Touhidur Rahman

Nanoscale Science and Devices
BioSciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6123
Phone: (865) 574-6183
Fax: (865) 574-6183
rahmant@ornl.gov

Dr. Touhidur Rahman is a Postdoctoral research associate working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the BioMEMS/Biomechanics Lab.

His research interests include the development of various microcantilever sensors. He is also interested about analytical and numerical modeling of electrical and mechanical systems.

Touhidur is the coauthor of articles of one edited volume, eight referred journals and over twenty conference proceedings and presentations.

Touhidur received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (March 2002) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Touhidur completed his M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (January 2004) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh under the guidance of Dr. M. M. S. Hassan. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (May 2009) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA under the guidance of Dr. S. K. Islam.

Projects

Design & development of MEMS sensors for detection of Tobacco Specific compounds-Philip Morris, USADesign & Instrumentation of BioMEMS/NEMS for determining sugar, alcohol, and pH levels in biofuel production processes-BioEnergy Science Center, USA.

Publications

Edited volume

Touhidur Rahman, Mohammad A. Huque, and Syed K. Islam, “An Efficient Numerical Method of DC Modeling for Power MOSFET, MESFET AlGaN/GaN HEMT,” FUTURE TRENDS IN ELECTRONICS, Selected Topics in Electronics and Systems - Vol. 50, World Scientific, 2009, ISBN 978-981-4273-01-5.

Journals

  • M. A. Huque, S. A. Eliza, T. Rahman, H. F. Huq, S. K. Islam, “Temperature Dependent Analytical Model for Current-Voltage Characteristics of AlGaN/GaN Power HEMT”, Solid-State Electronics, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 341-348, March 2009.
  • Touhidur Rahman, Mohammad A. Huque, and Syed K. Islam, “An Efficient Numerical Method of DC Modeling for Power MOSFET, MESFET AlGaN/GaN HEMT,” International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 825 – 840, December 2008.
  • Martha L. Weeks, Touhidur Rahman, Paul D. Frymier, Syed K. Islam and Timothy E. McKnight, “A Reagent-less Enzymatic Amperometric Alcohol Biosensor Using the Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber (VACNF),” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, vol. 133, no. 1, pp. 53-59, July 2008.
  • T. Rahman, S. K. Islam, R. Vijayaraghavan, T. Gundman, S. A. Eliza, A. B. M. I. Hossain, B. Blalock, L. R. Baylor, T. S. Bigelow, M. N. Ericson, W. L. Gardner, J. A. Moore, and S. J. Randolph, "Integration of a Dose Control Circuit with a Vertically Aligned NanoFiber Field Emission Device", Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 655 – 660, March / April, 2007.
  • M. M. Shahidul Hassan, Md. Ziaur Rahman Khan and Touhidur Rahman, “Base Transit Time of a Bipolar Transistor considering Field Dependent Mobility,” International Journal of Electronics 93 (11): 723-735 November 2006.
  • Hassan MMS, Rahman T, Khan MZR, "Analytical Model for Base Transit Time of a Bipolar Transistor with Gaussian-Doped Base", Solid-State Electronics 50 (3): 327-332, March 2006.
    Khan MZR, Hassan MMS, Rahman T, "Empirical Expression for Base Transit Time in Bipolar Transistors", International Journal of Electronics 92 (4): 215-229, April 2005.
  • Touhidur Rahman, Md. Ziaur Rahman Khan, Hassan MMS "Base Transit Time of a Bipolar Transistor with Gaussian Base Doping Profile", IEB Journal of Electrical Engineering, EE 31 (I & II): 6 - 9, DEC 2004.*

