Haroon Ahmed

Haroon Ahmed
Born(1936-03-02)2 March 1936[2]
Karachi, British India (now Pakistan)
Died23 October 2024(2024-10-23) (aged 88)
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish Pakistani
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ThesisStudies on high-current-density thermionic cathodes (1963)
Doctoral advisorCharles Oatley[citation needed]
Websitewww.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/www/people/ha10

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.

  1. ^ a b c 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.
  2. ^ a b c "AHMED, Prof. Haroon". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b "List of Fellows". Archived from the original on 8 June 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Haroon Ahmed's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Corpus Christi College - Haroon Ahmed[permanent dead link‍]
  10. ^ interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 8 December 2009 (video)