Integrated Silicon-Metal Systems at the Nanoscale

Munir Nayfeh is Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, USA, and President, NanoSi Advanced Technologies, Inc. He has previously worked at Yale and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and is the founder of both, Nano Silicon Solar, Inc and Parasat-NanoSi, LLC .His specialist areas are atomic, molecular, laser spectroscopy, and nanotechnology. Professor Ammar Nayfeh was born in Urbana IL in 1979. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in 2001 in electrical engineering and his master's degree in 2003 from Stanford University. Dr. Nayfeh earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2006. His research focused on heteroepitaxy of germanium on silicon for electronic and photonic devices. After his PhD, he joined Advanced Micro Devices as a researcher working in collaboration with IBM. After that he joined a silicon valley startup company, Innovative Silicon (ISi) in 2008. In addition, he was a part time professor at San Jose State University. In June 2010, he joined MIT as a visiting scholar and became a faculty member at the Masdar Institute currently Khalifa University. His research interest focuses on nanotechnology for future more efficient low power electronic and photonic devices. Professor Nayfeh is currently an associate professor in the Department Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Khalifa University. Professor Ammar Nayfeh has authored or co-authored over 100 publications, and holds three patents. He is a member of IEEE, MRS and Stanford Alumni Association. He has received the Material Research Society Graduate Student Award, the Robert C. Maclinche Scholarship at UIUC, and Stanford Graduate Fellowship.

• 1. Introduction to the metal-silicon binary system2. Experimental and theoretical characterization of nanostructures3. Synthesis of nano wires and nano particles using metal-assisted chemical etching4. Plasma-metal assisted etching of silicon5. CMOS compatibility of metal assisted etching6. Nanoparticle-assisted growth of nano wires7. Synthesis of metal-silicon core-shells via interaction of nanosilicon and metal salts8. Electrical and material characteristics of metal-silicon silicides9. Plasmons-polarizmon in metal-silicon system10. Diluted magnetic silicon11. Photonic and analytical sensing12. Nano-structured electrodes for energy applications13. Generation of hydrogen fuel by silicon / metal grain systems14. Silicide memory cells and transistors15. Quantum computing using superconducting artificial atoms at metal-silicon interface16. The Quantum Internet and hybrid quantum technology17. Properties and application potential of silicon