Ahmed Shaker Ahmed Zaki Ghazala Profile

Ahmed Shaker Ahmed Zaki Ghazala

Professor at Engineering Physics and Mathematics

Career Information

Academic Information

Brief

Ahmed Shaker was born in Cairo, Egypt. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 2003 and 2010, respectively, from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He has been with the Engineering Physics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, since 1997, where he is currently a Professor. His fields of research include simulation and modeling of solar cells, 3D detectors, and nanoscale devices including TFETs and CNTFETs. Recently, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, USA, as a postdoctoral researcher where he is involved in solar cell and GaN-based LEDs fabrication and modeling.

Books

1. A. Zekry, A. Shaker, M. Salem, “Solar Cells and Arrays: Principles, Analysis, and Design,” Editor: Imene Yahyaoui, Advances in Renewable Energies and Power Technologies, Elsevier, 2018, Pages 3-56, ISBN 9780128129593.
2. M. Abouelatta, A. Shaker and C. Gontrand, “Smart Power Integration,” CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, submitted.

Articles

1. A. Shaker and A. Zekry, “Theoretical investigation of single- and dual-gate MITT nanometer transistors,” The 1st Egyptian Workshop on Advancements of Electronic Devices (EWAED), Sept. 2002, Cairo, Egypt.
2. A. Shaker and A. Zekry, “Theoretical investigation of single- and dual-gate metal insulator tunnel transistors,” IEEE 15th International Conference on Microelectronics 2003, ICM 03, Dec. 2003, Cairo, Egypt.
3. A. Shaker, A. Zekry, O. A. Omar and S. Gamal, “An Improved Power Diode Model Based on Finite Difference Method,” the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering (ICACTE 2009), Sept. 2009, Cairo, Egypt.
4. A. Shaker and A. Zekry, “A Modified PSPICE Model for the Power PIN Diode,” IEEE 22nd International Conference on Microelectronics 2010, ICM 10, Dec. 2010, Cairo, Egypt.
5. M. S. Salem, A. Shaker, M. Abouelatta and A. Zekry, “Effect of Base Width Variation on the Performance of a Proposed Ultraviolet Low Cost High Efficiency Solar Cell Structure,” IEEE 38th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas June 3-8, 2012.
6. M. S. Salem, A. Zekry, A. Shaker and M. Abouelatta, “Design and Simulation of Proposed Low Cost Solar Cell Structures Based on Heavily Doped Silicon Wafers,” IEEE 43th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2016.
7. A. Ellakany, A Shaker, M Abouelatta, I. M. Hafez and C Gontrand, “Modeling and simulation of a hybrid 3D silicon detector system using SILVACO and Simulink/MATLAB framework,” IEEE 28th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM), 2016, pp. 377-380.
8. O. Abdelraouf, A. Shaker, N. Allam, “Design of optimum back contact plasmonic nanostructures for enhancing light coupling in CZTS solar cells,” Photonics for Solar Energy Systems, VII 10688, 1068817, 2018.
9. O. Abdelraouf, A. Shaker, N. Allam, “Design methodology for selecting optimum plasmonic scattering nanostructures inside CZTS solar cells,” Photonics for Solar Energy Systems, VII 10688, 1068816, 2018.
10. O. Abdelraouf, A. Shaker, N. Allam, “Using all dielectric and plasmonic cross grating metasurface for enhancing efficiency of CZTS solar cells,” Nanophotonics. VII 10672, 106723R, 2018.
11. O. Abdelraouf, A. Shaker, N. Allam, “All dielectric and plasmonic cross-grating metasurface for efficient perovskite solar cells,” SPIE Photonic Europe 2018, France, 22 - 26 April 2018.
12. O. Abdelraouf, A. Shaker, N. Allam, “Enhancing light absorption inside CZTS solar cells using plasmonic and dielectric wire grating metasurface,” SPIE Photonic Europe 2018, France, 22 - 26 April 2018.
13. O. Abdelraouf, A. Shaker, N. Allam, “Plasmonic nanoscatter antireflective coating for efficient CZTS solar cells,” Photonics for Solar Energy Systems VII 10688, 1068815, 2018.
14. O. Saif, M Abouelatta, A Shaker, M. K. Elsaid, “On the optimization of InGaP/GaAs/InGaAs triple-junction solar cell,” IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering 446:012010, December 2018. DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/446/1/012010
15. M. Elnaggar, A. Shaker and M. Fedawy, “Modified Hetero-Gate-Dielectric TFET for Improved Analog and Digital Performance,” 13th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems (ICCES) Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 2018.
16. D. Khodair, A. Shaker, H. E. Abd El Munim, A. Saeed and M. Abouelatta, “A Comparative Study Between Modified MPPT Algorithms Using Different Types of Solar Cells,” In 2020 2nd International Conference on Smart Power & Internet Energy Systems (SPIES), IEEE, pp. 215-218, 2020.
17. Sh. Fouda, M. S. Salem, A. Saeed, A. Shaker and M. Abouelatta, “Thirteen-Level Modified Packed U-Cell Multilevel Inverter for Renewable-Energy Applications,” In 2020 2nd International Conference on Smart Power & Internet Energy Systems (SPIES), IEEE, pp. 431-435, 2020.
18. Y. Morgan, M. Abouelatta, M. El-Banna and A. Shaker, “Tapered-Shape Channel Engineering for Suppression of Ambipolar Current in TFET,” In 2020 IEEE 5th International Conference on Integrated Circuits and Microsystems (ICICM) (pp. 197-200). IEEE, October 2020.
19. A. Nabil, A. Shaker, M. Abouelatta, H. Ragai and C. Gontrand, “Tunneling FET Calibration Issues: Sentaurus vs. Silvaco TCAD,” In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1710, No. 1, p. 012003), IOP Publishing, November 2020.
20. H. A. Atia, A. Zekry and A. Shaker, “Solar Cell Modification for Large Area Motion Detection: Proof of Concept,” In 2020 8th International Japan-Africa Conference on Electronics, Communications, and Computations (JAC-ECC) (pp. 96-99), IEEE, December 2020.
21. M. Elgamal, M., Eliwy, A. Shaker, and M. Fedawy, “Suppressing Ambipolar Conduction in Silicon DGTFET: Comparing Gate-to-Drain Overlapping/Underlapping Structure,” In 2021 International Telecommunications Conference (ITC-Egypt) (pp. 1-5). IEEE, 2021.

