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Emad Badradeen

Dr. Emad Badradeen

Research Assistant Professor

Office: Caine-Gilleland Hall 340Phone: 870-575-8759E-mail: badradeene@uapb.eduDegree: Ph.D. in Applied Sciences – Physics Emphasis

Area of Expertise: Specializes in nanostructured material growth and fabrication, thin-film deposition, and various nanofabrication techniques essential for developing nanoscale devices. My expertise extends to device characterization, including current voltage, photo-response, and quantum efficiency measurements. Emad has conducted research on flexible photodetectors and solar cells, and he is involved in projects related to advanced materials for biomedical applications.

Research Activity: Recent research includes the synthesis and characterization of 2D materials by CVD, enhancing the antibacterial properties of surfaces through nanostructuring. My research interests also encompass flexible electronics, batteries, fuel cells, hydrogen generation by water-splitting, and hydrogen storage.

Course Taught: University Physics I, University Physics II, General Physics I, General Physics II, Electricity & Magnetism I, Electricity & Magnetism II, AC circuits, DC circuits, Renewable Energy, Electricity & Magnetism I Lab, Electricity & Magnetism II Lab, Modern Physics Lab, Linear Algebra, General Physics Lab., Mathematical Physics, Complex variables, Numerical mathematics, Advanced Physics Lab I.

Rent Achievements: NSF EPIIC, NSF QuAPB, E-CORE.

