Zafer Mutlu

[ACS AMI]Electrical and Structural Response of Nine-Atom-Wide Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon Transistors to Gamma Irradiation (opens in a new tab) PDF of “Electrical and Structural Response of Nine-Atom-Wide Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon Transistors to Gamma Irradiation” (opens in a new tab)

K. Yumigeta, M. Yusufoglu, J. G. Federice, E. T. Hughes, A. M. Degirmenci, J. T. Njardarson, K. Simmons-Potter, B. G. Potter, Z. Mutlu

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2026 Supplementary Front Cover

[Adv. Mater. Interfaces]Scalable Etch-Free Transfer of Low-Dimensional Materials from Metal Films to Diverse Substrates (opens in a new tab) PDF of “Scalable Etch-Free Transfer of Low-Dimensional Materials from Metal Films to Diverse Substrates” (opens in a new tab)

K. Yumigeta, M. Yusufoglu, M. Sarker, R. Raj, F. Daluisio, R. Holloway, H. Yawit, T. Sweepe, J. Battaglia, S. Janssen, A. C. Welch, P. DiPasquale, K. A. Mkhoyan, A. Sinitskii, Z. Mutlu

Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2026

[ACS Nano]Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbon Transistors with Long-Term Stability and Reliability (opens in a new tab) PDF of “Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbon Transistors with Long-Term Stability and Reliability” (opens in a new tab)

C. Dinh, M. Yusufoglu, K. Yumigeta, A. Kinikar, T. Sweepe, Z. Zeszut, Y.-J. Chang, C. Copic, S. Janssen, R. Holloway, J. Battaglia, A. Kuntubek, F. Zahin, Y. C. Lin, W. G. Vandenberghe, B. J. LeRoy, K. Müllen, R. Fasel, G. Borin Barin, Z. Mutlu

ACS Nano, 2024

[APR]Contact Engineering for Graphene Nanoribbon Devices (opens in a new tab) PDF of “Contact Engineering for Graphene Nanoribbon Devices” (opens in a new tab)

Z. Mutlu, C. Dinh, G. Borin Barin, P. H. Jacobse, A. Kumar, D. Polley, H. Singh, Z. Wang, Y. C. Lin, A. Schwartzberg, M. F. Crommie, K. Müllen, P. Ruffieux, R. Fasel, J. Bokor

Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 Featured Article

[Carbon]Scaling and Statistics of Bottom-Up Synthesized Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon Transistors (opens in a new tab) PDF of “Scaling and Statistics of Bottom-Up Synthesized Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon Transistors” (opens in a new tab)

Y. C. Lin, Z. Mutlu, G. Borin Barin, Y. Hong, J. P. Llinas, A. Narita, H. Singh, K. Müllen, P. Ruffieux, R. Fasel, J. Bokor

Carbon, 2023

[IEDM]Short-Channel Double-Gate FETs with Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons (opens in a new tab)

Z. Mutlu, Y. C. Lin, G. Borin Barin, Z. Zhang, G. Pitner, S. Wang, R. Darawish, M. Di Giovannantonio, H. Wang, J. Cai, M. Passlack, C. H. Diaz, A. Narita, K. Müllen, F. R. Fischer, P. Bandaru, A. C. Kummel, P. Ruffieux, R. Fasel, J. Bokor

IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2021

Director, Advanced Nanoelectronics & Nanostructures Laboratory (ANNLab)2022–Present

Research group in materials and devices for semiconductor and quantum technologies, University of Arizona

Co-Director, FASTLab

Hands-on training in fabricating logic, memory, quantum, and communication devices, University of Arizona

Lead Investigator, Team Research Projects

Funded by the NSF Future of Semiconductors (FuSe) program, the Semiconductor Research Corporation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Microelectronics Commons SWAP Hub

University of Arizona Lead, Intel Scholarship & Fellowship Program2026–Present

Led by Northern Arizona University and administered by the Semiconductor Research Corporation, supporting six master’s scholars

General Chair, FUSENANO National Workshop2024

Molecules to Systems: The Future of Semiconductors with 1D and 2D Nanomaterials (opens in a new tab), Tucson, AZ

Arizona Quantum Bootcamp, University of Arizona2026

Invited lecture on nanoelectronics and the future of semiconductors

Arizona–Livermore Days, Tucson, AZ2026

Talk on graphene nanoribbon nanosensors

Lawrence Symposium on Epitaxy, Arizona State University2025

“From Molecules to Logic: Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbon Transistors”

IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices (WMED), Boise State University2025

“Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons as Next-Generation Channel Materials for Transistor Scaling Beyond Silicon Limits”

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas2024

Invited seminar

MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, MA2023

Invited talk and session chair

Components Research, Intel Corporation2023

Invited talk on graphene nanoribbon transistors to the Advanced Device Research group

Member, Early Career Advisory Board2026–Present

RSC Applied Interfaces (opens in a new tab) (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Member, Early Career Editorial Board2026–Present

Graphene and 2D Materials (opens in a new tab) (Springer Nature)

Contributing Author, SRC Microelectronics and Advanced Packaging Technologies (MAPT) Roadmap 2.02025

Digital Processing and Workforce Development chapters (opens in a new tab), Semiconductor Research Corporation

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (2022–Present)

Assistant Professor (by courtesy), Department of Physics (2024–Present)

Assistant Professor (by courtesy), School of Electrical, Computing, and Software Engineering (2024–Present)

University of California, Berkeley, CA

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (2018–2022)

Affiliate, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2018–2022)

University of California, Riverside, CA

Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2017–2018)

Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering (2016–2017)

Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA

2011–2016Advisor: Cengiz S. Ozkan

Dissertation: “Crystal Growth and Phase Engineering of Two-Dimensional Metal Chalcogenides (opens in a new tab)”

M.S. in Physics, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey

2007–2009Advisor: Oğuz Doğan

Thesis: “Fabrication of YBCO Superconducting Thin Film on Si Substrate and Investigation of the Film Properties”

B.S. in Physics Education, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey

2002–2007