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Zahid Hussain
Division Deputy for Scientific Support,
Scientific Support Group Leader,
Senior Staff Scientist
ZHussain@lbl.gov
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510-486-7591 tel
510-495-2067 fax

Advanced Light Source Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, MS 6R2100
Berkeley, CA 94720-8226
Education | Professional Experience | Fellowships, Awards, Honors
Professional Service | Research Interests | Recent Publications
 

Education

            
M.Sc/M. Phil, University of Islamabad, Pakistan (1970- 1974)

Visiting Scientist, Department of Electrical Engineering (Ingolf Lindau), Stanford University (1976 - 1977)

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii; major part of research done at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (1974 - 1979)
             

Professional Experience

          
Post Doctoral Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, (Prof. David A. Shirley), (1979-1981)

Associate Professor, Department of Physics, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (1982-89)

Professor, Department of Physics, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. (1995-present)

Staff Scientist, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Berkeley Laboratory (1990-1997)

Senior Staff Scientist and Scientific Support Group Leader, Advanced Light Source Division, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Berkeley Laboratory (1997-present)
     

Fellowships, Awards, Honors

       
Merit Scholarship, University of Islamabad, Pakistan (1970-74)

East-West Center Doctoral Scholarship, Hawaii (1974-1979)

Best Research Award, College of Sciences, KFUPM (1988-1989)
Outstanding Performance Award, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1997, 1998, 2000, 2006)
             

Professional Service

          
Member, 12th International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation Physics, Organization Committee (1998), Guest editor of the proceedings

Member, Pier Oddone’s ALS Users Task Force (1998)

Member, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Award Committee (1998 - 2003)

Guest Editor, Special Issue of J. of Electron Spectroscopy “Electron Spectroscopy with Synchrotron Radiation: Past, Present and Future” (2002)

Chair, Post Doctoral Fellowship Committee, LBNL (2004 - present)

Member, Cost Distribution Committee, LBNL (2005 - 2006)

Member, LBNL Staff Committee (2006 - present)

Member, LBNL Supply Chain Committee (2006 - present)
           
 

Research Interests

        
Study of highly correlated electron systems with ultrahigh high energy and momentum resolution photoemission, resonant inelastic scattering spectroscopy and study of dynamics with coherent scattering.

Development of novel techniques with synchrotron radiation instrumentation for ambient pressure photoemission (up to 20 torr) and NEXAFS for the study of environmentally relevant materials, biological systems, surface catalytic reactions in presence of reactants and study of surface dynamics.
         
 

Recent Publications
From a list of over 200 refereed journal publications.

     
1. Danzenbacher, S.; Kucherenko, Y.; Vyalikh D.V.; Holder, M.; Laubschat, C.; Yaresko, A.N.; Krellner, C.; Hossain, Z.; Geibel, C.; Zhou, X.J.; Yang, W.L.; Mannella, N.; Hussain, Z.; Shen, Z.-X.; Shi, M.; Patthey, L.; and Molodtsov, S.L. “Momentum dependence of 4ƒ hybridization in heavy-fermion compounds: Angle-resolved photoemission study of YbIr2Si2 and YbRh2Si2” Phys. Rev. B 75, 45109 (2007). LBNL-62445

2. Molodtsov, S.L.; Danzenbacher, S.; Kucherenko, Yu.; Laubschat, C.; Vyalikh, D.V.; Hossain, Z.; Geiber, C.; Zhou, X.J.; Yang, W.L.; Mannella, N.; Hussain, Z.; Shen, Z.-X.; Patthey, L. “Hybridization of 4f states in heavy-fermion compounds YbRh2Si2 and YbIr2Si2” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 310 (2007).

3. Yoshida, T.; Zhou, X.J.; Tanaka, K.; Yang, W.L.; Hussain, Z.; Shen, Z.X.; Fujimori, A.; Sahrakorpi, S.; Lindroos, M.; Markiewicz, R.S.; Bansil, A.; Komiya, S.; Ando, Y.; Eisaki, H.; Kakeshita, T.; Uchida, S. “Systematic doping evolution of the underlying Fermi surface of La2-xSrxCuO4” Phys. Rev. B 74, 224510 (2006). LBNL-62444

