Publications by Type: Conference Proceedings

2021
Ferhati, Hichem, Fayçal Djeffal, and Adel Bendjerad. 2021. “Germanium – InGaZnO heterostructured thinfilm phototransistor with high IR photoresponse”. International Conference on SMACD and 16th Conference on PRIME. Publisher's Version Abstract

In this paper, the role of introducing Germanium (Ge)/IGZO heterostructure in enhancing the Infrared (IR) photodetection properties of thin-film phototransistor (Photo- TFT) is presented. Numerical models for the investigated device are developed using ATLAS device simulator. The influence of Ge photosensitive layer thickness on the sensor IR photoresponse is carried out. It is revealed that the optimized IR Photo-TFT based on p-Ge/IGZO heterojunction can offer improved IR responsivity of 4.1×10(exp2) A/W, and over 10(exp6) of sensitivity. These improvements are attributed to the role of the introduced p-Ge/IGZO heterostructure in promoting IR photodetection ability and improved separation and transfer mechanisms of photo-exited electron/hole pairs. The photosensor is then implemented in an optical inverter gate circuit in order to assess its switching capabilities. It is found that the proposed phototransistor shows an improved optical gain thus indicating its excellent performance. Therefore, providing high IR responsivity and low dark noise effects, the optimized Ge/IGZO IR Photo-TFT can be a potential alternative photosensor for designing optoelectronic systems with high-performance and ultralow power consumption.

Ferhati, Hichem, et al. 2021. “Performance assessment of a new low-cost RF sputtered Schottky diode based on a-Si/Ti structure”. International Conference on SMACD and 16th Conference on PRIME. Publisher's Version Abstract

In this paper, a new efficient and low-cost Schottky Diode (SD) based on a-Si/Ti structure was elaborated using RF magnetron sputtering technique. An exhaustive investigation of structural and electrical properties was performed, where the sputtered device was characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Keithley (4200-SCS) to measure the current-voltage characteristics. Moreover, a comprehensive study regarding the impact of the Ti layers on the device characteristics is carried out. It was demonstrated that implementing Ti intermediate layers could induce depletion regions at the interfaces, leading to significantly enlarged voltage barrier height. Furthermore, the elaborated SD exhibits a rectification behavior providing an appropriate current with a favorable ideality factor. This is mainly due to the reduced series resistance of the multilayer structure as confirmed by electrical analysis. Therefore, the proposed SD structure based on Ti intermediate layers provides improved performance and can open a new route for the fabrication of promising alternative devices for microelectronic and sensing applications.

2019
Touafek, N. 2019. “Effects of Carrier Mobility and defects on the Recombination Characteristic of P3HT:Graphene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cell”. 3ème congrès international sur les énergies renouvelables et le développement durable ERDD-2019. Publisher's Version
Touafek, N. 2019. “Impact of the secondary phase ZnS on CZTS performance solar cells”. 3ème congrès international sur les énergies renouvelables et le développement durable ERDD-2019. Publisher's Version
Hafdaoui, Hichem, and Djamel Benatia. 2019. “Dectection all types of acoustics microwaves in piezoelectric material (ZnO) by classification using support vector machines (SVM)”. International Conference on Electronics and Electrical Engineering- 12-13 November 2018, Bouira- ALGERIA. Publisher's Version Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new numerical method for acoustics microwaves detection of an acoustics microwaves signal during the propagation of acoustics microwaves in a piezoelectric substrate Zinc oxide (ZnO) . We have used Support Vector Machines (SVM) ,the originality of this method is the accurate values that provides .this technic help us to identify undetectable waves that we can not identify with the classical methods; in which we classify all the values of the real part and the imaginary part of the coefficient attenuation with the acoustic velocity in order to build a model from which we note the types of microwaves acoustics( bulk waves or surface waves or leaky waves) . By which we obtain accurate values for each of the coefficient attenuation and acoustic velocity. This study will be very interesting in modeling and realization of acoustics microwaves devices (ultrasound ,Radiating structures , Filter SAW ….) based on the propagation of acoustics microwaves.

Ahmed, Mahamdi. 2019. “Fast and Accurate Model to Determine the Resonant Characteristics of Elliptical Microstrip Patch Antenna”. International Conference on Advanced Systems and Electric Technologies (IC_ASET), Tunisie. Publisher's Version
Ahmed, Mahamdi. 2019. “Artificial Neural Network Model Analysis of Tunable Circular Microstrip Patch Antenna”. International Conference on Advanced Systems and Electric Technologies (IC_ASET), Tunisie. Publisher's Version
Brahim, Lakehal. 2019. “Optimization of ZnTe:O solar cell using genetic algorithms”. Proceedings - International Conference on Communications and Electrical Engineering, ICCEE 2018 . Publisher's Version
Souhil, Kouda. 2019. “ANN modeling of an industrial gas sensor behavior”. Proceedings - International Conference on Communications and Electrical Engineering, ICCEE 2018 . Publisher's Version
Brahim, Lakehal. 2019. “MDAC Design for an 8-bit 40 MS/s Pipelined ADC in a 0.18μm CMOS Process ”. Proceedings - International Conference on Communications and Electrical Engineering, ICCEE 2018 . Publisher's Version
Toufik, Bendib. 2019. “Numerical Study of Low Gain Avalanche Detector Performance”. Proceedings - International Conference on Communications and Electrical Engineering, ICCEE 2018 . Publisher's Version

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