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  • Publications
    • Maoding Cheng, Brooke Robinson, Manoj Shah, Emad Badradeen, Araceli Herrera Mondragon, Roberto Gonzalez Rodriguez, Jingbiao Cui, Yuankun Lin, Anupama B. Kaul, Fumiya Watanabe, Grant Wangila, Mansour Mortazavi, Chao Yan, Zhanhu Guo & Qinglong Jiang. Halide perovskite-polymer composite film for bright and stable light-emitting devices, Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials 2025 8 (2), 213. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42114-025-01294-1
    • Sayem, S.M.; Kumarapuram Hariharalakshmanan, R.; Badradeen, E.; Bourdo, S.E.; Karabacak, T. Influence of Substrate Location and Temperature Variation on the Growth of ZnO Nanorods Synthesized by Hot Water Treatment. Materials 2024, 17, 3716. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17153716.
      3- G. Guisbiers, E. Badradeen, S. Arscott, Determination of the solid surface energy of tellurium dioxide, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Volume 193, 2024, 112167, ISSN 0022-3697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2024.112167.
    • Smith, Quinshell; Burnett, Kenneth; Saadi, Nawzat; Haque, Shanzida; Badradeen, Emad; Sayeem, SM; Ali, Nawab; Bush, John; Karabacak, Tansel; Enhancing antibacterial property of aluminum foil by nanostructuring its surface through a steam treatment MRS Advances 7-Jan 2023 Springer International Publishing Cham.
    • Basurrah, Assem Omar; Ergul, Busra; Badradeen, Emad; Yang, Zhiwei; Bourdo, Shawn; Karabacak, Tansel; Core-Shell Electrocatalysts with Nanocolumnar Pt Thin Film Shell on Carbon Support Core for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells Electrochemical Society Meeting Abstracts 242 42 1558-1558 2022 The Electrochemical Society, Inc.
    • Matthew Brozak, Emad Badradeen, Tansel Karabacak, Thomas Walsh; Opto-electrical characterization of quaternary sputtered copper indium gallium selenide nanorods via glancing angle deposition, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A 38, 062801 (2020).
    • Khalidah Al-Mayalee, Emad Badraddin, Fumiya Watanabe and Tansel Karabacak, CuO/Cu core/shell nanostructured photoconductive devices by hot water treatment and high-pressure sputtering techniques, Nanotechnology,31,9, (2019).
    • Emad Badradeen & Tansel Karabacak, Nanostructured p-n Core-Shell Flexible Photodetectors with Enhanced Photoresponse, (in preparation).
    • Emad Badradeen & Tansel Karabacak, Metal-Semiconductor Core-Shell Flexible Photodetectors with different Nanorod lengths, (in preparation).
    • Emad Badradeen, & Tansel Karabacak, Hye-Won Seo, Hydrogen Generation by Water-Splitting using Mg doped InGaN nanstructures grown by MBE”, (in preparation).
    • Cansizoglu, M. F., Badradeen, E., Wang, G.-C., & Karabacak, T., Enhanced hydrogen storage by a variable temperature process, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 44(7), 3771-3778, 2019.
    • Cansizoglu, M. F., Badradeen, E., & Karabacak, T., Hydrogen storage properties of magnesium nanotrees investigated by a quartz crystal microbalance system, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 43(48), 21844-21855,2018.
    • Al-Mayalee, K. H., Saadi, N., Badradeen, E., Watanabe, F., & Karabacak, T., Optical and Photoconductive Response of CuO Nanostructures Grown by a Simple Hot-Water Treatment Method, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122(41), 23312-23320, 2018.
    • Alkuam, E., Badradeen, E., & Guisbiers, G., Influence of CdS Morphology on the Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, ACS Omega, 3(10), 13433-13441,2018.
    • Yurukcu M, Badradeen EO, Bilnoski S, et al. Material Sci & Eng.; The effect of the core/shell nanostructure arrays on PEM fuel cells: a short review, 2(2):58‒64, 2018.
    • Keles, F., Badradeen, E., & Karabacak, T, Self-anti-reflective density-modulated thin films by HIPS technique. Nanotechnology, 28(33), 335703, (2017).
    • Emad Badradeen, Matthew Brozak, Filiz Keles, Khalidah Al-Mayalee and Tansel Karabacak, High performance flexible copper indium gallium selenide core–shell nanorod array photodetectors, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films 35, 03E112 (2017).
    • Filiz Keles, Hilal Cansizoglu, Emad O Badraddin, Matthew P Brozak1, Fumiya Watanabe and Tansel Karabacak, HIPS-GLAD core shell nanorod array photodetectors with enhanced photocurrent and reduced dark current, Materials Research Express, 3, 10, (2016).
    • Filiz Keles, Hilal Cansizoglu, Matthew Brozak, Emad Badraddin , and Tansel Karabacak, Conformal core-shell nanostructured photodetectors with enhanced photoresponsivity by high-pressure sputter deposition, 1, 28 (Nanotechnology), (2016).
    • M. F. Cansizoglu, S. M. Hamad, D. P. Norman, F. Keles, E. Badraddin, T. Karabacak, and H.W. Seo, PiN InGaN nanorod solar cells with high short-circuit current, Appl. Phys. Express, 8, 042302, (2015).
  • Conferences and Presentations
    • Attended the in-person National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Spring 2024 NSF Grants Conference, which will take place June 3–5, 2024, in Philadelphia.
    • Attended the Exploring EPSCoR Research Ecosystems workshop at The NSF on May 22-23, 2024. Alexandria, Virginia.
    • Attended the Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) in-person meeting in Atlanta, which started on Wednesday, February 28 at 9:00 am and ended on Friday, March 1 at 2:00 pm.
    • EDGE Summit 2023, Education to Develop & Grow Entrepreneur, Arkansas Capital Corporation, November 16, 2023, at the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, North Little Rock, Arkansas.
    • Attended the 2023 IEEE-USA Innovation, Workforce, and Research Conference (IWRC) held at Embassy Suites by Hilton in Little Rock, Arkansas, from September 13th to 15th, 2023.
    • Attended the “Twistronics of 2D materials: from modelling to real systems” workshop that took place in Manchester from September 20-22, 2023, virtually.
    • Attended the “2023 Arkansas Commercialization Retreat”, which was held from September 21 to 23 at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute.
    • “Fast-Response High Performance Flexible Photodetectors Based on Core/Shell Mo/CIGS Nanorod Array” Emad Badradeen and Tansel Karabacak, merican Chemical Society (ACS) Southwest Regional Meeting (SWRM), Arkansas- Little Rock, 2018.
    •  “Flexible CuInxGa(1-x)Se2 (CIGS) Nanorod Array Photodetectors” Emad Badradeen, M. Brozak, K.M. Al-Mayalee, F. Keles and T. Karabacak, AVS 63rd International Symposium and Exhibition Nashville – Tennessee, (2016)
    •  “InGaN nanorods for Photonic application” presented in ‘Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials’, H. W. Seo, S. M. Hamad, D. P. Norman, M. F. Cansizoglu, F. Keles, and E. Badraddin, Daejeon, KOREA, October 7, (2014)
    •  “PiN InGaN nanorods for optoelectronic applications” presented in ‘Physics dept/ Ewha Womans University’, H. W. Seo, S. M. Hamad, D. P. Norman, M. F. Cansizoglu, F. Keles, and E. Badraddin, Seoul, KOREA, October 10, (2014)
    •  “Study of MBE grown n-type GaN Nanorod (0001) Array on p-type Si (111) with Graphene Contact”, F. Keles, D. P. Norman, S. M. Hamad, X. Geng, A. Al-Hilo, E. O. Badraddin, M. Erdem, J. Cui, T. P. Chen and H. W. Seo, NSF Conference (Poster), AR, USA, June 25-26, (2013)
    •  “Growth of n-type InGaN NRs on p-type Si(111)Substrate by using Molecular Beam Epitaxy” (Poster), S. M. Hamad, D. P. Norman, E. O. Badraddin, F. Keles, M. Erdem, and H. W. Seo, PVSC Conference (Poster), June 8-13, (2013)