4. Chen, Y.; Iyo, A.; Yang, W.; Zhou, X.J.; Lu, D.; Eisaki, H.; Devereaux, T.P.; Hussain, Z.; Shen, Z.-X. “Anomalous Fermi-Surface Dependent Pairing in a Self-Doped High-Tc Superconductor” Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236401 (2006). LBNL-62442

5. Tanaka, K.; Lee, W.S.; Lu, D.H.; Fujimori, A.; Fujii, T.; Risdiana; Terasaki, I.; Scalapino, D.J.; Devereaux, T.P.; Hussain, Z.; Shen, Z.-X. “Distinct Fermi-Momentum-Dependent Energy Gaps in Deeply Underdoped Bi2212” Science 314, 1910 (2006). LBNL-62443

6. Faiz, M.; Mekki, A.; Mun, B.S.; Hussain, Z. “Investigation of Vanadium-Sodium Glasses Using XANES Spectroscopy” Journal of Electron Spectroscopy, accepted Nov 2006.

7. Mannella, N.; Yang, S.-H.; Mun, B.S.; Garcia de Abajo, F.J.; Kay, A.W.; Sell, B.C.; Watanabe, M.; Ohldag, H.; Arenholz, E.; Young, A.T.; Hussain, Z.; Van Hove, M.A.; Fadley, C.S. “Observation and resonant x-ray optical interpretation of multi-atom resonant photoemission effects in O 1s emission from NiO” Phys. Rev. B, 74,165106 (2006). LBNL-62448

8. Baumberger, F.; Ingle, N.J.C.; Meevasana, W.; Shen, K.M.; Lu, D.H.; Perry, R.S.; Mackenzie, A.P.; Hussain, Z.; Singh, D.J.; Shen, Z.-X. “Fermi Surface and Quasiparticle Excitations of Sr2Rho4” Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 246402 (2006). LBNL-61389

9. Faiz, M.; Tabet, N.; Mekki, A.; Mun, B.S.; Hussain, Z. “X-ray absorption near edge structure investigation of vanadium-doped ZnO thin films” Thin Solid Films, 515 (2006). LBNL-62447

10. Brouet, V; Yang, WL; Zhou, XJ; Hussain, Z.; Shen, ZX “Dependence of the band structure of C-60 monolayers on molecular orientations and doping observed by angle resolved photoemission” Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 67 (2006). LBNL-61373

11. Baumberger, F.; Ingle, N.J.C.; Kikugawa, N.; Hossain, M.A.; Meewasana, W.; Perry, R.S.; Shen, K.M.; Lu, D.H.; Damascelli, A.; Rost, A.; Mackenzie, A.P.; Hussain, Z.; Shen, Z.X. “Nested Fermi Surface and Electronic Instability in Ca3Ru2O7”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96,107601 (2006). LBNL-61388

12. Danzenbacher, S.; Kucherenko, Yu.; Laubschat, C.; Vyalikh, D.V.; Hossain, Z.; Geibel, C.; Zhou, X.J.; Yang, W.L.; Mannella, N.; Hussain, Z.; Shen, Z.-X.; Molodtsov, S.L. “Energy Dispersion of 4f-Derived Emissions in Photoelectron Spectra of the Heavy-Fermion Compound YbIr2Si2”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 106402 (2006). LBNL-61394

13. Rosch, O.; Gunnarsson, O.; Zhou, X.J.; Yoshida, T.; Sasagawa, T.; Fujimori, A.; Hussain, Z.; Shen, Z.-X.; Uchida, S. “Polaronic Behaviour of Undoped High-Tc Cuprate Superconductors from Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectra” Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 227002 (2005). LBNL-02590

14. Brouet, V; Yang, WL; Zhou, XJ; Choi, HJ; Louie, SG; Cohen, ML; Goldoni, A; Parmigiani, F; Hussain, Z.; Shen, ZX “Orientation-dependent C-60 electronic structures revealed by photoemission spectroscopy” Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 099903 (2005). LBNL-61374

15. Mannella, N; Yang, WL; Zhou, XJ; Zheng, H; Mitchell, JF; Zaanen, J; Devereaux, TP; Nagaosa, N; Hussain, Z.; Shen, ZX “Nodal quasiparticle in pseudogapped colossal magnetoresistive manganites” Nature 438, 7067 (2005). LBNL-61366

