Sefer Bora Lişesivdin, Professor of Physics, PhD, SMIEEE

News

• A new article “Temperature controlled phase transition and characterization of Cu2O and CuO thin films grown at different growth temperatures via mist CVD” is published in Applied Physics A (Apr 6, 2026).
• Nanoworks version 26.3.1 released. Visit site (Mar 23, 2026).
• gpaw-tools is now Nanoworks!. Nanoworks is a unified, high-level Python interface for conducting Density Functional Theory (DFT), Molecular Dynamics (MD), and Machine Learning (ML) potential calculations. Nanoworks version 26.2.0 is released with this new vision. Visit site (Feb 2, 2026).
• gpaw-tools version 25.10.0 released. Visit site (Oct 1, 2025).
• gpaw-tools version 25.4.0 released. Visit site (Apr 18, 2025).
• I am closing the 𝓵𝓻𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱.𝓸𝓻𝓰, which was a home for the last 10 years to our research group. Since our research group became a research laboratory, it has had its own institutional website for some time. There were also other websites under this domain. Necessary websites under this domain are moved elsewhere (Feb 25, 2025).
• gpaw-tools version 25.2.1 released. Visit site (Feb 3, 2025).
• A new article “Investigation of Spin-Polarized Electronic States of CBVN Defects in h-BN Monolayers” is published in Solid State Communications (Jan 29, 2025).
• gpaw-tools version 24.6.1 released. Visit site (Jun 10, 2024).
• On the 100th anniversary of our independent Turkish Republic, we commemorate with gratitude all our martyrs and veterans who enabled us to do science freely (Oct 29, 2023).
• A new article “Electronic Properties of a Novel Boron Polymorph: Ogee-Borophene” is published in Adv. Condens. Matter Phys (Oct 20, 2023).
• gpaw-tools version 23.10.0 released. Visit site (Oct 13, 2023).
• gpaw-tools version 23.7.0 released. Visit site (Jul 4, 2023).
• A new article “Structural and optical properties of mist-CVD grown MgZnO: Effect of precursor solution composition” is published in Physica B (Jun 15, 2023).
• A new article “First principles calculations of electronic and optical properties of InSe nanosheets doped with noble metal atoms” is published in Computational Material Science (Apr 5, 2023).
• gpaw-tools version 23.2.0 released. Visit site (Feb 1, 2023)
• A new article “Effect of Sulfur Concentration on Structural, Optical and Electrical Properties of Cu2CoSnS4 Absorber Film for Photovoltaic devices” is published in Physica B (Oct 25, 2022).
• A new article “Morphological and optical characterizations of different ZnO nanostructures grown by mist-CVD” is published in J. Lumin. (Aug 8, 2022).
• Aestimo 1D version 3.0 is released. Visit site (July 13, 2022).
• gpaw-tools version 22.7.0 is released. Visit site (July 12, 2022).
• gpaw-tools version 22.5.0 is released. Visit site (May 8, 2022).
• Gazi University accepts our new project CuOxMIST: Ga2O3/Cu2O p-n junction production and related computational studies with p-type Cu2O semiconductor thin films grown by Mist-CVD” (Apr 24, 2022).
• gpaw-tools version 22.5.0 is released. Visit site (Apr 7, 2022).
• gpaw-tools version 22.3.0 is released. Visit site (Mar 4, 2022).
• A new article “A Structural Analysis of Ultrathin Barrier (In)AlN/GaN Heterostructures for GaN‐based High‐frequency Power Electronics” is published in Surf. Interface Anal. (Jan 9, 2022).
• A new article “gpaw-tools–higher-level user interaction scripts for GPAW calculations and interatomic potential based structure optimization” is published in Comput. Mater. Sci. (Jan 7, 2022).
• gpaw-tools version 21.12.0 is released. Visit site (Dec 2, 2021).
• gpaw-tools version 21.11.0 is released. Visit site (Nov 2, 2021).
• gpaw-tools version 21.10.0 is released. Visit site (Oct 1, 2021).
• I and Assoc. Prof. Sarıkavak-Lisesivdin developed UI/GUI Python scripts for GPAW users, called gpaw-tools. It is open-source and available on GitHub (Sep 14, 2021).
• A new article, “A novel hot carrier-induced blue light-emitting device”, is published in Journal of Alloys and Compounds (May 20, 2021).
• A new article “Effect of magnesium content and growth temperature on structural and optical properties of USCVD-grown MgZnO films” is published in Applied Physics A (Apr 23, 2021).
• A new article “The effect of barrier layers on 2D electron effective mass in Al0.3Ga0.7N/AlN/GaN heterostructures”, which is a joint study between Gazi University, Eskisehir Technical University, Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, and Novosibirsk State University, is published in J. Phys.: Condens. Matt. (Apr 16, 2021).
