Last updated: May 2025
2025
- May 2025: Research on Deterministic Quantum Emission from p-GaN defects and InGaN/GaN Dot-in-Nanowires presented at Photonics North 2025 [External link]
- May 2025: Research on Single Photon Emission Characteristics of Selective Area Grown Dot-in-Nanowires on N-Face GaN Substrate presented at 247th ECS Meeting [External link]
- February 2025: Research on impact of stray field on STT- and VCMA-assisted SOT-MRAMs published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics [External link]
2024
- December 2024: Research on thermal droop effects in AlGaN Ultraviolet-C Light-Emitting Diodes published in ACS Applied Electronic Materials [External link]
- November 2024: Research on the coupling between photonic waveguide and III-Nitride quantum emitters published in the Journal of Applied Physics [External link]
- November 2024: Research on the impact of process variation on SOT-MTJ based Spiking Neural Network published in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices [External link]
-September 2024: Congratulations to Nafis Sadik for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis on all-optical logic gates
-September 2024: Md Zunaid Baten delivered an invited talk on "Research Insights into Solid-State Electronics and Photonics: Experience Sharing" at the Department of Physics, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
-September 2024: Congratulations to Hayder Jahan for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis on spintronic control of spin-qubit volume
-September 2024: Research on Ultra-dense Green InGaN/GaN Nanoscale Pixels published in ACS Nano [External link]
-August 2024: Congratulations to Nafiz Imtiaz for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis on nitride-based electron absorption modulator
-May 2024: Congratulations to Shafin-Bin-Hamid for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis on spintronic device based spiking-neural-networks
- May 2024: Md Zunaid Baten delivered an invited talk on "Physics-Based Analysis of Spintronic Devices to Understand Reliability of Memory and Neuromorphic Systems" at the Sultan Ahmed Memorial Conference organized by the Department of Physics, University of Dhaka
- April 2024: Congratulations to Ramit Datta for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis on variability analysis in MRAMs
- April 2024: Research on stray-field induced variability in MRAMs is now online [External link]
- April 2024: Research on MRAM based spiking neural network is now online [External link]
- March 2024: Research on stray-field induced variability in MRAMs and MRAM based spiking neural network presented by Shafin Bin Hamid at IEEE EDTM 2024, Bangalore, India
- February 2024: Research on implementing bidirectional logic with back-hopping in magnetic tunnel junctions published in AIP Advances [External link]
- February 2024: Received RISE Internal Research Grant as Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) of the project titled "Development of Low-Cost Methods for Monitoring and Early Warning for Geohazards"
2023
- December 2023: Delivered an invited Talk on "Variability in Spin Transfer Torque Magnetic RAMs (STT-MRAMs): bridging Physics with Engineering Reliability" at the 1st National Conference on Advances in Science and Technology held in BUET, Dhaka
- November 2023: Congratulations to Khairul Islam, Tanushri Medha Kundu and Rafichha Yasmin on winning the RISE Student Research Grant for their research proposal on spintronics and spoof-surface plasmon polaritons
-November 2023: Congratulations to S. M. Raiyan Chowdhury for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis on spin-relaxation in GaN/AlGaN material systems
- August 2023: Research on theoretical limit and framework of dynamic modulation in spoof surface plasmon polariton interconnects published in Optics Express [External link]
-August 2023: Congratulations to Jawad and Mrinmoy on being the Champion, and Sadat and Munim on being the Runners-up in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition organized by the IEEE EDS/SSCS Bangladesh Chapter and EDS Student Branch of BUET
-August 2023: Congratulations to Suzit Hasan Nayem for successfully defending his MSc thesis on the design of Electron Absorption Modulator
-August 2023: Research on Intracell Magnetic Coupling-Induced Variability of Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic RAM (STT-MRAM) published in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices [External link]
- July 2023: Congratulations to Tashfiq Ahmed for successfully defending his MSc Thesis on LED light extraction
- June 2023: Presented research on disordered photonics at the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT) in Singapore [External link]