16. Zhou, XJ; Shi, JR; Yoshida, T; Cuk, T; Yang, WL; Brouet, V; Nakamura, J; Mannella, N; Komiya, S; Ando, Y; Zhou, F; Ti, WX; Xiong, JW; Zhao, ZX; Sasagawa, T; Kakeshita, T; Eisaki, H; Uchida, S; Fujimori, A; Zhang, ZY; Plummer, EW; Laughlin, RB; Hussain, Z.; Shen, ZX “Multiple bosonic mode coupling in the electron self-energy of (La2-xSrx)CuO4” Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 117001 (2005). LBNL-59167

17. Chuang, Y.D.; Pepper, J; McKinney, W.; Hussain, Z.; Guillikson,, E.; Hasan, M.Z. “High-resolution soft x-ray emission spectrograph at the Advance Light Source”. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids 66, 2173 (2005). LBNL-60301.

18. Graf, J.; Jozwiak, C.; Schmid, A.K.; Hussain, Z.;, Lanzara, A. “Mapping the spin-dependent electron reflectivity of Fe and Co ferromagnetic thin films”, Phys. Rev. B. 71, 144429 (2005). LBNL-58230

19. X.J. Zhou, B. Wannberg, W.L. Yang, V. Brouet, Z. Sun, J.F. Douglas, D. Dessau, Z. Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen, "Space charge effect and mirror charge effect in photoemission spectroscopy", Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 142 (2005). LBNL-56165

20. X.J. Zhou, Z. Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen, "Electron-Phonon Coupling in High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors as Revealed by Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy", Synchrotron Radiation News 18, No. 3 (2005). LBNL-58369

21. X. J. Zhou, T. Yoshida, D.-H. Lee, W. L. Yang, V. Brouet, F. Zhou, W. X. Ti, J. W. Xiong, Z. X. Zhao, T. Sasagawa, T. Kakeshita, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, A. Fujimori, Z. Hussain and Z.-X. Shen, "The Dichotomy between Nodal and Antinodal Quasiparticles in Underdoped (La2-xSrx)CuO4 Superconductors", Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 187001 (2004). LBNL-55589

22. J. Shi, S.-J. Tang, B. Wu, P.T. Sprunger, W.L. Yang, V. Brouet, X. J. Zhou, Z. Hussain, Z.-X. Shen, Z. Zhang, and E. W. Plummer “Direct extraction of the Eliashberg function of the electron-phonon coupling: A case study of Be(1010)”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 186401 (2004). LBNL-55590

23. M.Z. Hasan, Y.-D. Chuang, D. Qian, Y.W. Li, Y. Kong, A. Kuprin, A.V. Fedorov, R. Kimmerling, E. Rotenberg, K. Rossnagel, Z. Hussain, H. Koh, N. S. Rogado, M.L. Foo, and R.J. Cava, Fermi surface and quasiparticle dynamics of Na0.7CoO2 investigated by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246402 (2004). LBNL-55572

24. V. Brouet, W. L. Yang, X. J. Zhou, H. J. Choi, S. G. Louie, M. L. Cohen, A. Goldoni, F. Parmigiani, Z. Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen “Orientation-Dependent C[sub 60] Electronic Structures Revealed by Photoemission Spectroscopy”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 197601 (2004). LBNL-58428

25. V. Brouet, W. L. Yang, X. J. Zhou, Z. Hussain, N. Ru, K. Y. Shin, I. R. Fisher, and Z.-X. Shen, “Fermi Surface Reconstruction in the CDW State of CeTe[sub 3] Observed by Photoemission”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 126405 (2004). LBNL-58429

26. T. Cuk, F. Baumberger, D. H. Lee, N. Ingle, X. J. Zhou, H. Eisaki, N. Kaneko, Z. Hussain, T. P. Devereaux, N. Nagaosa, and Z.-X. Shen, “Coupling of the B1g Phonon to the Antinodal Electronic States of Bi2Sr2Ca0.92Y0.08Cu2O8 + delta”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 117003 (2004). LBNL-58370

27. Pasl A. Jalil, N. Tabet, M., Faiz, N.M. Hamdan, Z. Hussain, “Surface Investigation on Thermal Stability of Tungstophosphoric Acid Supported on MCM-41 Using Synchrotron Radiation”, Applied Catalysis A, 257 (2004).

28. W. L. Yang, V. Brouet, X. J. Zhou, S. A. Kellar, P. V. Bogdanov, A. Lanzara, A. Goldoni, F. Parmigiani, Z. Hussain and Z.-X. Shen, "Band Structure and Fermi Surface of Electron-Doped C60 Monolayer", Science 300 (2003).

