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Professor Dagou Zeze's Outputs (85)

Control Strategies for Solution‐Processed ZTO‐Based Thin‐Film Transistors Tailored Toward Volatile Organic Compound Detection (2025)
Journal Article
Miller, L. R., Miller, L. R., Galán‐González, A., Galán-González, A., Nicholson, B., Bowen, L., Monier, G., Borthwick, R. J., Borthwick, R. J., White, F., Saeed, M., Thompson, R. L., Thompson, R. L., Robert‐Goumet, C., Robert-Goumet, C., Atkinson, D., Zeze, D. A., Chaudhry, M. U., Souop, M., & Bideux, L. (online). Control Strategies for Solution‐Processed ZTO‐Based Thin‐Film Transistors Tailored Toward Volatile Organic Compound Detection. Advanced Electronic Materials, Article 2400810. https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202400810

A breakthrough in the fabrication of amorphous Zn‐Sn‐O (ZTO)‐based thin‐film transistors (TFTs) is presented for volatile organic compound (VOC) detection. The incorporation of highly abundant materials offers substantial economic and environmental b... Read More about Control Strategies for Solution‐Processed ZTO‐Based Thin‐Film Transistors Tailored Toward Volatile Organic Compound Detection.

Inverse design of lateral hybrid metasurfaces structural colour: an AI approach (2024)
Journal Article
Fang, R., Ghasemi, A., Zeze, D., & Keshavarz Hedayati, M. (2024). Inverse design of lateral hybrid metasurfaces structural colour: an AI approach. RSC Advances, 14(35), 25678-25684. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ra04981k

In conventional metasurface structural colour design, simulations combined with human intuition are used for design and optimization, making it challenging to find the best solution. Here we introduce an innovative AI-assisted design process that byp... Read More about Inverse design of lateral hybrid metasurfaces structural colour: an AI approach.

Highly Sensitive Flexible Pressure Sensor Based on PVDF-TrFE-BaTiO3 Piezoelectric Nanofibers (2024)
Journal Article
He, Q., Heidari, H., Zeze, D. A., & Hosseini, E. (2024). Highly Sensitive Flexible Pressure Sensor Based on PVDF-TrFE-BaTiO3 Piezoelectric Nanofibers. IEEE Sensors Letters, 8(8), Article 2502704. https://doi.org/10.1109/lsens.2024.3430942

With the rapid advancement of wearable electronics, there is continuing demand to explore flexible sensors with high sensitivity to detect even the subtlest of mechanical stimuli enabling accurate and real-time monitoring for various applications. Am... Read More about Highly Sensitive Flexible Pressure Sensor Based on PVDF-TrFE-BaTiO3 Piezoelectric Nanofibers.

Nanostructured Channel for Improving Emission Efficiency of Hybrid Light-Emitting Field-Effect Transistors (2023)
Journal Article
Galán-González, A., Pander, P., MacKenzie, R. C. I., Bowen, L., Zeze, D. A., Borthwick, R. J., …Chaudhry, M. U. (2023). Nanostructured Channel for Improving Emission Efficiency of Hybrid Light-Emitting Field-Effect Transistors. ACS Photonics, 10(12), 4315-4321. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.3c01080

We report on the mechanism of enhancing the luminance and external quantum efficiency (EQE) by developing nanostructured channels in hybrid (organic/inorganic) light-emitting transistors (HLETs) that combine a solution-processed oxide and a polymer h... Read More about Nanostructured Channel for Improving Emission Efficiency of Hybrid Light-Emitting Field-Effect Transistors.

Ultra-stretchable active metasurfaces for high-performance structural color (2023)
Journal Article
Ghasemi, A., Fang, R., Zeze, D. A., & Hedayati, M. K. (2023). Ultra-stretchable active metasurfaces for high-performance structural color. AIP Advances, 13(8), Article 085004. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0156782

Metamaterials as artificially structural materials exhibit customized properties unattainable in nature. While dynamic response is highly desired, metamaterials are usually passive and cannot be tuned post-fabrication. A conventional active metamater... Read More about Ultra-stretchable active metasurfaces for high-performance structural color.

Mechanically tunable metasurface with large gamut of color: Lateral hybrid system (2022)
Journal Article
Fang, R., Ghasemi, A., Zeze, D. A., & Keshavarz Hedayati, M. (2022). Mechanically tunable metasurface with large gamut of color: Lateral hybrid system. Journal of Applied Physics, 132(13), Article 133102. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0115964

Hybrid metasurfaces are made of metals and dielectrics in which dielectrics (metals) are sandwiched between metals (dielectrics) to control the reflection and transmission of light. The existing designs have low sensitivity, little color coverage, an... Read More about Mechanically tunable metasurface with large gamut of color: Lateral hybrid system.

