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January, 2002 EEEL’s Robert J. Phelan, Jr. Elected IEEE Fellow |
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Robert J. Phelan, Jr., a retired physicist from EEEL's Optoelectronics Division has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his "contributions in optoelectronics through the development of semiconductor lasers, optical detectors, and measurement techniques."
Phelan joined NBS in 1969, following seven years of research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. At Lincoln Labs, he made important contributions to early research on semiconductor lasers and high speed detectors, including the first demonstrations of laser action in several compound semiconductors and the first demonstration of a Schottky barrier avalanche photodiode in GaAs. His contributions at NBS/NIST include the development and application of pyroelectric detectors for use in radiometric measurements. His work on polymer pyroelectric detectors led to inexpensive and commercially successful intrusion detectors. He conceived and helped develop the Electrically Calibrated Pyroelectric Radiometer, which won an IR-100 Award from Industrial Research Magazine and has been a successful product for over 25 years. He invented and developed a variety of techniques for characterizing optical detectors, which continue to be used at NIST and other laboratories.
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