29. X. J. Zhou, T. Yoshida, A. Lanzara, P. V. Bogdanov, S. A. Kellar, K. M. Shen, W. L. Yang, F. Ronning, T. Sasagawa, T. Kakeshita, T. Noda, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, C. T. Lin, F. Zhou, J. W. Xiong, W. X. Ti, Z. X. Zhao, A. Fujimori, Z. Hussain and Z.-X. Shen, "Universal Nodal Fermi Velocity in High Temperature Superconductors", Nature (London) 423 (2003).

30. K. Tanaka, T. Yoshida, A. Fujimori, D. H. Lu, Z.-X. Shen, X. J. Zhou, H. Eisaki, Z. Hussain, S. Uchida, Y. Aiura, K. Ono, T. Sugaya, T. Mizuno and I. Terasaki, "Effects of Next-Nearest-Neighbor Hopping t' on the Electronic Structure of Cuprates", Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 236102 (2003).

31. A. Darmascelli, Z. Hussain and Z.-X. Shen, “Angle-Resolved Photoemission Studies of the Cuprate Superconductors”, Review of Modern Physics, 75 (2003).

32. T. Yoshida, X. J. Zhou, T. Sasagawa, W. L Yang, P. V. Bogdanov, A. Lanzara, Z. Hussain, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, H. Eisaki, Z. X. Shen, T. Kakeshita and S. Uchida, “Metallic behavior of lightly doped La2-xSrxCuO4 with a Fermi Surface Forming an Arc” Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 027001 (2003).

33. T. E. Glover, G. D. Ackermann, A. Belkacem, P. A. Heimann, Z. Hussain, R. W. Lee, H. A. Padmore, C. Ray, R. W. Schoenlein, W. F. Steele, and D. A. Young, “Metal-Insulator Transitions in an Expanding Mettalic Fluid: Particle Formation Kinetics”, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2003).

34. N. Tabet, M. Faiz , N.M. Hamdan, Z. Hussain, “High Resolution XPS Study of Oxide Layers Grown on Ge Substartes”, Surface Science, 523 (2003).

35. Suzer, S. Sayan, M.M. Banaszak Holl, E. Garfunkel, Z. Hussain and N.M. Hamdan, “Soft X-Ray Photoemission Studies of Hf Oxidation” J. of Vacuum science and Technology 21 (2003).

36. Pasl A. Jalil, M. Faiz, N. Tabet, N.M. Hamdan, Z. Hussain; A Study of Stability of Tungstophosphoric Acid, H3PW12O40, Using Synchrotron XPS, XANES, Hexane Cracking, XRD and IR Spectroscopy” J. of Catalysis 217 (2003).

37. D. F. Ogletree , H. Bluhm, Gennadi Lebedev, C. S. Fadley, Z. Hussain, and M. Salmeron “A differentially pumped electrostatic lens system for photoemission studies in the millibar range”, Rev of Scientific Instruments 73, 3872 (2003).

38. P. V. Bogdanov, A. Lanzara, X. J. Zhou, W. L. Yang, H. Eisaki, Z. Hussain and Z.-X. Shen, "Anomalous Momentum Dependence of the Quasiparticle Scattering Rate in Overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8", Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 167002 (2002).

39. X. J. Zhou, Z. Hussain and Z.-X. Shen, "High Resolution Angle-Resolved Photoemission Study of High Temperature Superconductors: Charge-Ordering, Bilayer Splitting and Electron-Phonon Coupling", Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 126 (2002).

40. A. Lanzara, P. V. Bogdanov, X. J. Zhou, H. Eisaki, T. Yoshida, A. Fujimori, Z. Hussain and Z.-X. Shen, "Coupling of Quasiparticles to Phonons in High Temperature superconductors", Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, 127 (2002). LBNL-53363

41. J. Diaz, N. M. Hamdan P. Jalil, Z. Hussain, S. M. Valvidares and J. M. Alameda “Understanding the magnetic anisotropy in Fe-Si amorphous alloys” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 38, No. 5 (2002).

42. R. Denecke, J. Morais, R. X. Ynzunza, G. H. Fecher, J. G. Menchero, L. Liesegang, J. Kortright, Z. Hussain and C. S. Fadley, “Angular and temperature dependence of the magnetic circular dichroism in 4d core-level photoemission from Gd(0001)”, Phys. Rev. B 65, 245421 (2002).

