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 The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

. 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 A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron holes, releasing energy in the form of photons. The color of the light (cor ...

. Dupuis was elected as a member into the

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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 from the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

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 The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (formerly the National Medal of Technology) is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development ...

by President George W. Bush for their work on developing and commercializing LEDs. He won the 1985

IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award The initially called Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize provided by the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award was created in 1919 in honor of Colonel Morris N. Liebmann. It was initially given to awardees who h ...

. In 2015, Dupuis and four others shared the

Charles Stark Draper Prize The U.S. National Academy of Engineering annually awards the Draper Prize, which is given for the advancement of engineering and the education of the public about engineering. It is one of three prizes that constitute the "Nobel Prizes of Enginee ...

in Engineering given by the U.S.

. He is a member of the

and is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 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 Award and the 2007

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Edison Medal The IEEE Edison Medal is presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering, or the electrical arts." It is the oldest medal in this fi ...

References

External links

Official profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dupuis, Russell 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)