Sherif Sedky was born in Cairo (Egypt) in 1969. He received the BSc degree, with honors, in electronics engineering in 1992 from Cairo University. In 1993 he received a diploma from Cairo University in Engineering Physics which is equivalent to a bachelor in Science, Major Physics. In 1995 he received a master degree in Engineering Physics from Cairo University. Then he joined the MEMS group of the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) in Leuven (Belgium), where he received a second master degree in 1996, and the PhD degree in 1998 both from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. In 1999 he joined the faculty of Cairo University as an Assistant Professor. In spring 2002 he has been invited as a visiting professor at the University of California Berkeley. Then in Fall 2002 he has been appointed as Assistant Professor at The American University in Cairo, where he has been promoted to Associate Professor in 2004 and Full Professor in 2008. During the summers of 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 he was invited as a visiting professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. In summer 2009 he was invited as a visiting professor at Stanford University.
Dr. Sedky is the recipient of the 2007 Excellence in research and creative endeavors award granted by The American University in Cairo, the Egyptian prestigious national award in advanced technological sciences, offered by the Academy of National Research in 2002, and the graduate studies award from Cairo University in 1996. The biography of Dr. Sedky is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World.
Dr. Sedky holds six patents dealing with introducing new techniques for controlling the physical properties of thin films by either alloying different materials together or by localized thermal treatments using short laser pulses. Furthermore, Dr. Sedky invented new miniaturized devices that can convert physical phenomena such as infrared radiation, linear acceleration, angular velocity, temperature into electrical signals. Dr. Sedky authored and coauthored more than sixty scientific articles published in highly ranked international journals and conferences. In addition, Dr. Sedky is the author of a book titled: “Post-processing techniques for integrated MEMS” published by Artec House in 2006. This book deals with the different techniques for merging microelectromechanical systems with their driving and control circuits. Dr. Sedky authored a book chapter in the Handbook of Computer Vision and Applications published by Academic Press in 1999.
Dr. Sedky is a member in the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and the materials research society. He served on the scientific committees of several international conferences.
Recent Publications
Patents:
Title: Method of Fabrication of Infra Red Radiation Detectors and more Practically Infrared Sensitive Bolometers
Authors: P. Fiorini, S. Sedky, M. Caymax and C. Baert
Pat. No.: EP 086 77 02 March, 3, 2003 (Granted in GB, FR, BE)
Pat. No.: US Patent #: 6,884,636, April 26, 2005 (Granted)
Pat. No. EP 126 30 56 (Pending)
Pat. No. JP 04 08 24 1999 (Pending)
Pat. No. US 0586 1334 (Pending)
Title: Method of Fabrication of Infra Red Radiation Detectors and Infrared Detector Device
Authors: P. Fiorini, S. Sedky, M. Caymax and C. Baert
Pat. No.: US Patent #: 6,274, 462, August 14, 2001
Title: Method of controlling stress in polycrystalline SiGe layer deposited on a substrate.
Authors: P. Fiorini, S. Sedky, M. Caymax and C. Baert
Pat. No.: EP 1263056, December 4, 2002
Title: Method for depositing polycrystalline SiGe suitable for micromachining
Authors: Sherif Sedky, Ann Witvrouw, Kris Baert, Matty Caymax, and Cristina Rusu
Pat. No.: EP 1269 526 B1, August 19, 2009 (Granted)
Pat. No. US 7176111B2, February 13, 2007 (granted)
Title: Method of manufacturing a thermoelectric generator and thermoelectric generator this obtained.
Inventors: Vladimir Leonov, Paolo Fiorini, Sherif Sedky, Chris Van Hoof and Kris Baert.
Pat. No.: European Patent # EP 16 12 870 A1, January 4, 2006
Title: Method for forming silicon-germanium layers at low temperatures, layers formed therewith and structures comprising such layers
Inventors: Sherif Sedky and Ann Witvrouw
Pat. No. European Patent # EP 1 801 067 A2, June 27, 2007
Title: Method for forming silicon-germanium layers at low temperatures, layers formed therewith and structures comprising such layers
Inventors: Sherif Sedky and Ann Witvrouw
Pat. No. US 2010 0032812 A1, February 11
Title: Novel MEMS Dipole/Monopole Antenna for Wireless Systems operating at 77 GHz
Inventors: Ezzeldin Soliman, Sherif Sedky and Mai sallam
Pat. No. US patent application # 6 1/287,876 December 16, 2009
Title: Novel Architecture for High Performance Inertial Grade MEMS Gyroscopes and Accelerometers
Inventors: Ahmed A. Aziz, Abdel Hameed Sharaf, and Sherif Sedky
Application No. US patent application # 61/81, 565 May 10, 2009
Books:
Title: Post-Processing Techniques for Integrated MEMS
Author: Sherif Sedky
Publisher: Artech House Inc, of Norwood, MA, USA, November 2005.
