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Name: Mounir Gaidi

Academic Rank: Associate Professor

E-mail: mkaidi@sharjah.ac.ae

Tel: +971-65050292

Specialization: Ph.D. Physics (material sciences)

Research interests

1-	Nanomaterials for photovoltaic solar cells applications

2-	Doped and un-doped metal oxide Gas sensors

3-	Nanomaterials for photocatalysis.

4-	Multiferroic materials for opto-electronic application

5-	Thin films elaboration by physical (PLD-sputtering) and chemical process (sol-gel. Electrochemical and pyrosol techniques).

Current projects

1-	Novel metal oxide/nanoporous composite coatings for enhancing silicon photoconversion and high sensitivity gas sensors.

2-	Development of Si Nanowires nanostructure for Si (mono and multicrystalline) based photovoltaic solar cells passivation.

3-	Study of nanocomposite materials based on Al2O3- TiO2 /porous silicon intended for gas sensing and photovoltaic applications

4-	BiFeO3 multiferroic thin films for opto-electronic applications

Recent publications

1.	M. Ben Rabhaa, M. Salem, M.A. El Khakani, B. Bessais, M. Gaidi, Monocrystalline silicon surface passivation by Al2O3/porous silicon combined treatment, Materials Science and Engineering: B, Volume 178, Issue 9, (2013), Pages 695-697.

2.	N. Janene, A. Hajjaji, M. Ben Rabha, M. A. El Khakani, B. Bessais and M. Gaidi, Influence of porous silicon passivation layer and TiO2 coating on the optoelectronic properties of multicrystalline Si substrate, Phys. Status Solidi C, 1–4 (2012).

3.	M. Jaouadi, M. Gaidi, H. Ezzaouia, Effect of LiBr pore-filling on morphological, optical and electrical properties of porous silicon membrane, Superlattices and Microstructures, Volume 54, (2013), Pages 172-180.

4.	Salem, M., Ben Rabha, M., Bessais, B., Elkhakani, M.A., Gaidi, M. Novel silicon surface passivation by porous silicon combined with an ultrathin Al2O3 film. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 24 (2013) 5035.

5.	W. Zaghdoudi, M. Gaidi, and R. Chtourou, Microstructural and Optical Properties of Porous Alumina Elaborated on Glass Substrate, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 22 (2013), Issue 3, pp 869-874.

6.	Anouar Hajjaji, Ater Atyaoui, Khaled Trabelsi, Mosbah Amlouk, Latifa Bousselmi, Brahim Bessais, My Ali El Khakani and Mounir Gaidi, Cr-Doped TiO2 Thin Films Prepared by Means of a Magnetron Co-Sputtering Process: Photocatalytic Application, American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 2014, 5, 473-482.

7.	M. Naouar, I. Ka, M. Gaidi, H. Alawadhi, B. Bessais, M.A. El Khakani, Growth, structural and optoelectronic properties tuning of nitrogen-doped ZnO thin films synthesized by means of reactive pulsed laser deposition, Materials Research Bulletin 57 (2014) 47–51.

8.	Moez Salem, Mondher Ghrib, Brahim Bessais, Hussain Alawadhi and Mounir Gaidi, Surface passivation of multicrystalline silicon wafers by porous silicon combined with an ultrathin nanoparticles aluminum coating film, J Mater Sci: Mater Electron, 25 (2014)  4326-4332.

9.	Anouar Hajjaji, Khaled Trabelsi, Atef Atyaoui, Mounir Gaidi, Latifa Bousselmi, Brahim Bessais, My Ali El Khakani, Photocatalytic activity of Cr-doped TiO2 nanoparticles deposited on porous multicrystalline silicon films, Nanoscale Research Letters (2014), 9:543

10.	N. Janene, M. Salem, M. Ben Rabha, M. A. El Khakani, B. Bessais, H. Alawadhi, M. Gaidi, TiO2/porous silicon nanocomposite passivation coating for mc-Si wafers, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics (2015).

11.	N. Somrani, L. Maaloul, H. Saidi, L. Stafford and M. Gaidi, Microstructural and optical properties tuning of BiFeO thin films elaborated by magnetron sputtering, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics (2015).

Published books

1- Mohamed Ben Rabha, Mounir Gaidi, Brahim Bessais, Traitement De Surface Du Silicium Multicristallin (French Edition), Feb 2014, Published by Editions Universitaires Europeennes ISBN 10: 6131581088 / ISBN 13: 9786131581083

2 – Mounir Gaidi, XAS investigation de Films minces de SnO2 dopés: analyses in-situ des corrélations entre la réponse électrique et le comportement des agrégats métalliques, 2014, in progess, Published by Editions académiques Francophones ISBN-10: 3838174240/ ISBN-13: 978-3838174242.

3- Anouar Hajjaji, Mosbah Amlouk, Mounir Gaidi, Brahim Bessais, My Ali El Khakani, Chromium Doped TiO2 Sputtered Thin Films: Synthesis, Physical Investigations and applications, Springer Briefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, ISBN: 978-3-319-13352-2 (Print) 978-3-319-13353-9 (Online)