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David K. Ferry
Biography
David Keane Ferry (born 1940) is the Regents' Professor of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU), notable for his research in semiconductor devices. 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. 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. 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.
Wigner Initiative Commitments
In 2018, he co-authored a book on The Wigner Function in Science and Technology, a review article on Recent Advances in Wigner Function Approaches. In 2015, he co-edited the Special Issue on Wigner Functions in the Journal of Computational Electronics. He is a co-founder of the Wigner Initiative (where he is also in the steering committee) and the International Wigner Workshop (IW2) series (which he co-organizes).
Wigner-specific research
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Books and Editorships
- David K. Ferry, Stephen Goodnick, and Josef Weinbub, Book of Abstracts of the 3rd International Wigner Workshop (IW2) (TU Wien, 2019)
- David K. Ferry and Mihail (Mixi) Nedjalkov, The Wigner Function in Science and Technology (IOP Publishing, 2018)
- David K. Ferry, An Introduction to Quantum Transport in Semiconductors (Pan Stanford, 2017)
- David K. Ferry and Josef Weinbub, Booklet of the 1st International Wigner Workshop (IW2) (TU Wien, 2015)
Journal Articles
J. Weinbub, D.K. Ferry: Recent Advances in Wigner Function Approaches; Applied Physics Reviews, 5, (2018), 041104-1 - 041104-24 doi:10.1063/1.5046663.
D.K. Ferry, I. Welland:Relativistic Wigner Functions in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides; Journal of Computational Electronics, 2017, in print. doi: 10.1007/s10825-017-1094-4.
D.K. Ferry:Phase-Space Functions: Can They Give a Different View of Quantum Mechanics?; Journal of Computational Electronics 14(4), 864 - 868, 2015. doi: 10.1007/s10825-015-0731-z.
D.K. Ferry, R. Akis, R. Brunner: Probing the Quantum - Classical Connection with Open Quantum Dots; Physica Scripta 014010, 2015. doi: 10.1088/0031-8949/2015/T165/014010.
X. Oriols, D.K. Ferry: Quantum Transport Beyond DC; Journal of Computational Electronics 12, 317-330, 2013. doi: 10.1007/s10825-013-0461-z.
M. Nedjalkov, S. Selberherr, D.K. Ferry, D. Vasileska, P. Dollfus, D. Querlioz, I. Dimov, P. Schwaha: Physical Scales in the Wigner-Boltzmann Equation; Annals of Physics 328, 220 - 237, 2012. doi: 10.1016/j.aop.2012.10.001.
M. Nedjalkov, H. Kosina, S. Selberherr, Ch. Ringhofer, D.K. Ferry: Unified Particle Approach to Wigner-Boltzmann Transport in Small Semiconductor Devices; Physical Review B 70, 1 - 16, 2004. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.115319.
L. Shifren, D.K. Ferry: Wigner Function Quantum Monte Carlo; Physica B: Condensed Matter 314, 2002. doi: 10.1016/S0921-4526(01)01392-8.
L. Shifren, D.K. Ferry: Particle Monte Carlo Simulation of Wigner Function Tunneling; Physics Letters A 285, 2001. doi: 10.1016/S0375-9601(01)00344-9.
D.K. Ferry, J.-R. Zhou: Form of the Quantum Potential for use in Hydrodynamic Equations for Semiconductor Device Modeling; Physical Review B 48, 1993. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.48.7944.
Affiliation(s)
- Regents’ Professor Emeritus, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, USA