Conferences

  • S. K. Islam, S. A. Eliza, N. D. Bull, T. Rahman, B. Blalock, L.R. Baylor, M.N. Ericson, and W.L. Gardner, “A Precision Dose Control Circuit for Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Based Maskless Lithography,” Accepted for publication in IVNC 2009.
  • Touhidur Rahman, S. K. Islam, Y. F. Guan, J. Park, P. D. Rack and A. Bradley, “Nanostructured Sensor Instruments for Astrobiology Exploration,” Astrobiology, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 353, April 2008. ISSN: 1531-1074.
  • Touhidur Rahman, Mohammad A. Huque and Syed K. Islam, “DC Modeling of AlGaN/GaN Power HEMT on SiC Substrate at the Room Temperature,” Workshop of ‘Frontiers in Electronics (WOFE-07), Royal Park Hotel, Cozumel, Mexico, December 15 - 19, 2007.*
  • S. A. Eliza, S. K. Islam, T. Rahman, R. Vijayaraghavan, T. Grundman, B. Blalock, S. J. Randolph,  L. R. Baylor, T. S. Bigelow, W. L. Gardner, M. N. Ericson and J. A. Moore, “Exploration of Nanotechnology for the Development of Massively Parallel Electron-Beam Lithography,” Workshop of ‘Frontiers in Electronics’ (WOFE-07), Royal Park Hotel, Cozumel, Mexico, December 15 - 19, 2007.
  • S. A. Eliza, S. K. Islam, T. Rahman, R. Vijayaraghavan, T. Grundman, B. Blalock, S. J. Randolph, L. R. Baylor, T. S. Bigelow, W. L. Gardner, M. N. Ericson and J. A. Moore, “Digitally Addressable Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers for Implementation of Massively Parallel Maskless Lithography,” ISDRS 2007 Conference, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, December 12 - 14, 2007.
  • T. Rahman, S. A. Eliza, S. K. Islam, L. R. Baylor and T. R. Grundman, “ A Semi Empirical Model of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber for Field Emission Devices for Circuit Application,” ISDRS 2007 Conference, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, December 12 - 14, 2007.
  • M. A. Huque, S. A. Eliza, T. Rahman, H. F. Huq, and S. K. Islam, “Effect of the aspect ratio in AlGaN/GaN HEMT’s dc and small signal parameters,” ISDRS 2007 Conference, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, December 12 - 14, 2007.
  • Martha L. Weeks, Touhidur Rahman, Paul D. Frymier, Syed K. Islam, and Timothy E. McKnight, “Detection of Alcohol with Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber (VACNF ),” IEEE SENSORS 2007 Conference October 28 - 31, 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  • Sazia Eliza, Aminul Huque, Touhidur Rahman, Hasina F. Huq, Syed K. Islam, “An Analytical model of AlGaN/GaN HEMT for High Temperature DC and Microwave Applications,” Abstract accepted in The international Conference on High Temperature Electronics, HITEN 2007, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, 17 – 19 September 2007.
  • S. A. Eliza, S. K. Islam, T. Rahman, R. Vijayaraghavan, T. Grundman, B. Blalock, and S. J. Randolph, L. R. Baylor, T. S. Bigelow, W. L. Gardner, M. N. Ericson and J. A. Moore, “Maskless Lithography using Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Field Emission,” Proceedings of the 16th Annual Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics and Optoelectronics, 2007.
  • Touhidur Rahman, Timothy E. McKnight, Syed K.Islam, Anatoli V. Melechko and Michael L. Simpson, “Interface and Integration of Vertically Aligned Carbon NanoFiber with CMOS for Sensor Applications,” Nano and Giga Challenges in Electronics and Photonics, Phoenix, Arizona, March 12-16, 2007.
  • Martha L. Weeks, Touhidur Rahman, Paul D. Frymier, Syed K. Islam, and Timothy E. McKnight, “A Reagent-less Enzymatic Amperometric Alcohol Biosensor Using the Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber (VACNF),” Nano and Giga Challenges in Electronics and Photonics, Phoenix, Arizona, March 12-16, 2007.
  • Touhidur Rahman, Timothy E. McKnight, Benjamin L. Fletcher, Anatoli V. Melechko, Michael L. Simpson, Syed K. Islam, and Laura M. Edwards, “Integration of Vertically Aligned Carbon NanoFibers with CMOS Integrated Circuits for Sensor Applications,” Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, ICECE 2006, pp. 45 – 47, 19 – 21 December 2006, Dhaka, Bangladesh, IEEE catalogue number: 06EX1362.
