About
Dr. Robert F. Karlicek, Jr. is the Director of the Center for Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications (LESA) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an NSF and industry funded program exploring advanced applications for next generation solid state lighting systems. Prior to joining RPI, he spent over 30 years in industrial research and R&D management positions with corporations including AT&T Bell Labs, EMCORE, General Electric, Gore Photonics, Microsemi, Luminus Devices and SolidUV. His technical experience includes epitaxial growth of high performance LEDs and lasers, advanced device fabrication and high power LED packaging, thermal management, control systems design and applications research in solid state lighting as well as other novel LED uses such as IR and UV LED applications, wireless communications using lighting (LiFi) and advanced LED display applications.
Dr. Karlicek is well known globally as an LED industry expert, and is a frequent presenter at conferences and workshops. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh and has over 67 peer reviewed technical papers and 51 U.S. patents. He is the founder and president of SolidUV, Inc. and does consulting and legal work through NewRadiant, LLC.
B.S. in Chemistry, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst IL (1973)
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh (1979)
Research
Advanced lighting systems, Advanced display technologies, Lighting and biological applications, Advanced sensor technology, Internet of Things, Optoelectronics
Publications
The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Bob Karlicek has 120 indexed publications in the subjects of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Science, Engineering.