Full Name

Chernet Amente Geffe

Education Attended

BSc, Physics, Addis Ababa University, 1988

MSc, Physics, Addis Ababa University, 2005

PhD, Physics, Addis Ababa University, 2010

Academic Rank

BSc, MSc, PhD

Working for AAU since

February 2016

Administrative positions held if any / past and present

University Registrar Director Dec. 2014 – Feb 2016, at Addis Ababa Science and Technology University

Director of the Interdisciplinary Programs , September 2011 – may 2013… at Addis Ababa Science and Technology University

Awards (if any)

Raman fellow …..2013

Recognitions (if any)

Membership of international bodies/journals, editorial roles (if any)

Initiatives (if any)

Address

Campus: College of Natural Sciences (Arat Kilo)

Building Name: Department of Physics

Floor number: second floor

Office room no.: 265

Office tel.: +251-11-1239457

Mobile: +251-911177001

University email ID: chernet.amente@aau.edu.et

Alternative email: chernetamente@gmail.com

Research interest – not more than hundred words

1. Theoretical (Analytical and Computational) and experimental studies focused on structural, electric and magnetic properties of materials.
2. Electronic Structure and the study of Magnetism in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

Publications on reputable journals

1. Chernet Amente Geffe. Low temperature anomaly of light stimulated magnetization and heat capacity of the 1D diluted magnetic semiconductors. AIP ADVANCES 8, 035317_1-5 (2018).
2. Chernet Amente and Keya Dharamvir, Purification and Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes and Prospects for the Formation of Magnetic Semiconductor via Iron Incorporation. British Journal of Applied Science & Technology 15(1): 1-9, 2016.
3. Deo Prakash, Chernet Amente, Keya Dharamvir, Bedvir Singh, Rishipal Singh, E.R.Shaaban, Y. Al-Douri, R.Khenata, Majid Darroudi, K.D.Verma, Synthesis, purification and microstructural characterization of nickel doped carbon nanotubes for spintronic applications. Ceramics International 42 (2016) 5600–5606.
4. Chernet Amente and Keya Dharamvir. Thermally Agitated Self Assembled Carbon Nanotubes and the Scenario of Extrinsic Defects. World Journal of Nano Science and Engineering, 2015, 5, pp. 17-25.
5. Chernet Amente and Keya Dharamvir, Ferromagnetism in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As Quantum Wires and Quantum Wells Under the Influence of Photo-Excitation and Spin Wave Scattering, Journal of Modern Physics, 2013, 4, pp. 1563-1568.
6. Chernet Amente and P Singh, Effects of Photo-excitation and Magnon Scattering on Ferromagnetic Transition Temperature of the Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor  (Ga_1-x,Mn_x)As: Modern Physics Letters B, 2011, 25 (4), pp. 273-280.
7. Chernet Amente and P Singh, Photo-excitation and Spin Wave Scattering Effects  on Specific Heat of the (Ga_1-x,Mn_x)As Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor, J. Phys. Sci. 2010, 5 (3),  pp. 274-279.
8. Chernet Amente and P Singh, Enhancement of T_C of the (Ga,Mn)As Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor by Photoinduced Exchange Coupling of the Mn²⁺  spins, J. Phys. Sci. 2010, 5 (6), pp. 671-674.