Staff Directory
Academic Qualification
- Ph.D in Technology and Industrial Develoment Meterial Science and Engineering - Doctor of Philosophy, Universiti Malaya (UM)
- Master of Science (Thin Film Technology) - Masters Degree, Universiti Malaya (UM)
- Bachelor in Physics - Bachelor Degree, Universiti Malaya (UM)
- Pusat Asasi Sains - Certificate, Universiti Malaya (UM)
Raihan Bin Othman (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)
Associate Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus
KULLIYYAH OF ENGINEERING
raihan@iium.edu.my
5840
Expert Profile
Raihan Othman completed his tertiary studies at the University of Malaya. He did his BSc in Physics. His MSc project was on plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) silicon nitride. He later worked on zinc-air cell for his Ph.D. He joined IIUM in 1997 as a matriculation teacher and currently, is an academic staff of the Department of Science in Engineering, Kulliyyah of Engineering, IIUM.
He served the faculty as the Deputy Dean (Student Affairs) from 2003 until 2008. He is currently the Head, Department of Science in Engineering. Dr. Raihan and his co-workers have patented their innovative work on MCM-41 as separator for electrochemical cells, and, Zn/MCM-41/air cell as humidity sensor.
He served the faculty as the Deputy Dean (Student Affairs) from 2003 until 2008. He is currently the Head, Department of Science in Engineering. Dr. Raihan and his co-workers have patented their innovative work on MCM-41 as separator for electrochemical cells, and, Zn/MCM-41/air cell as humidity sensor.
Area of Specialisation
- Natural Science ~ Physical Sciences ~ Condensed Matter Physics ~ Thin Film - Thin film coating (Plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition, PECVD ; chemical bath electrodeposition)
- Natural Science ~ Material Sciences ~ Electronic Materials ~ Electrochemical Materials - Electrochemical power sources (metal-air system ; biofuel cells)
Professional Membership
- 2006 - 2007: Member of Profesional Body / Association, The Electrochemical Society, USA
- 2009 - 2010: Member of Profesional Body / Association, The Electrochemical Society, USA
- 2011: Member of Profesional Body / Association, Malaysian Society for Engineering and Technology
- 2011 - 2012: Member of Profesional Body / Association, The Electrochemical Society, USA
Teaching Responsibilities
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS | 2017/2018 |
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS | 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 |
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND LINEAR ALGEBRA | 2009/2010 2007/2008 |
ENGINEERING CALCULUS 1 | 2004/2005 |
ENGINEERING CALCULUS I | 2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012 2010/2011 2007/2008 2006/2007 2005/2006 |
ENGINEERING CALCULUS II | 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2003/2004 |
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS 2 | 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 |
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS II | 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2020/2021 2019/2020 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 |
MATERIALS PHYSICS | 2003/2004 |
MATERIALS PHYSICS (LAB) | 2003/2004 |
PHYSICS | 2007/2008 |
THERMODYNAMICS | 2003/2004 |
Supervision
Integrated Electrochemical And Mass Biosensor For Early Dengue Detection.
Ph.D
Completed
2020
Co-supervisor
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Rechargeable Ni-Zn Microbatteries Employing Mcm-41 Separator.
Ph.D
Completed
2018
Main Supervisor
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Investigation Of Microstructural And Corrosion Behaviour Of Malay Keris.
Ph.D
Completed
2018
Co-supervisor
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Zinc Oxide And Aluminium Nitride Cmos-Mems Surface Acoustic Wave Resonator For Rf Applications.
Ph.D
Completed
2016
Co-supervisor
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Traditional Malay Black Ink : Formulation Of Recipe And Analysis On Their Characteristics.
Ph.D
Completed
2016
Co-supervisor
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Development Of A Leclanche Cell For Microsystem Applications.
Ph.D
Completed
2014
Main Supervisor
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Studies On Zinc-Air Cell Using Mcm -41 Inorganic Membrane.
Ph.D
Completed
2011
Main Supervisor
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Harvesting Electricity From Fungal Fuel Cell Fed With Lignocelullosic Waste.
Ph.D
In Progress
Main Supervisor
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Bioremediation Of Pome Using White-Rot Fungus Phanerochate Chrysosporium.
Ph.D
In Progress
Main Supervisor
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Zinc-Air Microbial Fuel Cell From Fungal Degradation Of Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch.
Master
Completed
2021
Main Supervisor
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Fabrication And Characterization Of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Using Natural Dyes.
Master
Completed
2020
Co-supervisor
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Influence Of Active Layer Thickness On The Performance Of Organic Photovoltaics With Light Trapping.
