Mazen Erfan Elsayed Elmaghawry Sayed Ahmed
Assistant Professor at Electronics Engineering and Electrical Communications
Career Information
Academic Information
Brief
Mazen Erfan received the B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. He was working as a teaching and research assistant at the Electronics and Communication Engineering department at the same university from 2012 to 2016. He obtained his PhD from Universite Paris-Est, ESIEE Paris, France in 2019. His research interests include Microsystems, Micro-Photonics, Optofluidics, Optical MEMS and Nanomaterials.
Awards
• Best PhD Business Thesis Prize 2020 among the Gustave Eiffel University awarded by Descartes Développement & Innovation (DD&I)).
• The 3rd place winner in the International Contest of InnovAtion (iCAN'18) took place in Hong Kong.
Books
1. Mazen Erfan, Yasser M. Sabry, Marwa Ragheb, and Diaa Khalil, “Optical Gas Sensing based on Miniaturized MEMS FTIR Spectrometers,” SPIE Spotlights Press Book, 2017.
Articles
1. Mazen Erfan, Martine Gnambodoe-Capochichi, Frédéric Marty, Yasser M. Sabry, Tarik Bourouina, Yamin Leprince-Wang, “Rapid Assessment of Nanomaterial Homogeneity Reveals Crosswise Structural Gradients in Zinc-Oxide Nanowire Arrays”, Nanoscale, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 1397-1405, 2020.
2. Alaa Fathy, Marie Le Pivert, Young Jai Kim, Mame Ousmane Ba, Mazen Erfan, Yasser M Sabry, Diaa Khalil, Yamin Leprince-Wang, Tarik Bourouina, Martine Gnambodoe-Capochichi, “Continuous Monitoring of Air Purification: A Study on Volatile Organic Compounds in a Gas Cell”, Sensors, vol. 20, no. 3, p. 934, 2020.
3. Mazen Erfan, Martine Gnambodoe-Capochichi, Yamin Leprince-Wang, Frédéric Marty, Yasser M. Sabry, Tarik Bourouina, “Nanowire Length, Density, and Crystalline Quality Retrieved from a Single Optical Spectrum”, Nano Lett., vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 2509-2515, 2019.
4. Noha Gaber, Yasser M. Sabry, Mazen Erfan, Frédéric Marty and Tarik Bourouina, “High-Q Fabry–Pérot Micro-Cavities for High-Sensitivity Volume Refractometry,” Micromachines, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 54, 2018.
5. Mazen Erfan, Yasser M. Sabry, Mohammad Sakr, Bassem Mortada, Mostafa Medhat and Diaa Khalil, “On-Chip Micro-Electro-Mechanical System Fourier Transform Infrared (MEMS FTIR) Spectrometer-Based Gas Sensing,” Appl. Spectrosc., vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 897-904, 2016.
6. Bassem Mortada, Mazen Erfan, Mostafa Medhat, Yasser M. Sabry, Bassam Saadany and Diaa Khalil, “Wideband Optical MEMS Interferometer Enabled by Multi-Mode Interference Waveguides,” J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 34, no. 9, pp. 2145-2151, 2016.
Publications
1. Mazen Erfan, Lan Gao, Martine Gnambodoe-Capochichi, Elyes Nefzaoui, Yasser M. Sabry, Diaa Khalil, Yamin Leprince-Wang, Tarik Bourouina, “Kinetics Study and Online Monitoring of in-situ Growth of Zinc-Oxide Nanowire Arrays within Microfluidic Chambers,” In 33rd IEEE MEMS Conference, pp. 1090-1093, 2020.
2. Mazen Erfan, Lan Gao, Marie Le Pivert, Martine Gnambodoe-Capochichi, Yasser M. Sabry, Diaa Khalil, Tarik Bourouina, Yamin Leprince-Wang, “Real-Time Optical Monitoring of Zinc-Oxide Nanowires in-situ Growth within a Microfluidic Chamber,” Presented at: Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems XVIII, Proc. SPIE, vol. 11235, p. 112350W, 2020.
3. Mazen Erfan, Martine Gnambodoe-Capochichi, Marie Le Pivert, Frédéric Marty, Yasser M Sabry, Tarik Bourouina and Yamin Leprince-Wang, “Zinc-oxide nanowires growth in-situ in microfluidic chamber,” Presented at: Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems XVII, Proc. SPIE, vol. 10875, p. 108750O, 2019.
4. Mazen Erfan, Martine Gnambodoe-Capochichi, Marie Le Pivert, Frédéric Marty, Yasser M Sabry, Yamin Leprince-Wang and Tarik Bourouina, “Zinc-oxide nanowires characterization using optical reflectance,” Presented at: Oxide-based Materials and Devices X, Proc. SPIE, vol. 10919, p. 1091922, 2019.
5. Martine Gnambodoe-Capo-Chichi, Alaa Fathy, Young Jai Kim, Mazen Erfan, Marie Le Pivert, Yasser M Sabry, Yamin Leprince-Wang and Tarik Bourouina, “Monitoring the purification of tobacco smoke in air assisted by ZnO nanowires and using MEMS-FTIR spectrometer for online continuous analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs),” Presented at: Optical Components and Materials XVI, Proc. SPIE, vol. 10914, p. 109141N, 2019.
