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KAUST Researchers Offer 'Touch' To The World

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We proudly announced that he had won the award for the "Best Research Paper" at the 2015 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium for his research on artificial skin.

Making Artificial Skin inspired from nature

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Congratulations to Professor Jurgen Kosel for his research on an Artificial Skin inspired by nature. Research that was featured in MIT Technology Review.

Semiconductor Today’s editorial features "Red lasers from III-nitride nanowire forests on silicon"

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Researchers in USA and Saudi Arabia have been producing 610nm-wavelength red lasers with III-nitride nanowires grown on silicon. With a view to plastic fiber optical communication, potential applications include mobile projectors, head-up displays in automobiles, and photodynamic therapy. Production on silicon promises lower-cost production and mass manufacturing.

PhD student Ahmed Alfadhel interviewed in New Scientist weekly

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In an interview with New Scientist weekly, PhD student Ahmed Alfadhel from Prof. Jurgen Kosel's team spoke about his research on bio-inspired artificial skin.

Ahmed Alfadhel wins the 2016 Edition of MIT Arab Innovators Under 35

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On April 14, the "Innovator under 35 in the Arab World" prize - an award scheme organized by the MIT was bestowed on Ahmed Alfadhel, a PhD candidate in CEMSE at Kaust.

Tweaking the perfect recipe

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Adjusting the cooking time is all it takes to tune the magnetic properties of these multi-functional iron nanowires.

Nasir's APL gets published! The first demonstration of a link between the energy exchanged during the light-solid reaction and the thermodynamic entropy of nanowire structures

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In this paper,1 we investigated the photoinduced entropy of InGaN/GaN p-i-n nanowires using temperature-dependent (6–290 K) photoluminescence. We also analyzed the photocarrier dynamics in the InGaN active regions using time-resolved photoluminescence. An increasing trend in the amount of photoinduced entropy of the system above 250 K was observed, while we observed an oscillatory trend in the generated entropy of the system below 250 K that stabilizes between 200 and 250 K. Strong exciton localization in indium-rich clusters, carrier trapping by surface defect states, and thermodynamic entropy effects were examined and related to the photocarrier dynamics. We conjectured that the amount of photoinduced entropy of the system increases as more non-radiative channels become activated and more shallowly localized carriers settle into deeply localized states; thereby, additional degrees of uncertainty related to the energy of states involved in thermionic transitions are attained.

KAUST Ph.D. student wins Magnetism as Art Showcase Award

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Jose Efrain Perez, a Ph.D. student based in the University's Sensing, Magnetism and Microsystems Laboratory, won the Magnetism as Art Showcase People's Choice Award at the 62nd Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) 2017 for his artwork entitled "Magnetic Nanobeacon." Efrai­n Perez, who is supervised by Professor Jurgen Kosel, won the award at the MMM's annual showcase which was held in Pittsburgh from November 6 to 10, 2017. His colleague Zahra Albu presented and accepted the award on his behalf.

Haiding's paper on KOH conditioning of nanowire UV LED got accepted by ACS Photonics!

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Haiding's paper on KOH conditioning of nanowire UV LED got accepted by ACS Photonics!

Compound Semiconductor: KAUST Team Cleans Nanowires For More Efficient UV LEDs

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Compound Semiconductor: KAUST Team Cleans Nanowires For More Efficient UV LEDs

Davide's paper about enhanced electro-optic performance of surface-treated AlGaN nanowires is accepted by Optical Materials Express!

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Davide's paper about enhanced electro-optic performance of surface-treated AlGaN nanowires is accepted by Optical Materials Express!

Anwar Gasim

Anwar Gasim obtained a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Professor Boon Ooi at Photonics Laboratory at King Abdullah University Of Science and Technology (KAUST). He completed his courses and worked on his thesis which was on the topic of solid-state lighting. With 20% of the energy produced worldwide being spent on lighting, it is not surprising that the conventional light sources that we use are inefficient. Switching to solid-state lighting, which is based on LEDs, could cut this figure by half. The most promising material for the development of inherent

Ahmed Alfadhel

Ahmed Alfadhel obtained his both MS degree and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under the supervision of Prof. Jurgen Kosel. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, the US in 2010. Ahmed recently co-founded SONATE, a start-up company that manufactures high-quality smart nanomaterials for medical, electronics and energy applications. Research Interests Ahmed's research interests are in the fields of nano-engineering, wearable sensors, and magnetic micro-systems. His