prof. dr. ahmad rifqi bin md. zain

pensyarah universiti

institut kejuruteraan mikro & nanoelektronik (imen)



   Kluster Kepakaran/ Cluster of Expertise :
  • Sumber Lestari, Alam Sekitar dan Kehidupan Pintar,



  •    Biografi/ Biography :

  • Ahmad Rifqi Md Zain is Associate professor of Electronics engineering at Institute of Microengineering and Naoelectronics (IMEN), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He received his degree and masters degree from Coventry University and Glasgow university, United Kingdom in 2002 and 2005 respectively. Ahmad rifqi also worked with Marconi Communication as hardware engineer United Kingdom from 2002-2004 before pursuing his study at Glasgow university. In 2009, He received his PhD from Glasgow University, United kingdom (with Prof Richard De La Rue), in Electronics engineering (1D photonic crystal cavities). After completing his posdoctoral studies in 2012 at Bristol university in Gallium nitride based optical biosensors (with Prof Martin J. Cryan), he joined IMEN, UKM in August, 2014. In 2017, he joined Prof Marko Loncar at School of engineering and applied sciences (SEAS), Harvard University as posdoctoral research fellow in applied physics until 2019, working on Quantum information. Ahmad Rifqi is expert in nanophotonics, optoelectronics and nanofabrication, and his current interest include optical imaging at infra-red region, 2D materials, optical based biosensors (including Photonic crystal based waveguide, SERS, LSPR), 1D and 2D photonic crystals, optical MEMS sensors, enviromental and agricultural based sensors (including water security and farming industry), integrated optics and nanofabrication. Ahmad Rifqi is a member of of Optical Society of America, IEEE and SPIE.Ahmad Rifqi has been awarded several research grants nationally and internationally.

  • ahmad aminudin, lilik hasanah, harbi setyo nugroho, chandra wulandari, budi mulyanti, roer eka pawinanto, ahmad rifqi md zain, gandi sugandi, ida hamidah, widyaningrum indrasari, jumril yunas.  (2025).  the utilization of the taguchi method on microring resonator design parameters to enhance the value of the quality factor.  - bulletin of electrical engineering and informatics.  4063 - 4073. 

     

    norita mohd yusoff, josephine liew ying chyi, eng khoon ng, han kee lee, mohd zul hilmi mayzan, mohammed thamer alresheedi, nadiah husseini zainol abidin, ahmad rifqi md zain, mohd adzir mahdi.  (2025).  ammonium bromide as a saturable absorbing device for ultrafast photonics.  - journal of luminescence.  1 - 14. 

     

    p susthitha menon, burhanuddin yeop majlis, mohd ramdzan buyong, ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2025).  sabbatical program for students of alam shah school, putrajaya at imen ukm: sharing knowledge and experience in the field of microengineering and nanoelectronics.  - ieee electron devices society (eds) newsletter. 

     

    athiyah sakinah masran, nur hidayah azeman, wan mohd ebtisyam mustaqim mohd daniyal, mohd hafiz abu bakar, nur afifah ahmad nazri, rozita sulaiman, muhammad rahimi yusop, ahmad rifqi md zain & ahmad ashrif a bakar.  (2025).  sensitivity improvement of creatinine detection based on functionalized carbon dots and silver nanotriangular localized surface plasmon resonance.  - plasmonics.  1 - 10. 

     

    wan hafizi wan ishak, ishak ahmad, noor afizah rosli, alain dufresne, sahrim ahmad, mohd shaiful sajab, ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2025).  fabrication of 3d-printed pla/liquid natural rubber/cellulose nanocrystals bionanocomposite for advanced biomedical applications.  - journal of materials research and technology.  5164 - 5177. 

     

    sh. nadzirah, subash c.b. gopinath, chang fu dee, u. hashim , ahmad rifqi md zain , burhanuddin yeop majlis.  (2025).  analyzing hyperproduction of beta 2-microglobulin by nano biosensors: an update on potential blood biomarkers for precise detection.  - microchemical journal.  1 - 17. 

     

    wan hafizi wan ishak, ishak ahmad, noor afizah rosli, alain dufresne, sahrim ahmad, mohd shaiful sajab, ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2025).  fabrication of 3d-printed pla/liquid natural rubber/cellulose nanocrystals bionanocomposite for advanced biomedical applications.  - journal of materials research and technology.  5164 - 5177. 

     

    muhammad asif ahmad khushaini, basyirah zulkifli, ahmad ashrif a bakar, tg hasnan tg abdul aziz, ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2025).  the underlying nonlinear dynamics of strong coupling via entangled dark states.  - chaos, solitons and fractals.  1 - 9. 

     

    norita mohd yusoff, josephine liew ying chyi, eng khoon ng, han kee lee, mohd zul hilmi mayzan, mohammed thamer alresheedi, nadiah husseini zainol abidin, ahmad rifqi md zain, mohd adzir mahdi.  (2025).  ammonium bromide as a saturable absorbing device for ultrafast photonics.  - journal of luminescence.  1 - 14. 

