Ramin Banan Sadeghian

Research Associate

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Concordia University

1515 St. Catherine West, S-EV005.139

Montreal, Quebec H4G 2W1

(514) 848-2424 ext. 7077 (voice)

Electron mail: r_banan at ece dot concordia dot ca

Biosketch

Ramin Banan Sadeghian received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both in electronic engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, 1998) and K.N. Toosi University of Technology (Tehran, 2002), respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Concordia University (Montreal, 2007). During 1997–2000 he was with the Faragir-Fan Rayaneh Inc. as an Electronic Engineer, specializing in industrial automation and biomedical instrumentation. In 2000, he joined the R&D center of Iran Khodro Industrial Group where he worked on automotive electronics and vehicle security systems and contributed to the design of the first prevailing Iranian national automobile, Samand (codename X7). He is presently a Part-time Faculty Member and Research Associate at the Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, Concordia University. His research interests include fabrication and characterization of nanoscale electron devices, microsensors and SOI technology. Dr. Banan Sadeghian is a member of the Canadian Center for Biorecognition and Biosensors (CBB).

Course information

ELEC424-6241: VLSI Process Technology
ELEC321
ELEC421

Expertise

Electron Devices and Materials: Chemical Sensors based on Nanowire Arrays, Micro-plasmas and Micro-discharges, Bulk CMOS and SOI technologies, Innovative Semiconductor Materials and Devices, and Dielectrics.
Industrial Automation/Instrumentation: Microprocessor/Microcontroller-based Data Acquisition, Industrial PCs, Ultrasonic Proximity Detection and Biomedical Instrumentation.

Recent publications

Journal

R. Banan Sadeghian and M. Kahrizi, “A novel miniature gas ionization sensor based on freestanding gold nanowires,” Sensors and Actuators: A Physical, vol. 137, no. 2, pp. 248–255, 2007.
R. Banan Sadeghian and M. Kahrizi, “A Novel Gas Sensor Based on Tunneling-Field-Ionization on Whisker-Covered Gold Nanowires,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 161–169, 2008.
R. Banan Sadeghian, S. Badilescu, Y. Djaoued, S. Balaji, V-V. Truong and M. Kahrizi, “Ultra-low voltage Schottky barrier field enhanced electron emission from gold nanowires electrochemically grown in modified porous alumina templates,” IEEE Electron. Dev. Lett., vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 312–314, 2008.
S. Badilescu, A. Hajiaboli, N. Seirafianpour, R. Banan Sadeghian, M. Kahrizi, and V-V. Truong, “Study of the Structural Evolution within Polystyrene and Polystyrene-Gold Composite Colloidal Crystals by Atomic Force Microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 90, 023113, 2007.
Y. Djaoued, S. Badilescu, S. Balaji, N. Seirafianpour, A-R. Hajiaboli, R. Banan Sadeghian, K. Braedley, R.Brüning, M. Kahrizi and V-V. Truong, “A Micro-Raman Spectroscopy Study of Colloidal Crystal Films of Polystyrene-Gold Composites,” Appl. Spec., vol. 61, no. 11, pp. 1202–1210, 2007.
R. Banan Sadeghain, N. Chivu and M. Kahrizi, “Sub-torr Operation of a Miniature Gas Ionization Sensor Based on Gold Nanowires”, submitted to Sensors and Materials, in press, 2008.

Conference

R. Banan Sadeghian and M. Kahrizi, “A Low Voltage Gas Ionization Sensor based on Sparse Gold Nanorods,” The 6th IEEE Sensors Conf., Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2007, pp. 648–651. Selected as the 2nd best student paper.
R. Banan Sadeghian and M. Kahrizi, “Enhanced field-emission properties of electrochemically grown Au nanorods in porous AAO templates,” in Proc. 13th CSTC, Montréal, Aug. 2007, pp. 31–32.
R. Banan Sadeghian and M. Kahrizi, “Low voltage field-ionization using sparse gold nanorods,” in Proc. 13th CSTC, Montréal, Aug. 2007, pp. 193–194.
R. Banan Sadeghian and M. Kahrizi, “A Low Pressure Gas Ionization Sensor Using Freestanding Gold Nanowires,” in Proc. IEEE ISIE, Vigo, Spain, June 2007, pp. 1387–1390.
R. Banan Sadeghian and M. Kahrizi, “Finite-element Modeling of the Field-enhancement Phenomenon in Nanoscale Field emitters and Field-ionizers,” in Proc. COMSOL Multiphysics Conf., Boston, MA, Oct. 2005, pp. 251–254.
R. Banan Sadeghian, S. Fouladi and M. Kahrizi, “Fabrication Process and Electrothermal Simulation of an SOI-based Microhotplate,” in Proc. IEEE CCECE, Saskatoon, May 2005.
N. Azmoodeh, R. Banan Sadeghian, and M. Kahrizi, “Study of the Effect of Anodization Parameters on the Morphology of Anodic Aluminum Oxide Films,” in Proc. 13th CSTC, Montréal, Aug. 2007, pp. 215–216.
F. Fida, A.-R. Hajiaboli, R. Banan Sadeghian, Y. Djaoued, S. Badilescu, S. Balaji, M. Kahrizi and V-V. Truong, “Fabrication of Ordered Gold Nanostructures for Surface Plasmon Resonance-Based Sensor Applications,” in Proc. 13th CSTC, Montréal, Aug. 2007, pp. 89–90.
R. Banan Sadeghian and M. Kahrizi, “A Field Effect Gas Ionization Sensor based on Self-standing Nanowire Arrays,” presented in the Annu. Sci. Popularization Contest, Sherbrooke, March 2006.
R. Banan Sadeghian and M. Kahrizi, “Miniaturized Gas Ionization Sensor,” presented in the 5th CWMEMS Contest, Montréal, Aug. 2007.
F. Fida, R. Banan Sadeghian, A.-R. Hajiaboli, Y. Djaoued, S. Badilescu, S. Balaji, M. Kahrizi, and V-V. Truong, “Biosensing Based on Surface Plasmon Resonance of Gold Nanohole and Nanoring Arrays Fabricated by a Novel Nanosphere Lithography Technique”, BIOTECHNO 2008, Bucharest, Romania, June 29–July 5 2008, pp. 114–119. Won one of the six Best Paper awards.

Awards

Winner of The Doctoral Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, 2008.
Winner of The (2nd) Best Student Paper Award, at the 6th IEEE Sensors Conference, Atlanta GA, Oct 2007.
Winner of one of the six Best Paper awards, at the International Conference on Biocomputation, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Technologies, (BIOTECHNO 2008), Bucharest, Romania, June-July 2008.
Finalist of the Québec Salon National de la Recherche Universitaire contest, Sherbrooke QC, March 2006.
Teaching Fellowship at the Department of ECE, Concordia University, Winter 2005.
Concordia University Partial Tuition Scholarship for International Students, Fall 2004, Winter and Fall 2005.
Concordia University International Tuition Fee Remission Award, Summer 2005 and Winter–Summer 2006.

My legendary 1975 Toyota Celica	Some of my favorite links
	Toyota Celica Owners Page The World of Spectrum SINCLAIR Research SR-71, The Blackbird Clint Eastwood Survivor Crosby, Stills and Nash Creedence Clearwater Revival Family Guy and American Dad episodes Star Blazers

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