U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (ret)
E-mail: chip_eddy @ avs.org

CHARLES R. “CHIP” EDDY, JR. received a Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1998 and BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 1988 and 1990, respectively. While a student at Boston University, he performed some of the first work on ECR plasma-assisted MBE growth of GaN.

From 1990 through 1997, he was an electronics engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC. While at NRL, his research included ECR plasma-assisted deposition of diamond, BN, and other super-hard materials, and extensive research into high-density plasma etching of materials for nanostructure and device applications.

In 1998, he was appointed as a faculty member in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Boston University and in the Boston University Photonics Center. His research at Boston University included semiconductor device processing and process characterization, electronic and optoelectronic device fabrication and characterization, especially in III-V nitride devices, and novel device concepts.

In 2001, he returned to NRL to conduct research in MOCVD growth of III-V nitrides and HTCVD growth of SiC for application in power electronic and optoelectronic devices. In 2003, he was promoted to Head of the newly formed Power Electronic Materials Section in the Electronics Science & Technology Division. In that role, he led a team of 15-18 Ph.D. staff members and postdoctoral fellows in research on wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconductor materials development as well as graphene and high-k dielectric development. In 2020, he began a detail to the U.S. Office of Naval Research Global in London as Science Director for Power and Energy as well as Materials Research, funding dozens of research projects on these topics at institutions across Europe and Canada.

He has published over 400 papers (>12,750 citations) and 2 book chapters, presented over 725 papers (> 145 invited), and holds 35 patents with many patents pending on these subjects.

In 2020, he was awarded the Naval Research Laboratory’s E.O. Hulburt Award for outstanding scientific contributions – among the highest awards the NRL Commanding Officer can confer on an NRL civilian employee. He retired from federal service at the end of 2024.  

Chip has been an active volunteer in the AVS for over two decades serving as President (2017), Director (2013-2014), General Program Chair of the 59th International AVS Symposium and the 2016 PacSurf Symposium, Vice-Chair of the 55th and 58th International AVS Symposia, Chair of the Publications Committee (2020-present), Chair of the Symposia & Conferences and Topical Conferences Committees (2013-2016), Chair of the AVS Professional Leadership Committee (2010-2012), Chair of the Electronic Materials & Processing Division Executive and Program Committees, and as an Associate Editor of JVST B (2003-2005).  

He was elected Fellow of AVS in 2015 for “his exceptional contributions to electronic materials growth and processing, especially for III-V nitride semiconductors” and in 2024 he was humbled to be named an Honorary Member of AVS.