CURRICULUM VITAE
السيرة الذاتية باللغة العربية في الملف المرفق أسفل الصفحة

 
Personal details:
 
Name: Mohammad Abdulaziz Alduraibi
Nationality: Saudi
Academic position: Associate professor
 
Current address:
 
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
College of Science, King Saud University,
P.O. Box: 2455, Riyadh 11451
Saudi Arabia
Office Tel: 00966-11-80-63255,
E-mail: malduraibi@ksu.edu.sa
 

Qualifications:
 

• PhD in the field of microelectronics and nanostructured semiconductor materials, in 2010 from the University of Manchester, UK.
• MSc in Nanoscale Science and Technology, with merit in 2006 from the University of Leeds, UK.
• B.Sc. in physics, in 2000, from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (excellent grade).    

 
 
Scientific Research Skills:
 

• Thin film deposition techniques such as molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), pulsed laser deposition (PLD), sputtering technique and some other deposition techniques.
• Various structural, optical and electrical characterization techniques, i.e., atomic force microscope, scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscope, XRD, photoluminescence, absorption and transmission optical setups.
• Fabrication of semiconductor devices in clean environment (cleanrooms) which involves the use of lithography techniques, dry and wet etching and other processing equipments.
• Nanoscale patterning using Focused Ion Beam system.
• Semiconductor nanostructure synthesis for photovoltaic and gas sensing applications

 
 
 
Work experience:

• Associate professor in the department of physics and astronomy King Saud University (2020-present)
• Vice dean of admissions and registration for technical affairs, King Saud University, 2017- 2020.
• Vice dean of admissions and registration for development and quality ( in-charge), King Saud University, 2019- 2020.
• Consultant of the deanship of admissions and registration, King Saud University, 2017
• Member of the deanship of admissions and registration council, King Saud University 2010- 2020.
• Member of the department of physics and astronomy council, King Saud University 2017- present.
• Part time consultant, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology 2017-2019.
• Full time consultant, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology 2014-2017
• Assistant professor in the department of physics and astronomy King Saud University (2010-2020)
• Postgraduate student sponsored by King Saud University (2004-2010)
• Teaching assistant in the department of physics and astronomy King Saud University (2001-2004)
• Judging committee member of Mawhiba International Olympiad Program 2021-2022, King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundations For Giftedness and Creativity
• Council member of the MSc in Nanoscience and Applied Nanotechnology, King Saud University( 2021-present)
• Member of distance learning activation team at ‎King Saud University 2018-2019‎
• Member of the Laboratory and Safety Committee, ‎Department of Physics and Astronomy ‎2015-2016.
• Member of the Graduates and Human Resources ‎Committee, Department of Physics and Astronomy since 2017.
• Member of the Scientific Committee, Institute of ‎Materials Science, King Abdulaziz City for ‎Science and Technology 2005-2006‎.
• Member of the local Committee of the ‎International Conference HONET 2011. ‎

 
 
 
Academic visits, training and workshops:

• Participated in the Block Course Chemical Sensors- Basics, Technology and Applications, 26th February – 9th March 2018, Tuebingen University, Germany.
• Academic visitor, Cavendish laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK, January 2015
• Academic Visitor, The Swiss federal institute of technology [EPFL]-Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2014.
• Workshop on X-ray crystallography and single crystal structure determination using SHELXTL software, King Saud University, Riyadh, 2013.
• Academic visitor, The University of Sheffield, UK, summer 2011
• Workshop on Nanomaterials for Energy Storage, Riyadh, 2011.
• Micro Teaching. King Saud University, 2011.
• Effective Teaching and Management System, King Saud University, 2011.
• Course Design and Construction, King Saud University, 2011.
• Student Assessment and Classroom Management, King Saud University, 2011
• What is terahertz and what can it do for you? At the National Physical Laboratory, London, UK, 2009.
• Patent searching, Manchester, UK, 2009.
• Understanding financial statements, Manchester, UK, 2009.
• Terahertz Systems and Industrial Applications, Royal Society, London, UK, 2009.
• Teaching in higher education workshop, Manchester, UK, 2008.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant training, Manchester, UK 2008.
• General Physics for Secondary School Physics Teachers at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 2001.

 
 
 
Research Interests:
Growth and characterization of nanostructured semiconductor materials, in addition to fabrication and testing of variety of advanced electronic and optoelectronic devices.
 
 
 
 
Conferences participation

• European Conference on Lasers, Electro-Optics CLEO and quantum electronics, Munich, Germany, 2013. ( 2 poster presentations).
•  IEEE 12th International Conference on Nanotechnology, Birmingham, UK, 2012 (oral presentation)
• QD2010 conference, Nottingham, UK, April 2010, (poster presentation)
• Quantum dot meeting, University of Cambridge, January 2010. (Poster presentation).
• UK Semiconductors conference, Sheffield, UK, 2008. (Oral presentation).
• Recent Advances of Low Dimensional Structures and Devices held in Nottingham in April 7-9, 2008. (Oral and poster presentations).

