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Zakaria Al Balushi

Principal Investigator

UC Berkeley

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Electronic Materials

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Zakaria Al Balushi develops wafer‑scale synthesis and phase control of layered and nitride semiconductors, engineering heterointerfaces for precise doping and intercalation to enable tunable opto‑ and quantum devices; holds an issued patent on near‑room‑temperature GaN synthesis.

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Epitaxy of group-iii nitrides using metal-graphene encapsulation and ammonolysis

Innovative PVD method for epitaxial group-III nitride films on silicon using metal-graphene encapsulation to bypass traditional techniques, offering a cost-effective, scalable solution for high-quality film deposition.

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Zakaria Al Balushi

Principal Investigator

UC Berkeley

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UC Berkeley

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CoatingsElectric Field EffectsEnergy SourcesGrapheneGrowth ProcessesInorganic Chemistry

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