Contact
Room 435
P.O.Box: 11155-9161
Tel: +98 21 6616 4517
Fax: +98 21 6602 2711
E-Mail: mahdavi@sharif.edu mahdavi@sharif.edu
Personal Page: http://sina.sharif.edu/~mahdavi

 

Research Interests

Optical properties of nanoparticles and nanostructures, work on gasochromic materials, gas sensors, photo detectors, work on multiferoic materials, random lasers.

 

Research Plan

Our group is studying on different materials which potentially can be used to make some devices such as gas sensors, photo detectors, spintronic devices and multiple state memory elements. We also recently have started to study the Zn-Cu-Ni alloy system as a catalyst in fuel cells to produce H2. The technique we are using to prepare the samples for the above purposes is mostly pulsed laser ablation or pulsed laser deposition using different wavelengths.

 

Selected Publications

• CdO/PSi/Si photo detector, Azarian A., Iraji-zad, A., Mahdavi S.M. and Samadpoor M. International Journal of Nanotechnology, 6(10) (2009) 997

• Electroless plating of palladium on WO3 films for gasochromic application, Ranjbar M., Tahmasebi N., Mahdavi S.M. and Iraji-zad, Solar Energy Materials and Solar cells, 94 (2010) 201-206

• Photocatalytic activity of ZnO nanoparticles prepared via submerged arc discharge method, Ashkaran A. A., Iraji-zad, A., Mahdavi S.M.and Ahadian M. Applied Physics A Materials Science & Processing, 100 (2010) 1097- 1102

• Photoconductivity and Diode effect in Bi Rich Multiferroic BiFeO3 Thin Films Grown by Pulsed-Laser Deposition Ahadi, K. Mahdavi S.M., Nemati, A. and Kianinia, M., J. of Materials Sciences – Materials in Electronics, DOI 10.1007/s10854-010-0217-5

• Palladium nanoparticle deposition onto the WO3 surface through hydrogen reduction of PdCl2: characterization and gasochromic properties, Ranjbar, M., Fardindoost, S., Mahdavi S.M., Iraji-zad, A. & Tahmasebi, N. Solar Energy Materials and Solar cells, in press