Nazek Elatab

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Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Building 3, Level 3, Room 3277

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Biography

Nazek El-Atab is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Principal investigator of the Smart, Advanced Memory devices and Applications lab (SAMA) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. Her research interest focuses on the design and fabrication of smart memory and electronic devices and their applications.

Research Interests

Dr. El-Atab’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

  • Nazek El-Atab, Nadeem Qaiser, Wedyan Babatain, Rabab Bahabry, Rana Shamsuddin, and Muhammad M. Hussain “Nature-Inspired Spherical Silicon Solar Cell for Three-Dimensional Light Harvesting, Improved Dust and Thermal Management” MRS Communications, 2020.
  • Nazek El-Atab, Nadeem Qaiser, Huda Badghaish, Sohail F. Shaikh and Muhammad M. Hussain “A Flexible Nanoporous Template for the Design and Development of Reusable Anti-COVID-19 Hydrophobic Face Masks” ACS Nano 14, 7659–7665, 2020.
  • Nazek El-Atab, Wedyan Babatain, Rabab Bahabry, Reem Alshanbari, Rana Shamsuddin, and Muhammad M. Hussain “Ultra-flexible Corrugated Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Cells with High Efficiency (19%), Improved Thermal Performance and Reliability Using Low-Cost Laser-Patterning” ACS Appl. Mat. Int. 12, 2269-2275, 2020.
  • 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 “Heterogeneous Cubic Multi-Dimensional Integrated Circuit (MD-IC) for Water and Food Security in Fish Farming Ponds” Small, 16, 1905399, 2020.
  • Nazek El-Atab, Javier Chavarrio Canas and Muhammad M. Hussain “Pressure-Driven Two-Input 3D Microfluidic Logic Gates with Simultaneous Boolean AND and OR Operations” Advanced Science, 7, 1903027, 2020.
  • Nazek El-Atab, Nadeem Qaiser, Rabab Bahabry and Muhammad M. Hussain “Corrugation Enabled Asymmetrically Ultra-Stretchable (95%) Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Cells with High Efficiency (19%)” Adv. Energy Mat., 1902883, 2019.
  • Nazek El-Atab, Sohail F. Faizan and Muhammad M. Hussain “Nano-scale transistors for interfacing with brain: design criteria, progress and prospect” IOP Nanotechnology 30, 442001, 2019.
  • Nazek El-Atab, Sohail F. Faizan, Sherjeel M. Khan, and Muhammad M. Hussain “Heterogeneous Multi-Dimensional Integrated Circuits (MD-IC) for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications” Advanced Engineering Materials 21, 1900043, 2019.
  • Muhammad Mustafa Hussain and Nazek El-Atab “2D Material-Based Electronic Synapses Learn Like Brain” Nature Elect. 1, 436, 2018.
  • Nazek El-Atab, Irfan Saadat, Krishna Saraswat, and Ammar Nayfeh “Nano-islands Based Charge Trapping Memory: A Scalability Study” IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 16, 1143 - 1146, 2017.
  • Nazek El-Atab, Turkan Gamze Ulusoy, Amir Ghobadi, Junkyo Suh, Raisul Islam, Ali K. Okyay, Krishna Saraswat, and Ammar Nayfeh “Cubic-Phase Zirconia Nano-islands Growth Using Atomic Layer Deposition and Application in Low-Power Charge-Trapping Nonvolatile-Memory Devices” Nanotechnology 28, 445201, 2017.
  • Nazek El-Atab, Farsad Chowdhury, Turkan Gamze Ulusoy, Amir Ghobadi, Amin Nazirzadeh, Ali K. Okyay, and Ammar Nayfeh “~3-nm ZnO Nanoislands Deposition and Application in Charge Trapping Memory Grown by Single ALD Step,” Scientific Reports 6, 38712, 2016. doi: 10.1038/srep38712.
  • Nazek El-Atab and Ammar Nayfeh “1D vs. 3D quantum confinement in 1-5 nm ZnO nanoparticles agglomerations for application in charge trapping memory devices,” Nanotechnology 27, 275205, 2016.
  • Farsad Chowdhury, Aaesha Alnuaimi, Nazek El-Atab, Munir Nayfeh, and Ammar Nayfeh “Enhanced performance of thin-film amorphous silicon solar cells with a top film of 2.85 nm silicon nanoparticles,” Solar Energy, 125, 332-338, 2016.
  • Nazek El-Atab, Berk Berkan Turgut, Ali K. Okyay, Munir Nayfeh, and Ammar Nayfeh, “Enhanced non-volatile memory characteristics with Quattro-layer graphene-nanoplatelets vs. 2.85-nm Si-nanoparticles with asymmetric Al2O3/HfO2 tunnel oxide” Nanoscale Res. Lett, vol. 10, no.1, p. 248 (2015)/ DOI:10.1186/s11671-015-0957-5.
  • Nazek El-Atab, Ayman Rizk, Burak Tekcan, Sabri Alkis, Ali K. Okyay, and Ammar Nayfeh, “Memory effect by charging of ultra-small 2-nm laser-synthesized solution-processable Si-nanoparticles embedded in Si-Al2O3-SiO2 structure” Phys. Status Solidi A 212, no. 8, 1751–1755 (2015) / DOI 10.1002/pssa.201431802.
  • Nazek El-Atab, Furkan Cimen, Sabri Alkis, Ali K. Okyay and Ammar Nayfeh "Enhanced memory effect with embedded graphene nanoplatelets in ZnO charge trapping layer,"  Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 033102 (2014).
  • Nazek El-Atab, Furkan Cimen, Sabri Alkis, Bülend Ortaç, Mustafa Alevli, Nikolaus Dietz, Ali K. Okyay and Ammar Nayfeh "Enhanced memory effect via quantum confinement in 16 nm InN nanoparticles embedded in ZnO charge trapping layer," Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 253106 (2014).
  • Nazek El-Atab, Ayse Ozcan, Sabri Alkis, Ali K. Okyay, and Ammar Nayfeh, “Silicon Nanoparticle Charge Trapping Memory Cell,” Phys. Status Solidi RRL, 8, 629 (2014) DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201409157.

Education

  • Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Engineering, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2017.

  • M.S., Microsystems Engineering, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2014.

  • B.Sc., Computer and Communications Engineering, Hariri Canadian University, Lebanon, 2012.