The co-inventor of the blue light-emitting diode (LED), Theodore Moustakas (pictured), has been given Boston University’s Innovator of the Year 2012 award.
Moustakas’ work is focused on innovative superconductors for photonics and other applications. The technology coming out from his lab has been widely deployed to LEDs, and led to the creation of spin-out firm RayVio Corp.
Boston provost and chief academic officer Jean Morrison presented the award at BU’s annual networking event for tech transfer, Tech, Drugs and Rock & Roll.
Morrison said: “Professor Moustakas is an entrepreneurial scientist, whose inventions have been licensed to a number of companies, including major manufacturers of blue LEDs and lasers (Cree and Philips-LumiLeds in United States and Nichia in Japan). His accomplishments in the past year include nine peer-reviewed papers published, five patent filings and $4.0 million invested in BU spinoff RayVio.”
