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James S. Speck

Seoul Optodevice Professor in Solid State Lighting
Materials Department
Phone: 
(805) 893-8005
Email: 
speck@mrl.ucsb.edu
Office: 
2518 Engineering II

Education

  • Sc.D. Materials Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • S.M. Metallurgy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • BS Engineering, University of Michigan

Awards & Honors

  • National Academy of Inventors
  • IEEE Photonics Society Aron Kressel Award, Materials Research Society (Inaugural Class); Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Best Paper Award

Biography

Prof. Speck's early work focused on epitaxial oxide films on semiconductors, ferroelectric thin films, and strain relaxation in highly misfitting epitaxial systems. He has worked extensively on the materials science of GaN and related alloys. Major aspects of his work on nitrides include elucidating basic growth modes and defect generation, the development of MBE growth of GaN, and the development of nonpolar and semipolar GaN. In 2008, Speck and his longtime collaborators founded Soraa. Speck has over 838 publications in the referred archival literature.

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