O.J. Pitts

Oliver J. Pitts (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in earth and planetary sciences from McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, in 2004. Thereafter, he held a postdoctoral research with Simon Fraser University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA, focused on the epitaxial growth of semiconductor materials by MOCVD. In 2009, he joined the MOCVD Epitaxy Group of the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre, National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, where he led the development of Zn diffusion processing using the MOCVD reactor. Since 2018, he has been with Advanced Technology Fabrication Group, NRC, concentrating on the design, epitaxial growth and fabrication of III-V photodetectors and imaging arrays, and applications thereof in LiDAR and in optical satellite communications.