Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

 Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,

Areas of Expertise and Experience: Colossal Magnetoresistivity, Electron Spin and Ferromagnetic Resonance,  Magnetic and Semiconductor  Materials, High Vacuum Thin Film Deposition Systems (CVD, PLD, MBE, DC-RF Sputtering, Ion Beam Assisted Deposition (IBAD), etc.), Thermoelectric materials, devices and Characterizations, Rutherford Backscattering (RBS), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Ion Implantation, DC plasma processing, Optical Absorption Spectroscopy, Growth of nanowires, Microelectronic device and Nano-bio sensor fabrication, Microprocessors.

. Budak, C. Smith, M. Pugh, K. Heidary, T. Colon, R.B. Johnson, D.ila, “MeV Si Ions Bombardment Effects on Thermoelectric Properties of Thermoelectric of SiO2/SiO2+Ge Nanolayers”, Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 81, 410-413 (2012).
7. S. Budak, J. Chacha, C. Smith, M. Pugh, K. Heidary, R. B. Johnson , D.ILA, “Effects of MeV Si ion bombardment on the thermoelectric generator from SiO2/SiO2 + Cu and SiO2/SiO2 +Au nanolayered multilayer films”,  Nuc. Instr. and Meth. B, 269, 3204–3208 (2011).
8. G. Utlu, N. Artunç, S. Budak, S.Tari; “Structural and electrical characterization of the nickel silicide films formed at 850 °C by rapid thermal annealing of the Ni/Si(100) films,” Applied Surface Science 256 , 5069–5075 (2010).
9. S. Budak, S. Guner, R. A. Minamisawa,  and   D. ILA; “ MeV Si ions bombardment effects on the thermoelectric properties of nano-layers of nanoclusters of Ag in SiO2 host,” Surface and Coating Technology,  203, 2479-2481 (2009).
Number of the authored or co-authored oral and poster presentations for last 5 years: about 140