Ekmel Özbay
Turkish engineer (born 1966)
Ekmel Özbay is a Turkish professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Physics Departments at Bilkent University and the director of the Nanotechnology Research Center, and Space Technologies Research Center (BILUZAY) in Ankara.
Biography
Ekmel Özbay was born on March 25, 1966, in Ankara, Turkey. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1987. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1989 and 1992.
From 1992 to 1993, Özbay worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Stanford University. His research in Stanford focused on high speed resonant tunneling and optoelectronic devices.
Between 1993 and 1995, he worked as a scientist in the United States Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory at Iowa State University in the area of photonic band gap materials.
He joined Bilkent University in 1995, where he is currently a full professor in the physics and electrical electronics engineering departments. His research areas include metamaterials, photonic crystals, MOCVD growth, fabrication and characterization of nanoelectronic and nanophotonic GaN/AlGaN devices, and high-performance near-infrared semiconductor photodetectors and lasers.
Since 2002, he is a topical editor of the journal Optics Letters.
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