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, 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 362 papers in
technical journals (Google citations 18,400, h-index 69). 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 39
U.S. patents and several are pending 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); he was also elected a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of
Inventors (2012).He holds an honorary doctoral degree from the Aristotle
University (2003); he received the Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Innovator Award in 2010; he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from
the BU College of Engineering in 2011 and the Boston University Innovator of
the Year Award in 2013.