Updates and Highlights
Updates and Highlights
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]
- October 2024: Joined Institut national de la recherche scientifique (National Institute of Scientific Research), Quebec, Canada as a Postdoctoral Fellow, on sabbatical leave from BUET
-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: Md Zunaid Baten got promoted as a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
-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
- March 2024: Md Zunaid Baten got elected as the Chair of IEEE, EDS/SSCS Bangladesh Chapter
- 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: Congratulations to Dibakar Roy for successfully defending his M.Sc. Thesis on bi-facial indoor photovoltaic devices
- 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
-March 2023: Got elected as the Chair of IEEE Electron Devices Society and Solid-state Circuits Society Bangladesh Joint Chapter [External links: EDS; SSCS]
-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: Served as Session Chair of Technical sessions of the 12th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE) 2022 held in BUET, Dhaka
- 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: Attended the EDS South Asia Chapter meeting held in Kolkata, India as the SRC Region-10 Vice-Chair
- November: Served as the Session Co-Chair of a Technical session of the 1st International Conference on Frontier in Sciences (ICFS-2022) organized by the Faculty of Sciences, BUET
- November: Delivered a presentation on An Introduction to Outcome Based Education for Students at the Workshop on Familiarizing Students with Outcome Based Education organized by the Institutional Quality Assurance Cell, BUET, November, 2022
- October: Congratulations to A. K. M. Hasibul Hoque for successfully defending his Thesis on the role of defects in polariton lasers
- October: Delivered an Invited Talk titled Prospects and Challenges of Semiconductor Industry in Bangladesh at the 5th Annual Paper Meet (APM) on Electrical Engineering Division (EED), Institute of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB), October 2022
-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: Delivered an Invited Talk titled 'Experience Sharing on Research Article Writing: An Overview of Common Mistakes by Students' at the 'Summer School on Skills Development for Scientific Writing’ organized by National Young Academy of Bangladesh (NYAB), in association with Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) and Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS)
-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
- February: Became a Member of the Subcommittee for Regions & Chapters of IEEE Electron Devices Society
- February: Elected as the Vice-Chair of IEEE Electron Devices (EDS) and Solid-state Circuits Society (SSCS) Bangladesh Joint Chapter
- January: Appointed as the Additional Director of Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of BUET
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: Md Zunaid Baten delivered an invited talk on "Disorder Photonics and the quest for Order in Disorder” at the Technical Talk session arranged by Optica (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: 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]
- September: Review article on "III-Nitride Light-Emitting Devices", published in the journal Photonics [External link]
- August: 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]
-May: Got nominated as the Organizing Secretary of 4th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunication and Photonics
-April: Got promoted to the post of Associate Professor in the Dept. of EEE, BUET
-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: Delivered 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: Received Forum 86 Research Excellence Award 2020 in recognition of outstanding research accomplishments in the field of Electronics, Photonics and Nanotechnology [External link]
-February: Got nominated as a member of the Program Self-Assessment Committee of the the Dept. of EEE, BUET
- January: Nominated by BUET as a member of the Technical Specifications Committee of Bangladesh Standards & Testing Institution (BSTI)
- 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]
-January: Got elected as the Vice Chair of IEEE Electron Device/Solid-State Circuits Society (IEEE ED/SSCS) Bangladesh Chapter
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]
- Elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member
- Moderated and hosted IEEE EDS Mini-Colloquium on 2D Materials for Next Generation Electronics organized by IEEE ED/SSCS Bangladesh Chapter
- 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]
- Moderated and hosted Dr. Vikram Dalal’s EDS DL talk on “Perovskite Solar Cells: Physics, Technology and Potential Problems”, organized by IEEE ED/SSCS Bangladesh Chapter
- Served as the Technical and Organizing Committee Member of IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP) 2020 held virtually amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Moderated and hosted Dr. Lawrence Kazmerski’s EDS DL talk on “Photovoltaic Science, Technology, Innovation, History, and Progress: The Future is Now” organized by IEEE ED/SSCS Bangladesh Chapter
- Moderated and hosted Dr. Makato Nagato's SSCS DL talk on “' On-Chip Physical Attack Protection Circuits for Hardware Security”, organized by IEEE ED/SSCS Bangladesh Chapter
