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 Engineers-IEEE (2014), the Optical Society of America
(2021) and 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.