Authors

David K. Ferry


David K Ferry is Regents’ Professor Emeritus in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He moved to ASU in 1983, following shorter stints at Texas Tech University, the Office of Naval Research, and Colorado State University. He received his doctorate from the University of Texas, Austin, and spent a postdoctoral period at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research is focused on semiconductors, particularly as they apply to nanotechnology and integrated circuits, as well as quantum effects in devices and materials. In 1999, he received the Cledo Brunetti Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and is a Fellow of this group as well as the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics (UK). He is the author of some 40 books and book chapters and more than 900 refereed contributions..



Xavier Oriols


Xavier Oriols received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering, with an Extraordinary Doctoral Award, from the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, in 1993, 1994, and 1999, respectively. In 1997, he worked at the Institut d’Électronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, Lille, France. In 2001 and 2002, he was a Visiting Professor at The State University of New York, USA. Dr. Oriols received the prize for young researchers in the framework of the Spanish I3 Program in 2008, and the prize for research excellence in both 2008 and 2010. He is Full Professor of nanoelectronics at UAB. He has authored more than 150 contributions to scientific journals and conferences. His research activity combines both his practical interest in quantum nanodevices and his interest in the foundations of quantum mechanics, and in Bohmian mechanics in particular. His research covers a wide spectrum, from fundamental issues of physics to practical engineering of nanodevices.



Josef Weinbub


Josef Weinbub is an Associate Professor of High Performance Simulation in Micro-and Nanoelectronics, an IEEE Senior Member, and the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council's Modeling and Simulation Technical Committee. He obtained a doctoral degree in Computational Microelectronics and the venia docendi (habilitation) in the field of Micro- and Nano-electronics from TU Wien. He was a visiting researcher at the EPCC, University of Edinburgh, and at the Device Modelling Group, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, as well as at SILVACO Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA. He founded, and now chairs, the master’s program in Computational Science and Engineering at TU Wien, and is involved with several international scientific conferences in various management and scientific roles. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational Electronics and a Principal Investigator of various research projects. Together with his team he investigates cutting-edge research problems in computational micro- and nano-electronics, with a particular focus on developing and utilizing particle Wigner-based quantum transport simulations.