling Onnes Prize Lecture, 7th International Conference on the Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity-High Temperature Superconductors, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 26, 2003
• Pinning the Vortex Liquid, G. W. Crabtree, W. K. Kwok, R. Olsson, G. Karapetrov, and Lisa Paulius, 17th International Symposium on Superconductivity Niigata, Japan, November 23-25, 2004
• Mesoscopic Superconductivity, G. W. Crabtree, Conference on Single Molecule Magnets and Hybrid Magnetic Nanostructures, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, June 27- July 1, 2005

Recent publications (from more than 400 in print)

• Critical Points in Heavy Ion Irradiated Untwinned YBa2Cu3O7 Crystals, W. K. Kwok, R. J. Olsson, G. Karapetrov, L. M. Paulius, W. G. Moulton, D. J. Hofman, and G. W. Crabtree; Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3706 (2000)
• Experimental Evidence for the Vortex Glass Phase in Untwinned, Proton Irradiated YBa2Cu3O7, A. M. Petrean and L. M. Paulius, W.-K. Kwok, J. A. Fendrich, and G. W. Crabtree; Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5852 (2000)
• Effects of successive proton irradiation on the peak effect in YBa2Cu3O7– single crystals, V. Tobos, L. M. Paulius, A. M. Petrean, and S. Ferguson, J. W. Snyder, R. J. Olsson, W.-K. Kwok, and G. W. Crabtree; Appl. Phys. Lett. 78, 3097 (2001)
• Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy in MgB2, G. Karapetrov, M. Iavarone, W. K. Kwok, G. W. Crabtree, and D. G. Hinks; Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4374 (2001)
• An unusual phase transition to a second liquid vortex phase in the superconductor YBa2Cu3O7, F. Bouquet, C. Marcenat, E. Steep, R. Calemczuk, W. K. Kwok, U. Welp, G. W.Crabtree, R. A. Fisher, N. E. Phillips, and A. Schilling; Nature 411, 448 (2001)
• Two-Band Superconductivity in MgB2, M. Iavarone, G. Karapetrov, A. E. Koshelev, W. K. Kwok, G. W. Crabtree, D. G. Hinks, W. N. Kang, Eun-Mi Choi, Hyun Jung Kim, Hyeong-Jin Kim, and S. I. Lee; Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 187002 (2002)
• Magnesium Diboride: Better Late than Never, Paul C. Canfield and George W. Crabtree; Physics Today 56 (3), 34-40 (2003)
• Superconducting transition and phase diagram of single-crystal MgB2, U. Welp, A. Rydh, G. Karapetrov, W. K. Kwok, G. W. Crabtree, Ch. Marcenat L. Paulius, T. Klein, J. Marcus, K. H. P. Kim, C. U. Jung, H.-S. Lee, B. Kang, and S.-I. Lee; Phys. Rev. B 67, 012505 (2003)
• Experimental test of the self-organized criticality of vortices in superconductors, V. K. Vlasko-Vlasov, U. Welp, V. Metlushko, and G. W. Crabtree; Phys. Rev. B 69, 140504 (2004)
• The Hydrogen Economy, G. W. Crabtree, M. S. Dresselhaus, M. V. Buchanan; Physics Today 57 (12), 39 (2004)
• Tuning the architecture of mesostructures by electrodeposition, Z.L. Xiao, C.Y. Han, W.K. Kwok, H.W. Wang, U. Welp, J. Wang, G.W. Crabtree; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 2316 (2004)
• Nanowires and nanoribbons of charge-density-wave conductor NbSe3, Y.S. Hor, Z.L. Xiao, U. Welp, Y. Ito, J.F. Mitchell, R.W. Cook, W.K. Kwok, and G.W. Crabtree; Nano Letters 5, 397 (2005)