43. H. Bluhm, D. F. Ogletree, C. S. Fadley, Z. Hussain, and M. Salmeron “The Premelting of Ice studied with photoelectron spectroscopy”, J. Phys. Codens. Matter 14, 227 (2002).44. S. Mynenei, Y. Luo, L. Naslund, M. Cavalleri, L. Ojamae, H. Ogasawara, A. Pelmenschikov, Ph. Wernet, P. Vterlein, C. Heske, Z. Hussain, L. G.M. Pettersson, and A. Nilsson, “Spectroscopic probing of local hydrogen bonding structures in liquid water”, J. Phys. Codens. Matter 14, L227 (2002).

45. A. Lanzara, P. Bogdanov, X. J. Zhou, S. A. Kellar, D. L. Feng, E. D. Lu, S. Uchida, H. Eisaki, A. Fujimori, K. Kishio, J.-I. Shimoyama, T. Noda, S. Uchida, Z. Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen, “Evidence for Ubiquitous Strong Electron-Phonon Coupling in High Temperature Superconductors”, Nature 412, 510 (2001).

46. P. V. Bogdanov, A. Lanzara, S. A. Kellar, X. J. Zhou, E. D. Lu, W. J. Zheng, G. Gu, J.-I. Shimoyama, K. Kishio, H. Ikeda, R. Yoshizaki, Z. Hussain, and Z. X. Shen, "Evidence for an Energy Scale for Quasiparticle Dispersion in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8", Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2581 (2001).

47. X. J. Zhou, P. Bogdanov, S. A. Kellar, T. Noda, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, Z. Hussain, and Z.-X. Shen, “Dual nature of the Electronic Structure of LaNdCuO4the Stripe”, Phys. Rev. Lett 86, 5578 (2001).

48. P. V. Bogdanov, A. Lanzara, X. J. Zhou, S. A. Kellar, D. L. Feng, E. D. Lu, H. Eisaki, J. I. Shimoyama, K. Kishio, Z. Hussain and Z. X. Shen, "ARPES Study of Pb-doped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8-a New Fermi Surface Picture", Phys. Rev. B 64, 180505 (2001).

49. A. Lanzara, P. V. Bogdanov, S. A. Kellar, X. J. Zhou, E. D. Lu, G. Gu, J. -I. Shimoyama, K. Kishio, Z. Hussain and Z. X. Shen, "Evidence for abrupt change in dispersion and scattering rate of quasiparticles in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8", Journal of the Physics and Chemistry of Solids 62, 21 (2001).

50. T. Yoshida, X. J. Zhou, M. Nakamura, S. A. Kellar, P. V. Bogdanov, E. D. Lu, A. Lanzara, Z. Hussain, A. Ino, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, H. Eisaki, C. Kim, Z. X. Shen, T. Kakeshita and S. Uchida, "Electron-like Fermi surface and Remnant (pi,0) feature in overdoped La1.78Sr0.22CuO4", Phys. Rev. B 63, 220501 (2001).

51. S.-H. Yang, B.S. Mun, A.W. Kay, S.-K. Kim, J. B. Kortright, J. H. Underwood, Z. Hussain, C.S. Fadley, “Depth-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with soft X-ray standing waves” J. of Electron Spectroscopy and Rel. Phenom, 114, 1089 (2001).

52. A.W. Kay, J. Garcia de Abajo, S.-H. Yang, E. Arenholz, B.S. Mun, , N. Mannella, Z. Hussain, and M.A. Van Hove, C.S. Fadley “Multiple-Atom Resonant Photoemission” Physical Review B 63, 115119 (2001).

53. J. Diaz, S. Anders, X. Zhou, E. J. Moler, S. A. Kellar, and Z. Hussain, “Analysis of the Pi* and sigma* bands of the x-ray absorption spectrum of amorphous carbon”, Physical Review B 64, 125204 (2001).

54. X. J. Zhou, P. Bogdanov, S. A. Kellar, T. Noda, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, Z. Hussain, and Z. -X. Shen, “One-Dimensional Electronic Structure and Suppression of d-wave Node State in (La1.28Nd0.6Sr0.12) CuO4”, Science 286, 189 (1999).