Haroon Ahmed

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(born 2 March 1936), is a

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scientist in specialising the fields of

microelectronics Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture (or microfabrication) of very small electronic designs and components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre-sc ...

and

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. He is

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at the

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, the Physics Department of the

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, Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Education

Ahmed was educated at

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, followed by an undergraduate degree at

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. He went on to obtain his

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in 1963 and his

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degrees in 1996 from the University of Cambridge.

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

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, and is now an Honorary Fellow. He is Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

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. 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. He has served as a Syndic of

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, as Non-Executive Director of the

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, 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 is currently a member of the Development Board of Imperial College. He has also worked as a consultant to several major electronics industrial companies. He was elected a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1967, became Warden of

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(the College's Graduate Campus) in 1993 and Master in 2000, succeeding Professor Sir Tony Wrigley and resigned in 2006 to advise the

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on Higher Education matters. 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.

Personal life

Among his other interests are golf and cricket.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ahmed, Haroon 1936 births Living people British agnostics Alumni of Imperial College London Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Pakistani scientists Pakistani emigrants to the United Kingdom Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory British scientists Pakistani electrical engineers Masters of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Alumni of King's College, Cambridge British academics of Pakistani descent