Morteza Monavarian, PhD

Morteza Monavarian received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2012 and the M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA in 2014, and 2016, respectively. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA as a Graduate Research Assistant in 2012 working with Professors Hadis Morkoç, Ümit Özgür, and Vitaliy Avrutin on the development of efficient III-Nitride based light emitting devices for application in display and general lighting. After finishing his Ph.D., He started working as Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM) at the University of New Mexico. Working with Professor Daniel Feezell, he developed high-speed InGaN/GaN LEDs for Visible Light Communication (VLC) and investigated high gain UV and Visible Nitride VCSELs on nonpolar orientation. His field of research mainly involves growth, fabrication, and characterization of semiconductor electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic devices including high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), light emitting diodes (LEDs), Superluminescent diodes (SLDs), vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs), and acoustic phonon emitting applications. He has been contributing to the field of semiconductor optoelectronics and photonics for close to 6 years and has authored or co-authored over 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference proceeding publications. Morteza is a member of American Physical Society (APS), Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Eta Kappa Nu (The honor society branch of the IEEE), the international Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), Golden Key international honor society, and Honorsociety.org.