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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
33
Citations
4697
World Ranking
6059
National Ranking
2019

Overview

Ali Kemal Okyay is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work focuses extensively on semiconductor materials and devices, specifically addressing properties and applications related to ZnO doping, Ga2O3 and related materials, GaN-based semiconductor devices, and transition metal oxide nanomaterials.

The scientist's research spans multiple subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, and Polymers and Plastics.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ali Kemal Okyay include Saidjafarzoda Ilhom, Necmi Bıyıklı, Adnan Mohammad, Brian G. Willis, and Deepa Shukla, reflecting a network of research partnerships in related disciplines.

Publications by Okyay appear often in journals such as the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films and ECS Meeting Abstracts. Other notable venues for their work include ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, RSC Advances, and ACS Applied Electronic Materials.

Recent papers by Ali Kemal Okyay include:

  • Low-Temperature As-Grown Crystalline β-Ga2O3 Films via Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Elucidating the role of nitrogen plasma composition in the low-temperature self-limiting growth of indium nitride thin films, 2020, RSC Advances
  • Realization of Single Layer Microbolometer Detector Pixel Using ZnO Material, 2020, IEEE Sensors Journal
  • Reducing the β-Ga2O3 Epitaxy Temperature to 240 °C via Atomic Layer Plasma Processing, 2022, ACS Applied Electronic Materials
  • Real-time in situ process monitoring and characterization of GaN films grown on Si (100) by low-temperature hollow-cathode plasma-atomic layer deposition using trimethylgallium and N2/H2 plasma, 2021, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films

Best Publications

  • Nanometre-scale germanium photodetector enhanced by a near-infrared dipole antenna

    Liang Tang;Sukru Ekin Kocabas;Salman Latif;Ali K. Okyay

  • Ge-Interface Engineering With Ozone Oxidation for Low Interface-State Density

    D. Kuzum;T. Krishnamohan;A.J. Pethe;A.K. Okyay

  • Effective dark current suppression with asymmetric MSM photodetectors in Group IV semiconductors

    Chi On Chui;A.K. Okyay;K.C. Saraswat

  • A Heterojunction Design of Single Layer Hole Tunneling ZnO Passivation Wrapping around TiO2Nanowires for Superior Photocatalytic Performance

    Amir Ghobadi;T. Gamze Ulusoy;Ruslan Garifullin;Mustafa O. Guler

  • C-shaped nanoaperture-enhanced germanium photodetector

    Liang Tang;David A. B. Miller;Ali K. Okyay;Joseph A. Matteo

  • Plasmonic backcontact grating for P3HT:PCBM organic solar cells enabling strong optical absorption increased in all polarizations

    Mustafa Akin Sefunc;Ali Kemal Okyay;Hilmi Volkan Demir

  • Random sized plasmonic nanoantennas on Silicon for low-cost broad-band near-infrared photodetection

    Mohammad Amin Nazirzadeh;Fatih Bilge Atar;Berk Berkan Turgut;Ali Kemal Okyay

  • Plasmonically enhanced hot electron based photovoltaic device

    Fatih B. Atar;Enes Battal;Levent E. Aygun;Bihter Daglar

  • High-efficiency metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors on heteroepitaxially grown Ge on Si

    Ali K. Okyay;Ammar M. Nayfeh;Krishna C. Saraswat;Takao Yonehara

  • Effect of gold nanoparticles size on light scattering for thin film amorphous-silicon solar cells

    Kazi Islam;Aaesha Alnuaimi;Enes Battal;Ali Kemal Okyay

  • Ge–SiGe Quantum-Well Waveguide Photodetectors on Silicon for the Near-Infrared

    O. Fidaner;A.K. Okyay;J.E. Roth;R.K. Schaevitz

  • Experimental characterization of single-walled carbon nanotube film-Si Schottky contacts using metal-semiconductor-metal structures

    Ashkan Behnam;Jason L. Johnson;Yongho Choi;M. Günhan Ertosun

  • Surface engineered angstrom thick ZnO-sheathed TiO2 nanowires as photoanodes for performance enhanced dye-sensitized solar cells

    T. G. Ulusoy;A. Ghobadi;A. K. Okyay

  • High-Efficiency p-i-n Photodetectors on Selective-Area-Grown Ge for Monolithic Integration

    Hyun-Yong Yu;Shen Ren;Woo Shik Jung;A.K. Okyay

  • Thin film MoS₂ nanocrystal based ultraviolet photodetector.

    S. Alkis;T. Öztaş;L. E. Aygün;F. Bozkurt

  • Volumetric plasmonic resonator architecture for thin-film solar cells

    Mustafa Akin Sefunc;Ali Kemal Okyay;Hilmi Volkan Demir

  • All-Silicon Ultra-Broadband Infrared Light Absorbers

    Kazim Gorgulu;Abdullah Gok;Mehmet Yilmaz;Kagan Topalli

  • Silicon Germanium CMOS Optoelectronic Switching Device: Bringing Light to Latch

    A.K. Okyay;D. Kuzum;S. Latif;D.A.B. Miller

  • Thin-Film ZnO Charge-Trapping Memory Cell Grown in a Single ALD Step

    F. B. Oruc;F. Cimen;A. Rizk;M. Ghaffari

  • Effect of Au nano-particles on TiO2 nanorod electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells

    M. Ghaffari;M. B. Cosar;H. I. Yavuz;M. Ozenbas

Frequent Co-Authors

Necmi Biyikli
Necmi Biyikli University of Connecticut
Krishna C. Saraswat
Krishna C. Saraswat Stanford University
David A. B. Miller
David A. B. Miller Stanford University
Chi On Chui
Chi On Chui University of California, Los Angeles
Tayfun Akin
Tayfun Akin Middle East Technical University
Paul C. McIntyre
Paul C. McIntyre Stanford University
Mehmet Bayindir
Mehmet Bayindir Universität Hamburg
Mustafa O. Guler
Mustafa O. Guler University of Chicago
Duygu Kuzum
Duygu Kuzum University of California, San Diego
Tamer Uyar
Tamer Uyar Cornell University

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