Haroon Ahmed
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Born | British Pakistani | 2 March 1936
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Thesis | Studies on high-current-density thermionic cathodes (1963) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Oatley[citation needed] |
Website | www |
Haroon Ahmed
Education
Ahmed was born on 2 March 1936 in
Career
Ahmed 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 is a former Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is now an Honorary Fellow. He is Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.[citation needed]
Research
Ahmed has 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 has served as a Syndic of
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
Among his other interests are golf and cricket.[citation needed]
References
- ^ 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.
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- ^ a b Haroon Ahmed's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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- PMID 10032595.
- 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.
- hdl:10044/1/13742.