Salamat Burzhuev

Contact information

Email:   sburzhue@uwaterloo.ca

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Education

• University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada        2013/Jan. –  current.

  • Mechanical and Mechatronics engineering department, PhD (Nanotechnology)

• Bilkent University,  Ankara, Turkey               2011/Sep –  2013/Dec.

  • UNAM – Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, M. S. degree. (GPA-3.84)

  • Thesis supervisor: Assist. Prof. Bülend Ortaç

    • Laser synthesized gold nanoparticles for high sensitive strain gauges

• Middle East Technical University                   2007/Sep. – 2011/Jun.

  • Department of Physics, B. S. degree. (Honor student)

    • Concentrations: Solid State Physics, Optoelectronics

    • Senior project: Simulation of broadband sources for fiber optic gyroscope systems to sense earth rotation

Research interests

• Semiconductor devices: transistors, photodetector, light emitting devices

• Nanomaterials: 2D, 1D and 0D materials and their applications

• Graphene transistor and photodetector

• MEMS/NEMS

Publications

Published

1. Laser synthesized gold nanoparticles for high sensitive strain gauges

S. Burzhuev, A. Dana and B. Ortaç

Sensors & Actuators: A. Physical, vol. 203, pp. 131-136 (2013)

2. Generation of InN Nanocrystals in Organic Solution Through Laser Ablation of High Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition Grown InN Thin Film

S. Alkis, M. Alevli, S. Burzhuev, H. A. Vural, Ali K. Okyay and B. Ortaç

Journal of Nanoparticle Research, vol. 14, pp. 1048 (2012)

Conference articles and presentations

1. Laser synthesized gold nanoparticles for high sensitive strain gauges

S. Burzhuev, A. Dana and B. Ortaç

NANOTR9,  Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey, 24-28 June 2013

2. Photosensitivity of Au-Ga2O3(Fe)-n-GaP nanostructures in ultraviolet spectral region

D.Melebayev, A.M.Tashlieva, I.N.Tujanova, Aykutlu Dana, S.Burzhuev

15th International scientific conference "Modern information and electronic technologies ", Odessa, Ukraine, 26-30 May 2014

• Materials and nanoparticle characterization

  • Fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy

  • Time resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

  • Optical Microscope

  • Scanning Electron Microscope

  • Transmission Electron Microscope

  • X-ray photoelectron Spectroscopy

  • X-ray diffraction Spectroscopy

  • Dynamic Light Scattering (Zeta Sizer)

  • Raman spectroscopy

• Micro/nanofabrication

  • E-beam lithography

  • Photolithography

  • E-beam evaporation

  • RIE

  • Wet etching

• Electrical devices

  • Semiconductor parameter analyzer

  • Oscilloscope

  • Current-noise preamplifier

  • Piezoelectric transducer, function generator, piezoelectric controller

• Laser lab.

  • Basic optical design

  • Laser ablation

  • Fiber preparation: Cleaving, Stripping, and characterization

• Optical system design in ZEMAX

  • Ray tracing, optimization, reduction of aberrations, tolerance of optical system

  • Design of beam expander, telescope, mirror telescope, fiber coupling, laser beam modeling

• Nano devices design and fabrication

  • Nanoparticle strain gauge and humidity sensors

  • Design of photo detectors, lasers and optical modulators

  • Devices based on light scattering

• Materials Science and Engineering                 2014/Sep. -2014/Dec.

• Structure and Properties of Materials              2015/Jan.- 2015/Apr.

• Hybrid graphene / quantum dot photodetectors

• Development of highly sensitive strain gauges and humidity sensors based on laser-generated nanoparticles

• Simulation of broadband sources for fiber optic gyroscope systems to sense earth rotation (Senior Project)

• Absolute winner of 2005 and 2006 Chui regional Mathematics Olympiad

• Participated in Republic 2005 and 2006 Mathematics Olympiad

• Full scholarship (tuition) awarded by Bilkent University

• Full scholarship (stipend) awarded by Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology

• University of Waterloo Graduate Research Scholarship