Bob Karlicek

Director, Center for Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications (LESA), Co-Director, Institute for Energy, the Built Environment, and Smart Systems (EBESS), and Professor

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 56 peer reviewed technical papers and 44 U.S. patents. He is the founder and president of SolidUV, Inc., and sits on the technical advisory boards of several high tech startup companies.

Education & Training

B.S. in Chemistry, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst IL (1973)

Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh (1979)

Research

Primary Research Focus
Intelligent sensing platforms for building controls
Other Focus Areas

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 116 indexed publications in the subjects of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Science, Engineering.

John Rollinson, Asif Chowdhury, Robert Karlicek, Mona Hella
IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics GFP
, 2023-April
, 2023
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John Rollinson, Robert Karlicek, Mona Hella
2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2023 - Proceedings
, 2023
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Raveen Rathnasinghe, Robert F. Karlicek, Michael Schotsaert, Mattheos Koffas, Brigitte L. Arduini, Sonia Jangra, Bowen Wang, Jason L. Davis, Mohammed Alnaggar, Anthony Costa, Richard Vincent, Adolfo García-Sastre, Deepak Vashishth, Priti Balchandani
Scientific Reports
, 11
, 2021
.
Tianna Kaye Woodstock, Robert F. Karlicek
IEEE Sensors Journal
, 20
, 2020
, pp.12364-12373
.
Lauren E. Hartstein, Arunas Tuzikas, Robert F. Karlicek
LEUKOS - Journal of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America
, 16
, 2020
, pp.289-301
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Zhibo Guo, Collin Hitchcock, Robert F. Karlicek, Guanxi Piao, Yoshiki Yano, Shuuichi Koseki, Toshiya Tabuchi, Koh Matsumoto, Mayank Bulsara, T. Paul Chow
Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science
, 217
, 2020
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Zhibo Guo, Mayank Bulsara, T. Paul Chow, Collin Hitchcock, Christian Wetzel, Robert F. Karlicek, Guanxi Piao, Yoshiki Yano, Shuuichi Koseki, Toshiya Tabuchi, Koh Matsumoto
IEEE Electron Device Letters
, 40
, 2019
, pp.1736-1739
.
Asif Chowdhury, Robert F. Karlicek, Mona M. Hella
Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
, 2019-August
, 2019
, pp.1203-1206
.
Joseph D. Gleason, Meeko Oishi, Michelle Simkulet, Arunas Tuzikas, John P. Hanifin, George C. Brainard, S. R.J. Brueck, Robert F. Karlicek, Lee K. Brown
IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
, 7
, 2019
.

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