The Nanophysics and Nanoelectronics group at UCF is lead by Prof. Saiful Khondaker. Khondaker includes a joint appointment at Nanoscience Technology Center, Department of Physics and college of electrical and computer engineering. The audience has an interest in making use of low dimensional nano-structured materials (for example 2D TMDC, graphene, carbon nanotubes, organic molecules) for nanoelectronic and optoelectronic device applications. The main focus is incorporated in the fabrication of devices using condition from the art nanoscale patterning and lithgraphy techniques, comprehending the fundamental charge transport qualities at different temperature regimes and exploiting individuals qualities for novel applications.

Dr. Saiful I. Khondaker, Affiliate Professor, Nanoscience Technology Center, College of Orlando, 12424 Research Parkway Suite 400, Orlando, FL 32826. Tel: 407-864-5054, Fax: 407-882-2819, Email: saiful[at]ucf[us dot]edu

August 2014: Narae’s paper on Photoluminescence quenching in Single-layer MoS2 via Oxygen Plasma Treatment methods are recognized for publication in J. Phys. Chem. C. Congratulations Narae!

This summer 2014: Muhammad’s review paper on Recent progress in parallel fabrication of person single walled carbon nanotube devices using dielectrophoresis is printed in Materials Express. It was a asked review article. Congratulations Muhammad!

June 2014: Biddut’s paper on Lower Activation Energy in Organic Field Effect Transistors with Carbon Nanotube Contact is printed in Solid Condition Electronics. Biddut left the audience in The month of january 2012 after finishing his Ph.D. He’s presently a publish-doctorate scholar at Purdue College.

June 2014: Daeha’s paper on Two to 1 dimensional crossover in graphene quantum us dot arrays noticed in reduced graphene oxide nanoribbons.

is printed in Phys. Rev. B. Daeha left the audience in The month of january 2013 after finishing his Ph.D. along with a short publish-doctorate remain in Khondaker group. He’s presently a publish-doctorate scholar in the College of Minnesota.

March 2013: Professor Khondaker delivered an asked talk at Worldwide Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ICONSAT) 2014 at Chandigarh, India. Khondaker also visited National Physical Laboratory at New Delhi.

The month of january 2014: Daeha left the audience to begin a publish-doctorate position in the College of Minnesota. Daeha spent 5 years in Khondaker gorup, 4 years like a Ph.D. student and something year like a publish-doc. Best of luck Daeha! We’ll miss you.

December 2012: Daeha’s paper on Efros-Shklovskii variable range hopping in reduced graphene oxide sheets of different carbon sp2 fraction is printed in Physics Review B.

December 2012: Narae’s paper on The Result of Carbon Nanotube/Organic Semiconductor Interfacial Area around the Performance of Organic Transistors is printed in Applied Physics Letters.

November 2012: Daeha effectively defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations! Daeha printed 10 peer reviewed papers throughout his Ph.D.

November 2012: Biddut effectively defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations! Biddut printed 9 peer reviewed papers throughout his Ph.D.

November 2012: Narae effectively defended her M.S. thesis. Congratulations!

November 2012: Udai effectively defended his M.S.

thesis. Congratulations!

May 2012: Dr. Khondaker gave an asked talk on Charge Injection Mechanism at Carbon Nanotube-Organic Semiconductor Interface at 221st ECS Meeting – San antonio, Washington.

May 2012: Biddut’s paper on Thermionic Emission and Tunneling at Carbon Nanotube-Organic Semiconductor Interface is printed in ACS Nano.

March 2012: Surajits paper on a single pot synthesis of RGO/PbS nanocomposite and it is near infrared photoresponse study is printed in Applied Physics A.

April 2012: Edwards effectively defended his honors in main undergraduate Thesis. Congratulations!

April 2012: Shashank’s paper on Huge volume expansion and structural transformation of carbon nanotube aligned arrays during electrical breakdown in vacuum is printed in Carbon.

April 2012: Biddut received best poster award within the group of Engineering, Information Technology, Optics, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Modeling and Simulation at Graduate Research Forum 2012. Congratulations!

April 2012: Daeha received best poster award within the group of Engineering, Information Technology, Optics, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Modeling and Simulation at Graduate Research Forum 2012. Congratulations!

March 2012: Eight group people presented their works in APS March meeting, Boston.

March 2012: Udai received Best Poster Award in Computational and Experimental Material Science category at Florida Chapter of yankee Vacuum Society. Congratulations!

March 2012: Biddut received second best Poster Award in Material Science Category at Florida Chapter of yankee Vacuum Society. Congratulations!

March 2012: Fears received honorable mention in Energy-Related Materials category at Florida Chapter of yankee Vacuum Society. Congratulations!

March 2012: Daeha gave an asked talk on Efros-Shklovskii Variable Range Hopping in Reduced Graphene Oxide Sheets in the Florida chapter from the American Vacuum Society meeting.

March 2012: Mohammmad’ s paper on the general method for high yield fabrication of CMOS-compatible all-semiconducting carbon nanotube field effect transistors is printed in Nanotechnology.

