David Ferry
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Phone: 480-965-2570
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ENGRC 559 TEMPE, AZ 85287
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Emeritus Professor Ferry is a Regents Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University, where he served 35 years. He received his doctorate at the University of Texas, Austin in electrical engineering. Thereafter, he was a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in Vienna, Austria, 1966-67. From 1967 to 1973, he was a faculty member with Texas Tech University, and joined the Office of Naval Research. From 1977 to 1983, he was with Colorado State University, Fort Collins, where he served as professor and chair of the department. He joined Arizona State University, Tempe, where he was director of the Center for Solid State Electronics Research from 1983 to 1989, chair of Electrical Engineering from 1989 to 1992, and associate dean for research from 1993 to 1995. Ferry received the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award for advances in nanoelectronics in 1999. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Ferry has authored or co-authored more than 950 research papers, written or co-written 20 textbooks, 34 chapters in science books and edited 8 other books, as well as writing 2 he describes as “quasi-scientific” (including “50 Years in the Semiconductor Underground” and the “The Copenhagen Conspiracy”). Collectively those writings have spanned a broad range of the many facets of electrical engineering, electronics and related physics and mathematics.
A gift to ASU from Ferry and his wife will now fund the new David and Darleen Ferry Professorship to support the research of a faculty member in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, one of the Fulton Schools.
- Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Texas - Austin 1966
- M.S. Electrical Engineering, Texas Technological College 1963
- B.S. Electrical Engineering, Texas Technological College 1962
Physics of semiconductor devices, transport in semiconductor, quantum physics in nanostructures
Recent Books:
David K. Ferry, Quantum Information in the Nanotechnology World, Springer Nature, 2024.
David K. Ferry, Xavier Oriols, and Josef Weinbub, Quantum Transport in Semiconductor Devices: Simulation Using Particles, IOP Publishing, 2023.
David K. Ferry, Hot Carriers in Semiconductors, IOP Publishing, 2021.
David K. Ferry, Quantum Mechanics for Electrical Engineering, 3rd Edition, Taylor & Francis, 2021.
David K. Ferry, Transport in Semiconductor Mesoscopic Devices, 2nd Edition, IOP Publishing, 2020.
David K. Ferry, Semiconductors: Bonds and Bands, 2nd Edition, IOP Publishing, 2020.
David K. Ferry, Copenhagen Conspiracy, Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore, 2019.
David K. Ferry and Mihail Nedjalkov, The Wigner Function in Science and Technology, IOP Publishing, 2018.
Recent Chapters:
Xabier Oianguren-Asua, Carlos F. Destafani, Matteo Villani, David K. Ferry, and Xavier Oriols, "Bohmian Mechanics as a Practical Tool," in Physics and the Nature of Reality: Essays in Honor of Detlef Dürr, Ed. by A. Bassi, S. Goldstein, R. Tumulka, and N. Zanghi (Springer Nature, Switzerland, 2024) pp. 105-123.
Recent Reviews:
D. K. Ferry and D. L. Rode, "Physical and Electrical Properties of Silica," Applied Physics Reviews 12, 011304 (2025)
A. Anctil, ...., D. K. Ferry, et al., "Status Report on Emerging Photo-Voltaics," Journal of Photonics for Energy 13, 042301 (2023).
D. K. Ferry, V. R. Whitesides, and I. R. Sellers, "Pathways to Hot Carrier Solar Cells," Journal of Photonics for Energy 12, 022204 (2022).
D. K. Ferry, J. Weinbub, M. Nedjalkov, and S. Selberherr, "A Review of Quantum Transport in Field-Effect Transistors," Semiconductor Science and Technology 37, 043001 (2022).