Master
Completed
2020
Co-supervisor
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Development Of Screen-Printed Nickel-Zinc And Silver-Zinc Batteries
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Master
Completed
2020
Co-supervisor
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Studies On Mcm-41air-To-Air Heat Exchanger: Fabrication, Performance And Modeling.
Master
Completed
2014
Main Supervisor
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Studies Of Zinc Corrosion Inhibition Using Zr-Mcm-41 Inorganic Membrane.
Master
Completed
2014
Main Supervisor
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Development Of Aluminum Air Seawater Battery.
Master
Completed
2014
Main Supervisor
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Development And Characterization Of Integrated Surface Acoustic Wave Resonator On Cmos.
Master
Completed
2014
Co-supervisor
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Synthesis And Characterisation Of Znx Cd1-Xo/ Polymer Junction For Photovoltaic Application.
Master
Completed
2014
Co-supervisor
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Fabrication And Characterization Of Zn/Mcm-41/Air Cell As Micro-Humidity Sensor.
Master
Completed
2013
Main Supervisor
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Development Of Enzymatic Zinc-Air Cell Employing Laccase As The Oxygen Reduction Catalyst.
Master
Completed
2012
Main Supervisor
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Low Dark Count Rate So Spad (Silicon Single-Photon Avalanche Diode) For Use As Single Photon Detector In Quantum Key Distribution (Qkd) Data Security.
Master
Completed
2012
Main Supervisor
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Development Of Mems Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Devices For Wireless Condition Monitoring.
Master
Completed
2012
Co-supervisor
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Electrodeposition Of Zinc For Applications In Zinc-Air Cell.
Master
Completed
2012
Co-supervisor
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Rf Magnetron Sputtered Ysz Thin Films: Fabrication And Characterizations.
Master
Completed
2011
Main Supervisor
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Influence Of Substrate Material On Thermoelectric Properties Of Electrodeposited Co-Planar Cuo-Zno Intrinsic Semiconductor.
Master
In Progress
Co-supervisor
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Structural Modifications Of Rice Husk-Derived Activated Carbon Via Pyrolysis Method For Use In Dual-Carbon Lithium Batteries.
Master
In Progress
Co-supervisor
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Research Projects
Completed
2020 - 2023 | Elucidating Electrochemical Behaviours of Novel Molybdenum Nitride towards Carbon Dioxide Reduction |
2019 - 2023 | Structural modifications of agrowaste-derived disordered carbon via pyrolysis method for use in dual-carbon lithium batteries |
2019 - 2022 | Conversion of Agrowaste into Electricity via Microbial Electrochemical System |
2019 - 2022 | Highly Efficient Li-Ion Battery Recycling with capacity-sorted optimisation for secondary energy storage system |
2019 - 2023 | Chitosan-based biocompatible piezoelectric thin film from shrimp shell waste for self-powered cardiac pacemaker |
2019 - 2023 | Enhanced static and dynamic mechanical performance of Zirconia-Toughened Alumina infused with empty fruit bunch-derived solid carbon via chemical vapor infiltration technique for dual-use technologies |
2018 - 2022 | Development of Printed Power Sources on Flexible Substrates |
2017 - 2020 | Development of Flexible Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for Wearable Devices and Development of Printable, Flexible, Rechargeable Zinc Batteries for Powered Smart Card Application |
2017 - 2020 | Impacts of the photoactive layer's properties on the performance of organic solar cells and photodiodes based on a novel model |
2015 - 2018 | Novel Theoretical Model of an electrochemical nanobiosensor for rapid detection of dengue |
2014 - 2017 | Multipliers in the Framework of Topological Algebra |
2014 - 2018 | A Powerful Efficient Modification of Harmonic Balance Method for Solving Nonlinear Oscillatory Problems in Dynamical Systems |
2014 - 2018 | Spectral Expansions and Application of Mathematical Principles on Electromagnetic Prospecting Method |
2013 - 2014 | The Effect of Leadership Training on the Character Development of CFS Students |
2013 - 2016 | A Novel Phanaerochaete Fungal Biofuel Cell For Bioelectricity Generation |
2013 - 2018 | Ergodic Theorems for L1-L~ Contractions in Banach-Kantorovich Lp-lattices |
2012 - 2015 | Multicast Network Security using Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) |
