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  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in United States Leader Award
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  • 2014 - Distinguished Scientist Award, Mineralogical Society of America
  • 2013 - Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America For his internationally recognized leadership in the development and application of atomic-resolution electron microscopy to materials, his tireless promotion of the technique through education and his dedicated service to MSA.
  • 1997 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of the Arts and Humanities
  • 1988 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1976 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Overview

David J. Smith is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with notable contributions to subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Condensed Matter Physics.

The scientist's work focuses on topics related to semiconductor materials and devices, particularly GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials. Other main topics in their research include Ga2O3 and related materials, semiconductor quantum structures and devices, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, ZnO doping and properties, and semiconductor materials and interfaces.

David J. Smith has published extensively, with frequent publication venues including arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Applied Physics, Microscopy and Microanalysis, AIP Advances, and Applied Physics Letters.

  • Reverse Leakage Analysis for As-Grown and Regrown Vertical GaN-on-GaN Schottky Barrier Diodes (2020), IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society
  • Enhancement-Mode Gate-Recess-Free GaN-Based p-Channel Heterojunction Field-Effect Transistor With Ultra-Low Subthreshold Swing (2021), IEEE Electron Device Letters
  • Know, Know Where, Knowwheregraph: A Densely Connected, Cross-Domain Knowledge Graph and Geo-Enrichment Service Stack for Applications in Environmental Intelligence (2022), AI Magazine
  • Selective area regrowth and doping for vertical gallium nitride power devices: Materials challenges and recent progress (2021), Materials Today
  • β-Ga2O3 on Si (001) grown by plasma-assisted MBE with γ-Al2O3 (111) buffer layer: Structural characterization (2021), AIP Advances

Among frequent collaborators, the scientist has worked closely with Martha R. McCartney, Prudhvi Peri, Yuji Zhao, Saurabh Vishwakarma, and Kai Fu.

  • Martha R. McCartney
  • Prudhvi Peri
  • Yuji Zhao
  • Saurabh Vishwakarma
  • Kai Fu

David J. Smith has been recognized through multiple honors and fellowships. These include the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Mineralogical Society of America in 2014 and a Fellow position awarded by the same society in 2013 for leadership in atomic-resolution electron microscopy techniques and service contributions.

Additional distinctions include Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada awarded in 1976 and again in 1997 within the Academy of the Arts and Humanities, as well as Fellowship of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 1988.

Best Publications

  • Geant4—a simulation toolkit

    S. Agostinelli;J. Allison;K. Amako;J. Apostolakis

  • Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Geant4 developments and applications

    J. Allison;K. Amako;J. Apostolakis;H. Araujo

  • Search for dark matter candidates and large extra dimensions in events with a jet and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • The BABAR detector

    B. Aubert;A. Bazan;A. Boucham;D. Boutigny

  • Atezolizumab Versus Docetaxel for Patients With Previously Treated Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (POPLAR): A Multicentre, Open-Label, Phase 2 Randomised Controlled Trial

    Louis Fehrenbacher;Alexander Spira;Marcus Ballinger;Marcin Kowanetz

  • Performance of the ATLAS Trigger System in 2010

    G. Aad;G. Aad;B. Abbott;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Experimental observation of isolated large transverse energy electrons with associated missing energy at $\sqrt s$ = 540 GeV

    G. Arnison;A. Astbury;G. Grayer;W.J. Haynes

  • The Herschel-SPIRE instrument and its in-flight performance

    Matthew Joseph Griffin;A. Abergel;A. Abreu;Peter A. R. Ade

  • Evidence for neutrino oscillations from the observation of $ar{ u}_e$ appearance in a $ar{ u}_\mu$ beam

    A. Aguilar;L. B. Auerbach;R. L. Burman;D. O. Caldwell

  • Measurement of the jet fragmentation function and transverse profile in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Luminosity Determination in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV Using the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

    D. Aad;D. Aad;B. Abbott;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in pp Collisions at √s=7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;O. Abdinov

  • Measurement of isolated-photon pair production in pp collisions at s√=7TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

  • Identification of heavy-flavour jets with the CMS detector in pp collisions at 13 TeV

    A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam;F. Ambrogi

  • Do women with pre-eclampsia, and their babies, benefit from magnesium sulphate? The Magpie Trial: a randomised placebo-controlled trial.

    Douglas Altman;Guillermo Carroli;Lelia Duley;Barbara Farrell

  • Memory Metamaterials

    Tom Driscoll;Hyun-Tak Kim;Byung-Gyu Chae;Bong-Jun Kim

  • Search for high-mass resonances decaying to dilepton final states in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

    G. Aad;T. Abajyan;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • Observation of a centrality-dependent dijet asymmetry in lead-lead collisions at √sNN=2.76 Tev with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;A. A. Abdelalim

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Jie Zhang
Jie Zhang East China University of Science and Technology

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