Publications

1. Saif M. H. Qaid · Ahmed Shaker · Mohamed Okil · Muath Alkadi · Abdullah Ahmed Ali Ahmed, Walid Zein, " Optimizing CBTSSe solar cells for indoor applications through numerical simulation ", Optical and Quantum Electronics, 2023
2. Saif M.H. Qaid, Ahmed Shaker, K. Deepthi Jayan, Muath Alkadi, Abdullah Ahmed Ali Ahmed, Walid Zein, " Design and numerical simulation of B‑γ CsSnI3‑based perovskite solar cells: Conventional versus inverted configurations ", Solar Energy, 2024
3. Tarek I Alanazi, Walid Zein, Karim Azab, Ahmed Shaker, Mostafa M. Salah and Dalia Selim, " Investigation of HTL-free perovskite solar cell under LED illumination: interplay between energy bandgap and absorber optimization ", Physica Scripta, 2024

Research Projects

• Participating in JAMILA project Joint mAster of Mediterranean Initiatives on renewabLe and sustAinable energy Project Number: 544339-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-IT-TEMPUS-JPCR Grant Agreement Number 2013-4541/001-001
• Participating as a researcher in INFIERI project; INFIERI (intelligent fast interconnected and efficient devices for frontier exploitation in research and industry program), The U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, the Italian Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, the EU Community FP7-2012- ITN contract 317446
• Participating as a researcher in “Development of computer-aided simulation tool for solar cells” Project number: 43508006 (Umm Al Qura University, Saudi Arabia)
• Research Deanship of University of Ha’il - Saudi Arabia, project number RG-191279