ISBN: 1580539017
International Journal Contributions:
1. Abdel Hamid Sharaf, Amro El Shurafa, Sherif Sedky and Serag El Din Habib, "Modeling and simulation of the Coriolis Effect and the quality factor in MEMS gyroscopes" submitted for review to the Journal of finite element modeling, published by Elsevier.
2. Ahmed Abdel Aziz, Mohannad Elsayed, Hassan Abu Bakr, Joumana El-Rifai, Tom Van der Donck, Jean-Pierre Celis, Vladimir Leonov, Paolo Fiorini and Sherif Sedky, “Pulsed Laser Deposition of Bismuth telluride thin films for MEMS thermoelectric Energy Harvesters”, Journal of Electronic Materials, DOI: 10.1007/S11664-009-1047-1, January 2010.
3. Ahmed Ibrahim, Hanadi Salem, and Sherif Sedky, “Excimer laser Surface Treatment of Plasma Sprayed Al2O3+13wt.% TiO2 Coatings”, Journal of Surface and Coating Technology, Vol. 203, August 2009, pp. 3579-3589.
4. Koen De Munck, Jan Bogaerts, Deniz S. Tezcan, Piet De Moor, Sherif Sedky and Chris Van Hoof, “Backside thinned CMOS imagers with high broadband quantum efficiency realized using a new integration process”, Electronics Letters, vol. 44, n 1, 2008, p 50-52. Times Cited: 1.
5. Sherif Sedky, “SiGe: An Attractive Material for Post-CMOS Processing of MEMS”, Journal of Microelectronic Engineering Vol. 84, pp. 2491-2500, November, 2007. Times Cited: 1.
6. Sherif Sedky, Ahmed Bayoumy, Ahmed Alaa, Ahmed Nagy, and Ann Witvrouw, “Optimal Conditions for Micromachining Si1-xGex at 210C”, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 16, No. 3, June 2007, pp. 581-588. Times Cited: 4.
7. Sherif Sedky, Maria Gromova, Tom Van der Donck, Jean-Pierre Celis and Ann Witvrouw, “Characterization of KrF Excimer Laser Annealed PECVD SixGe1-x for MEMS Post-Processing”, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Vol. 127, No. 2, pp. 316-323, March 2006. Times Cited: 8.
International Conferences:
1. E. A. Soliman*, S. Hassan, O. El Katteb, M. O. Sallam, M. Serry, and S. Sedky "77-GHz MEMS Brick-Wall Antenna Fed by Coupled Microstrip Lines”, The 2010 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and 2010 USNC/CNC/URSI Meeting in Toronto, ON, Canada, on July 11-17, 2010.
2. A. Shamim, K. Salama, E. Soliman and S. Sedky, “On-chip Antenna: Design and Characterization Considerations”, 14th International Symposium on Antennas and Electromagnetics and The American Electromagnetics Conference July 5–9, 2010 Ottawa, ON, CANADA
3. E. A. Soliman, S. Sedky, M. O. Sallam, S. Hassan, O. El Katteb and A. K. S. Abdel Aziz, and Mohamed Refaat, “Novel MEMS Dipole/Monopole Antenna for Wireless Systems Operating at 77 GHz”, PIERS 2010 in Cambridge.
4. M. Serry, E. Abdel Rahman and S. Sedky, “MEMS Environmentally-Friendly Power Generation Based On Thermoacoustic Heat Engine,” 2009 Mid-Atlantic MEMS Alliance Symposium, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA, November 30, 2009. (abstract)
5. M. Serry, E. Abdel Rahman and S. Sedky, “A Novel MEMS Based Thermoacoustic Heat Engine For Micro-Power Generation,” MicroTech Conference & Expo 2010, Anaheim, California, USA, June 21-25, 2010
6. Joumana El-Rifai, Ann Witvrouw, Ahmed Abdel Aziz, Robert Puers, Chris Van Hoof and Sherif Sedky, “Selective Laser Annealing for Improved SiGe MEMS Structural Layers at 210˚C”, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems – MEMS 2010, January 24-28, 2010.
7. M. Serry, A. Abdel Aziz, E. Abdel Rahman and S. Sedky, “A New Approach for MEMS Power Generation Based on Thermoacoustic Heat Engine,” The 9th International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS 2009), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, December 1-4, 2009
8. Joumana El-Rifai, Ann Witvrouw, Ahmed Abdel Aziz, Bob Puers, Chris Van Hoof and Sherif Sedky, "Harsh laser annealing techniques for improved crystallization of a-Si(Ge) layers deposited at 210C," SAFE Proc., pp. 63-66, November 2009.