     

    athiyah sakinah masran, nur hidayah azeman, wan mohd ebtisyam mustaqim mohd daniyal, mohd hafiz abu bakar, nur afifah ahmad nazri, rozita sulaiman, muhammad rahimi yusop, ahmad rifqi md zain & ahmad ashrif a bakar.  (2025).  sensitivity improvement of creatinine detection based on functionalized carbon dots and silver nanotriangular localized surface plasmon resonance.  - plasmonics.  1 - 10. 

     

    ali jabbar abed al nidawi, khamirul amin matori, mohd hafiz mohd zaid, josephine liew ying chyi, tan sin tee, muhammad asif ahmad khushaini, ahmad rifqi md zain, wurood rahi mutlage, mohammad ayman abuallah, abdelkader mohammed efa.  (2024).  er2o3 doped zinc borosilicate glass substrate: impact of doping to the structural optical and surface plasmon resonance performance.  - silicon.  3595 - 3611. 

     

    lita rahmasari, mohd faizol abdullah, ahmad rifqi md zain, abdul manaf hashim.  (2023).  highly sensitive optofluidic sensor of 2d si phc l3 cavity for detection of glucose and bovine serum albumin.  - silicon.  1-11. 

     

    syahidah nabila rosli, norinsan kamil othman, ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2023).  kajian terhadap eis dan kaedah kehilangan berat: novel perencat kakisan hijau daripada ekstrak etlingera elatior.  - sains malaysiana.  2323-2336. 

     

    n. b. khairulazdan, p. s. menon, a. r. md. zain, d. d. berhanuddin.  (2022).  optimization of photonic crystal structure by fdtd method to improve the light extraction efficiency in silicon.  - chalcogenide letter.  493-501. 

     

    muhammad ashraf saiful badri, noor farain md noor, ahmad rifqi md zain, muhamad matsalleh, tengku hasnan tengku abdul aziz.  (2021).  exfoliated graphene-alkaline lignin-pedot:pss composite as a transparent conductive electrode.  - nanomaterials and nanotechnology.  1-8. 

     

    ahmad aminudin, lilik hasanah, harbi setyo nugroho, chandra wulandari, budi mulyanti, roer eka pawinanto, ahmad rifqi md zain, gandi sugandi, ida hamidah, widyaningrum indrasari, jumril yunas.  (2025).  the utilization of the taguchi method on microring resonator design parameters to enhance the value of the quality factor.  - bulletin of electrical engineering and informatics.  4063 - 4073. 

     

    norita mohd yusoff, josephine liew ying chyi, eng khoon ng, han kee lee, mohd zul hilmi mayzan, mohammed thamer alresheedi, nadiah husseini zainol abidin, ahmad rifqi md zain, mohd adzir mahdi.  (2025).  ammonium bromide as a saturable absorbing device for ultrafast photonics.  - journal of luminescence.  1 - 14. 

     

    sh. nadzirah, subash c.b. gopinath, chang fu dee, u. hashim , ahmad rifqi md zain , burhanuddin yeop majlis.  (2025).  analyzing hyperproduction of beta 2-microglobulin by nano biosensors: an update on potential blood biomarkers for precise detection.  - microchemical journal.  1 - 17. 

     

    athiyah sakinah masran, nur hidayah azeman, wan mohd ebtisyam mustaqim mohd daniyal, mohd hafiz abu bakar, nur afifah ahmad nazri, rozita sulaiman, muhammad rahimi yusop, ahmad rifqi md zain & ahmad ashrif a bakar.  (2025).  sensitivity improvement of creatinine detection based on functionalized carbon dots and silver nanotriangular localized surface plasmon resonance.  - plasmonics.  1 - 10. 

     

    muhammad asif ahmad khushaini, basyirah zulkifli, ahmad ashrif a bakar, tg hasnan tg abdul aziz, ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2025).  the underlying nonlinear dynamics of strong coupling via entangled dark states.  - chaos, solitons and fractals.  1 - 9. 

     

    basyirah zulkifli, ahmad rifqi md zain, tengku hasnan tengku abdul aziz, nur hidayah azeman, mohd suzeren md jamil..  (2024).  gold nanorods as plasmonic-based optical biosensor for creatinine detection..  - 2024 ieee international conference on semiconductor electronics (icse).  56 - 59. 

     

    muhamad ramdzan buyong, muhammad akmal suhaimi, arash zulkaranain ahmad rozaini, burhanuddin yeop majlis, farahdiana binti wan yunus, noratiqah yaakob, clarence augustine th tee, céline elie-caille, abdullah abdulhameed, aminuddin ahmad kayani.  (2024).  enhancing dielectrophoresis analysis via artificial intelligence integration.  - 2024 ieee international conference on semiconductor electronics (icse).  116 - 119. 

     

    auni afrina muhammad azlan lim, asilah aisyah mohamad yusoff, muhamad asif a. khushaini, ahmad ghadafi ismail, tengku hasnan tengku abdul aziz, ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2021).  a study of repeatability and reproducibility of amperometric sensor based on bobzbt2 pentamer for creatinine detection.  - 2021 ieee regional symposium on micro and nanoelectronics (rsm).  145-148. 

