Mehdi Fardmanesh, Ph.D.

 Director of Superconductor Electronics Research Laboratory
School of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Tel:     Off. (+98-21) 66165920,
           Lab. (+98-21) 66165989
         Secrt. (+98-21) 66165902

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Personal Web:   http://ee.sharif.edu/~fardmanesh
Lab Web:            http://serl.sharif.edu


 Biography

Research Interests

Patents

Book Chapter

Journal Publications

Selected Proceedings

Conference Contributions

Selected Invited Talks

Main Subjects of the Courses Taught

Student Supervisions

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Biography


Mehdi Fardmanesh received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Amirkabir (Tehran Polytechnic) University, Tehran, Iran, in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, in 1991, and 1993 (degree awarded in 1994), respectively. Until 1993, he conducted research on development of thin- and thick-film high-temperature superconducting materials, devices, and development of ultralow-noise cryogenic characterization systems at Drexel University, where he also taught electronics circuits. From 1994 to 1996, he was the Principal Manager for research and development and the Director of a private-sector research electrophysics laboratory while also teaching in the EE and Physics departments of Sharif University of Technology, in Tehran. In 1996, he joined the EEE Department of Bilkent University, in Ankara, Turkey, teaching in the areas of solid state and electronics while also supervising his established Superconductivity Research Laboratory at Bilkent. In 1998 and 1999, he was invited to ISI-Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany, where he pursued the development of low-noise high-Tc radio frequency superconducting-quantum-interference-device (SQUID)-based magnetic sensors. Following establishing an international collaboration between Bilkent University and Juelich Research Center in Germany, from 2000 to 2004, he was the director of the joint project for the development of high-resolution high-Tc SQUID-based magnetic imaging system (SQUID microscope) for biomedical applications. In 2000, he reestablished his activities with the EE Department of Sharif University, where he is a tenured professor and head of the superconductor electronics Research Laboratory (SERL), which he established in 2003 and he has directed since then.
His research interests have been focused on the design, fabrication, and modeling of superconductive, semiconducting, and 2D materials based devices and circuits, in the areas of IR-radiation sensors, bolometers, THz detectors and absorbers, microwave devices, Josephson junctions, RSFQ circuits, and SQUID-based systems such as NonDistructive Evaluation (NDE) and Magneto-Cardiography (MCG). In addition to the research interests in above, he has also been pursuing research in the field of bioelectronics such as works on design and fabrication of micro fluidic chips, "Design of Self Powered Artificial Retina", "design and development of MicroElectrodeArrays (MEA)", and "DNA conductivity characterization and analysis" in addition to Bio-thermal and THz imaging using superconductive boloemeters, 2D material based biosensors and biodevices. He has more than 100 international conference contributions and is the holder of several international patents in the areas mentioned, and teaches courses in the field of Solid state Physics, and Electronic Devices, Biosensors as well as Electronics and Bioelectronic Circuits.

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Main Research Expertise


Principles, fabrication and applications of semiconductor and high temperature superconductive electronic devices and Circuits [infrared and THz detectors, rf-SQUID and dc-SQUID magnetometers and gradiometers, Josephson Junction Arrays, RSFQ logic, flux-Gates and proton precession magnetic sensors, Transformers and microwave resonators], Micro fluidic chips, and 2D materials based devices such as TFETs,Ultra-low noise circuitry and cryogenic systems, vacuum technology, Thin-film fabrication [MOD, Sputtering, PLD], Bioelectronics & Biosensors, hybrid circuits and microelectronics.

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Patents

  1. "Asymmetric Step-Edge Junction rf-SQUID Design." Germany DE 101 53 705 B4, (Juelich#PT 0.2064-11.10.2000), EP 04 93 258 A2, JP 11-0 40 868. M. Fardmanesh, Juergen Schubert, Marko Banzet.

  2. "Combinatorial Ion Beam Etching Process for Step-Edge Junction SQUIDs", Germany, DE 199 54 167 A1 (H01L39/24). (Juelich#PT 0.1958-27.09.2000), M. Fardmanesh, Juergen Schubert, Marko Banzet.

  3. "Low Noise High-Tc rf-SQUID Bi-Junction Magnetometers & Multi-Junction Gradiometers on Bi-Crystal Substrates," Germany, # DE 199 02 580 A (G01R33/035) (Juelich#PT 0.1850-11.01.1999). Also USA & European patents. Mehdi Fardmanesh, Juergen Schubert, Knut Bartel.