 
 
Patents:

• M. Abdel-Rahman, M. Alduraibi and B. Ilahi. Thermal Sensing Layer for Microbolometer and Method for Making the Same: US 10,481,006, 2019.

 
Scientific papers:

• Abdulaziz Alharbi, Benjamin Junker, Mohammad Alduraibi, Ahmad Algarni, Udo Weimar and Nicolae Bârsan. The Role of Different Lanthanoid and Transition Metals in Perovskite Gas Sensors. Sensors 2021, 21, 8462.
• Mahmoud Hezam, Ahmad Algarni, Hamid Ghaithan, Husain Alzahrani, Aqeel Alshehri, Abdulaziz Alfarhoud, Joselito Labis and Mohammad Alduraibi. Hydrothermal growth optimization of vertically aligned ZnO nanowire arrays and their dye-sensitized solar cell performance under air oxygen environments. Mater. Res. Express 8 (2021) 105501.
• Hazem ElGhonimy, Mohamed Ramy Abdel-Rahman, Mahmoud Hezam, Mohammad Alduraibi, Nageeb Al-Khalli, and Bouraoui Ilahi Amorphous SiSn Alloy: Another Candidate Material for Temperature Sensing Layers in Uncooled Microbolometers. Phys. Status Solidi B 2021, 2100103.
• Mahmoud Hezam, Mohammed Qasi Alsubaie, Ahmad Algarni, Hamid Ghaithan, Joselito Labis, Mohammad Alduraibi. ZnO Nanosheet-Nanowire morphology tuning for Dye-sensitized solar cell applications. Chemical Physics Letters 780 (2021) 138953.
• N. Al-Khalli, M. Hezam, M. Alduraibi and M. Abdel-Rahman, Tuning of zinc oxide temperature sensing and optical absorption properties by tin heavy-doping, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 133 (2021) 105988.
• M.Abdel-Rahman, M.Hezam, A.A.Odebowale, N.Alkhalli and M.Alduraibi, TiNb thin films as absorbers for LWIR microbolometers, Optical Materials, Volume 111(2021) 110558.
• Mohammad Alduraibi, Mahmoud Hezam, Bader Al‐Ruhaimi, Ahmed Mohamed El‐Toni, Ahmad Algarni, M. Abdel‐Rahman, Wang Qing, Abdullah Aldwayyan, Rapid Room‐Temperature Synthesis of Mesoporous TiO2 Sub‐Microspheres and Their Enhanced Light Harvesting in Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells, Nanomaterials, 2020, vol. 10,no. 3, 413, 2020.
• Joselito P. Labis, Anwar Q. Al‐Anazi, Hamad A. Al‐Brithen, Mahmoud Hezam, Mohammad Abdulaziz Alduraibi, Ahmad Algarni , Abdulaziz A. Alharbi, Abdulrhman S. Al‐Awadi, Aslam Khan, Ahmed Mohamed El‐Toni, Designing zinc oxide nanostructures (nanoworms, nanoflowers, nanowalls, and nanorods) by pulsed laser ablation technique for gas‐sensing application, J Am Ceram Soc. 102, pp. 4367–4375, 2019.
• M. Abdel-Rahman, M. Alduraibi, M. Hezam, B. Ilahi, Sputter deposited GeSn alloy: A candidate material for temperature sensing layers in uncooled microbolometers, Infrared Physics & Technology, 97, pp. 376-380, 2019.
• M. Abdel-Rahman, M. Zia, M. Alduraibi, Temperature Dependent Resistive Properties of Vanadium Pentoxide/Vanadium Multi-layer Thin Films for Microbolometers & Antenna-Coupled Microbolometers, Sensors, 19, 1320, 2019.
• M. Abdel-Rahman, K. Issa, M. F. Zia, M. Alduraibi, M. Siraj, A. Ragheb, and S. Alshebeili, High sensitivity vanadium-vanadium pentoxide-aluminum metal-insulator-metal diode, Micro and Nano Letters, 13, pp. 680-683, 2018.
• M. Zia, M. Abdel-Rahman, M. Alduraibi, B. Ilahi, E. Awad, and S. Majzoub, Electrical and infrared optical properties of vanadium oxide semiconducting thin film thermometers, Journal of Electronic Materials, vol. 46, pp. 5978-5985, 2017.
• M. Abdel-Rahman, M. Alduraibi, M. Zia, E. Bahidra, and A. Alasaad, Vanadium sesquioxide (V2O3)-based semiconducting temperature sensitive resistors for uncooled microbolometers, Modern Physics Letters B, vol. 31, 1750145, 2017.
• A. Khalfaoui, S. Ilahi, M. Abdel-Rahman, M. F. Zia, M. Alduraibi, B. Ilahi, N. Yacoubi, Photothermal deflection technique investigation of annealing temperature and time effects on optical and thermal conductivity of V/V2O5 alternating layers structure, Physica B, vol. 522, pp. 26-30, 2017.
• M. Zia, M. Abdel-Rahman, M. Alduraibi, B. Ilahi and A. Alasaad, Synthesis and electrical characterization of vanadium oxide thin film thermometer for microbolometer applications, IET Electronics Letters, vol. 52, pp. 827-828 , 2016.
• Hamid M. Ghaithan, Saif M.H. Qaid, Mahmoud Hezam, Joselito P. Labis, Mohammad Alduraibi, Idriss M. Bedja, Abdullah S. Aldwayyan, Laser induced photocurrent and photovoltage transient measurements of dye-sensitized solar cells based on TiO2 nanosheets and TiO2 nanoparticles, Electrochimica Acta, Volume 212, pp. 992-997,  2016.
• B. Ilahi, M. Abdel-Rahman, Z. Zaaboub, M. Zia,  M. Alduraibi, and H. Maaref, Thermal annealing induced multiple phase in V/V2O5 alternating multilayer structure, International Journal of Modern Physics B, vol. 30, 1650210, 2016.
• N. Al-Khalli, N. Debbar, M. Saleem, M. Alkanhal, A. Sebak, M. Alduraibi, and M. Abdel-Rahman, Photolithographically definable SU8-Alumina composite for W-band dielectric resonator antennas, IET Micro and Nano Letters, vol. 11, pp. 224-229 , 2016.
• M. Abdel-Rahman, S. Ilahi, M. Zia, M. Alduraibi, N. Debbar, N. Yacoubi, and B. Ilahi, Temperature coefficient of resistance and thermal conductivity of Vanadium Oxide ‘Big Mac’ sandwich structure, Infrared Physics and Technology, vol. 71, pp. 127-130, 2015.
• E.S. Awad, N. Al-Khalli, M. Abdel-Rahman, M. Alduraibi, N. Debbar, "Comparison of V2O5 Microbolometer Optical Performance Using NiCr and Ti Thin-Films, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol.27, no.5, pp.462-465, 2015
• M. Abdel-Rahman, B. Albassam, and M. Alduraibi, Driveless gyroscope response of a quartz piezoelectric vibratory tuning fork, Acta Physica Polonica A, vol. 127, no.4, pp. 1352-1354, 2015.
• E. Awad, N. Al-Khalli, M. Abdel-Rahman, N. Debbar, and M. Alduraibi, Fabry Perot cavity microbolometer, , Acta Physica Polonica A, vol. 127, no.4,pp. 1295-1297, 2015.
• T. Ackemann, M. Alduraibi, S. Campbell, S. Keatings, P. Luke Sam, H. Fraser, A. S. Arnold, E. Riis, and M. Missous. Diamond heat sinking of terahertz antennas for continuous-wave photomixing. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 112, 123109, 2012.
• Hadi AlQahtani, Mohammad Alduraibi, Tim Richardson, and Martin Grell. Manifold sensitivity improvement of swelling- based sensors. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 14, pp. 5558-5560, 2012.
• M. Alduraibi, C. Mitchell, S. Chakraborty and M. Missous, Surfactant-mediated growth of InAs–GaAs superlattices and quantum dot structures grown at different temperatures, Microelectronics Journal, 40, pp. 476, 2009.
• M. Alduraibi, C. Mitchell, S. Chakraborty and M. Missous, Interaction of low-temperature surfactant-grown InAs superlattice layers with arsenic precipitates, Microelectronics Journal, 40, pp. 550-553, 2009.

