Dr. Samuel Asampana Atarah

Dr. Samuel Asampana Atarah

Senior Lecturer

Contact info saatarah@ug.edu.gh IP Phone: 3053

About

Dr. S. A. Atarah joined the Department in August 2013 as a lecturer in physics having completed his higher education at the University of Hesinki Finland (MPhil (Physics), and De Montfort University (Ph.D) in Leicester, UK. Shortly before being hired by the University of Ghana, he had worked with the prestigious Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester. He also held a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship position with lectureship responsibility at the University of the West of Scotland, UK. His research field is in the area of condensed matter with a focus on characterizing solid matter using X-rays, atomic absorption spectroscopy, and related radiations.

Education

PhD (De Montfort, UK)

MPhil (Helsinki)

BSc(Hons) Physics & Dip Ed (UCC)

Research Interest

Physical and  instrumental characterisation of ores

Application of transition metal oxides to gas sensing

First principles computational studies of electronic properties of solid crystalline matte

Publications

  1. Amoyaw, N., Egblewogbe, M. N., Atarah, S. A., and Gebreyesus, G. (2026). Modeling the structural and electronic properties of tetragonal BaTiO3: a comparative study using density functional and many-body approaches. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 34(4), 045003.
  2. Atarah, S. A., Egblewogbe, M. N., and Gebreyesus, G. (2026). Revisiting lattice dynamics and stability of lead-free double perovskites Cs2InAgX6 (X= F, Br, Cl) from first-principles calculations. AIP Advances, 16(5).
  3. Atarah, S. A., Awoniyi, F. C., Egblewogbe, M., and Amankwah, A. (2025). Improving the Achievement of Learning Outcomes in Early Undergraduate Physics: A Case Study at a University in Ghana. Africa Education Review, 21(1), 1-24.
  4. Sekyi-Arthur, D., Egblewogbe, M., Mensah, S. Y., Mensah, N. G., Adu, K. W., Dompreh, K. A., ... and Atarah, S. (2022). Giant thermoelectric figure of merit in fluorine-doped single walled-carbon nanotubes. Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 142, 115292.
  5. Baker, E., Nock, D., Levin, T., Atarah, S. A., Afful-Dadzie, A., Dodoo-Arhin, D., ... and Sackey, C. V. H. (2021). Who is marginalized in energy justice? Amplifying community leader perspectives of energy transitions in Ghana. Energy Research & Social Science, 73, 101933.
  6. Samuel A. Atarah, Martin N . H. Egblewogbe and Gebreyesus. G Hagoss
    First principle study of the structural and electronic properties of Nihonium AMRS Adv. 5,
    No. 23-24 2020 , pp. 1175-1183 https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2020.159
  7. A. Voronov and S. A. Atarah, Control and broadband monitoring of transparent multilayer thin films deposited by
    magnetron sputtering. Surface and Coatings Technology 347 (2018) 252–256.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2018.05.004.
  8. S. A. Atarah, G. K. Atule. Characterization of rocks samples from Yale area of the Upper East Region of Ghana
    Science and Development. 1, No. 2, (2017), 50 – 59. ISSN 2550-3421
  9. Martin Egblewogbe, Garu Gebreyesus, S. A. Atarah, Determination of the Growth Rate of
    Hydrothermally Synthesised ZnO2. J. Nano Research 50 (2017) .pp. 41 – 49
    doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/JNanoR.50.41
  10. S. A. Atarah, G.K. Atule, M. N. Y. Egblewogbe and A. Kuditcher.
    Instrumental analysis and characterization of mineral ores from Yale, Upper East Region,
    Ghana. J. Appl. Sc. Techn., 20, Nos. 1 & 2, ( 2015), 62 – 68. ISSN 0855-2215.
  11. S. A. Atarah, Energy distribution of interface state density in Si band gap of hafnium
    silicate based MOS capacitors. J. Appl. Sc. Techn 19 (2014) 31 – 36. ISSN 0855-2215.
  12. S. A. Atarah, Experimental study of mobility degradation in ultrathin high-κ Based
    MOSFETs. Solid-State Electronics 55 (2011) 44–48. doi:10.1016/j.sse.2010.09.004
  13. S. A. Atarah, M. M. De Souza, J Paterson, G Bersuker, G. Brown and C Young.
    Experimental study of the impact of SO phonon scattering in high-κ gate dielectric
    MOSFETs. ECS Trans. 2006 3(3): 49-56. doi: 10.1149/1.2355698
  14. S. Atarah, A. Voronov, S. Song, F. Placido. Integrated method for control and broadband
    monitoring of multilayer thin film. Opt. Interf. Coat. (Opt. Soc. Am) 2010