Hadis Morkoç

Prof. Hadis Morkoç is the Founders professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Physics Department at Virginia Commonwealth University, and is a world-renowned authority on semiconductor materials, device physics and technology.  According to ISI Essential Science Indicators, Prof. Morkoç is the most-cited materials science researcher in the past decade.  He is also one of the most cited researchers in the “Physics”, “Engineering” and “Material Science” categories, according to the Institute of Scientific Information and ISIHighlyCited.com.  He was ranked 19th among more than 517,100 physicists world-wide in terms of citations and citation impact (number of citations per paper) between 1981 and 1997. 

Prof. Morkoc has been the recipient of many distinguished awards for his research and many publications in the areas of semiconductors and material science. He was the recipient of the 2002 Virginia Commonwealth University Distinguished Scholarship Award, and the 2005 Virginia Outstanding Scientist Award.  He is author or co-author of some 1,400 publications, more than 45 book chapters, 50 tutorial and review articles (on wide ranging topics encompassing III-V and group IV semiconductors and electronic and optical devices, magnetic properties of dilute magnetic semiconductors and also complex multifunctional oxides), a two-volume book on MODFETs, a book on Nitride Semiconductors and Devices (with second edition in process), and a three-volume book on Advanced Semiconductor and Organic Nano-Techniques. A three volume handbook on nitride semiconductors and devices is in production and a book on ZnO is slated for publication in 2008.  

Prof. Hadis Morkoç is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Life Fellow of the American Physical Society, among other professional organizations.  He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering in 1968 and 1969 from Istanbul Technical University, respectively. He became a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering at Michigan State University, and completed his PhD at Cornell University in 1975.