Residence United States Name David Ferry | Doctoral advisor Arwin A. Dougal Nationality American | |
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Institutions Texas Tech University
Office of Naval Research
Colorado State University
Arizona State University Alma mater University of Texas at Austin
Texas Technical College Education Texas State Technical College System, University of Texas at Austin Fields Electronic engineering, Physicist Books Transport in nanostructures, Semiconductor Transport, Quantum Mechanics: An Introd, Electronic materials and devic, Semiconductors | ||
Other academic advisors Karl-Heinz Seeger | ||
David Keane Ferry (born 1940) is the Regents' Professor of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU), notable for his research in semiconductor devices.
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Education
He received his BSEE, 1962, and MSEE, 1963, both from Texas Technical College. Ferry obtained his PhD under Arwin A. Dougal, 1966, from the University of Texas at Austin with a thesis entitled Anomalous Microwave Emission from Bulk Semiconductors.
Career
Following a postdoctoral year in Vienna (1966–67) under Karl-Heinz Seeger, he spent time at Texas Tech University (1967–73), the Office of Naval Research (1973–77), Colorado State University (1977–83), and then joined Arizona State University in 1983.
Honors
He has received a number of honours including the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, 1999; IEEE (Phoenix) Engineer of Year, 1990; Fellow of the IEEE, 1987; Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1974; and Fellow of the Institute of Physics, 2008. His research involves the physics and simulation of semiconductor devices and quantum effects and transport in mesoscopic device structures.