6. Alaa Fathy, Yasser M. Sabry, Mariam Amr, Martine Gnambodoe-Capo-chichi, Momen Anwar, Amr O. Ghoname, Ahmed Amr, Ahmed Saeed, Mina Gad, Mohamed Al Haron, Mazen Erfan, Yamin Leprince-Wang, Bassam Saadany, Diaa Khalil and Tarik Bourouina, “MEMS FTIR optical spectrometer enables detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in part-per-billion (ppb) range for air quality monitoring,” Presented at: MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems XVIII, Proc. SPIE, vol. 10931, p. 1093109, 2019.
7. Islam Samir, Yasser M. Sabry, Mazen Erfan, Niveen Badra, and Diaa Khalil, “MEMS FTIR spectrometer with enhanced resolution for low cost gas sensing in the NIR,” Presented at: MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems XVII, Proc. SPIE, vol. 10545, p. 05450E, 2018.
8. Mohamed Kilany, Yasser M. Sabry, Mazen Erfan, Ahmed M. Othman, Sébastien Nazeer, and Diaa Khalil, “Optical MEMS notch filter based on the multi-mode interference in a butterfly metallic waveguide,” Presented at: MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems XVII, Proc. SPIE, vol. 10545, p. 105450L, 2018.
9. Mazen Erfan, Yasser Sabry, Frédéric Marty, Diaa Khalil, Yamin Leprince-Wang, and Tarik Bourouina, “Overcoming the Near-Infra-Red Spectral Range Limit with Fabry-Perot Silicon Microcavity Enabled by Slotted Micromirrors”, CLEO-PR 2017. (Nominated Best Poster Award).
10. Mazen Erfan, Martine Capochichi-Gnambodoe, Yamina Ghozlane Habba, Frédéric Marty, Yasser M. Sabry, Yamin Leprince-Wang and Tarik Bourouina, “Optical Analysis Method for Quality Control of Microfluidic Devices Based on Zinc-Oxide Nanowire Arrays”, Optofluidics 2017. (Nominated Best Poster Award).
11. Noha ali aboulela Gaber, Yasser Sabry, Mazen Erfan, Frédéric Marty, Tarik Bourouina, “Novel Design of Fabry–Pérot Cavities Achieving Superior Sensitivity for Volume Refractometry of Homogeneous Liquids”, Optofluidics 2017. (Nominated Best Student Paper Award).
12. Ahmed M. Othman, Mazen Erfan, Yasser M. Sabry, Sébastien Nazeer, Marwa Ragheb, and Diaa Khalil, “Compact Optical MEMS 1×N Beam-Splitter Based on Multi-Mode Interference for Optofluidic Applications”, Optofluidics 2017.
13. Abdelrahman A. Maher, Mazen Erfan, Yasser M. Sabry, and Diaa Khalil, “Multimode spot-size converter for optical MEMS applications”, 34th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC), pp. 425 - 432, 2017.
14. Mazen Erfan, Ahmed A. Elsayed, Yasser M. Sabry, Bassem Mortada, Khaled Sharaf, and Diaa Khalil, “Environmental mid-infrared gas sensing using MEMS FTIR spectrometer,” Presented at: MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems XVI, Proc. SPIE, vol. 10116, p. 101160L, 2017.
15. Mostafa Abdelsalam, Yasser M. Sabry, Mazen Erfan, and Diaa Khalil, “Multi-segment tapered optical mirror for MEMS LiDAR application,” Presented at: Free-Space Laser Communication and Atmospheric Propagation XXIX, Proc. SPIE, vol. 10096, p. 100960O, 2017.
16. Mazen Erfan, Yasser M. Sabry, Bassem Mortada, Khaled Sharaf, and Diaa Khalil, “Mid Infra-Red MEMS FTIR Spectrometer,” Presented at: MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems XV, Proc. SPIE, vol. 9760, p. 97600K, 2016.
17. Ahmed A. Elsayed, Mohammad Sakr, Mazen Erfan, Yasser M. Sabry, Diaa Khalil, “On the Environmental Gas Sensing Using MEMS FTIR Spectrometer in the Near-Infrared Region”, 33rd National Radio Science Conference (NRSC), pp. 348 -355, 2016.
18. D. Gaied, M. Khairy, M. Atef, A. Ahmed , M. Shadoufa, A. Hassanein, O. El-Aassar, M. Gamal, A. El-Sayed, A. Badawy, A. Adel, M. Erfan, N. Sinoussi and A. Helmy, “A CMOS LC-Based Frequency Reference with ±40ppm Stability from -40°C to 105°C,” IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS), Colorado-USA, April 2015.
Research Projects
2014-2016: MEMS IR gas sensor Module funded by RDI Programe, EU-Egypt Innovation fund (Senior MOEMS Design Engineer)