David K. Ferry
David Keane Ferry is the Regents' Professor of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University, notable for his research in semiconductor devices.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 under Karl-Heinz Seeger, he spent time at Texas Tech University, the Office of Naval Research, Colorado State University, and then joined
Arizona State University in 1983.Honors
He has received a number of honours including the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, 1999; IEEE 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.Books by Ferry
- The Copenhagen Conspiracy
- The Wigner Function in Science and Technology
- An Introduction to Quantum Transport in Semiconductors
- Semiconductors: Bonds and bands
- Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Edition
- Quantum Transport in Ultra-small Devices, Edited with Hal Grubin, Carlo Jacoboni, and Antti-Pekka Jauho
- Transport in Nanostructures, with Steve Goodnick
- Semiconductor Transport
- Electronic Materials and Devices, with Jon Bird.
