Abdelouahad El Fatimy, Ph. D.

Associate professor and Director of
the Institute of Applied Physics
Publication list: Google Scholar
E-mail: abdelouahed.elfatimy@um6p.ma
Phone: +212 6 62 55 14 05

A El Fatimy got his B.S and M.S. degrees (DEA) in physics from Montpelier University, France, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and received his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics in June 2007 from Montpellier University, France. He continued his research in the Terahertz time-domain Spectroscopy as a post-doc fellow at CNRS at Bordeaux University, France (2007 – 2008) and as visiting research fellow at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Japan, financed by the JSPS from 2008 to 2009. After that, he joined the Astronomy Instrumentation Group at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, United Kingdom, for three years to lead the design of the GaAs bolometer. In 2012, he returned to CNRS at Montpellier University as a senior researcher and co-founded the T-waves company. In 2014, he joined the physics department at Georgetown University, Washington, USA, where he investigated the fundamental physics of hot electron physics in low-dimensional materials. Then, in 2017, he was appointed a Physics professor at Ecole Centrale of Casablanca, Morocco, where he served as the physics department chair. In September 2021, he was appointed as a Physics Associate Professor at the University Mohamed VI Polytechnics, where he helps to develop the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP).

Dr. Abdelouahed El Fatimy has achieved international recognition as a Terahertz photonics and device physics leader. He has been exploring the frontiers of nanoscale physics and Terahertz excitations in solids for many years.

 Current Research

My current research focuses on the physics and applications of low-dimensional materials and quantum transport in reduced dimensions and novel nanoscale devices, ranging from Terahertz emission and detection devices to Bio-chemical sensors.

Selected papers

  1. El Fatimy, RL Myers-Ward, AK Boyd, KM Daniels, DK Gaskill, P Barbara, Epitaxial graphene quantum dots for high-performance THz bolometers, Nature Nanotechnology, DOI: 10.1038/NNANO.303, (2016)
  2. Han, LS Marie, QX Wang, N Quirk, A. El Fatimy, M Ishigami, P Barbara, Highly sensitive MoS2 photodetectors with graphene contacts, Nanotechnology 29 (20), 20LT01 (2018)
  3. El Fatimy, A Nath, BD Kong, AK Boyd, RL Myers-Ward, KM Daniels, Ultra-broadband photodetectors based on epitaxial graphene quantum dots, Nanophotonics 7 (4), 735-740 (2018)
  4. Peize Han, Eli R Adler, Yijing Liu, Luke St Marie,  El Fatimy, Scott Melis, Edward Van Keuren and Paola Barbara Ambient effects on photogating in MoS2 photodetectors Nanotechnology, Volume 30, Number 28, 24 April (2019)
  5. El Fatimy, Peize Han, Nicholas Quirk, Luke St Marie, Matthew T Dejarld, Rachael L Myers-Ward, Kevin Daniels, Shojan Pavunny, D Kurt Gaskill, Yigit Aytac, Thomas E Murphy, Paola Barbara, Effect of defect-induced cooling on graphene hot-electron bolometers, Volume 154, Pages 497-502, Carbon (2019)
  6. Luke St Marie,  El Fatimy, Jakub Hrubý, Ivan Nemec, James Hunt, Rachael Myers-Ward, D Kurt Gaskill, Mattias Kruskopf, Yanfei Yang, Randolph Elmquist, Raphael Marx, Joris van Slageren, Petr Neugebauer and Paola Barbara, Nanostructured graphene for nanoscale electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, Journal of Physics: Materials, Volume 3, Number 1 (2020)
  7. El Fatimy, F Teppe, N Dyakonova, W Knap, D Seliuta, G Valušis, et al., Resonant and voltage-tunable terahertz detection in nanometer transistors, Applied physics letters 89 (13), 131926,  (2006)
  8. El Fatimy, N Dyakonova, Y Meziani, T Otsuji, W Knap, S Vandenbrouk et al., AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors as a voltage-tunable room temperature terahertz sources, Journal of Applied Physics 107 (2), 024504 (2010).
  9. El Hammoumi, V. Chaudhary, P. Neugebauer, and A. El Fatimy, Chemical Vapor Deposition: A Potential Tool for Wafer Scale Growth of Two-Dimensional Layered Materials, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 55 (47), 473001, (2022)
  10. Chaudhary, P.Neugebauer, O Mounkachi, S.Lahbabi, and A. El Fatimy, Phosphorene—an emerging two-dimensional material: recent advances in synthesis, functionalization, and applications, 2D Materials, Volume 9, Number 3, (2022)