- 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
-January, 2020: Got elected as the Award Coordinator of IEEE Electron Device/Solid-State Circuits Society (IEEE ED/SSCS) Bangladesh Chapter
-January, 2020: Got re-elected as the Treasurer of IEEE Electron Device/Solid-State Circuits Society (IEEE ED/SSCS) Bangladesh Chapter
2019
-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]
- Served as a Technical Committee Member of 3rd IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Photonics (ICTP) and also IEEE International Conference on Power, Electrical, and Electronics and Industrial Applications (PEEIACON) held in Dhaka, Bangladesh
- 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]
-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
-January, 2019: Got elected as the Treasurer of IEEE Electron Device/Solid-State Circuits Society (IEEE ED/SSCS) Bangladesh Chapter
2018
-December, 2018: Participated in IEEE EDS South-Asia Meetup at IISC Bangalore, India as the representative of IEEE ED/SSCS Bangladesh Chapter
-December, 2018: Participated in the International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE) 2018 as a Technical Committee Member
-June, 2018: Visited University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy on research collaboration
-March, 2018: Organized and participated in the "Self Assessment Workshop 3: Improvement Plan" held at the Department of EEE, BUET
-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
-January, 2018: Got elected as the Vice-Chair of IEEE ED/SSCS Bangladesh Chapter
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
-September, 2017: Organized and participated as a resource person in the "Self Assessment Workshop 2: Survey Result Sharing" held at the Department of EEE, BUET
-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)
-July, 2017: -Participated in the seminar 'EU Horizon 2020: Research opportunities for Bangladesh' organized by Metropolitant Chamber of Commerce and Industries (MCCI) and the Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh (external link)
-July, 2017: Attended as a judge at the "SS12 Project Competition and Maker Fair 2017" held at United International University (UIU) jointly organized by Humanitarian Activities Committee of IEEE Bangladesh Section and SIGHT FLASH - Bangladesh Section
-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
-April, 2017: Organized and participated as a resource person in the "Self Assessment Initiation and Workshop for Team Building" held at the Department of EEE, BUET under the Higher Education Quality Enhancement Program (HEQEP) (external link)
-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)
-March, 2017: Appointed as a Member of the Self Assessment Committee (SAC) for the Dept. of EEE, BUET under the Higher Education Quality Enhancement Program (HEQEP)
-February, 2017: Attended training workshop on "Outcome Based Education and Self Assessment" organized by Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), BUET
-January, 2017: Paper titled "Room Temperature GaN-Based Edge-Emitting Spin-Polarized Light Emitting Diode" published in IEEE Photoincs Technology Letters (external link)
-January, 2017: Attended the "Accreditation Workshop for Faculty & Program Directors: Preparation for Outcomes-based Accreditation", arranged by the Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education (BAETA)
-January, 2017: Got elected as the Vice-Chair of IEEE Electron Device/Solid-State Circuits Society (IEEE ED/SSCS) Bangladesh Chapter
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)
-November, 2016: Delivered a non-technical talk on "Prospects and Challenges of Higher Studies Abroad" at the Young Professionals Meetup organized by the IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Group of Bangladesh Section
-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
-October, 2016: Became an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of EEE, BUET
-September, 2016: Resumed working as a Lecturer of the Dept. of EEE, BUET
-August, 2016: Received PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Universityof Michigan, Ann Arbor
-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
Previous Awards, Honors, Grants and Scholarships (up to 2016)
-Teaching Assistantship by the Electrical Engg. and Computer Science Dept. of the University of Michigan (2016)
-Rackham Conference Travel Grant by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2015)
-Rackham Graduate Research Grant by the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2015)
-Second Place in Applied Physics, Photonics and Solid-State Division for the research work presented at the Collegeof Engineering Graduate Symposium (2014)
-Third Place for the research work presented at Lurie Nanofabrication Facility (LNF) Users Symposium (2014)
-Research Assistantship by the Electrical Engg. and Computer Science Dept. of the University of Michigan (2013-2016)
-Fellowship for PhD studies in the EECS Dept. of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2012)
-IEEE Electron Device Society Best Paper Award based on paper content and presentation at the IEEE Student Conference on -Research and Development (SCOReD, Malaysia (2009)
-First Place in Electronics Group for the research work presented in Electrical and Electronic Engg. Undergraduate Project Workshop (EUProW), BUET (2009)
-Dean's List Award in all undergraduate academic levels in BUET
-Merit Scholarship in four undergraduate academic terms in BUET