• A new article “Growth dynamics of mist-CVD grown ZnO nanoplatelets”, which is a result of our D.E.H.A Project is published in Physica B: Condensed Matter. (Mar 28, 2021)
• The Rector of Gazi University, Prof. Dr. Musa Yıldız, came together with the faculty members who contributed the most to our University with the TÜBİTAK and ERASMUS+ projects they carried out in the 2016-2020 period. I have received a certificate of appreciation because of my contributions to our university with the projects I carried out (Feb 16, 2021).
• Our “Structural parameters and electronic properties of 2D carbon allotrope: graphene with a kagome lattice structure” titled study is accepted at Chem. Phys. Lett. This study is a joint DFT study that was done at the University of Ulm visit between Nov. 2019 - Feb 2020 (Sep 14, 2020).
• A new article “The effect of passivation layer, doping and spacer layer on electron-longitudinal optical phonon momentum relaxation time in Al0.3Ga0.7N/AlN/GaN heterostructures”, which is a result of a joint project between Gazi University, Eskisehir Technical University, Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics and Novosibirsk State University, is published in Mater. Sci. Semicond. Process. (Sep 10, 2020).
• Reference paper for Aestimo 1D solver: “General-purpose open-source 1D self-consistent Schrödinger-Poisson Solver: Aestimo 1D” which gives a general overview of the Aestimo 1D has been published in Comput. Mater. Sci. Aestimo 1D is an open-source one-dimensional Schrödinger-Poisson solver project that was started in 2012 (Aug 19, 2020).
• A new article “Effects of Annealing under Different Atmospheres on Structural and Optical Properties of USCVD grown ZnO Nanostructures” is published at Mater. Sci. Eng. B. This study is a part of our TUBITAK project 116F197 and the second experimental publication from this project (Feb 18, 2020).
• Prof. Sarikavak-Lisesivdin and I have returned from 3-month-long studies held at the Institute for Quantum Optics (IQO), University of Ulm. It was decided to increase the number of studies and collaboration between LRG and IQO (Feb 2, 2020).
• A new article “Ab initio Study of Electronic Properties of Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons Passivated with Heavy Metal Elements is published at Solid State Commun. (Apr 14, 2019).
• A new article “Scattering analysis of ultrathin barrier (< 7 nm) GaN-based heterostructures” is published at Appl. Phys. A: Mater. Sci. Process. (Mar 30, 2019).
• A new article “Electronic properties of Zigzag ZnO nanoribbons with Hydrogen and Magnesium passivations” is published at Physica B (Dec 3, 2018).
• A new article “Investigation of electronic and optical properties of wurtzite MgZnO using GGA + U formalism” is published at Philos. Mag. Lett. (Nov 13, 2019).
• A new article “High Figure-of-Merit (V2BR/RON) AlGaN/GaN Power HEMT With Periodically C-Doped GaN Buffer and AlGaN Back Barrier” is published at IEEE J. Electron Dev. Soc. (Oct 1, 2018).
• Our start-up company plan for building a UV-VIS-NIR spectrometer is financially supported by TUBITAK! This year, TUBITAK received 3323 entrepreneurial business ideas for Phase 0. Then, 1438 entrepreneurs from these applications received Phase I support. Of these entrepreneurs prepared by the related organizations in their technical and business development areas, 422 were accepted for panel evaluations in accordance with the application requirements. TUBİTAK conducted by the academicians, industrialists, and investors of the panel evaluation of the results of the 146 entrepreneurs who were eligible to pass Phase II (result). Our company is one of them! (Aug 9, 2018)
• A new article “Electronic Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons Doped with Zinc, Cadmium, Mercury Atoms” is published at Physica E (Jul 16, 2018).
• I have been appointed as a full professor at Gazi University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. (Mar 21, 2018).
• A new article “Negative Differential Resistance Observation and a New Fitting Model for Electron Drift Velocity in GaN-Based Heterostructures” is published at IEEE Trans. Electron Dev. (Feb 8, 2018).
• A new article “Structural and optical properties of hexagonal ZnO nanostructures grown by ultrasonic spray CVD” is published at Optik (Apr 13, 2018).
• A new article “Electronic and optical properties of black phosphorus doped with Au, Sn and I atoms” is published at Philos. Mag. (Nov 3, 2017).

News before 2018 will be added in the future.