Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Zine-Eddine Abid, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
zeabid@eng.uwo.ca     519-661-2111 x87290     EC 1008

Publications

Selected Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Z. Abid, Mrinmoy Barua and A. Alma'aitah, "Design of a Transmission-Gate based CMOL Memory Array", accepted for publication, Micro & Nano Letters, IET publications, 2008.
  2. Z. Abid, H. El-Razouk and D. A. El-Dib, "Low power multipliers based on new hybrid full adders", accepted for publication, Microelectronics Journal, 2008.
  3. Z. Abid and Wei Wang, "Countermeasures for Hardware Fault Attack in Multi-Prime RSA Cryptosystems", International Journal of Network Security, Vol.6, No.2, pp.190-200, Mar. 2008.
  4. Z. Abid and H. El-Razouk, "Defect Tolerant Voter Designs Based on Transistors Redundancy", Journal of Low Power Electronics, American Scientific Publishers, V.2, N.3, pp. 456-463, Dec. 2006.
  5. B. Al-Mashary and Z. Abid, "Simulation of Optical Waveguide with various structures and new materials", published by the College of Engineering Research Center, Riyadh, KSA, 2001.
  6. D. G. Ivey, R. Zhang, Z. Abid, S. Eicher and T. Lester, "Microstructural Analysis of Pd/Pt/Au/Pd Ohmic Contacts to InGaP/GaAs", Journal of Materials Science (Materials in Electronics), pp. 281-288, V.8, 1997.
  7. B. Ghodsian, D. L. Pulfrey, Z. Abid and S. P. McAlister, "On the Design of Composite Collector HBTs", Solid-State-Electronics, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 1275-1278, 1995.
  8. Z. Abid, S. P. McAlister, W. R. McKinnon and E. E. Guzzo, "Temperature dependent DC Characteristics of an InP-based Double HBT with a Quaternary Collector", IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 178-180, 1994.
  9. Z. Abid, K. Johnson and A. Gopinath, "Analysis of Dielectric Guides by Vector Transverse Magnetic Field Finite Elements", Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 11, No. 10, pp. 1545-1549, 1993.
  10. Z. Abid, A. Gopinath, F. Williamson and M. Nathan, "Direct Schottky contact InP MESFETs", IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 12, No. 6, p. 279, 1991.
  11. Z. Abid, A. Gopinath, B. Meskoob, and S. Prasad, "GaAs MESFETs with channel Doping Variations", Solid-State-Electronics, Vol. 34, No. 12, pp. 1427-1432, 1991.
  12. J. Zou, Z. Abid, H. Dong, and A. Gopinath, "Reduction of Real space transfer in Depletion-mode Dipole Heterostructure Field Effect Transistors", Applied Phys. Lett., Vol. 58, No. 21, pp. 2411-2413, May 27, 1991.
  13. Z. Abid and A. Gopinath, "Impedance and Switching of GaAs P-I-N Diode", IEEE Transaction on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 38, pp. 1526-1528, Oct. 1990.