- May 2023: Research on self-heating analysis of STT-MRAMs published in the proceedings of ICEE 2022 on IEEExplore [External link]
- May 2023: Congratulations to Bejoy Sikder for successfully defending his MSc Thesis on variability and self-heating analysis of STT-MRAMs
-February 2023: Research titled "Strong Localization of Light in Disordered Arrays of Coalesced and Inhomogeneous Self-organized Nanowires" accepted for Oral Presentation at ICMAT 2023 [External link]
- January: Research titled "Predicting strongly localized resonant modes of light in disordered arrays of dielectric scatterers: a machine learning approach," published in Optics Express [External link]
2022
- December: Delivered an invited talk on the “Role of Defects on the Variability of STT-MRAMs and 3D CT NANDs” at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE) held in Bangalore, India
-November: Research on "Impact of Voltage Polarity on Time-Dependent Dielectric Breakdown of 1-nm MgO-Based STT-MRAM With Self-Heating Correction" published in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices[External link]
- November: Congratulations to Mrinmoy, Jawad, Sadat and Munim for receiving the RISE Internal Research Grant
- October: Congratulations to A. K. M. Hasibul Hoque for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis on the "ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF DEFECTS IN THE PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF GaN-BASED EXCITON-POLARITON LASERS"
- September: Research on Pulse optimization and device engineering of 3D charge-trap flash for synaptic operation published in Journal of Applied Physics [External link]
- September: Congratulations to Shams Jabin for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis on the "NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF InGaN/GaN NANOWIRE ARRAY BASED PHOTODETECTORS"
-September: Research on Disorder induced absorption enhancement of light in GaAs nanowire array published in Journal of Optics [External link]
-August: Research on Breaking the Transverse Magnetic-Polarized Light Extraction Bottleneck of Ultraviolet-C Light-Emitting Diodes Using Nanopatterned Substrates and an Inclined Reflector published in ACS Photonics [External link]
- July: Research on Coscinodiscus diatom inspired bi-layered photonic structures with near-perfect absorptance Part II: hexagonal vs. square lattice-based structures published in Optics Express [External link]
- July: Research on 'Energy saving potential of photovoltaic windows: Impact of shading, geography and climate' published in Solar Energy [External link]
- June: Congratulations to Md Ishfak Tahmid for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis on Finite Difference Time Domain Based Investigation of the Light Transmission Characteristics of Strongly Disordered Systems Mimicking Self-organized Nanowire Arrays
- June: Congratulations to Mohammad Muntasir Hassan for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis on DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ROTATIONALLY SYMMETRIC NANOWIRE ARRAY BASED WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATORS FOR VIRUS-LIKE PARTICLE DETECTION
- May: Research titled "On-chip Channel Conductance based Modulation of Spoof Surface Plasmon Polariton Interconnects", presented in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2022
- May: Research titled "Directionality Control and Strong-localization of Light in a Disordered Medium of Reduced Area", presented in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2022
- May: Research on "Spectra dependent photonic structure design for energy harvesting by indoor photovoltaic devices" published in AIP Advances [External link]
- March: Research titled "Reliability of Non-Volatile Memory Devices for Neuromorphic Applications: A Modeling Perspective", presented at IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS) 2022
2021
- December: Congratulations to Mohammad Muntasir Hassan for securing the Best Paper Award of our research on "Rotationally Symmetric Nanowire Array-based Virus Detection: Single or Multiple Arrays?" , presented at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunication and Photonics (ICTP) 2021
- November: research on "Analysis and design of InAs nanowire array based ultra broadband perfect absorber" published in RSC Advances [External link]
- November: research on "Carrier transport and performance limit of semi-transparent photovoltaics: CuIn1−xGaxSe2 as a case study" published in the Journal of Applied Physics [External link]
- November: Md Zunaid Baten delivered an invited talk titled "Disordered Photonics and the Quest for Order in Disorder" in a Webinar arranged by Optical (Formerly OSA) Bangladesh Student Chapter at University of Dhaka
