Hany Aziz, PEng

Hany Aziz is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a cross-appointment to the Department of Chemical Engineering. He served as the Associate Director of Waterloo’s Nanotechnology Engineering program from 2015-2019. He is also Associate Director of the Giga-to-Nanoelectronics Centre. He previously held the appointment of NSERC- DALSA Research Chair in organic electronics.

Dr. Aziz’s group conducts research in the interdisciplinary area of organic electronics and optoelectronics including both electroluminescent (such as Organic Light-Emitting Devices or OLEDs and quantum dot LEDs ) and light harvesting (such as organic photovoltaics and optical sensing) materials and devices. The research spans a wide range of areas ranging from studying fundamental phenomena in organic semiconductors (such as carrier injection and transport, exciton dynamics, carrier-exciton interactions) to developing novel devices and fabrication technologies for next generation electronics (such as flexible flat panel displays and printable electronics).

Dr. Aziz’s research contributions are widely cited in the organic electronics community, and have resulted in over 150 peer-reviewed publications to date. He has several inventions including the industry’s benchmark long-life and thermally-stable OLED and the contrast enhancing Black Cathode™ Technology. He holds 51 U.S. patents. In 2020 he was awarded a University Research Chair.

• Organic electronics
• Optoelectronic materials and devices
• Charge and energy transfer in amorphous semiconductors
• Materials for flexible and printable electronics
• Nanotechnology
• Additive manufacturing
• Renewable energy
• Nano-electronics
• Organic light emitting devices (OLEDs)
• Organic photovoltaics
• Optical sensing\/imaging

• 1999, Doctorate Materials Science & Engineering, McMaster University, Canada
• 1996, Master of Science Materials Science & Engineering, McMaster University, Canada
• 1989, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Mechanical Engineering, The American University in Cairo, Egypt

• ECE 634 - Organic Electronics
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• NE 340L - Microfabrication and Thin-film Technology Laboratory
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
• NE 454B - Nano-instrumentation Laboratory 1
  • Taught in 2020, 2021
• NE 455B - Nano-instrumentation Laboratory 2
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
• NE 476 - Organic Electronics
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• NE 479 - Special Topics in Nanoelectronics
  • Taught in 2019, 2020

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Azadinia M., Davidson-Hall T., Chung D.S., Ghorbani A., Samaeifar F., Chen J., Chun P., Lyu Q., Cotella G., and Aziz H., Inverted Solution-Processed Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Devices with Wide Band Gap Quantum Dot Interlayers, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Canada, 2023.
• Samaeifar F., and Aziz H., Role of Guest Materials in the Lower Stability of Solution-Coated versus Vacuum-Deposited Phosphorescent OLEDs, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Volume 14, 8199-8208, Canada, 2022.
• Samaeifar F., and Aziz H., The Root Causes of the Limited Electroluminescence Stability of Solution-Coated Versus Vacuum-Deposited Small-Molecule OLEDs: A , Frontiers in Chemistry, Volume 10, Canada, 2022.
• Chung D.S., Davidson-Hall T., Cotella G., Lyu Q., Chun P., and Aziz H., Significant Lifetime Enhancement in QLEDs by Reducing Interfacial Charge Accumulation via Fluorine Incorporation in the ZnO Elec, Nano-Micro Letters, Volume 14, Canada, 2022.
• Ghorbani A., Chen J., Samaeifar F., Azadinia M., Chun P., Lyu Q., Cotella G., and Aziz H., Stability Improvement in Quantum-Dot Light-Emitting Devices via a New Robust Hole Transport Layer, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Volume 126, 18144-18151, Canada, 2022.
• Samaeifar F., Azadinia M., Ghorbani A., Chen J., Gratuze M., Ketabi M., Izquierdo R., and Aziz H., Highly sensitive and fully printable humidity sensor on a flexible substrate based on a zinc oxide and polyethylenimine composit, Flexible and Printed Electronics, Volume 7, Canada, 2022.
• Chung D.S., and Aziz H., Modulation in charge distribution via polyethylenimine-incorporation into ZnO electron transport layer and its impact on quantum, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Volume 127, Canada, 2022.
• Yu H., and Aziz H., The negative effect of toluene on poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) hole injection layer and i, Synthetic Metals, Volume 127, Canada, 2021.
• Sadeghianlemraski M., Nouri M., Wong W.S., and Aziz H., The Use of Green-Solvent Processable Molecules with Large Dipole Moments in the Electron Extraction Layer of Inverted Organic So, Advanced Sustainable Systems, Volume 6, Canada, 2022.
• , The influence of charge carriers in the hole transport layer on stability of quantum dot light-emitting devices, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engi, Volume 127, Canada, 2021.