  • T. Rahman, S. K. Islam, R. Vijayaraghavan, T. Gundman, S. A. Eliza, A. B. M. I. Hossain, B. Blalock, L. R. Baylor, T. S. Bigelow, M. N. Ericson, W. L. Gardner, J. A. Moore, and S. J. Randolph, “Integration of a Dose Control Circuit with a Vertically Aligned NanoFiber Field Emission Device,” Technical Digest, 19th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference & 50th International Field Emission Symposium, pp. 161 – 162, July 17 – 20, 2006, Guilin, China. IEEE Catalog Number: 06TH8886, ISBN: 1-4244-0401-0, Library of Congress: 2006927931.
  • S. J. Randolph, L. R. Baylor, K. L. Klein, W. L. Gardner, R. J. Kasica, M. A. Guillorn, D. K. Hensley, H. M. Meyer III, S. Islam, P.D. Rack, R. Rucker, T. Rahman, T. Grundman, T. Bigelow, S. A. Eliza, R. Vijayar, J. A. Moore, M. L. Simpson, and M. N. Ericson, "New Strategies for Improvement and Implementation of the Digital Electrostatic E-beam Array Lithography (DEAL) Concept", Technical Digest, 19th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference & 50th International Field Emission Symposium, pp. 161, July 17 – 20, 2006, Guilin, China. IEEE Catalog Number: 06TH8886, ISBN: 1-4244-0401-0, Library of Congress: 2006927931.
    S. J. Randolph, L. R. Baylor, W. L. Gardner, K. L. Klein, R. Vijayaraghavan, T. Grundman, S. Eliza, T. Rahman, S. Islam, D. C. Joy, P. D. Rack, T. Bigelow, M. N. Ericson, J. A. Moore, C. L. Britton, D. K. Hensley, R. J. Kasica, Y. Guan, H. M. Meyer III, J. B. Caughman, M. A. Guillorn, and R. B. Rucker, “Design Improvements and Performance Enhancements  of the Digital Electrostatic E-beam Array Lithography (DEAL) Prototype,” The 50th International Conference on Electron, Ion, Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, May 30- June 2, 2006, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  • S. A. Eliza, T. Rahman and S. K. Islam, “SPICE Modeling of Carbon Nanofiber Field Emitter,” Proceedings of the 15th Annual Connecticut Symposium on Microelectronics and Optoelectronics, April, 2006.
  • Mohmmad T. Alam, Touhidur Rahman, Syed K. Islam, Md. Hasanuzzaman, “Analytical Modeling and Simulation of Vth and Vtl of the Delta-Doped MOS-Gate Si/SiGe HEMT,” Symposium Proceedings, 2005 InternatIonal Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, December 7-9, 2005, Holiday Inn Select Bethesda, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, IEEE Catalog Number: 05EX1272C, ISBN: 1-4244-0084-8.
  • M. M. Shahidul Hassan, Md. Ziaur Rahman Khan and Touhidur Rahman, "Analytical Base Transit Time of a Bipolar Transistor Considering Field Dependent Mobility", 3rd International Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering, ICECE 2004, pp. 482 – 485, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 28-30 December 2004, ISBN: 984-32-1804-4.
  • Touhidur Rahman, M. M. Shahidul Hassan and Md. Ziaur Rahman Khan, "Analytical Model for Babe Transit Time of a Bipolar Transistor with Gaussian-Doped Base", 3rd International Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering ICECE 2004, pp. 478 – 481, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 28-30 December 2004, ISBN: 984-32-1804-4.
  • Md. Ziaur Rahman Khan, M. M. Shahidul Hassan and Touhidur Rahman, "New Expression for Base Transit Time in an Exponentially Doped Base Bipolar Transistor for All Levels of Injection", Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Microelectronics, ICM 2003, pp. 340 - 343, December 9 -11, 2003, Cairo, Egypt, ISBN number : 977-05-2010-1, IEEE Catalog number : 03EX686.
  • S. M. Lutful Kabir, S. M. Shajedul Hasan, Touhidur Rahman, Md. T. Alam, Abi A. Al Mamun, Md. Kamruzzaman, Muhammad Dawood Khan, Ahmed Ali, “Design and Development of a Commercial Microcontroller Based Prepayment Energy Meter”, Bangladesh Electronics Society Conference, Dhaka, Bangladesh, April, 2003.