Russell Dean Dupuis (born 9 July 1947) is an American physicist.
He holds the Steve W. Chaddick Endowed Chair in Electro-Optics in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Georgia Tech
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. He has made pioneering contributions to metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (
MOCVD
Metalorganic vapour-phase epitaxy (MOVPE), also known as organometallic vapour-phase epitaxy (OMVPE) or metalorganic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD), is a chemical vapour deposition method used to produce single- or polycrystalline thin films. ...
) and continuous-wave room-temperature quantum-well lasers.
His other work has focused on III-V heterojunction devices, and
LEDs
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.
Dupuis was elected as a member into the
National Academy of Engineering
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in 1989 for pioneering work in metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and demonstration of heterostructure devices.
Education
Dupuis earned his B.S. (1970), his M.S. (1971), and his Ph.D. (1972) in
Electrical Engineering
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from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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.
Career History
Prof. Dupuis initially worked at Texas Instruments from 1973 to 1975.
He joined Rockwell International in 1975, where he was the forerunner to demonstrate that MOCVD could be used for the growth of high-quality semiconductor thin films and devices.
Next, in 1979 he moved to AT&T Bell Laboratories where he extended his work to the growth of InP-InGaAsP by MOCVD.
He moved to academia in 1989 to become a chaired professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Awards and memberships
A Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, Dupuis and two of his colleagues were awarded the 2002
National Medal of Technology
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by President George W. Bush for their work on developing and commercializing
LED
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s. He won the 1985
IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award
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. In 2015, Dupuis and four others shared the
Charles Stark Draper Prize
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in Engineering given by the U.S.
National Academy of Engineering
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. He is a member of the
National Academy of Engineering
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and is a Fellow of the IEEE, the
American Physical Society
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, the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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, and the
Optical Society of America
Optica (formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA) and before that as the Optical Society of America) is a professional society of individuals and companies with an interest in optics and photonics. It publishes journals and organizes conference ...
.
Russell D. Dupuis won the 2004
John Bardeen
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Award and the 2007
IEEE
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Edison Medal
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.
References
External links
Official profile
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1947 births
Living people
American electrical engineers
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
National Medal of Technology recipients
Draper Prize winners
IEEE Edison Medal recipients
Georgia Tech faculty
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of Optica (society)