Publications | Nano and Micro Systems Lab

2025

Abdelrahman, R., Elhady, A., Shama, Y. S., Abdelrahman, M., Jollivet, A., Ozyigit, D., Yavuz, M. & Abdel-Rahman, E. M. (2025). Resonant Drive Techniques for Electrostatic Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS): A Comparative Study. Sensors, 25(6), 1719.
Xu, A. H., Zaidan, L., Takaloo, S., Belyakov, I., Irannejad, M., Medvedeva, X., Labas, S., Bastug Azer, B., Gulsaran, A., Oxyigit, D., Pennings, J., Klinkova, A., Karimi, R., Sanderson, J., Liu, J., & Yavuz, M. (2025). Reduced graphene oxide/gold composite synthesis via laser irradiation for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy biosensors. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 36(4), 1-15.

2024

Takaloo, S., Xu, A. H., Zaidan, L., Irannejad, M., & Yavuz, M. (2024). Towards Point-of-Care Single Biomolecule Detection Using Next Generation Portable Nanoplasmonic Biosensors: A Review. Biosensors, 14(12), 593. https://doi.org/10.3390/bios14120593
Ozyigit, D. K. B., Bastug Azer, B., Gulsaran, A., Shaker, G., Pope, M., Bajcsy, M., & Yavuz, M. (2024). In Situ Hydrogen Doping of Titanium Dioxide via PAALD for Enhanced MIM Diode Performance in High-Frequency Applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
Karabulut, A., Yıldız, D. E., Yıldırım, M., Güllü, H. H., Kocyigit, A., Tasaltin, N., Gulsaran, A., Bastug Azer, B., Yavuz, M. (2024) The effects of Ppy-silicene composite on the performance of n-/p-type silicon semiconductor-based photodiodes. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2024.115996.
Alshehri, A. H., Asgarimoghaddam, H., Delumeau, L. V., Nguyen, V. H., Ali, A., Aljaghtham, M., A. Alamry, D. Ozyigit, M. Yavuz, & Musselman, K. P. (2024). Combinatorial Optimization of Metal‐Insulator‐Insulator‐Metal (MIIM) Diodes With Thickness‐Gradient Films via Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition. Advanced Electronic Materials, 2400093.
Gulsaran, A., Bastug Azer, B., Saritas, R., Kocer, S., Shama, Y. S., Rahmanian, S., Mouharrar, H., Abdelrahman, R., Abdel-Rahman, E., & Yavuz, M. (2024). High sensitivity, thermal noise-driven aluminum-based resonant MEMS humidity sensor. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 115844.
Mouharrar, H., Rahmanian, S., Abdelrahman, R., S. Shama, Y., Akbari, M., Yavuz, M., & Abdel-Rahman, E. (2024). Generation of Soliton Frequency Combs in NEMS. Nano Letters.
Zaidan, L., Novodchuk, I., Xu, A. H., Nica, A., Lloyd, C., Karimi, R., Sanderson, J., Bajcsy, M. & Yavuz, M. (2024). Rapid, Selective, and Ultra-Sensitive Electronic Field Effect Detection of Escherichia coli. Materials.
Yıldız, D. E., Karadeniz, S., Yıldırım, M., Tasaltın, N., Gulsaran, A., Bastug Azer, B., & Yavuz, M. (2024). Novel PANI: Borophene/Si Schottky device for the sensitive detection of illumination and NaCl salt solutions. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 35(7), 1-19.

2023

Ozyigit, D., Ullah, F., Gulsaran, A., Bastug Azer, B., Shahin, A., Musselman, K., Bajcsy, M., & Yavuz, M. Manufacturing of quantum-tunneling MIM nanodiodes via rapid atmospheric CVD in terahertz band. Nature - Scientific Reports 13, 20733 (2023).
Saritas, R., Al-Ghamdi, M., Das, T. M., Rasheed, O., Kocer, S., Gulsaran, A., Khan, A. A., Rana, M. M., Khater, M., Kayaharman, M., Ban, D., Yavuz, M., and & Abdel-Rahman, E. (2023). Nano Groove and Prism-Structured Triboelectric Nanogenerators. Micromachines, 14(9), 1707.
Gulsaran, A., Bastug Azer, B., Ozyigit, D., Saritas, R., Kocer, S., Abdel-Rahman, E., & Yavuz, M. (2023). Built-In Packaging for Two-Terminal Devices. Micromachines, 14(7), 1473.
Pennings, J. R., Bastug Azer, B., Uceda, M., Karimi, R., Ashrafi Belgabad, A., Hu, A., Sanderson, J., Pope, M. A., & Yavuz, M. (2023). Femtosecond Laser Irradiation as a Novel Method for Nanosheet Growth and Defect Generation in g-C3N4. Nanotechnology.
Atan, O., Pina, J. M., Parmar, D. H., Xia, P., Zhang, Y., Gulsaran, A., Jung, E. D., Choi, D., Imran, M., Yavuz, M., Hoogland, S., & Sargent, E. H. (2023). Control over Charge Carrier Mobility in the Hole Transport Layer Enables Fast Colloidal Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors. Nano Letters.
Bastug Azer, B., Gulsaran, A., Pennings, J. R., Karimi, R., Belgabad, A. A., Xu, A. H., Zaidan, L., Kocer, S., Sanderson, J., Bajcsy, M., Pope, M. & Yavuz, M. (2023). Core-Shell, Defective TiO₂ Nanoparticles by Femtosecond Laser Irradiation with Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance. Materials Advances.
Saritas, R., Das, M. T., Rasheed, O., AlHamaydeh, M., Yavuz, M., & Abdel-Rahman, E. (2023). Structural Health Monitoring via Phase Space Warping and Time-Delay Embedding. Journal of Structural Engineering, 149(2), 04022240.

