Theodore Moustakas

Theodore MoustakasProfessor
PhD, Columbia University, 1974

Wide Band Gap Semiconductors
Materials Science and Engineering


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Honors, Awards, and Editorships

  • Honorary Doctorate, Aristotle University for excellence in Research
  • Fellow, American Physical Society
  • Fellow, Electrochemical Society
  • Senior member, IEEE
  • 1998 ECE Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • Cited in “Technology Transfer Works: 100 Cases from research to realization,” Better World Project
  • Special editor of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology and Journal of Electronic Materials

Classes Taught

  • EC411
  • EC471 Physics of Semiconductor Devices
  • EC577
  • EC700 Advanced Special Topics
  • EC771 Physics of Compound Semiconductor Devices
  • EC892 Seminar: Electro-Physics

Research Interests

  • growth by MBE, MOCVD, HVPE and gas-cluster ion beam deposition (GCIB)
  • growth, fabrication and characterization of optical devices (UV-LEDs, UV-LDs, optical modulators, detectors), electronic devices (high power diodes, transistors and thyristors) and electromechanical devices (SiC/III-Nitride MEMS sensors)
  • III-nitride semiconductors (materials growth and device fabrication)

Selected Publications

Coming soon.