  4. "Wedged Substrate rf-SQUID based Single and Multi Channel SQUID Microscope." Germany, # DE 101 58 096 B4 (Juelich#PT 0.2132-17.07.2001). US 61 18 284 A, US 58 94 220A. Extended USA, Japan, & European patents. M. Fardmanesh, J. Schubert, M. Banzet.

  5. "Self-shielded multi-layer thin film SQUID gradiometer and magnetometer transformers", DE 103 52c 856 A1 2005.6.9, US 63 23 654 B1 .Also in progress for European patents.(Juelich#PT 0.2317 st). M. Fardmanesh, R. Akram, J. Schubert, M. Banzet.

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Book Chapter


    Chapter:
    "Response analysis and modeling of high temperature superconductor edge transition bolometers,"
    In:
    "High Temperature superconductivity 2: Engineering Applications," Edited by Anant Narlikar, pp. 477-536, Springer Verlag, 2004. (ISBN 3-540-40639-5)
    M. Fardmanesh

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Selected Invited Talks

  1. "High-Tc superconductive Bolometer and JJ response investigation for THz detection applications," Forschungszentrum, Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI-8), Jülich, Germany, Sept. 11th, 2015.


  2. "High-Tc Superconductive Bolometric & JJ based detectors and SQUIDs," Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Innsbruck, Austria, September 2nd, 2015.


  3. "Advances in Applied Superconductivity and Research Work at SERL," Center of Excellence for Superconductivity Research, Gölbashi, Ankara, Turkey, July 2013.


  4. "Detectivity Optimization of Free Standing Micro Machined Membrane Type Superconductor Bolometers," EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2011.


  5. "SQUID based magnetic system development for NDE and MCG applications," University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France, September 2011.


  6. "DETECTIVITY OPTIMIZATION OF FREE STANDING MICRO MACHINED MEMBRANE TYPE SUPERCONDUCTOR BOLOMETERS," Aachen, Germany, September 2011.


  7. "Fabrication and Characterization of YBCO Thin Films by Fluorine-Free Metal-Organic Deposition," Institute for Research in Fundamental Science (IPM), Tehran, Iran, August 2011.


  8. "Detectivity Optimization of HTS Bolometers," Izmir University of technology, Izmir, Turkey, July 5, 2011.


  9. "Supercondcutivity in the modern technology," Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, May 25, 2008.


  10. "High-Tc rf-SQUID Applications and Developments," Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey, May, 2003.


  11. "Junction Characteristics and Magnetic Field Dependencies of Y-Ba-Cu-O Step-Edge and Bi-crystal Grain Boundary Junctions based rf-SQUIDs," Institut für Schichten und Grenzflächen, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, August 2002.


  12. "Application and System Integration of rf-SQUIDs," IEEE Branch-Tehran, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, November 2001.


  13. "Fabrication and Systems Integration of Low 1/f Noise High-Tc rf-SQUID Magnetometers and Gradiometers," Physical Society of Turkey, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, November 16, 2000.


  14. "1/f noise in YBCO rf-SQIUD Magnetometers and Gradiometers; film and junction effects," Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dept., Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, July 3, 2000.


  15. "Film and Step-Edge Structure Dependence of the 1/f noise in YBCO SEJ rf-SQUIDs," Institut für Angewandte Physik und Zentrum für Mikrostrukturforschung, Universitat Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, November 25, 1999.


  16. "Effect of the Step-Edge Structure and the Film on the 1/f Noise in YBCO SEJ rf-SQUIDs Magnetometers and Gradiometers," Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London, UK, October, 1999.


  17. "Film and Step-Edge Structure Dependence of the 1/f noise in YBCO SEJ rf-SQUID Magnetometers and Gradiometers," IRC, Cambridge, UK, October, 1999.


  18. "1/f noise in YBCO rf-SQIUD Magnetometers and Gradiometers," School of Physics & Astronomy, the university of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK, October 1999.


  19. "1/f noise in YBCO rf-SQIUD Magnetometers and Gradiometers; film and junction effects," Institut für Schicht - und Ionentechnik, ISI-SL, Forschungszentrum, Juelich, Germany, September, 1999.


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Main Subjects of the Courses Taught

    Advanced Solid State Physics
    Solid state devices
    Biosensors
    Bioelectronics
    Radiation detectors
    Applied Superconductivity
    Superconductive devices and circuits
    Circuit theory and Analog circuits
    Electronic circuits (fundamental and advanced)
    Digital electronics
    Principles of Electrical Engineering


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Student Supervisions

    Supervising and graduating more than ten PhDs, and more than 40 MS plus 10s of BS students.


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