| Profile |
| Name: | Dr. S.A. Bazaz |
| Designation: | Dean |
| Faculty: | FCSE |
| Qualifications: | Ph.D. (Institut National des Sciences Appliques, Toulouse, France) |
| Area: | Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) |
| Email: | bazaz@giki.edu.pk |
| Telephone: | 0938-271858 (2216) |
| Location: | G-01 |
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| Interests: | Microelectromechanical Systems, Microsystems (microchip) Design, Prototyping and testing Our current PhD and Masters projects:
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| Site: | http://www.giki.edu.pk/pakmems |
| Research Grants Received by VLSI/MEMS Design & Test Lab |
1. Rs 15 Millions, National ICT Fund, Project Title: Development of Open Source Cell Library for MEMS Components Verified through Modeling and Simulation. Complete proposal can be found at : http://www.ictrdf.org.pk/fp-osmem.htm
This project plans and envisions sufficient design work on various MEMS and VLSI devices and will also be able to offer such design services to Pakistani Univesities and international customers in next 2-3 years after creating enough skilled manpower inside Pakistan in this area.This web-based Open Source libraries will include MEMS/VLSI chip design projected accomplished at GIKI and other Pakistani universities
to show case their work in front of the international community while sharing all design knowledge.
2.Rs 1 Million HECs Initial Start-up Grant to develop initial Setup for designing MEMS devices
3. Rs 3 Million, National Research Grant, Higher Education Commission of Pakistan,
Project Title: Integrating Microcontroller, MEMS based force sensors and Microgrippers for Biomedical and Microassembly Applications
Design Tools: MEMS-Pro (including Tanner L-Edit, TSpice tools), Coventor, ANSYS
Test Equipment: Probestation, High voltage amplifier, Spectrum Analyzer, Signal generator,
Research Activities:
* Development of Micro Gyroscope for Automobile Applications
* Development of micro accelerometer for Automobile applications
* Force Sensors to be integrated with Microgrippers and microcontroller for biomedical application
* Electrical equivalent (lumped) modeling of mechanical part of MEMS systems
* Design of Pre-amplifier chip using CMOS 0.35 technology from Austria Microsystem Inc. for neural recording of MEMS based Brain Implantable electrodes
| Experience |
2000-2006 CMC Microsystems (www.cmc.ca),
2003-2006 Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering,
| Our collaborators |
Professor Yongjun Lai (http://me.queensu.ca/people/lai/)
Professor Dean Aslam (http://www.egr.msu.edu/~aslam/home.html)
Director, Micro and Nano Technology Laboratory (MANTL),
Electrical and
Teaching Interest |
Undergraduate courses
Circuit Analysis I & II,
Digital Integrated Circuit Design
Graduate Course:
MEMS design and Micromachining
| Publications |
Reviewed Journal Papers
1. Shakoor, R. I., Bazaz, S., Burnie, M., Lai, Y. and Hassan, M., Electrothermally Actuated Resonant Rate Gyroscope Fabricated using the MetalMUMPs, Microelectronics Journal, 2010 (MEJ-D-09-0046 appear soon).(Impact Factor:0.778)
2. Fahimullah Khan , S.A Bazaz, Muhammad Sohail " Design and implementation of Electrostatic SOI-MUMPs microgripper" Journal of Microsystem Technologies, DOI 10.1007/s00542-010-1129-2, August 2010.(Impact Factor:1.29)
3. Sharif Khan , Shafaat A. Bazaz , Najmuddin, Dean M. Aslam , H.Y. Chan "Electrochemical Interface Characterization of MEMS Based Brain Implantable All-Diamond electrodes Probe." Russian Journal of Electrochemistry, 2010 (impact Factor 0.347)
4. R.I.Shakoor, Shafaat A. Bazaz, Michael Kraft, Yongjun Lai, M. Masood ul Hassan," Thermal Actuation based 3-DoF non Resonant Microgyroscope using MetalMUMPS," journal of Sensors 2009, 9(4), 2389-2414; 1 April 2009 (Impact Factor 1.87)
5. Shafaat Ahmed Bazaz, " Design Methodology and Modelling Strategies for MEMS", Bulletin of Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers, September 2003
6. S.A. Bazaz, B. Tondu, " Minimum Time On-Line Trajectory Generation based on Low order Spline Methods for Industrial Manipulators" Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, no 29 (4), 1999, pp. 257-268 (Impact factor 1.36)
7. Tondu, S.A. Bazaz, " The 3-Cubic Method: An Optimal On -Line Robot Joint Trajectory Generation under Acceleration, Velocity and Wandering Constraints. " The Int. Journal of Robotics Research, 1999, 18 (9), p. 893-901 (Impact factor 1.99)
Reviewed Conference Papers
1. Ahmad Naeem, Shafaat A. Bazaz, Dean M. Aslam, "A Low-Power and Low-Noise Neural Amplifier for All-Diamond Neural Probes" 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies, Islamabad, Pakistan, October 18-19, 2010
2. Faiza Nawaz, Shafaat Ahmed Bazaz, "Lifetime Optimization of Wireless Sensor Network through Energy Efficient Clustering for Robust Data Routing" 2nd International Conference on Computer Technology and Development, Cairo, Egypt. November 2-4, 2010
3. M. Shuja Khan, Shafaat A. Bazaz and Muhammad Abid, "Comparative Study on System Model and Finite Element Analysis of a Monolithic 3DOF MEMS Capacitive Accelerometer", International Conference on Semi-Conductor Technology, ISBN 978-1-4244-5383-2,December 18-19, 2009 Jeju Island, South Korea
4. M. Shuja Khan, Abid Iqbal, Shafaat A. Bazaz and Muhammad Abid, "System & FiniteElement Modeling of PolyMUMPs Based Monolithic 3D MEMS Capacitive accelerometer", the 5th IEEE Int. Conf. on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems.