9. Ahmed Abdel Aziz, Abdel-Hameed Sharaf and Sherif Sedky, “Novel Architecture for Inertial Grade SOI MEMS Inertial Sensors”, 2009 IEEE International SOI conference, Santa Clara, USA, October 2009 (abstract).
10. Ahmed Abdel Aziz, Mohannad Elsayed,Hassan Abu Bakr, Joumana El-Rifai, Tom Van der Donck, Jean-Pierre Celis, Vladimir Leonov, Paolo Fiorini and Sherif Sedky, “Pulsed Laser Deposition of Bismuth telluride thin films for MEMS thermoelectric Energy Harvesters” 28th International Conference on Thermoelectrics (ICT) and 7th European Conference on Thermoelectrics (ECT), Freiburg, Germany, July 26-30, 2009.
11. Sherif Sedky, Ahmed Kamal, Hasan Bakr, Rami Ghannam, Vladimir Leonov and Paolo Fiorini, “Bi2Te3 as an Active Material for MEMS Based Devices Fabricated at Room Temperature”, International Conference on Solid State Transducers (Transducers’09), pp. 1035-1038, June 21-25, 2009.
12. J. El-Rifai, S. Sedky, R. Wasfi, C. Van Hoof, A. Witvrouw, “Laser-induced Crystallization of SiGe MEMS Structural Layers Deposited at Temperatures Below 250oC”, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Vol. 1153, pp. A19-03, 2009.
13. Ahmed Kamal, Hassan Abu Bakr, Ziyang Wang, H. El Samman, Paolo Fiorini, and Sherif Sedky, “Characterization of (Bi0.25sb0.75)2te3 Deposited by Pulsed Laser Deposition”, 2nd International Conference on Multifunctional Nanocomposites & Nanomaterials, pp. 33-38, Janury 11-13, 2008.
14. Abdelhameed Sharaf, Sherif Sedky, Mahmoud A. Ashour, Serag E.-D. Habib, “MEMS-Based Gyroscope: Design, Analysis and Simulation”, 2nd International Conference on Multifunctional Nanocomposites & Nanomaterials, pp. 27-31, Janury 11-13, 2008.
15. Medhat Haroun, and Sherif Sedky, “Application of Nanotechnology in Construction Engineering”, The sixth International Conference of Construction Engineering, Alexandria, April 15-18, 2007.
16. Koen De Munk, Deniz Tezcan, Tom Borgers, Wouter Ruythooren, Piet De Moor, Sherif Sedky, Cinzia Toccafondi, Jan Bogaerts, and Chris Van Hoof, “High performance hybrid and monolithic backside thinned CMOS imagers realized using integrated process”, International Electronics Device Meeting (IEDM), pp. 1-4, December 2006.
17. Abdel Hamid Sharaf, Sherif Sedky, and Serag E. D. Habib, “Complete analysis of a novel fully symmetric decoupled micromachined gyroscope”, The 2006 International Conference on MEMS, Nano and smart systems, pp. 35-40, December 2006. Times Cited: 1.
18. Abdelhameed Sharaf, Sherif Sedky, and Serag E.-D Habib, “Design and Simulation of a New Decoupled Micromachined Gyroscope”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 34 (2006) pp. 464-469. Times Cited: 2.
19. Sherif Sedky, Ibrahim El Deftar, and Omar Mortagy, “Pulsed Laser Deposition of Boron Doped Si70Ge30”, Materials Research Society Meeting, Spring 2006, Vol. 901, Amorphous and Polycrystalline Thin-Film Silicon Science and Technology - 2006, 2007, p 273-278.
20. Sherif Sedky, Omar Mortagy and Ann Witvrouw, “Low Thermal Budget Techniques for controling stress in Si1-xGex Deposited at 210C”, Materials Research Society symposium proceedings, Vol. 901, Amorphous and Polycrystalline Thin-Film Silicon Science and Technology - 2006, 2007, p 565-570
21. V. Leonov, P. Fiorini, S. Sedky, T. Torfs and C. Van Hoof, “Thermoelectric MEMS Generators as a Power Supply for a Body Area Network”, The 13th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, COEX, Seoul, Korea, June 5-9, 2005, pp. 291-294. Times Cited: 23.
22. Sherif Sedky and Ann Witvrouw, “Micromachining of Pulses Laser Annealed PECVD SixGe1-x Deposited at Temperatures 370C”, The 18th IEEE Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, MEMS 2005, Miami, Florida, USA, pp. 487-490. Times Cited: 3.
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