Growth and characterization of 2D materials using sputtering
Project Details
Program
Electrical Engineering
Field of Study
Electrical engineering, physics, solid-state devices, semiconductors, micro and nanofabrication
Division
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering
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Project Description
In this project, the student will be working on the growth of MoS2 using sputtering at different temperatures and characterizing them. The material will be later used in memory devices application.
About the Researcher
Nazek Elatab
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliations
Education Profile
- Ph.D. degree in Interdisciplinary Engineering from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in 2017
- M.Sc. degree in Microsystems Engineering from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2014
- B.Sc. degree in Computer and Communications Engineering, Hariri Canadian University, Lebanon, 2012
Research Interests
Dr. El-Ataba's research interest focuses on the design and fabrication of smart memory and electronic devices and their applications, including in-memory computing and in-memory sensing.Selected Publications
- 1. Nazek El-Atab, Nadeem Qaiser, Wedyan Babatain, Rabab Bahabry, Rana Shamsuddin, and Muhammad M. Hussain a€œNature-Inspired Spherical Silicon Solar Cell for Three-Dimensional Light Harvesting, Improved Dust and Thermal Managementa€ MRS Communications, 2020.
- 2. Nazek El-Atab, Nadeem Qaiser, Huda Badghaish, Sohail F. Shaikh and Muhammad M. Hussain a€œA Flexible Nanoporous Template for the Design and Development of Reusable Anti-COVID-19 Hydrophobic Face Masksa€ ACS Nano 14, 7659a-7665, 2020.
- 3. Nazek El-Atab, Wedyan Babatain, Rabab Bahabry, Reem Alshanbari, Rana Shamsuddin, and Muhammad M. Hussain a€œUltra-flexible Corrugated Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Cells with High Efficiency (19%), Improved Thermal Performance and Reliability Using Low-Cost Laser-Patterninga€ ACS Appl. Mat. Int. 12, 2269-2275, 2020.
- 4. Nazek El-Atab, Reema Almansour, Alhanouf Alhazzany, Reema Suwaidan, Yara Alghamdi, Wedyan Babatain, Sohail F. Shaikh, Sherjeel M. Khan, Nadeem Qaiser and Muhammad M. Hussain a€œHeterogeneous Cubic Multi-Dimensional Integrated Circuit (MD-IC) for Water and Food Security in Fish Farming Pondsa€ Small, 16, 1905399, 2020.
- 5. Nazek El-Atab, Javier Chavarrio Canas and Muhammad M. Hussain a€œPressure-Driven Two-Input 3D Microfluidic Logic Gates with Simultaneous Boolean AND and OR Operationsa€ Advanced Science, 7, 1903027, 2020.
- 6. Nazek El-Atab, Nadeem Qaiser, Rabab Bahabry and Muhammad M. Hussain a€œCorrugation Enabled Asymmetrically Ultra-Stretchable (95%) Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Cells with High Efficiency (19%)a€ Adv. Energy Mat., 1902883, 2019.
- 7. Nazek El-Atab, Sohail F. Faizan and Muhammad M. Hussain a€œNano-scale transistors for interfacing with brain: design criteria, progress and prospecta€ IOP Nanotechnology 30, 442001, 2019.
- 8. Nazek El-Atab, Sohail F. Faizan, Sherjeel M. Khan, and Muhammad M. Hussain a€œHeterogeneous Multi-Dimensional Integrated Circuits (MD-IC) for Internet of Things (IoT) Applicationsa€ Advanced Engineering Materials 21, 1900043, 2019.
- 9. Muhammad Mustafa Hussain and Nazek El-Atab a€œ2D Material-Based Electronic Synapses Learn Like Braina€ Nature Elect. 1, 436, 2018.
- 10. Nazek El-Atab, Irfan Saadat, Krishna Saraswat, and Ammar Nayfeh a€œNano-islands Based Charge Trapping Memory: A Scalability Studya€ IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 16, 1143 - 1146, 2017.
Desired Project Deliverables
Growth of MoS2 using sputtering at different temperatures
Characterization of the material - XRD, XPS, Raman, UV-Vis-NIR spectroscopy, AFM
Recommended Student Background
Solid state devices
Physics of semiconductors
micro and nanofabrication
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