5. Rana I. Shakoor, Shafaat A. Bazaz, M. M. Hasan, "Design Modeling and Simulation of Electrothermally Actuated Microgyroscope Fabricated using the MetalMUMPs", International Workshop on Thermal investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), 7-9 October 2009, Leuven, Belgium
6. Marc Burnie, Yongjun Lai, R. Iqtidar Shakoor and Shafaat A. Bazaz, "Design and Simulation of Thermally Driven Microgyroscopes", 2nd Micro and Nanoelectronics Research Conference 13-14 October 2009, Ottawa, Canada
7. Bilal Saif, Shafaat A Bazaz, Nisar Ahmed, "Interface Electronics and Control of Electrostatically Actuated MEMS Microgripper", 13th IEEE International Multitopic Conference 2009 (INMIC-2009), December 14-15, 2009 Islamabad
8. Rana I. Shakoor, Shafaat A. Bazaz, M. M. Hasan, "Design of Thermal Dual-Mass MEMS Gyroscope with 2-DoF Drive Model Oscillator", 2008 IEEE International Conference on Semiconductor Electronics, 25-27 November 2008, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
9. Najamuddin, Shafaat A. Bazaz, H.Y. Chan, Dean M. Aslam, "Impedance Characterization of MEMS based All Diamond Neural Probe", 20th International Conference on Microelectronics, 14-17 December 2008, Sharjah
10. Kinnan Amjad, Shafaat A. Bazaz, Youngjun Lai, "Design of an Electrostatic MEMS Microgripper Systems Integrated with Force Sensor", 20th International Conference on Microelectronics, 14-17 December 2008, Sharjah
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12. Rana I. Shakoor, Shafaat A. Bazaz, M. M. Hasan, "Comparative Study on Finite Element Analysis & System Model Extraction for Non-Resonant 3-DoF Microgyroscope" IEEE International Behavioral Modeling and Simulation conference BMAS 2008, San Jose, CA, USA
13. Yongjun Lai, Shafaat Bazaz, "Engineering curriculum development in microsystems" 3 rd CDEN (Canadian Design Engineering Network) International Design Conference, 24-26 July, 2006, Toronto, Canada
14. R.I. Shakoor, I.R. Chughtai, S.A. Bazaz, M.J. Hyder, Masood-ul-Hassan, "Numerical Simulations of MEMS Comb-Drive Using Coupled Mechanical and Electrostatic Analyses", International Conference on Microelectronics, 13-15 December, 2005, Islamabad, Pakistan
15. Jalal, S. Bazaz, M. Hefnawi, D. Choi, "Modeling of MEMS Varactors as phase shifters for multi-energy domain modeling in VHDL- AMS", 3rd Canadian Workshop on MEMS, Ottawa, Canada, August 2003
16. Brian Barge, Shafaat A. Bazaz, Dan Gale "MEMS Research, Technology and Product Development in Canada", The 8th International Conference on the Commercialization of Micro and Nano Systems, September 8-11, 2003, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
17. Dan Gale, Shafaat A. Bazaz, "Canadian Research, Technology, and Product Interests in Micromachining: An Update", Proceedings 8th World Micromachine Summit Maastricht, The Netherlands, April 30- May 2, 2002
18. S.A. Bazaz, B. Tondu, "On-Line computing of a robotic manipulator Joint trajectory with Velocity and Acceleration Constraints. " 1997 IEEE Int. Symp. on Assembly and Task planning, August 1997, Los Angles,
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20. S.A. Bazaz, B. Tondu, "An optimal on- line robot trajectory generation in Cartesian space." Int. Conf. on Architectures, Networks and Intelligent Systems for manufacturing Integration, SPIE's Intelligent & Automated Manufacturing Society, Oct. 1997, Pittsburgh, USA, pp. 2-10
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