- November: Research on "In-plane directionality control of strongly localized resonant modes of light in disordered arrays of dielectric scatterers" published in Optics Express [External link]
- October: Review paper titled "III-Nitride Light-Emitting Devices" published in Photonics [External link]
- July: Research on ""Label-free detection of virus-like particles employing rotationally symmetric nanowire array based whispering gallery and quasi-whispering gallery resonant modes onto a silicon platform", published in Optics Express [External link] "
-May: Research on the "Emergence and tunability of transmission gap in the strongly disordered regime of a dielectric random scattering medium" published in Optics Express [External link]
-February: Research on the Correlation between performance characteristics of indoor photovoltaic devices and DC‐to‐DC up‐converters for low‐power electronic applications published in IET Circuits, Devices & Systems [External link]
-February: Md Zunaid Baten delivered a presentation on the “Scope of Collaboration between BUET and CeNSE in Nanotechnology Research and Education” at the India (IISc)-Bangladesh (BUET) Scientific Meet-2021
-February: Md Zunaid Baten received Forum 86 Research Excellence Award 2020 in recognition of outstanding research accomplishments in the field of Electronics, Photonics and Nanotechnology [External link]
-February: Congratulations to Md. Asaduz Zaman Mamun for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis on "Cross-talk Analysis of Spoof Surface Plasmon Polariton Interconnects for Ultrafast Chip-to-Chip Communication"
-February: Congratulations to Eymana Maria for successfully defending her M.Sc. thesis on "EFFECT OF DEFECTS AND OBLIQUE INCIDENCE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF EARTH-ABUNDANT CZTSSe MATERIAL BASED INDOOR PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES"
- January: Research on the Role of bulk-and interface-defects in spectrum-dependent energy harvesting of CZTSSe-based indoor photovoltaic devices published in AIP Advances [External link]
2020
- Research on Analysis and Simulation of Interface Quality and Defect Induced Variability in MgO Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic RAMs accepted for publication in IEEE Electron Device Letters [External link]
- Research on Coscinodiscus diatom inspired bi-layered photonic structures with near-perfect absorptance accompanied by tunable absorption characteristics accepted for publication in Optics Express [External link]
- Research on Performance Evaluation of Single-Junction Indoor Photovoltaic Devices for Different Absorber Bandgaps Under Spectrally Varying White Light-Emitting Diodes accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics [External link]
- Research on Process Variation in Spoof Plasmon Interconnect: Consequences and Compensations presented in 2020 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), San Antonio, TX, USA
- Congratulations to Khandaker Akramul Haque for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis on "DESIGN OF BOOST CONVERTERS IN CORRELATION WITH EARTH-ABUNDANT MATERIAL BASED INDOOR PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES FOR LOW-POWER ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS"
-Congratulations to Faizul Bari for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis on "Design Optimization of Process Variation Tolerant Spoof Surface Plasmon Polariton Interconnect for Chip-to-Chip Communication"
2019
-Congratulations to Ajanta Saha for successfully defending her M.Sc. Thesis on "DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF PHOTONIC STRUCTURES FOR SPECTRA DEPENDENT ENERGY HARVESTING OF PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES"
-Received research grant on Energy Harvesting Glass For Green Building Applications from Bangladesh Energy and Power Research Council (EPRC), Ministry of Energy, Power and Mineral Resources, Government of Bangladesh
- Research on Design Optimization of Self-Driven Boost Converter for CZTSSe Indoor Photovoltaic Device based Low-Power Electronic presented in IEEE International Conference on Power, Electrical, and Electronics and Industrial Applications (PEEIACON) , Dhaka, Bangladesh [External link]
- Research on Absorption Enhancement of GaAs Slab with Geometrically Varying Periodic Array of SiO2 Nanostructures presented in 3rd IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Photonics (ICTP), Dhaka, Bangladesh [External link]
- Research on A Reconfigurable Interconnect Technology Based on Spoof Plasmon presented in 19th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2019), Parisian Macao, Macau, China [External link]