2022

Negm A., Howlader M.M.R., Belyakov I., Bakr M., Ali S., Irannejad M., Yavuz M. “Materials Perspectives of Integrated Plasmonic Biosensors” Materials (MDPI), 2022
Mukhangaliyeva, L.; Kocer, S.; Warren, A,; Bell, K.; Boktor, M.; Yavuz, M.; Abdel-Rahman, E.; Hajireza, P. (2022) Deformable mirror-based photoacoustic remote sensing (PARS) microscopy for depth scanning. Biomedical Optics Express, 13(11), 5643-5653.
Kamel, A.; Kocer, S.; Mukhangaliyeva, L.; Saritas, R.; Gulsaran, A.; Elhady, A.; Basha, M.; Hajireza, P.; Yavuz, M.; Abdel-Rahman, E. (2022) Resonant Adaptive MEMS Mirror. Actuators, 11, 224.
Gulsaran, A.; Bastug Azer, B.; Kocer, S.; Rahmanian, S.; Saritas, R.; Abdel-Rahman, E.M.; Yavuz, M. (2022) Built-In Packaging for Single Terminal Devices. Sensors, 22, 5264.
Bastug Azer, B., Gulsaran, A., Pennings, J. R., Saritas, R., Kocer, S., Bennett, J. L., ... & Yavuz, M. (2022). A Review: TiO2 Based Photoelectrocatalytic Chemical Oxygen Demand Sensors and Their Usage in Industrial Applications. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 116466.
Arabi, M.; Alghamdi, M.; Kabel, K.; Labena, A.; Gado, W.S.; Mavani, B.; Scott, A.J.; Penlidis, A.; Yavuz, M.; Abdel-Rahman, E. (2022) Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds by Using MEMS Sensors. Sensors, 22, 4102.
Mistry, K., Nguyen, V. H., Arabi, M., Ibrahim, K. H., Asgarimoghaddam, H., Yavuz, M., ... & Musselman, K. P. (2022). Highly Sensitive Self-Actuated Zinc Oxide Resonant Microcantilever Humidity Sensor. Nano Letters.
Novodchuk, I., Kayaharman, M., Prassas, I., Soosaipillai, A., Karimi, R., Goldthorpe, I. A., ... & Yavuz, M. Electronic Detection of SARS-CoV-2 N-Protein Before the Onset of Symptoms.

2021

Alshehri, A. H., Loke, J. Y., Nguyen, V. H., Jones, A., Asgarimoghaddam, H., Delumeau, L. V., ... & Musselman, K. P. (2021). Nanoscale film thickness gradients printed in open air by spatially varying chemical vapor deposition. Advanced Functional Materials, 31(31), 2103271.
Ibrahim, K., Shahin, A., Jones, A., Alshehri, A. H., Mistry, K., Singh, M. D., ... & Musselman, K. P. (2021). Humidity-resistant perovskite solar cells via the incorporation of halogenated graphene particles. Solar Energy, 224, 787-797.
Alshehri, A. H., Shahin, A., Mistry, K., Ibrahim, K. H., Yavuz, M., & Musselman, K. P. (2021). Metal‐Insulator‐Insulator‐Metal Diodes with Responsivities Greater Than 30 AW− 1 Based on Nitrogen‐Doped TiOx and AlOx Insulator Layers. Advanced Electronic Materials, 7(11), 2100467.
Novodchuk, I., Bajcsy, M., & Yavuz, M. (2021). Graphene-based field effect transistor biosensors for breast cancer detection: A review on biosensing strategies. Carbon, 172, 431-453.
Novodchuk, I., Kayaharman, M., Ausri, I. R., Karimi, R., Tang, X. S., Goldthorpe, I. A., ... & Yavuz, M. (2021). An ultrasensitive heart-failure BNP biosensor using B/N co-doped graphene oxide gel FET. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 180, 113114.
Khan, M. S., Shahabad, S. I., Yavuz, M., Duley, W. W., Biro, E., & Zhou, Y. (2021). Numerical modelling and experimental validation of the effect of laser beam defocusing on process optimization during fiber laser welding of automotive press-hardened steels. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 67, 535-544.