The month of january 2012: Biddut paper on High-performance short funnel organic transistors using densely aligned carbon nanotube array electrodes is printed in Applied Physics Letters.

December 2011: Daeha’ s paper on Anchoring Ceria Nanoparticles on Reduced Graphene Oxide as well as their Electronic Transport Qualities is printed in Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

November 2011: Biddut presented his work on MRS Fall meeting, Boston.

November 2011: Khondaker gave an asked talk on Advanced Lithography for Nanoscale Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Oxide Devices at Advanced Lithography Workshop, College of Florida.

October 2011: Kristy’s paper on High yield set up and electron transport analysis of semiconducting-wealthy local-gated single-walled carbon nanotube field effect transistors is printed in Nanotechnology.

August 2011: Biddut’s paper on Semiconducting Enriched Carbon Nanotube Aligned Arrays of Tunable Density as well as their Electrical Transport Qualities is printed in ACS Nano.

August 2011: Mohammad passed his proposal defense, congratulations!

This summer 2011: Khondaker gave an asked talk on Parallel fabrication and electron transport investigations of carbon nanotubes and graphene based devices in the Department of Physics, Lehigh College.

June 2011: Mohammad passed his qualifier exam, congratulations!

June 2011: Shashanks paper on Correlated electrical breakdown in arrays of high density aligned carbon nanotubes is printed in Applied Physics Letters.

May 2011: Udai Bhanu became a member of we. He’s a graduate student in physics. Welcome!

April 2011: Khondaker gave an asked talk on Parallel fabrication and electron transport investigations of carbon nanotubes and graphene based devices at Florida AM College.

April 2011: Kristy effectively defended her honors in main undergraduate thesis. She’s recognized within the graduate program of College of Texas at Austin. Congratulations!

April 2011: Feras passed his proposal defense, congratulations!

April 2011: Biddut’s paper on Fabrication of Organic Field Effect Transistor by Directly Grown Poly(3 Hexylthiophene) Crystalline Nanowires on Carbon Nanotube Aligned Array Electrode is printed in ACS Applied Material and Interfaces.

March 2011: We received NSF funding for exploring carbon nanotube organic interface.

March 2011: Five group people presented their works in APS March meeting, Dallas, Texas.

March 2011: Mohammad received Honorable mention in material portrayal category at Florida Chapter of yankee Vacuum Society. Congratulations!

March 2011: Mohammad’s paper on Schottky diode via dielectrophoretic set up of reduced graphene oxide sheets between different metal contacts is printed being an asked artcle within the focused issue of chemically modified graphene in New Journal of Physics

March 2011: Daeha’s paper on Coulomb blockade and hopping conduction in graphene quantum dots array is printed in Physical Review B.

March 2011: Shashank’s paper on Electrical transport qualities of peptide nanotubes coated with gold nanoparticles via peptide-caused biomineralization is printed in Nanotechnoly.

March 2011: Biddut’s paper on Fabrication of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Array Electrodes for Organic Electronics Devices is printed within the inaugural issue of Materials Express.

March 2011: Khondaker gave an asked MRSEC Seminar on Directed set up and electron transport qualities of chemically functionalized graphene at Georgia Tech.

Feb 2011: Shashank’s paper on Ultrahigh Density Alignment of Carbon Nanotube Arrays by Dielectrophoresis is printed in ACS Nano.

The month of january 2011: Narae Kang became a member of we. She’s a graduate student in physics. Welcome!

November 2010: Paul’s paper on Directed set up of solution processed single-walled carbon nanotubes via dielectrophoresis: From aligned array to individual nanotube devices is printed in Journal of Vacuum Science B.

September 2010: Mohammad received second best poster award within the Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics category at NanoFlorida.

August 2010: Edwards Jimenez became a member of we. He’s an undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering. Welcome!

August 2010: Daeha’s paper on Space charge limited conduction with exponential trap distribution in reduced graphene oxide sheets is printed in Applied Physics Letters.

August 2010: Tanusri’s paper on High end organic phototransistor according to regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) is printed in Nanotechnology.

This summer 2010: Daeha passed his proposal defense, congratulations!

This summer 2010: Biddut passed his proposal defense, congratulations!

June 2010: Daeha passed his qualifier exam, congratulations!

June 2010: Biddut passed his qualifier exam, congratulations!

June 2010: Arif’s paper on Poly(3-hexylthiophene) crystalline nanoribbon network for organic field effect transistors is printed in Applied Physics Letters.

May 2010: Arif’s paper on Poly (3-hexylthiophene) crystalline nanoribbon network for organic field effect transistors is recognized for publication in Applied Physics Letters

May 2010: Farnood Rezaie became a member of we. He’s a graduate student in physics. Welcome Farnood!

April 2010: Paul effectively defended his Ph.D. dissertation. He’s going for a job at Triquint Semiconductor. Congratulations to Dr. Stokes!

April 2010: Paul’s paper on Evaluating defects in solution processed carbon nanotube devices via cold transport spectroscopy is recognized for publication in ACS Nano.

April 2010: Surajit’s paper on Position dependent photodetector from large area reduced graphene oxide thin films is recognized for publication in Applied Physics Letters.

