Ahmad Safari, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Ceramic and Materials Engineering
Rutgers University
607 Taylor Road, Piscataway
NJ 08854-8065
Office: CCR 118
Phone: 732-445-4367
Fax: 732-445-5577/3258
Email: safari@rci.rutgers.edu
Education
- B.S. Physics, University of Azarabadeghan, 1972.
- M.S. Physics, University of Azarabadeghan, 1974.
- Ph.D. Solid State Science, The Pennsylvania State University, 1983.
Employment
- Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1993-present.
- Associate Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 1988-1993.
- Research Assistant, Materials Reasearch Laboratory, Penn State University, 1987.
- Assistant Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, July 1986.
- Research Associate, Materials Reasearch Laboratory, Penn State University, 1983.
- Group Head, Physics Section, College of Science, Razi University, Iran, 1975.
- Instructor of Physics, Physics Section, College of Science, Razi University, Iran, 1974.
Prinicpal Fields of Interest
- Processing, characterization, and applications of electroceramics for dielectric, piezoelectric, and ferroelectric applications
- Ferroelectric thin films for non-volatile memories
- Electroceramics and ceramic-polymer composites for transducers, sensors, thermistors, and actuators
- Solid Freeform Fabrication (layered manufacturing) of advanced ceramics, electroceramic actuators and composites
- Superconducting ceramics and thin films.
Professional Activities
- Journal Articles & Symposium Proceedings >160
- Patents >10
- Book Chapters 2
- Presentations >250
- M.S. and Ph.D Students Supervised 15
- Post-doctoral Fellows Supervised 20
- Fellow of The American Ceramic Society
- Centennial Fellow of College of Earth and Mineral Science, Penn State University
- Chaired the 10th International Symposium on the Applications of Ferroelectric, ISAF 96
- Chaired the 7th US-Japan meeting on Ferroelectric and Dielectric Materials
- Manages/Managed Research Funding from Companies and government agencies including:
Advanced Ceramatrics, Inc., Degusa, Inc., Exogen, Inc., Glenn Howatt Foundation, NJCST, NSF, ONR, and DARPA.
Selected Publications
- A. Bandyopadhyay, R.K. Panda, V. Janas, M. Agrawala, A. Safari, and S.C. Danforth, "Processing of Piezocomposities by Fused Deposition of Ceramics", Journal of the American Ceramic Society, accepted for publication, November 1996.
- M.K. Argawala, A. Bandyopadhyay, R.V. Weeren, N.A. Langrana, A. Safari, and S.C. Danforth, "Fused Deposition Ceramics: Rapid Fabrication of Structural Ceramic Componenets", The American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Vol. 75, No. 11, pp. 60-65, 1996.
- D.M. Tahan, A. Safari, and L. Klein, "The Preparation and Characterization of Ba
xSr1-xTiO3 Thin Films by Sol Gel Method", accepted, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 79{6}, pp. 1593-98, June 1996.
- C. Tantigate and A. Safari, "Preparation of PMN-PT Thin Films by Pulsed Laser Deposition on Silicaon Substrate", Microelectronic Engineering, 29, pp. 115-118, 1995.
- V. Janas and A. Safari, "Overview of Fine-Scale Piezoelectric Ceramic/Polymer Composite Processing", Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 78{11}, pp. 2945-55, November 1995.
- S. Livneh, V. Janas, and A. Safari, "development of Fine Scale PZT Ceramic Fiber/Polymer Shell Composite Tranducer", Journal of the American Ceramic SOciety, Vol. 78{7}, pp. 1900-06, July 1995.
- J. Lee, S. Esayan, J. Prohaska, and A. Safari, "Reversible Pyroelectric and Photogalvanic Currents in Epitaxial Pb(Zr
0.52Ti0.48)O3 Thin Films", Applied Physics Letters, 64{3}, pp. 294-296, 1994.
- C. Livage, A. Safari, and L.C. Klein, "Gycol-Based process for the Fabrication of Ferroelectric PZT Thin Films", Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, 2, 605-09, 1994.
- Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectric, Edited by Michael Liu, Ahmad Safari, Angus Kingon, and Gene Haertling, IEEE catalog number 92CH3080-9, 1992.
- A. Fathy, D. Kaiokitis, Belohoubek, A. Safari, and H.G.K. Sundar, "Microwave Surface Conductivity of Bulk "123" Material", Physica Review B, 38, 10, pp. 7025, 1988.
- T.R. Gururaja, A. Safari, R.E. Newnham, and L.E. Cross, "Piezoelectric Compostie Tranducers and Sensors", in the Electronic Ceramics, edited by Lionel Levinson, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 1987.