2012 - 2016 | Evaluation of the Effect of Water Vapor on the Adsoption of Oxygen in Ferritic Fe-Cr Alloy at 1073 K |
2012 - 2015 | Development of Multi-Functional Inorganic Separator for Electrochemical Cells |
2011 - 2013 | Bioactive Ceramic Matrix Nanocomposites for High Performance Load Bearing Bone Substitute |
2010 - 2011 | Studies on Bipolar Zinc-Air Cell Employing MCM-41Gel Electrolyte |
2010 - 2014 | In-Vivo Biofuel Cell |
2010 - 2013 | Fundamental study on the relationship between schottky barrier and dissolved hydrogen in metal surface and its' effect to accelerate the oxygen transport along metal-Cr2O3 heterojunction during high temperature oxidation of ferritic Fe-Cr alloy at 1073K |
2010 - 2012 | The Effects of Water Vapor on High Temperature Oxidation of Fe-Cr-Ni Alloy at 1073K. |
2010 - 2012 | Surface oxygen potential on growing oxide scale of Fe-Cr-Ni alloys at 1073 in dry and humid conditions |
2010 - 2014 | Computer Aided Designing of Pyranose 2-Oxidase (P20x) |
2010 - 2012 | Harvesting Green Energy From Microbial Zine-Air Electrochemical System |
2010 - 2012 | Green Energy Generation from Rhizopus-Gleophyllum Biofuel Cell |
2009 - 2012 | An Enzymatic Biofuel Cell Utilizing Glucose Oxidase and Laccase |
2009 - 2012 | Development of Inorganic Membrane for Microbattery Applications |
2009 - 2011 | Synthesis and Characterization of Photovoltic(PV) Cells |
2009 - 2011 | Electrodeposition of Zinc from Aqueous Chloride Bath Use in Zinc Batteries |
2009 - 2011 | Development of Enzymatic Zinc-Air Cell Employing Laccase as the Oxygen Reduction Catalyst |
2006 - 2010 | Intrinsic Localized Vectorial Mode in BEC and Waveguide Systems with Cubic-Quintic Nonlinearity |
2006 - 2011 | Low Temperature Oxygen Ion Conductors for Use in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells |
2006 - 2009 | Development Of Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries Employing Gelled Electrolyte |
On-Going
2022 - Present | Effect of Morphological Modification on Thermoelectric Cell of Electrodeposited Intrinsic CuO-ZnO |
2021 - Present | Enhanced Performance of Stretchable Body Coupled Antenna with High Permittivity Barium Titanate - Silicone Elastomer Composite for Biomedical Microwave Sensing and Imaging applications |
2020 - Present | Investigation of a Hybrid Piezoelectric and Radio Frequency (RF) Energy Harvester using Chitosan based Piezoelectric Thin Film for Self-Powered Health Care Wireless Sensors Network (HC-WSN) |
2019 - Present | Development of high temperature corrosion protection of metallic alloys |
2018 - Present | Indigenous scientific and technical know-how of Production of writing ink used in Malay Manuscripts. |
2013 - Present | Grounding of the Education Model based on Branching of Islamic Knowledge into Engineering/Technical Education |
Publications
Article
Conference or Workshop Item
2023 | Synthesis and characterization of intrinsic CuO-ZnO semiconductor for thermoelectric cell using electrodeposition method. In: 11th International Symposium on Applied Engineering and Sciences (SAES2023), |
2021 | Removal of cadmium ions via the magnetic biochar synthesized from sugarcane bagasse: factors affecting yield and adsorption capability. In: Virtual International UMT Annual Symposium 2021, |
2020 | Analisa fizikal terhadap kondusi manuskrip Melayu dalam koleksi Institut Antarabangsa Pemikiran dan Tamadun Islam (ISTAC). In: Persidangan Antarabangsa Pengajian Alam Melayu (PAPAM) 2020,, |
2020 | Dokumentasi saintifik: resipi tinta tradisional dan bahan penulisan manuskrip di rantau Melayu. In: International Conference on Malay Studies 2020, |
2020 | Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) study of coconut water as natural inhibitor in Malay traditional preservation of iron artefact. In: 2nd Joint Conference on Green Engineering Technology & Applied Computing 2020, |
2019 | Effect of acceptor impurity (Cu and Al) in Zn4Sb3 thermoelectric materials via hotisostatic pressing (HIP) method. In: Materials characterization using x-rays and related techniques, |
2018 | 19th Century Malay manuscripts and royal Malay letters: identification of writing ink and its characteristics. In: 7th International Seminar On Nusantara Heritage 2018 (7th ISoNH 2018), |
2018 | A secondary, coplanar design Ni/MCM-41/Zn microbattery. In: International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering 2017, ICAMME 2017, |
2018 | Classical equivalent circuit characterization for a double-layer capacitor. In: 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA) 2017, |
2018 | Effect of compaction pressure of green body and heating current on photoluminescence property of ZnO crystal grown by electric current heating method. In: International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering 2017, ICAMME 2017, |
