Theodore D. Moustakas has been a Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department at Boston University since 1987. He has also been a Professor of Physics since
1991 and a Faculty Member of the Center for Photonics Research since 1994.
He is currently the director of the Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Laboratory. He received
the B.S. degree in Physics from Aristotle University (Greece) in 1964 and the Ph.D.
degree in Solid State Science and Engineering from Columbia University in 1974. He held
research and visiting faculty positions at Harvard University, Aristotle University, IBM T. J. Watson Research
Laboratory and Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory.
Dr. Moustakas’ research contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics in opto-electronic
materials and devices, including nitride semiconductors, amorphous semiconductors, III-V
compounds, 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 270 papers in
technical journals and conference proceedings. He served as a special editor of the
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology in 1984 and 1986 and of the Journal of
Electronic Materials in 1995. He presented 100 invited and plenary talks in national and
international conferences. He has been granted twenty-five U.S. patents
(and five pending) in the fields of nitride semiconductors, amorphous silicon and
diamond materials. Intellectual property that resulted from his work has been licensed
to a number of companies, including the two major manufactures of blue LEDs and lasers
(Cree in United States and Nichia in Japan). This work is cited in the 2006 edition of Technology Transfer Works: 100 Cases From Research to Realization, published by The Association of University Technology Managers as part of the Better World Project.
Dr. Moustakas is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Electrochemical
Society. He is also active member in the Materials Research Society, the Electronic
Materials Committee and he is a member of the Advisory Board of the North America MBE
Conference. He organized a number of symposia for the American Physical Society, the
Materials Research Society, and the Electrochemical Society and participated in the
organization of numerous national and international conferences. In 2003 he was awarded
an honorary doctoral degree from the Aristotle University for outstanding contributions
to research and teaching.
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