50 Years in the Semiconductor Underground

About David K. Ferry

David K. Ferry is Regents Professor in the School of Electrical Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He is also graduate faculty in the Department of Physics and the Materials Science and Engineering program at ASU as well as a visiting professor at Chiba University in Japan. He came to ASU in 1983 following shorter stints at Texas Tech University the Office of Naval Research and Colorado State University. In the distant past he received his doctorate from the University of Texas Austin and spent a postdoctoral period at the University of Vienna Austria. He enjoys teaching (which he refers to as warping young minds) and research. The latter is focused on semiconductors particularly as they apply to nanotechnology and integrated circuits as well as quantum effects in devices. In 1999 he received the Cledo Brunetti Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is a Fellow of this group as well as the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics UK. He has been a Tennessee Squire since 1971 and an admiral in the Texas Navy since 1973.