Haroon Ahmed, FREng[3] (2 March 1936 – 23 October 2024), was a British-Pakistani scientist who specialised in the fields of microelectronics and electrical engineering. He was Emeritus Professor of Microelectronics at the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge,[2][1][5][6][7][8][9][10] Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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| Born | 2 March 1936[2] Karachi, British India (now Pakistan) |
| Died | 23 October 2024 (aged 88) Cambridge, England |
| Nationality | British Pakistani |
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| Thesis | Studies on high-current-density thermionic cathodes (1963) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Oatley[citation needed] |
| Website | www |
Early life and education
editAhmed was born on 2 March 1936 in Karachi (then part of British India). His family later emigrated to England in 1949 when he was thirteen years old and settled in London. He was educated at St Patrick's High School, Karachi, followed by an undergraduate degree at Imperial College London.[2] He went on to obtain his PhD in 1963[11] and his Doctor of Science degrees in 1996 from the University of Cambridge.[citation needed]
Career
editAhmed was appointed a faculty member of the Engineering Department, Cambridge in 1963 and worked there for 20 years before moving to the Physics Department where he was promoted to Professor of Microelectronics and was the Head of the Microelectronics Research Centre until his retirement in 2003. He was a former Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow. He was Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.[citation needed]
Research
editAhmed published a large number of papers in scientific and engineering research journals on microelectronics, micro and nanofabrication, electron and ion beam lithography, semiconductor single electron devices and related topics.[1][5][12]
He established a number of major collaborations between industry and the University including the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory in the Microelectronics Research Centre. He is the author with P.J. Spreadbury of Electronics for Engineers (CUP 1973) and An Introduction to Physical Electronics with A.H.W. Beck (Elsevier, 1968, out of print). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1990.[citation needed]
He served as a Syndic of Cambridge University Press, as Non-Executive Director of the Addenbrooke's Hospital NHS Trust, as President of the Philosophical Society, as a member of the MacRobert Committee which awards a prize annually to the most innovative engineering company in the UK and was a member of the Development Board of Imperial College. He also worked as a consultant to several major electronics industrial companies.[citation needed] He was elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1967, became Warden of Leckhampton House (the College's Graduate Campus) in 1993 and Master in 2000, succeeding Professor Sir Tony Wrigley and resigned in 2006 to advise the Government of Pakistan on Higher Education matters.[citation needed]
He was the College's 48th Master since its foundation in 1352. In his time as Master the College celebrated its 650th anniversary, the Taylor Library project was implemented, the Conservation Centre for manuscripts was built and the project on the digital imaging of the College's Parker collection was started.[citation needed]
Personal life and death
editAmong his other interests were golf and cricket.[citation needed].
Ahmed died in Cambridge on 23 October 2024, at the age of 88.[13][14]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Ahmed, Haroon (2013). Cambridge Computing: The First 75 years (PDF). London: Third Millennium Publishing Limited. p. 176. ISBN 9781906507831. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 March 2015.
- ^ a b c d "AHMED, Prof. Haroon". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b "List of Fellows". Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ Hopper, A.; Jones, A.; Augur, R. A.; Fice, M. J.; Blythe, S.; Ahmed, H. (1992). "A feasibility study for the fabrication of planar silicon multichip modules using electron beam lithography for precise location and interconnection of chips". IEEE Transactions on Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Technology. 15: 97–102. doi:10.1109/33.124197.
- ^ a b Haroon Ahmed's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ Wharam, D. A.; Thornton, T. J.; Newbury, R.; Pepper, M.; Ahmed, H.; Frost, J. E. F.; Hasko, D. G.; Peacock, D. C.; Ritchie, D. A.; Jones, G. A. C. (1988). "One-dimensional transport and the quantisation of the ballistic resistance". Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics. 21 (8): L209. Bibcode:1988JPhC...21L.209W. doi:10.1088/0022-3719/21/8/002.
- ^ Thornton, T.; Pepper, M.; Ahmed, H.; Andrews, D.; Davies, G. (1986). "One-Dimensional Conduction in the 2D Electron Gas of a Ga As-Al Ga As Heterojunction". Physical Review Letters. 56 (11): 1198–1201. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.1198. PMID 10032595.
- ^ Sato, T.; Ahmed, H.; Brown, D.; Johnson, B. F. G. (1997). "Single electron transistor using a molecularly linked gold colloidal particle chain". Journal of Applied Physics. 82 (2): 696. Bibcode:1997JAP....82..696S. doi:10.1063/1.365600.
- ^ Corpus Christi College - Haroon Ahmed[permanent dead link]
- ^ interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 8 December 2009 (video)
- ^ Ahmed, Haroon (1963). Studies on high-current-density thermionic cathodes (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
- ^ He, J.; Durrani, Z. A. K.; Ahmed, H. (2004). "Universal three-way few-electron switch using silicon single-electron transistors" (PDF). Applied Physics Letters. 85 (2): 308. Bibcode:2004ApPhL..85..308H. doi:10.1063/1.1772526. hdl:10044/1/13742.
- ^ "Professor Haroon Ahmed PhD ScD FREng (2 March 1936-23 October 2024) | Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge". www.corpus.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ Pandey, Pooja (25 October 2024). "Emeritus Professor Haroon Ahmed (1936–2024)". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 15 November 2024.