
Associate Professor
ASME Fellow
Contact Information
Office: Bldg. 63-Room 315
Phone: +966 13 860 2579
Fax: +966 13 860 2949 (ME Dept)
Email: : zayd.leseman@kfupm.edu.sa
Website : Personal Page
Education
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, 2006
- M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, 2000
- B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, 1998
Courses Taught
- Nano Materials and Mechanics
- Nano Scale Energy Transport and Conversion
- Introduction to Micro / Nano Fabrication
- Semiconductor Fabrication
- Intro / Intermediate / Advanced Materials
- Intro / Intermediate / Advanced Mechanics of Materials
- Continuum Mechanics
- Engineering Measurements
- Manufacturing
- Senior Design
Research Areas
- Renewable Energy
- Materials
- Mechanics of Materials
- MEMS / Nanotechnology
Representative Publications
- S. Alaie, D. F. Goettler, M. Su, Z. C. Leseman, C. M. Reinke, and I. El-Kady, "Thermal transport in phononic crystals and the observation of coherent phonon scattering at room temperature," Nat. Commun., vol. 6, 2015.
- P. E. Hopkins et al., "Reduction in the thermal conductivity of single crystalline silicon by phononic crystal patterning," Nano Lett., vol. 11, no. 1, 2011.
- M. F. Su, R. H. Olsson-III, Z. C. Leseman, and I. El-Kady, "Realization of a phononic crystal operating at gigahertz frequencies," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 96, 2010.
- F. Liu, S. Alaie, Z. C. Leseman, and M. Hossein-Zadeh, "Sub-pg mass sensing and measurement with an optomechanical oscillator," Opt. Express, vol. 21, no. 17, pp. 762–768, 2013.
- J. L. Braun et al., "Size effects on the thermal conductivity of amorphous silicon thin films," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 93, no. 14, p. 140201, 2016.
- Z. C. Leseman, S. P. Carlson, and T. J. Mackin, "Experimental measurements of the strain energy release rate for stiction-failed microcantilevers using a single-cantilever beam peel test," J. Microelectromechanical Syst., vol. 16, no. 1, 2007.
- M. A. Atwater, J. Phillips, and Z. C. Leseman, "The effect of powder sintering on the palladium-catalyzed formation of carbon nanofibers from ethylene-oxygen mixtures," Carbon N. Y., vol. 48, no. 7, 2010.
- K. Abbas, S. Alaie, and Z. C. Leseman, "Design and characterization of a low temperature gradient and large displacement thermal actuators for in situ mechanical testing of nanoscale materials," J. Micromechanics Microengineering, vol. 22, no. 12, p. 125027, 2012.
- M. A. Atwater, J. Phillips, and Z. C. Leseman, "Formation of carbon nanofibers and thin films catalyzed by palladium in ethylene?hydrogen mixtures," J. Phys. Chem. C, vol. 114, no. 13, 2010.
- K. Abbas et al., "Nanoscale size effects on the mechanical properties of platinum thin films and cross-sectional grain morphology," J. Micromechanics Microengineering, vol. 26, no. 1, p. 15007, 2016.