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Prof. Yasser M. El Battawy

Program Director of Engineering Core

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Biography

Prof. Yasser El-Batawy received his B.Sc. in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, from Cairo University, in 1996, and his M.Sc. in Engineering Physics, from Cairo University, in 2000.  He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McMaster University, ON, Canada, 2005. His Ph.D. dissertation was on the Modeling of High-Speed Photodetectors. He received NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Scholarship as a Postdoctoral fellow in McGill University, QC, Canada, 2005-2006. Since 2006, he was an assistant professor and then an associate professor in Engineering Physics Dept., Cairo University. He got the promotion to Full Professor in Engineering Physics in May 2022. In 2013, he was a senior member in the technical office of the Egyptian Educational Development Fund (EDF). Since February 2018, he has been an associate professor in Engineering Physics at Nile University. He is the Director of the Engineering Core Program at Nile University.


He has great experience in teaching many undergraduate and graduate courses on different platforms. He has designed, taught and supervised many courses including (Engineering Physics courses, Electric Circuits, Electromagnetic Fields, Solid States Electronics, Optoelectronics and Photovoltaics) in many universities like Cairo University, Nile University, Egyptian E-Learning University (EELU), Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport and others. In addition, at Nile University, he has built a totally online platform besides the conventional platform for the Engineering Physics courses and he is supervising all the labs associated with these courses. 
Dr. Yasser has received Ontario Graduate Students Scholarship (OGS) three times through his Ph.D. study at McMaster University, Canada. Also, he received the Award of Supervision of Best M.Sc. thesis in Engineering at Cairo University in 2014. In 2020, Dr. Yasser received the Outstanding Teaching Award from Nile University. 

 

Achievements
  1. Prof. Yasser received the Supervision of Best Master Thesis in Cairo University for from Cairo University.
  2. He received the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)-Postdoctoral Fellow (NSERC-PDF) for Postdoctoral Fellowship from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
  3. He received the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) from the Province of Ontario.
  4. He received the NU Outstanding Teaching Award from Nile University.
Recent Publications

Stochastic modeling of 2D photonic crystals

Due to the fabrication processes, inaccurate manufacturing of the photonic crystals (PCs) might occur which affect their performance. In this paper, we examine the effects of tolerance variations of the radii of the rods and the permittivity of the material of the two-dimensional PCs on their performance. The presented stochastic analysis relies on plane wave expansion method and Mote Carlo

Energy and Water
Circuit Theory and Applications
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness

Stochastic modeling of mushroom—waveguide photodetectors

Waveguide photodetectors (WGPDs) are one of the promising candidates to solve the tradeoff between the quantum efficiency and the transit time in the surface illuminated photodiodes where the lightwave is incident laterally perpendicular to the direction of the flow of generated carriers, enhancing both high speed and quantum efficiency. In Mushroom-WGPDs, the performance degradation due its

Circuit Theory and Applications
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness

Modeling and characterization of carrier mobility for truncated conical quantum dot infrared photodetectors

In the present paper, a theoretical model for calculating the carrier mobility which is a result of the existence of a truncated conical quantum dots of n-type quantum dot infrared photodetectors (QDIPs) is developed. This model is built on solving Boltzmann’s transport equation that is a complex integro-differential equation describing the carrier transport. The time-domain finite-difference

Circuit Theory and Applications

A Stochastic Modeling of the Gain in Waveguide Avalanche Photodetectors (WG-APDs)

Waveguide photodetectors are considered as a promising candidate for high speed photodetection where the tradeoff between the transit time bandwidth and the quantum efficiency is overcome as the incident optical signal and the photogenerated carriers move in perpendicular directions. In WG-Avalanche Photodetectors (WG-APDs), the avalanche multiplication gain enhances the photocurrent of the

Circuit Theory and Applications
Software and Communications

Modeling of carrier mobility for semispherical quantum dot infrared photodetectors (QDIPs)

Carrier mobility for quantum dot infrared photodetectors is considered as one of the critical parameters to determine many important device’s performance parameters such as the electrical conductivity, drift velocity, dark current and photocurrent. In this paper a complete theoretical model of the carrier mobility for semispherical quantum dot structures is developed. This model is based on the

Circuit Theory and Applications

Enhancing CSP using Spot Fresnel Lens and SiC Coating

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) systems have a good potential as a renewable energy candidate that are based on converting the incident solar thermal energy to an electrical energy. In this paper, CSP using spot Fresnel lens instead of traditional lenses is presented to enhance the efficiency of the system, where Silicon Carbide (SiC) is used as a coating material for the receiver of the system due

Circuit Theory and Applications

Stochastic analysis for one dimensional photonic crystals

Tolerance variations of the design parameters of the photonic crystals due to fabrication processes have a strong effect on the performance of the photonic crystals and their operating wavelengths. In this work, the uncertainties of the design parameters of one-dimensional photonic crystals (1D-PCs) and their impacts on the PCs optical properties and the operating performance are investigated. The

Circuit Theory and Applications

J-V characteristics of plasmonic photovoltaics with embedded conical and cylindrical metallic nanoparticles

Plasmonic photovoltaics (PVs) are promising structures that improve thin-film photovoltaics performance, where optical absorption is improved via embedding metallic nanoparticles in the PV's active layer to trap the incident optical wave into the photovoltaic cell. The presented work investigates the design of PV with both structures of conical and cylindrical metallic nanoparticles through

Healthcare
Energy and Water
Circuit Theory and Applications

Conical and cylindrical metallic nanoparticles design for plasmonic photovoltaics enhancement

Plasmonic Photovoltaics are considered as a promising candidate for enhancing the optical absorption by embedding metallic nanoparticles that confine the incident light in the cell. This results in thin-film PVs with improved efficiency. In this paper, the effects of embedding both conical and cylindrical metal nanoparticles in plasmonic PVs are investigated. The extinction cross sections for

Circuit Theory and Applications
Research Tracks
  • Optoelectronics
  • High-Speed Photodetectors
  • Quantum Dot InfraRed Photodetectors
  • Plasmonic Photovoltaics 
  • Stochastic Modeling of Photonic Devices
Projects
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Research Project

Plasmonic Sensors for Biomedical and Infra-Red Detection Application

Objective/Contributions: The project aims at proposing a new Infra-Red sensor design by employing a plasmonic effect. Plasmonic devices have great potential for biomedical applications due to the sensitivity of the localized surface plasmon resonance to the surrounding medium. Therefore, proposed metasurface sensors are tuned for Biomedical applications as medical diagnostic tools. Enhancing
Research Project

Terahertz Metamaterial Structures for Biomedical Sensing Applications

A new design of interdigitated E-shaped metamaterial sensor has been proposed. The structure has been intensively studied using CST software and is optimized to achieve ultrahigh sensitivity at the Terahertz range. Two different structures of the E-shaped sensors have been proposed. Both structures are characterized by a high absorption level at their resonant peaks with an ultra-high sensitivity