John H. Davies

Contact information:

• Email: jdavies@elec.gla.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 141 330 4115
• Fax: +44 141 330 4907
• Secretary: +44 141 330 5231
• Office: Room 725, Rankine Building, Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8LT

Personal Biography

I have been in Glasgow since 1986 having previously worked in Cambridge University, Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill), ETH-Zürich, Cornell University, and Ohio State University. I spent the academic year 1997–98 at the University of California at Santa Barbara and was on secondment with Freescale Semiconductor in East Kilbride from September–December 2004.

Physics of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors

The physics of low-dimensional semiconductors: an introduction was published by Cambridge University Press in January 1998. It is available in paperback and hardback. Please go to its home page on this server for further information. There are also links to the publisher's web servers in Cambridge and New York. It has been translated into Japanese.

MSP430 Microcontroller Basics

MSP430 Microcontroller Basics was published by Newnes (an imprint of Elsevier) in August 2008. Please go to its home page on this server for further information and to download the accompanying files (code and solutions to examples).

Research interests

My research interests cover a wide range of theoretical semiconductor physics, mainly centred around heterostructures. Here are some topics of recent interest.

• Fundamental problems associated with elastic fields in pseudomorphic heterostructures &endash; those made from materials with different lattice constants &endash; and how the elastic fields can be measured and exploited
• Analysis of results from electrical impedance tomography
• Effects of strain in optoelectronic devices based on silica, both planar structures and fibres
• Transport of electrons through ‘lateral’ superlattices formed by patterning a two-dimensional electron gase with either an electrostatic or magnetostatic potential
• Electronic structure of patterned two-dimensional electron gases
• Effect of strain on electronic structure, particularly how to harness the piezoelectric effect.
• Transport of electrons through nanostructures, particularly the effects of disorder and unusual forms of scattering, such as resonant scattering from remote impurities and anisotropic scattering from piezoelectric potentials

Recent publications

Current teaching

These are the courses that I teach and other duties associated with teaching.

• Digital half of Electronic Engineering 1Y
• Electronic Design Project 2
• Team Project EE4 (with Dr D J Muir)
• Tutorials for direct entrants to second year
• Individual projects for BEng, MEng and MSc students
• I am the Examinations Officer for the department, responsible for the running of all undergraduate examinations

Material for many of these courses is available on the Engineering Faculty moodle server.

I was Director of Undergraduate Studies for several years but this post is now held by Martin Macauley.

Tutorials on Cadence OrCAD applications

I’ve written several tutorials on different applications in the Cadence OrCAD suite. Please go to my Cadence OrCAD page on this server if you would like to read these.

Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering