Program: Microsystems Engineering
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Dr Ammar Nayfeh is currently an assistant professor in the Microsystems Engineering program and director of the Nano Electronics and Photonics group (NEP) at Masdar Institute. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urban Champaign (2001) and his Master's degree in 2003 from Stanford University. He earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Stanford University in 2006. His research focused on heteroepitaxy of Germanium on Silicon. Prior to joining the Masdar Institute, Dr. Nayfeh was with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) as a researcher working on Ultra Thin Body (UTB) SOI Devices for 22nm and beyond in a joint project with IBM. Most recently, Dr. Nayfeh was employed at Innovative Silicon (ISi), a Silicon Valley startup that licenses Z-RAM Technology, a DRAM replacement. In addition, he was a part-time professor at San Jose State University.

For more information about the nano electronics and photonics laboratory please visit www.nep-masdar.com


Courses/Teaching interests:

• Integrated Microelectronic Devices
• Physics of Microfabrication: Front End Processing
• Micro/Nano Processing Technology  
   

Advisor to current Masdar Institute students:
 

Sabina Abdul Hadi sabdulhadi@masdar.ac.ae

Aaesha Alnuaimi, aalnuaimi@masdar.ac.ae

Kazi Mohitul Islam, kislam@masdar.ac.ae

Ayman Rizk,  arizk@masdar.ac.ae 

Amro Al Khatib, aalkhatib@masdar.ac.ae