April 2010: Dr. Khondaker continues to be promoted to Asscociate Professor with tenure.

March 2010: Eight group people presented their works in APS March meeting, Portland, Or.

March 2010: Daeha’s paper on High yield fabrication of chemically reduced graphene oxide field effect transistors by dielectrophoresis is recognized for publications in Nanotechnology.

March 2010: Dr. Khondaker received UCF Research Incentive Award.

Feb 2010: Justin Brooks, our prime school student within our group, received first prize in Seminole county science fair in physics/astronomy category.

The month of january 2010: Paul’s paper on Top quality solution processed carbon nanotube transistors put together by AC dielectrophoresis is recognized for publication in Applied Physics Letters

The month of january 2010: Feras Alzubi became a member of we. He’s a graduate student in physics. Welcome back!

November 2009: Biddut’s paper on Near-infrared photoresponse in single walled carbon nanotube/polymer composite films is recognized for publication in Carbon

2009: Dr. Khondaker was handed some pot appointment within the School of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, College of Orlando.

2009: Daeha’s paper on Electronic transport qualities of ternary Cd(1-x)Zn(x)S nanowire network is recognized for publication in Nanotechnology.

September 2009: Muhammad Rakibul Islam became a member of we. He’s a graduate student in physics. Welcome!

September 2009: Biddut’s paper on Diffusion mediated photoconduction in multi-walled carbon nanotube film is recognized for publication within the Journal of Applied Physics

September 2009: Daeha received best poster award in NanoFlorida 2009 in Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics category. Congratulations to Daeha!

September 2009: Biddut received second best poster award in NanoFlorida 2009 in Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics category. Congratulations to Biddut!

May 2009: Dr. Tanusri Pal became a member of we like a publish-doctorate fellow. Welcome!

May 2009: Dr. Surajit Ghosh became a member of we like a publish-doctorate fellow. He’s a person receiving Indian government BOYSCAST fellowship. Welcome!

April 2009: Kristy Kormondy became a member of we like a REU student. She’s a sophomore in physics

March 2009: Biddut received Honorable mention in American Vacuum Society, Florida Chapter meeting in materials portrayal category

Feb 2009: Paul’s paper on Solution processed large area field effect transistors from dielectrophoreticly aligned arrays of single-walled carbon nanotubes is recognized for publication in Applied Physics Letters

The month of january 2009: Paul’s paper on Photoresponse in large area multi-walled carbon nanotube/ polymer nanocomposite films is recognized for publication in Applied Physics Letters

The month of january 2009: Daeha Joung became a member of we. He’s a graduate student in physics. Welcome!

November 2008: Shashank Shekhar became a member of we like a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!

August 2008: Biddut Sarker became a member of we. He’s a graduate student in physics. Welcome!

This summer 2008: Mohammad Arif became a member of we like a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!

This summer 2008: Paul’s paper on carbon nanotube single electron transistor is printed in Applied Physics Letter. To see the paper click the link

May 2008: Several achievements in our group is highlighted within the first edition of Nano News letter. Read here

April 2008: Our proposal on the novel organic photovoltaic system is funded by National Science Foundation.

April 2008: Paul Stokes is chosen among the participants from USA to go to Conferences of Nobel Laureates in Linadu, Germany (world wide web.lindau-nobel.de ). He’ll be hearing Nobel prize winners lectures, have dinners together etc for 7 days. This will probably be thrilling for Paul. Congratulations Paul

April 2008: Paul received best poster award at 2008 UCF research week for his poster titled, Local-Gated Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors Put together by AC Dielectrophoresis Congratulations Paul.

April 2008: Paul’s paper printed in Nanotechnology is featured in nanotechweb.org (browse the story here )

March 2008: Paul’s paper on local gated DEP put together FET is recognized and printed in Nanotechnology. Congratulation to Paul.

March 2008: We made five presentations in APS March meeting in New Orleans. For details please click the link

Feb 2008: Rachel (senior high school student) placed second in Seminole county science fair on her focus on carbon nanotube IR sensor. She’s also recognized in UF on her college. Congratulations Rachel.

The month of january 2008: Eliot Silbar became a member of we like a REU student. He’s a newcomer student in physics.

The month of january 2008: Dr. Khondaker received esteemed NSF CAREER award (read UCF pr release here )

September 2007: Liwei got Affiliate Professor position at Suzhou Nano Institute. Chinese Academy of Sciences. congratulations Liwei.

August 2007: Paul passed his qualifier exam, congratulations!

September 2006: Dr. Liwei Liu became a member of we like a postdoctoral fellow. He received Ph.D. in physics from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Welcome Liwei.

April 2006: We’ve got a closed cycle helium refrigerator from Dr. Lee Chow. Special because of Dr. Chow!

March 2006: We’ve got a glove box from Dr. John Tonner. Special because of Dr. Tonner!

Feb 2006: We received our 1.5 K cryostat from Desert Cryogenics.

The month of january 2006: Paul Stokes became a member of we like a Ph.D. student. Paul received his B.S in Physics in the West Virginia College. Welcome Paul!

This summer 2005: Dr. Khondaker became a member of UCF nanoscience technology center being an assistant professor.