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James Speck

James Speck

Seoul Optodevice Distinguished Professor of Solid State Lighting
Materials

Affiliation: 
Materials

Contact

(805) 893.8005
2518 Engineering II

University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Member of : 

National Academy of Inventors

Honors

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

Research

Electronic and Photonic Materials

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 more than 725 publications in the referred archival literature.

Education

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