His research involves quantum physics, particularly with regard to the quantum-to-classical transition, simulation of terahertz semiconductor devices, and transport in mesoscopic device structures.
Education:
BSEE, Texas Technological College, Lubbock, 1962
MSEE, Texas Technological College, Lubbock, 1963
Ph. D., University of Texas, Austin, 1966
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Vienna, Austria, 1966-67
Honors:
Fellow, Institute of Physics, 2005
ASU Graduate Mentor Award, 2001
IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, 1999, “for advances in nanoelectronics”
ASU Regents’ Professor, 1988
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1987
Halliburton Research Award, Colorado State, 1982
Fellow, American Physical Society, 1974
Faculty Research Award, Texas Tech, 1973
Admiral in the Texas Navy, 1974
Tennessee Squire, 1970
With friends at an evening of relaxation during the ISANN conference in Hawaii, December 2007
Selected Books:
Transport in Nanostructures, 2nd Ed., 2009, Cambridge University Press (with S. M. Goodnick
and J. P. Bird).
Semiconductor Transport, 2001, Taylor and Francis, London.
Electronic Materials and Devices, 2001, Academic Press, San Diego (with J. P. Bird).
Quantum Mechanics, 2nd Ed., 2000, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol
Doctoral Students Now Teaching in Universities:
•Dr. Paolo Lugli, Professor, Technical University of Munich, Germany
•Dr. Umberto Ravaioli, Professor, University of Illinois
•Dr. Mohamed Osman, Professor, Washington State University
•Dr. Ravindra Joshi, Professor, Old Dominion University
•Dr. Gary Bernstein, Professor, Notre Dame University
•Dr. Toshishige Yamada, Research Faculty, University of Santa Clara
•Dr. Dragica Vasileska, Professor, Arizona State University
•Dr. Irena Knezevic, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin
•Dr. Carlo Requiao da Cunha, Associate Professor, University Federale de Rio Grande del Sud, Brazil
•Dr. Matthew Gilbert, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
My wife and I at the (recently closed) Texas Embassy
in London, 2006.
