Biography and expertise
Mark A. Wistey (M'04) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Montana State University, Bozeman, in 1995, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2000 and 2005, respectively.
In 2005, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University. In 2006, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Arizona State University, Tempe. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 2009 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. In 2017, he joined the Physics Department and Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization (MSEC) Program at Texas State University as an Associate Professor. He is author or coauthor of two book chapters, more than 88 articles, and one patent.
In 2005, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University. In 2006, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Arizona State University, Tempe. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 2009 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. In 2017, he joined the Physics Department and Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization (MSEC) Program at Texas State University as an Associate Professor. He is author or coauthor of two book chapters, more than 88 articles, and one patent.
Education
Doctorate Degree
PhD in Electrical Engineering
Stanford University, 2005
Master's Degree
MS in Electrical Engineering
Stanford University, 2000
Bachelor's Degree
BS in Electrical Engineering
Montana State University, 1994
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Intellectual Property
Patents
- “Low Voltage Tunnel Field-Effect Transistor (TFET) and Method of Making the Same.” Alan Seabaugh, Patrick Fay, Huili (Grace) Xing, Guangle Zhou, Yeqing Lu, Mark Wistey, Siyuranga Koswatta.
Date awarded: 2014
Featured grants
- Haque, Ariful, Droopad, Ravindranath, Holtz, Mark W, Piner, Edwin L, Geerts, Wilhelmus J, Chen, Yihong, Hudnall, Todd W, Wistey, Mark A, Miyahara, Yoichi, Smith, Casey Eben, Mahato, Dip Narayan, Rastogi, Shiva Kumar, Kim, Namwon. Acquisition of a state-of-the-art Photoluminescence Spectrometer for Materials Characterization in Research and Education, Department of Defense, Federal, $434519. (Submitted: September 2023, Funded: 2024 - 2025). Grant.
- Betancourt, Tania (Principal), Brittain, William J (Co-Principal), Irvin, Jennifer A (Co-Principal), Theodoropoulou, Nikoleta (Co-Principal), Martin, Benjamin (Co-Principal), Rhodes, Christopher Peter (Co-Principal), Wistey, Mark A (Co-Principal), Miyahara, Yoichi (Co-Principal), Kerwin, Sean Michael (Co-Principal). TxState-UT PREM Center for Intelligent Materials Assembly (CIMA), National Science Foundation, Federal, $3822000. (Funded: July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2027). Grant.
- Wistey, Mark A (Principal). Core-shell Upconverting Nanostructures (CSUNs) for Photovoltaics, National Science Foundation, Federal, $142381. (Funded: July 1, 2017 - August 31, 2018). Grant.
- Wistey, Mark A (Principal). SusChEM: Direct Bandgap Ge:C on Silicon for Optoelectronics, National Science Foundation, Federal, $243170. (Funded: July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018). Grant.
- Wistey, Mark A (Principal). Core-shell Upconverting Nanostructures (CSUNs) for Photovoltaics, National Science Foundation, Federal, $223484. (Funded: September 1, 2014 - June 30, 2017). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Meng, Q., El-Jaroudi, R. H., Dadey, A. A., White, R. C., Campbell, J. C., Jones, A. H., … Bank, S. R. (2025). Extended wavelength photodiodes in the B-III–V material system. Applied Physics Letters, 127(15), 152103. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0284192
- Reza, Md. S., Dey, T., Arbogast, A. W., Meng, Q., Bank, S. R., & Wistey, M. A. (2024). Confinement and Threshold Modeling for High Temperature GeSn and GeC/GeCSn Lasers. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 31(1: SiGeSn Infrared Photon.), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1109/jstqe.2024.3511716
- Gulyas, I., Stephenson, C. A., Meng, Q., Bank, S. R., & Wistey, M. A. (2021). The Carbon State in Dilute Germanium Carbides. Journal of Applied Physics, 129, 055701. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5112057
- Qi, M., O’Brien, W. A., Stephenson, C. A., Patel, V., Cao, N., Thibeault, B. J., … Wistey, M. A. (2017). Extended Defect Propagation in Highly Tensile-Strained Ge Waveguides. Crystals, 7(6), 157. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst7060157
- Stephenson, C. A., Gillett-Kunnath, M., O’Brien, W. A., Kudrawiec, R., & Wistey, M. A. (2016). Gas Source Techniques for Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Highly Mismatched Ge Alloys. Crystals, 6(12), 159. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst6120159
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Advisor of Best Student Paper award, Electronic Materials Conference. June 25, 2026
- Award / Honor Recipient: College Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities, College of Science and Engineering. January 31, 2024 - October 15, 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction for Excellence in Teaching, College of Science and Engineering. August 2022
- Award / Honor Recipient: Alumni Association Teaching Award of Honor, Alumni Association. 2020
- Award / Honor Recipient: Advisor of the Best Student Manuscript Award, Electronic Materials Conference. 2014
Featured service activities
- Member
Research Safety Committee
- Member
Undergraduate Program Committee
- Member
Personnel Committee
- Chair
Laboraory Safety Committee
- Member
Department Undergraduate Scholarship Committee
- Member
Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization (MSEC) admissions committee