Theodore D Moustakas
Dr. Moustakas is the inaugural Distinguished Professor
of Photonics and Optoelectronics at Boston University. He received his PhD from
Columbia University in 1974. He held research positions at Harvard University
and Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory prior to joining Boston University in
1987 as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is currently an
Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, of the Division of
Materials Science and Engineering, and of the Physics Department at Boston
University.
Dr.
Moustakas’ research contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics in
opto-electronic materials and devices, including nitride semiconductors,
amorphous semiconductors, III-V compounds, chalcogenide glasses, diamond thin
films and metallic multi-layers. He is the co-editor of eight books, including Gallium
Nitride I (Academic Press, 1998) and Gallium Nitride II (academic
Press, 1999), the author of chapters in eight books and 363 papers in technical
journals (Google citations more than 19,000, h-index 72). He served as a
special editor of the Journal of Electronic Materials and the Journal of
Vacuum Science and Technology. He presented 138 invited, keynote and
plenary talks in national and international conferences. He has been granted 41
U.S. patents and several in foreign countries in the fields of nitride
semiconductors, amorphous silicon and diamond materials. Intellectual property
that resulted from his work has been licensed to more than 40 companies,
including major manufacturers and users of blue LEDs and lasers (Cree, Nichia,
Philips, OSRAM, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Motorola,
Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, NEC, Blackberry, Nokia etc.)..
Dr. Moustakas was elected Fellow of the American
Physical Society (1994), the Electrochemical Society (1997), the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering-IEEE (2014), the Optical Society of
America (2021), the Materials Research Society (2022), and a Life Fellow of IEEE
(2024); he was also elected a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of
Inventors (2012).
In 2024
Dr. Moustakas was the recipient of the Nick Holonyak Jr. Award from Optica for
his “pioneering contributions to Nitride Semiconductor materials and optical
devices that helped build the foundation for blue and UV LEDs” In 2013 he
received the Boston University Innovator of the Year Award. In 2011 he received
the Distinguished Scholar Award
from the BU College of Engineering. In
2010 he received the Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Innovator Award from
the North America MBE Society “for pioneering contributions in the
development of MBE growth of Nitride materials and the development of
optoelectronic devices prepared by MBE”. In 2003 Dr. Moustakas was granted an honorary doctoral degree from
the Aristotle University.