Dr. Mahmoud Khater

Post-doctoral fellow (SDE)

Portrait, Mahmoud Khater
Contact information

Email: mkhater@uwaterloo.ca

Phone: (519) 888 4567 ext.33018

Location: DWE 1503

Education

  • MSc, Mechanical Design Dept., Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt, 2006

  • PhD, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, 2012

Research interests

  • Design, modeling, and experimental investigation of novel binary MEMS gas sensors.

  • Modeling and experimental study of MEMS magnetic sensors.

  • Investigation of damping effects on the performance of MEMS devices in contact.

  • Modeling of nanostructures.

  • Modeling of electrostatic AFM system.

  • Modeling and experimental investigation of bonding wires under thermal and mechanical loading.

Selected publications

  • Khater M., Abdel-Rahman E., and Nayfeh A., “Methods and Systems for Detection using Threshold-Type Electrostatic Sensors”, USPTO publication no. US 2010/0321027 A1.

  • Khater M., Akhtar S., Park S., Ozdemir S., Abdel-Rahman E., Vyasarayani C., and Yavuz M., “Contact Damping in Microelectromechanical Actuators", Applied Physics Letters, V. 105, pp. 253501/1-4 (2014).

  • Khater M., Al-Ghamdi M., Park S., Stewart K., Abdel-Rahman E., Penlidis A., Nayfeh A., Abdel-Aziz A., and Basha M., “Binary MEMS Gas Sensors", Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, V. 24, pp. 065007/1-9 (2014).

  • Khater M., Eltaher M., Abdel-Rahman E., and Yavuz M., “Surface and Thermal Load Effects on the Buckling of Curved Nanowires", Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, V. 17, pp. 279-283 (2014).

  • Chung S., Park S., Abdel-Rahman E., Yeow J., and Khater M., “Architecture for MEMS-Based Analog Demodulator", Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, V. 23, pp. 045013/1-13 (2013).

  • Khater M., Vummidi K., Abdel-Rahman E., Nayfeh A., and Raman S., “Dynamic actuation methods for capacitive MEMS shunt switches”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 21, pp. 035009/1-12 (2011).

  • Eltaher M., Khater M., Abdel-Rahman E., and Yavuz M., “A Model for Nano Bonding Wires under Thermal Loading", IEEE-Nano 2014, Toronto, Canada (2014).

  • Saritas R., Khater M., Naffissi H., Park S., Dagdelen T., Abdel-Rahman E., and Yavuz M., “Modal Response of Bonding Wires under Thermal Loading", IEEE-Nano 2014, Toronto, Canada (2014).

  • Park S., Al-Ghamdi M., Khater M., Abdel-Rahman E., and Yavuz M., “Adjustable Sensitivity MEMS Magnetic Sensor", ASME IDETC/CIE, Buffalo, USA (2014).

  • Park S., Abdel-Rahman E., and Khater M., "Low Voltage Electrostatic Actuation for MEMS Actuator Using Frequency Modulation", ASME IDETC, Oregon, USA (2013).

  • Khater M., Dagdelen T., Abdel-Aziz A., Park S., El-Rayes K., Abdel-Rahman E., and Yavuz M., “Analysis of Thick Wire Bonds under Thermal Loads", The Canadian Conference on Nonlinear Mechanics-CANCNSM 2013, Montreal, Canada (2013).

  • Khater M., Abdel-Rahman E., and Nayfeh A., “Nonlinear Phenomena in MEMS and NEMS: A Micro Sensor for Measuring Minute Gas and Biological Masses”, ENOC, Rome, Italy (2011).

  • Khater M., Vummidi K., Abdel-Rahman E., Nayfeh A., and Raman S., “Dynamic switching of MEMS Shunt Switches”, ASME IDETC/CIE, Montreal, Canada (2010).

  • Khater M., Abdel-Rahman E., and Nayfeh A., “A Mass Sensing technique for Electrostatically-Actuated MEMS”, ASME IDETC/CIE, California, USA (2009).