-Congratulations to Nusrat Jahan for successfully defending her M.Sc. Thesis on "DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF OPTICAL FORCE TUNED RECONFIGURABLE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL AND WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATORS IN A DUAL GAUSSIAN BEAM ILLUMINATED SYSTEM"
-Research on Disorder induced rotational-symmetry breaking to control directionality of whispering gallery modes in circularly symmetric nanowire assembly got accepted in Optics Express [External link]
- Research on the prospect of CZTSSe-based thin film solar cells for indoor photovoltaic applications got accepted in AIP Advances [External link]
- Research on finite-difference time-domain analysis of the tunability of Anderson localization of light in self-organized GaN nanowire arrays got accepted in the Journal of Applied Physics [External link]
- Research on Understanding and Variability of Lateral Charge Migration in 3D CT-NAND Flash with and Without Band-Gap Engineered Barriers presented at 2019 IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), Monterey, California, USA [External link]
- Research on High-Gain Silicon-Based InGaN/GaN Dot-in-Nanowire Array Photodetector accepted in ACS Photonics [External link]
-March, 2019: Presented research on "Statistical Simulation to Predict Variability of TANOS Program/Erase Characteristics for Non-Volatile Memory Applications" at 2019 Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing Conference (EDTM), Singapore, Singapore, 13-15 March, 2019
2018
-June, 2018: Visited University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy on research collaboration
-May, 2018: Research on "Non-Linear Photocurrent Response to Bosonic Final State Stimulation in Microcavity Diodes" uploaded in arxiv.org [External link]
-January, 2018: Delivered an invited talk on "Spin-Polaritonics: the Road towards Spin-Polarized Polariton Lasers" at the International Conference on Nanotechnology and Condensed Matter Physics (ICNCMP) 2018
2017
-December, 2017: Research works on "Biomedical Fluid Detection Employing Skin-Depth Engineering on a Silicon Platform" and "Rate Equation-Based Modeling of Bound Excitonic Effect on the Performance of Electrically Injected Exciton-Polariton Laser" accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Nanotechnology and Condensed Matter Physics (ICNCMP) 2018
-December, 2017: Delivered an invited talk on "Lasing without population-inversion: A new paradigm of lasing", at the Atomic Energy Center, Dhaka on the occasion of "Centenary Celebration of Establishment of Theory of LASER-1917"
-November, 2017: Research work on "Design and Optimization of Optical Interconnect Using Vertically Grown Periodic III-V Nanowires on Silicon" accepted for oral presentation and publication at IEEE International Conference on Telecommunication and Photonics (ICTP) 2017 to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh
-August, 2017: Research work on Room Temperature Spin Polariton Diode Laser published in Physical Review Letters (external link)
-August, 2017: Presented research work on Monolithic InN/InGaN/GaN Nanowire Array Guided Near-Infrared Detector on Silicon at CLEO-Pacific Rim 2017 held at Singapore (external link)
-April, 2017: Delivered an invited talk titled 'Exciton-Polaritons and the Rise of Polariton Lasers' at the National Conference on Electronics and ICT held at Atomic Energy Center, Dhaka
-March, 2017: Research on 'Electrical Spin Injection and Helicity Modulation in a Room Temperature Polariton Laser' published in the Bulletin of the American Physical Society (external link)
-March, 2017: Paper on GaN nanowire based near-infrared photodetector accepted for oral presentation at CLEO-Pacific Rim 2017 to be held in Singapore (external link)
-January, 2017: Paper titled "Room Temperature GaN-Based Edge-Emitting Spin-Polarized Light Emitting Diode" published in IEEE Photoincs Technology Letters (external link)
2016
-December, 2016: Delivered a technical talk entitled 'Exciton-Polaritons in Semiconductor Microcavities' at an event organized jointly by the Dept. of EEE, BUET and IEEE ED/SSCS Bangladesh Chapter (November, 2016)
-November, 2016: Paper titled "An InN/InGaN/GaN nanowire array guided wave photodiode on silicon" published in Applied Physics Letters (external link)
-October, 2016: Delivered a technical talk entitled 'III-V Semiconductors for Optoelectronic and Spintronic Applications: An Experimental Overview' at an event organized by Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity group, IEEE BUET Student Branch
-July, 2016: Paper titled "Output polarization characteristics of a GaN microcavity diode polariton laser" on the output polarization of polariton laser published in Physical Review B