D. K. Ferry, "Non-Equilibrium Optical Phonons and Their Lifetimes," Applied Physics Reviews 8, 021324 (2021).
J. Weinbub and D. K. Ferry, "Recent Advances in Wigner Function Approaches," Applied Physics Review 5, 041104 (2018),
Recent Journal Articles:
D. K. Ferry, X. Oriols, and R. Eisenberg, "Displacement Current in Classical and Quantum Systems," Computation 13, 45 (2025)
D. K. Ferry, "Silica as a Two-Dimensional Material for Nano-Electronics," Semiconductor Science and Technology 40, 025006 (2025).
D. K. Ferry, V. R. Whiteside, and I. Sellers, "On the Use of Complex Band Structure to Study Valley Photovoltaics: Toward Efficient Hot Carrier Extraction," Journal of Photonics Energy 15, 012502 (2025).
D. K. Ferry, "On a Method of Treating Polar-Optical Phonons in Real Space," Journal of Computational Electronics 22, 1495 (2023).
D. K. Ferry and W. Porod, "Dissipation and Irreversibility in Computation," (a tutorial) Materials Research Express 10, 083001 (2023).
D. K. Ferry, "Using Ensemble Monte Carlo Methods to Evaluate Non-Equilibrium Green's Functions II. Polar-Optical Phonons," Semiconductor Science and Technology 38, 075001 (2023).
D. K. Ferry, "Using Ensemble Monte Carlo Methods to Evaluate Non-Equilibrium Green's Functions," Semiconductor Science and Technology 38, 055005 (2023).
C. R. da Cunha, N. Aoki, D. K. Ferry, A. Velasquez, and Y. Zhang, "An Investigation of the Background Potential in Quantum Constrictions Using Scanning Gate Microscopy and a Swarming Algorithm," Physica A 614, 128550 (2023).
K. R. Dorman, V. R. Whiteside, D. K. Ferry, T. D. Mishima, I. Yusuf, H. Esmaielpour, M. B. Santos, and I. R. Sellers, "Electric Field and its Effect on Hot Carriers in InGaAs Valley Photovoltaic Devices," IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 12, 1175-83 (2022).
I. Welland and D. K. Ferry, “Wavepacket phase‐space quantum Monte Carlo method,” Journal of Computational Electronics 20, 267-273 (2021).
K. Sakanishi, N. Wada, K. Murase, K. Oto, G.-H. Kim, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. P. Bird, D. K. Ferry, and N. Aoki, “Valley polarized conductance quantization in bilayer graphene narrow quantum point contact,” Applied Physics Letters 118, 263102 (2021).
X. Oriols and D. K. Ferry, “Why Engineers are Right to Avoid the Quantum Reality Offered by the Orthodox Theory,” Proceedings of the IEEE 109, 955 (2021).
D. K. Ferry, “High Electric Field Transport in GaAs0.51Sb0.49,” Semiconductor Science and Technology 36, 045024 (2021).
Ian Welland and David K. Ferry, “On Wigner Functions in Dirac-Like Bands: The Transition Metal Di-Chalcogenides,” 2nd International Wigner Workshop, Low Woods Bay, United Kingdom, June 5, 2017.
David K. Ferry, “Monte Carlo Study of High Field Transport in Some Transition Metal Di-Chalcogenides,” International Workshop on Computational Nanotechnology, Low Woods Bay, United Kingdom, June 5-9. 2017.
D. K. Ferry, “High field transport in some transition metal di-chalcogenides,” 20th International Coference on Electron Dynamics in Semiconductor, Optoelectronics, and Nanostructures, Buffalo, NY, 16-21 July, 2017.
1999 Cledo Brunetti Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, for contributions to the theory and experiment of nanoelectronics
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 2006-2011
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Computational Electronics, 2007-2015
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Fellow, American Physical Society
Fellow, Institute of Physics
Physics
Materials Engineering
- Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, Editor in Chief (2007 - 2011)
- Journal of Computational Electronics, Editor in Chief (2003 - 2018)
- Journal of Applied Physics/Applied Physics Letters, Member Editorial Board (2001 - 2004)