 
Conference papers:
 

• M. Abdel-Rahman, N. Alkhalli, M. Zia, M. Alduraibi, B. Ilahi, E. Awad, and N. Debbar, Fabrication and design of vanadium oxide microbolometer, AIP Conference Proceedings 1809, 020001, 2017.
• N.S. Daghestani, M. Alduraibi, M. Missous, T. Ackemann, M.A. Cataluna, "Pulsed THz generation from InAs/GaAs quantum-dot structures," in Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference , 12-16 May 2013
• N.S. Daghestani, M. Alduraibi, T. Piwonski, T. Ochalski, G. Huyet, M. Missous, T. Ackemann, M.A. Cataluna, "Ultrafast carrier dynamics of surfactant-mediated-grown InAs/GaAs quantum-dot structures designed for THz applications," in Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference and International Quantum Electronics Conference , 12-16 May 2013.
• M. Alduraibi, M. Missous, P. Luke Sam, A. Tierno, S. Keatings and T.Ackemann. Optical and electrical properties of stacked binary InAs-GaAs quantum dot structures prepared under Surfactant-mediated growth conditions, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 245, pp. 12072, 2010.
• J. Bell, T. Schlegel, M. Alduraibi, M. A. Khan, T. P. Comyn, and J. Rodel, "Impedance Spectroscopy of Mn Doped BiFeO3PbTiO3 Ceramics", In (ISAF 06) International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics, Proceedings, North Carolina, USA, pp 128-131, 2006.