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Zafer Mutlu
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Zafer Mutlu

  • Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Zafer Mutlu is an assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona. He conducted his postdoctoral research in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2018 to 2022. He received his Ph.D.  in  Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Riverside, in 2016. His research interests include design, synthesis, characterization, engineering, electronic device applications, and large-scale, system-level integration of nanoscale and quantum materials, including 0D molecular systems, 1D molecular wires, graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and heterojunctions, and carbon nanotubes (CNTs), 2D layered materials and heterostructures, and other quantum materials.

Degrees

  • PhD: Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, 2016
  • MS: Physics, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey, 2009

Work Experience

  • 2022—present: Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona
  • 2018—2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
  • 2018—2022: Research Affiliate, Molecular Foundry, DoE Nanoscale Science Research Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • 2017—2018: Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Riverside
  • 2016—2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside

Interests

Research Interests

Nanotechnology, nanoelectronics, nanoscience, beyond CMOS, transistors, high-performance logics, quantum information technologies, quantum sensing, quantum devices, and nano-/quantum materials, including 0D molecular systems, 1D molecular wires, graphene nanoribbons/heterojunctions and CNTs, and 2D layered materials/heterostructures

Teaching Interests

Semiconductor materials and processing, micro/nano device fabrication, and fundamentals of materials science and engineering

Scholarship

>40 refereed publications, >2 patents and patent applications

Courses

Semiconductor Processing

ECE 446 (Spring 2023)
ECE 546 (Spring 2023)
MSE 446 (Spring 2023)
MSE 546 (Spring 2023)

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