In-Materio Extreme Learning Machines (2022)
Book Chapter
Jones, B. A., Al Moubayed, N., Zeze, D. A., & Groves, C. (2022). In-Materio Extreme Learning Machines. In G. Rudolph, A. V. Kononova, H. Aguirre, P. Kerschke, G. Ochoa, & T. Tušar (Eds.), Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XVII (505-519). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14714-2_35

Nanomaterial networks have been presented as a building block for unconventional in-Materio processors. Evolution in-Materio (EiM) has previously presented a way to congure and exploit physical materials for computation, but their ability to scale as... Read More about In-Materio Extreme Learning Machines.

Towards Intelligently Designed Evolvable Processors (2022)
Journal Article
Jones, B. A., Chouard, J. L., Branco, B. C., Vissol-Gaudin, E. G., Pearson, C., Petty, M. C., Al Moubayed, N., Zeze, D. A., & Groves, C. (2022). Towards Intelligently Designed Evolvable Processors. Evolutionary Computation, 30(4), 479-501. https://doi.org/10.1162/evco_a_00309

Evolution-in-Materio is a computational paradigm in which an algorithm reconfigures a material’s properties to achieve a specific computational function. This paper addresses the question of how successful and well performing Evolution-in-Materio pro... Read More about Towards Intelligently Designed Evolvable Processors.

Air-Gapped Current Transformer simulation and accuracy assessment (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ceron-Oliver, L., Wang, Q., & Zeze, D. (2022, June). Air-Gapped Current Transformer simulation and accuracy assessment. Presented at 2022 IEEE 21st Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), Palermo, ITALY

The implementation of smart grids makes it necessary to have reliable and efficient measuring devices. Current sensors used for metering purposes in the grid must be accurate enough to overcome new challenges that power networks face such as injectio... Read More about Air-Gapped Current Transformer simulation and accuracy assessment.

Enhanced Methods for Evolution in-Materio Processors (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jones, B. A., Al Moubayed, N., Zeze, D. A., & Groves, C. (2023, November). Enhanced Methods for Evolution in-Materio Processors. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC 2021), Virtual

Evolution-in-Materio (EiM) is an unconventional computing paradigm, which uses an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) to configure a material's parameters so that it can perform a computational task. While EiM processors show promise, slow manufacturing and... Read More about Enhanced Methods for Evolution in-Materio Processors.

Electrical behaviour and evolutionary computation in thin films of bovine brain microtubules (2021)
Journal Article
Vissol-Gaudin, E., Pearson, C., Groves, C., Zeze, D. A., Cantiello, H. F., Cantero, M. D. R., & Petty, M. C. (2021). Electrical behaviour and evolutionary computation in thin films of bovine brain microtubules. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 10776. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90260-0

We report on the electrical behaviour of thin films of bovine brain microtubules (MTs). For samples in both their dried and hydrated states, the measured currents reveal a power law dependence on the applied DC voltage. We attribute this to the injec... Read More about Electrical behaviour and evolutionary computation in thin films of bovine brain microtubules.

Fabrication and characterization of cellulose acetate-based nanofibers and nanofilms for H2S gas sensing application (2021)
Journal Article
Abdel Rahman, N. S., Greish, Y. E., Mahmoud, S. T., Qamhieh, N. N., El-Maghraby, H. F., & Zeze, D. (2021). Fabrication and characterization of cellulose acetate-based nanofibers and nanofilms for H2S gas sensing application. Carbohydrate Polymers, 258, Article 117643. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.117643

Electrospun nanofibers and solution-casting nanofilms were produced from an environmentally friendly cellulose acetate (CA) blended with glycerol (as an ionic liquid (IL)), mixed with polypyrrole (PPy, a conducting polymer) and doped with tungsten ox... Read More about Fabrication and characterization of cellulose acetate-based nanofibers and nanofilms for H2S gas sensing application.

Optical properties and carrier dynamics in Co-doped ZnO nanorods (2020)
Journal Article
Sivan, A. K., Galán-González, A., Di Mario, L., Tappy, N., Hernández-Ferrer, J., Catone, D., Turchini, S., Benito, A. M., Maser, W. K., Steinvall, S. E., Fontcuberta i Morral, A., Gallant, A., Zeze, D. A., Atkinson, D., & Martelli, F. (2021). Optical properties and carrier dynamics in Co-doped ZnO nanorods. Nanoscale Advances, 3(1), 214-222. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0na00693a

The controlled modification of the electronic properties of ZnO nanorods via transition metal doping is reported. A series of ZnO nanorods were synthesized by chemical bath growth with varying Co content from 0 to 20 atomic% in the growth solution. O... Read More about Optical properties and carrier dynamics in Co-doped ZnO nanorods.