2018 | Electrodeposition of zinc antimony alloy thermoelectric materials. In: "International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering 2017, ICAMME 2017", |
2018 | Optimization of TiO2 thin film thickness for dye sensitized solar cell applications. In: International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering 2017, ICAMME 2017, |
2018 | The viability of MCM-41 as separator in secondary alkaline cells. In: International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering 2017, ICAMME 2017, |
2016 | Bio-dye sensitized solar cell for energy conversion. In: 4th International Conference on Biotechnology Engineering 2016 (ICBioE 2016), |
2016 | Traditional Malay black ink: An analysis of its recipes and characteristics. In: International Conference on Architecture & Built Environment (ICABE 2016), |
2015 | Dependence of preferred c-axis orientation on RF magnetron sputtering power for AZO/Si acoustic wave devices. In: 2015 Symposium on Design, Integration, Test and Packaging of MEMS and MOEMS (DTIP), |
2015 | Dynamic batch rekeying scheme using multiple logical key trees for secure multicast communication. In: 2015 International Conference on Computing, Control, Networking, Electronics and Embedded Systems Engineering (ICCCNEE 2015), |
2015 | Fabrication of flexible Au/ZnO/ITO/PET memristor using dilute electrodeposition method. In: 4th International Conference on Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications 2015 (ICEDSA), |
2014 | The legacy of traditional Indonesian ink: its intensity and durability. In: ICOM-CC 17th Triennial Conference Preprints, |
2013 | Homology modeling of Pyranose 2-Oxidase from Phanerochaete Chrysosporium. In: International Conference on Biotechnology Engineering (ICBioE 2013), |
2013 | Molecular docking studies of Pyranose-2-oxidase from trametes multicolor. In: International Conference on Biotechnology Engineering (ICBioE 2013), |
2013 | Preparation of Zn0.6Cd0.4o nanorods and its characterization. In: Third International Conference on Biotechnology (ICBIoE 2013), |
2012 | Evaluation of porous electrode properties using metal-air electrochemical system. In: 1st International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection, ICEEP 2012, |
2012 | Weight martigale-ergodic and ergodic-martingale theorems . In: International Conference on Mathematical Applications in Engineering (ICMAE2012), |
2012 | Zinc-air battery – powering electric vehicles to smart active labels . In: 1st International Conference on Engineering and Technology Development 2012 (ICETD 2012), |
2011 | Observation on void formed in oxide scale of Fe-Cr-Ni alloy at 1073K in dry and humid environments. In: 2nd International Conference on Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering 2011 (ICME 2011), |
2011 | Performance evaluation of MEMS piezoelectric inertial energy generator. In: 2011 IEEE Symposium Design, Test and Packaging of MEMS and MOEMS (DTIP 2011), |
2010 | A breathing microbattery: Zn/MCM-41/O2 system. In: IIUM Research, Innovation & Invention Exhibition (IRIIE 2010), |
2010 | Green technology of energy-efficient materials up to 70% for plasma display panel. In: IIUM Research, Innovation & Invention Exhibition (IRIIE 2010), |
2010 | In-situ method to monitor surface reaction/oxidation at high temperature. In: IIUM Research, Innovation & Invention Exhibition (IRIIE 2010), |
2010 | Increase of oxygen permeability on metal/oxide interface during high temperature oxidation of Fe-Cr alloys in water vapor at 1073 K. In: 3rd International Conference on Functional Materials and Devices 2010, |
2010 | Novel AZO thin film for display and Photovoltaic application. In: IIUM Research, Innovation & Invention Exhibition (IRIIE 2010), |
2010 | Optimization of zinc electrodeposition from zinc-air cell discharge performance. In: 3rd International Conference on Functional Materials and Devices 2010, |
2010 | Preparation and characterization of inorganic MCM-41 membrane for zinc-air microbattery. In: 3rd International Conference on Functional Materials and Devices (ICFMD 2010), |
2010 | RF magnetron sputtered YSZ thin film: Fabrication and characterizations. In: 3rd International Conference on Functional Materials and Devices 2010, |
2010 | Zinc-air cell employing laccase as the oxygen reduction catalyst. In: 3rd International Conference on Functional Materials and Devices 2010, |
2006 | Confidence interval of ration of parameters in unbalanced split plot design under fixed effect model. In: International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Computation, |
Book
2011 | Contributions of Muslim scientists to medicine and related sciences. IIUM Press, ISBN: 978-967-418-155-0 |
Book Section
Monograph
2012 | The effects of water vapor on high temperature oxidation of Fe-Cr-Ni alloy at 1073k. In: s.n., |