Selected Refereed Conference Papers

  1. A. Alma'aitah and Z. Abid, "A Nanoelectronic Array Structure based on two types of Molecular Switches", to be presented at IEEE DTIS international conference, March 2008.
  2. D. A. El-Dib, Z. Abid and Heba A. Shawkey, "Investigating an Aggressive Mode for Drowsy Cache Cells", to be presented at IEEE Canadian Conference on ECE (CCECE'08), May 2008 .
  3. Z. Abid and Wei Wang, "New Designs of Redundant-Binary Full Adders and their Applications", to be presented at IEEE International Sym. on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS) Conference, May 2008.
  4. Z. Abid and Rizwan Mudassir, "Signed Booth Multiplier using Redundant-Binary-Number System", IEEE conference (ICECE 06), Dhaka, pp. 145-148 December 2006.
  5. Hayssam El-Razouk and Z. Abid, "Area and Power Efficient Array and Tree Multipliers", IEEE Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 06), pp. 713 - 716, May 2006.
  6. Hayssam El-Razouk and Z. Abid, "A new Transistor-Redundant Voter for defect-tolerant digital circuits", IEEE Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 06), pp. 1078-1081 , May 2006.
  7. F. Vasefi and Z. Abid, "Design of Silicon Devices for Pass-Transistor-Logic Circuits", International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, pp. 396-397, December 2005.
  8. Rizwan Mudassir, H. El-Razouk and Z. Abid, "New Designs of Signed Multipliers", Proceedings of IEEE-NEWCAS 3rd International Conference, Quebec, Canada, pp. 366-364, June 2005.
  9. Y. Yang, Z. Abid, Wei Wang, Z. Zhang, and C. Yang, "Efficient multi-prime RSA immune against hardware fault attack", Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) Conference, pp. 4649-4652, Japan, 2005.
  10. J. Patel and Z. Abid, "Design of PC Programmable Digital Hearing-Testing Device", Proceedings of CCECE Conference, Saskatoon, Canada, pp. 234-237, May 2005.
  11. F. Vasefi and Z. Abid, "Low Power n-bit Adders and Multiplier Using Lowest-number-of-Transistor 1-bit Adder", Proceedings of CCECE Conference, Saskatoon, Canada, pp. pp 1731-1734 May 2005.
  12. Z. Abid, Wei Wang and Yaopin Chen, "A low-power FPGA implementation for DA-based video processing", Proceedings of IWVDVT conference, Nanjing, China, May 2005.
  13. Y. Yang, Z. Abid and Wei Wang, "Two-Prime RSA Immune Cryptosystem and its FPGA Implementation", Proceedings of Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), USA, 2005
  14. F. Vasefi and Z. Abid, "10-Transistor 1-bit Adders for n-bit Parallel Adders", Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Microelectronics, Tunis, pp. 174-177, December 2004
  15. J. Patel, Z. Abid and Wei Wang, "VLSI Implementation of a Floating-point Divider," Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Microelectronics, Tunis, pp. 505-508, December 2004.
  16. Z. Abid, "Modeling of time delay in VHDL-based Design of a Multiplier", 8th annual IEEE technical exchange meeting at KFUPM University, Dhahran, KSA, April 2001.
  17. Z. Abid, "Fabrication of InP Heterostructurre Bipolar Transistors for 40Gb/s Communication Systems", pp 133-136 in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Microelectronics, Tehran, October 2000.
  18. Z. Abid, "Heterostructure Bipolar Transistors : from Devices to Products", pp. 65-69 inn Proceedings of the 6th annual IEEE technical exchange meeting, KFUPM University, Dhahran, KSA, April, 1999.
  19. Z. Abid, W. R. McKinnon, S. P. McAlister and M. Davies, "InP Double Heterostructure Bipolar Transistors with a quaternary collector for improved Breakdown Behavior", Proceedings of the 5th International conference on InP & Related Materials in Paris, France, pp. 432-434, 1993.
  20. Z. Abid, S. P. McAlister and W. R. McKinnon, "GaInP/GaAs Heterostructure Bipolar Transistors with High Gain and High Breakdown Voltages", Proceedings of the IEEE/Cornell-14th Conf. on Advanced Concepts in High Speed Semiconductor Devices & Circuits, pp. 69-74, Cornell, Aug. 2-4, 1993.
  21. Z. Abid, K. Johnson, A. Gopinath, "Vector Finite Element modeling of Dielectric Guides by Transverse Magnetic Filed Formulation", Integrated Photonics Research Technical Digest, Vol. 10, pp. 220-224, 1993.
  22. Z. Abid, A. Gopinath, F. Williamson, and M. Nathan, "Enhanced Schottky Barrier InP MESFETs", Proceedings of the 3rd International conference on InP & Related Materials in Cardiff, Wales, April 8-10, 1991.