Cobalt-Doped ZnO Nanorods Coated with Nanoscale Metal-Organic Framework Shells for Water-Splitting Photoanodes (2020)
Journal Article
Galan Gonzalez, A., Sivan, A. K., Hernández Ferrer, J., Bowen, L., Di Mario, L., Martelli, F., Benito, A. M., Maser, W. K., Chaudhry, M. U., Gallant, A., Zeze, D. A., & Atkinson, D. (2020). Cobalt-Doped ZnO Nanorods Coated with Nanoscale Metal-Organic Framework Shells for Water-Splitting Photoanodes. ACS Applied Nano Material, 3(8), 7781-7788. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.0c01325

Developing highly efficient and stable photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting electrodes via inexpensive, liquid phase processing is one of the key challenges for the conversion of solar energy into hydrogen for sustainable energy production. ZnO... Read More about Cobalt-Doped ZnO Nanorods Coated with Nanoscale Metal-Organic Framework Shells for Water-Splitting Photoanodes.

Ultrasensitive and low temperature gas sensor based on electrospun organic-inorganic nanofibers (2020)
Journal Article
Hittini, W., Greish, Y. E., Qamhieh, N. N., Alnaqbi, M. A., Zeze, D., & Mahmoud, S. T. (2020). Ultrasensitive and low temperature gas sensor based on electrospun organic-inorganic nanofibers. Organic Electronics, 81, Article 105659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2020.105659

Organic-inorganic hybrid material is one of the most promising materials for high performance gas sensors due to its improved properties like high sensitivity, selectivity, fast response time, flexibility and low power consumption. This work presents... Read More about Ultrasensitive and low temperature gas sensor based on electrospun organic-inorganic nanofibers.

Controlling the growth of single crystal ZnO nanowires by tuning the atomic layer deposition parameters of the ZnO seed layer (2019)
Journal Article
Galan-Gonzalez, A., Gallant, A., Zeze, D. A., & Atkinson, D. (2019). Controlling the growth of single crystal ZnO nanowires by tuning the atomic layer deposition parameters of the ZnO seed layer. Nanotechnology, 30(30), Article 305602. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ab186a

Semiconducting nanowires (NWs) offer exciting prospects for a wide range of technological applications. The translation of NW science into technology requires reliable high quality large volume production. This study provides an in-depth investigatio... Read More about Controlling the growth of single crystal ZnO nanowires by tuning the atomic layer deposition parameters of the ZnO seed layer.

Confidence Measures for Carbon-Nanotube / Liquid Crystals Classifiers (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vissol-Gaudin, E., Kotsialos, A., Groves, C., Pearson, C., Zeze, D., Petty, M., & Al-moubayed, N. (2018, July). Confidence Measures for Carbon-Nanotube / Liquid Crystals Classifiers. Presented at 2018 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2018)., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

This paper focuses on a performance analysis of single-walled-carbon-nanotube / liquid crystal classifiers produced by evolution in materio. A new confidence measure is proposed in this paper. It is different from statistical tools commonly used to e... Read More about Confidence Measures for Carbon-Nanotube / Liquid Crystals Classifiers.

A simplified model to estimate thermal resistance between carbon nanotube and sample in scanning thermal microscopy (2017)
Journal Article
Nazarenko, M., Rosamond, M. C., Gallant, A. J., Kolosov, O. V., Dubrovskii, V. G., & Zeze, D. A. (2017). A simplified model to estimate thermal resistance between carbon nanotube and sample in scanning thermal microscopy. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 50(49), Article 494004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aa900e

Scanning thermal microscopy (SThM) is an attractive technique for nanoscale thermal measurements. Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) can be used to enhance a SThM probe in order to drastically increase spatial resolution while keeping required ther... Read More about A simplified model to estimate thermal resistance between carbon nanotube and sample in scanning thermal microscopy.

Field imaging near to the surface of terahertz reflective optics using a vector network analyzer (2017)
Journal Article
Hajji, M., Hammler, J., Zeze, D., Balocco, C., & Gallant, A. J. (2017). Field imaging near to the surface of terahertz reflective optics using a vector network analyzer. Applied Optics, 56(31), 8746-8750. https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.56.008746

A vector network analyzer-based quasi-optical measurement system that is suitable for mapping electric field intensity and phase near to the surface of terahertz reflective optics is presented. The system uses a fixed five parabolic mirror and transm... Read More about Field imaging near to the surface of terahertz reflective optics using a vector network analyzer.