     

    jamil, n.a., mei, g.s., md zain, a.r., hewak, d., huang, c.-c., mohamed, m.a., majlis, b.y., menon, p.s..  (2020).  cvd-grown graphene-on-au characterization and sensing using kretschmann-based spr.  - 4th electron devices technology and manufacturing conference (edtm 2020).  1-4. 

     

    nugroho, h.s., hasanah, l., wulandari, c., pawinanto, r.e., haron, m.h., menon, p.s., zain, a.r.m., berhanuddin, d.d., mulyanti, b..  (2020).  the sensitivity of sensor based on microring resonator (mrr) and surface plasmon resonance (spr) for diabetes monitoring application.  - 2nd international symposium on materials and electrical engineering, ismee 2019.  1-7. 

     

    ahmad rifqi md zain, richard de la rue.  (2019).  modelling of photonic crystal (phc) cavities: theory and applications.  - 89-108. 

     

    ahmad rifqi mohammad zain.  (2018).  hablur fotonik : wayar rongga fotonik satu dimensi berasaskan silikon atas penebat (soi).  - 157-178. 

     

    ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2018).  hablur fotonik: wayar rongga fotonik satu dimensi berasaskan silikon atas penebat (soi).  - teknologi.  157-178. 

     

    p susthitha menon, atiqah mohd afdzaluddin, ahmad razif muhammad, jumril yunas, ahmad ghadafi ismail, nur hidayah azeman, hafzaliza erny zainal abidin, burhanuddin yeop majlis, shafii abd wahab, ramdzan buyong, ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2024).  buletin alumni imen (bil 3) 2023.  - buletin alumni imen (bil 3) 2023.  1-12. 

     

    p susthitha menon, atiqah afzaludin, ahmad rifqi md zain, mohd ramdzan buyong, jumril yunas, mohd shafie, erny, norhayati, .  (2024).  buletin alumni imen bilangan 2 2024.  - buletin alumni imen bilangan 2 2024. 

     

    syahidah nabila rosli, norinsan kamil othman, ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2023).  kajian terhadap eis dan kaedah kehilangan berat: novel perencat kakisan hijau daripada ekstrak etlingera elatior.  - sains malaysiana.  2323-2336. 

     

    p susthitha menon, atiqah mohd afdzaluddin, ahmad razif muhammad, jumril yunas, ahmad ghadafi ismail, nur hidayah azeman, hafzaliza erny zainal abidin, burhanuddin yeop majlis, shafii abd wahab, ramdzan buyong, ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2023).  buletin alumni imen (bil 1) 2023.  - buletin alumni imen (bil 1) 2023.  1-20. 

     

    p susthitha menon, atiqah mohd afdzaluddin, ahmad razif muhammad, jumril yunas, ahmad ghadafi ismail, nur hidayah azeman, hafzaliza erny zainal abidin, burhanuddin yeop majlis, shafii abd wahab, ramdzan buyong, ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2023).  buletin alumni imen (bil 2) 2023.  - buletin alumni imen (bil 2) 2023.  1-10. 

     

    p susthitha menon, burhanuddin yeop majlis, mohd ramdzan buyong, ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2025).  sabbatical program for students of alam shah school, putrajaya at imen ukm: sharing knowledge and experience in the field of microengineering and nanoelectronics.  - ieee electron devices society (eds) newsletter. 

     

    p susthitha menon, atiqah afzaludin, ahmad rifqi md zain, mohd ramdzan buyong, jumril yunas, mohd shafie, erny, norhayati, .  (2024).  buletin alumni imen bilangan 2 2024.  - buletin alumni imen bilangan 2 2024. 

     

    tengku hasnan bin tengku abdul aziz;ahmad rifqi bin md zain;norhayati binti abu bakar.  (2024).  enhancement of photoluminescence intensity of graphene quantum dots using surface plasmon resonance of gold nanorods.  -

     

    ps menon, h mamat, ra rahim, aam ralib, a manut, h jaafar, ne alias, by majlis, arm zain.  (2024).  wied/yp event at the 16th ieee international conference on semiconductor electronics (icse2024).  - ieee electron devices society (eds) newsletter. 

     

    p susthitha menon, atiqah mohd afdzaluddin, ahmad razif muhammad, jumril yunas, ahmad ghadafi ismail, nur hidayah azeman, hafzaliza erny zainal abidin, burhanuddin yeop majlis, shafii abd wahab, ramdzan buyong, ahmad rifqi md zain.  (2024).  buletin alumni imen (bil 3) 2023.  - buletin alumni imen (bil 3) 2023.  1-12. 

     

    BIOTECHNOLOGY :PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
    Bio sensors for medical applications
    Pengalaman / Experience : tahun/years(s)

    PHYSICS :PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES
    nanostructures and nanomaterials
    Pengalaman / Experience : 5 tahun/years(s)

    ELECTRIC AND ELECTRONIC :TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING
    nanophotonics, waveguide, photonic crystal, integrated optics, nanofabrication, photonic sensor, SERS, LSPR
    Pengalaman / Experience : 10 tahun/years(s)