2020

Novodchuk, I., Kayaharman, M., Ibrahim, K., Al-Tuairqi, S., Irannejad, M., Abdel-Rahman, E., ... & Yavuz, M. (2020). B/N co-doped graphene oxide gel with extremely-high mobility and ION/IOFF for large-area field effect transistors. Carbon, 158, 624-630.
Mistry, K., Jones, A., Kao, M., Yeow, T. W. K., Yavuz, M., & Musselman, K. P. (2020). In-situ observation of nucleation and property evolution in films grown with an atmospheric pressure spatial atomic layer deposition system. Nano Express, 1(1), 010045.
Imamura, G., Minami, K., Shiba, K., Mistry, K., Musselman, K. P., Yavuz, M., ... & Obata, S. (2020). Graphene oxide as a sensing material for gas detection based on nanomechanical sensors in the static mode. Chemosensors, 8(3), 82.
Yeow, T. W. K., Mistry, K., Shahin, A., Yavuz, M., & Musselman, K. P. (2020). Atmospheric-pressure spatial chemical vapor deposition of tungsten oxide. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, 38(5), 052411.
Mistry, K., Ibrahim, K. H., Novodchuk, I., Ngo, H. T., Imamura, G., Sanderson, J., ... & Musselman, K. P. (2020). Nanomechanical Gas Sensing with Laser Treated 2D Nanomaterials. Advanced Materials Technologies, 5(12), 2000704.
Jones, A., Mistry, K., Kao, M., Shahin, A., Yavuz, M., & Musselman, K. P. (2020). In-situ spatial and temporal electrical characterization of ZnO thin films deposited by atmospheric pressure chemical vapour deposition on flexible polymer substrates. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 1-10.
Musselman, K. P., Alshehri, A., Mistry, K., Jones, A., Loke, J. Y., Nguyen, V. H., & Muñoz-Rojas, D. (2020, November). In-Situ and Combinatorial Techniques for Spatial ALD. In ECS Meeting Abstracts (No. 23, p. 1666). IOP Publishing.
Alsaedi, D., Irannejad, M., Ibrahim, K., AlMutairi, A., Musselman, K., Sanderson, J., ... & Yavuz, M. (2020). High operation stability and different sensing mechanisms in graphene oxide gel photodetectors utilizing a thin polymeric layer. ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2(5), 1203-1209.
Ghommem, M., Najar, F., Arabi, M., Abdel-Rahman, E., & Yavuz, M. (2020). A unified model for electrostatic sensors in fluid media. Nonlinear Dynamics, 101(1), 271-291.

2019

Alshehri, A. H., Mistry, K., Nguyen, V. H., Ibrahim, K. H., Muñoz‐Rojas, D., Yavuz, M., & Musselman, K. P. (2019). Quantum‐Tunneling Metal‐Insulator‐Metal Diodes Made by Rapid Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition. Advanced Functional Materials, 29(7), 1805533.
Alshehri, A. H., Mistry, K., Nguyen, V. H., Ibrahim, K. H., Muñoz‐Rojas, D., Yavuz, M., & Musselman, K. P. (2019). Metal‐Insulator‐Metal Diodes: Quantum‐Tunneling Metal‐Insulator‐Metal Diodes Made by Rapid Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (Adv. Funct. Mater. 7/2019). Advanced Functional Materials, 29(7), 1970042.
Ibrahim, K., Novodchuk, I., Mistry, K., Singh, M., Ling, C., Sanderson, J., ... & Musselman, K. P. (2019). Laser‐Directed Assembly of Nanorods of 2D Materials. Small, 15(46), 1904415.
Novodchuk, I., Irannejad, M., Wales, B., Ibrahim, K., Sanderson, J., Bajcsy, M., & Yavuz, M. (2019). Controlled volume production of simultaneously B/N co-doped reduced graphene oxide nanoflakes using femtosecond laser ablation. Materials Research Bulletin, 111, 80-86.
Elsharabasy, A. Y., Alshehri, A. H., Bakr, M. H., Deen, M. J., Musselman, K. P., & Yavuz, M. (2019). Near zero-bias MIIM diode based on TiO2/ZnO for energy harvesting applications. AIP Advances, 9(11), 115207.
Alharbi, R., Irannejad, M., & Yavuz, M. (2019). A short review on the role of the metal-graphene hybrid nanostructure in promoting the localized surface plasmon resonance sensor performance. Sensors, 19(4), 862.
Alharbi, R., & Yavuz, M. (2019, June). Promote Localized Surface Plasmonic Sensor Performance via Spin-Coating Graphene Flakes over Au Nano-Disk Array. In Photonics (Vol. 6, No. 2, p. 57). Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.
Michael, A., Zhou, Y. N., Yavuz, M., & Khan, M. I. (2019). Modelling the alloy element composition change in NiTi achieved through laser induced vaporization. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 231, 87-94.
Kayaharman, M., Das, T., Seviora, G., Saritas, R., Abdel-Rahman, E., & Yavuz, M. (2020). Long-Term Stability of Ferroelectret Energy Harvesters. Materials, 13(1), 42.