A firefly's flash inspires new nanolaser light 1 min read · Sat, Jul 15 2017 News nanoscience nanoscale electrical engineering light Synchronized emissions from innovative on-chip lasers create possibilities for inexpensive artificial neural networks.
Visiting Ph.D. Student Meng-Lin Tsai and Prof Jr-Hau He device the thinnest highly-efficient solar cell 1 min read · Wed, Jul 5 2017 News nanomaterials hydrogen energy optoelectronics At King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a team of researchers developed what might be the effective solution to the problem: the thinnest solar cells with lateral geometry offering high optoelectronic performances while reducing production costs of extended photovoltaic architecture. The research was recently published in Advanced Material and reported by Nature Middle East.
Keeping the heat out 1 min read · Sat, Jul 1 2017 News electrical engineering nanoscience physics Insights into the thermal behavior of metal-nitride nanowires could open new avenues in optical electronics.
Two KAUST students selected for the Three Minute Thesis 3MT competition final at IMS2017 1 min read · Mon, Jun 19 2017 News Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits wearable sensors RF circuits Microwave circuits Antennas This year, KAUST took the lion's share at the Three Minute Thesis (3MT(R)) contest at the annual IEEE microwave symposium IMS2017, with two students selected to take part in the final and one of them - Dr. Farhan Abdul Ghaffar - finishing within the top 4 and getting Honorable Mention for his presentation.
Farhan and Fahad selected for the Three Minute Thesis 3MT competition final at IMS2017 1 min read · Mon, Jun 19 2017 News This year, the premium conference of microwave community, IMS, organized Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for the very first time. Out of 157 submissions, only 20 were selected as the finalists of the competition.
The next generation of sensing platforms 1 min read · Thu, Jun 15 2017 News sensors The University welcomed 70 delegates to the third annual KAUST Sensor Initiative, held on campus from May 7 to 8. The interdisciplinary meeting aimed to transform sensor technologies and explore novel applications, create a global group of sensor pioneers and mentor a new generation of sensor experts.
Hesham ElSawy wins IEEE Communication Society 1 min read · Mon, May 22 2017 News Cognitive radio network Stochastic Geometry Green communications The Internet of Everything in quickly growing and vastly enlarging its spectrum of applications. At the same time, traffic demand per-user is increasing dramatically. It is estimated that by 2020 there will be more than 50 billion devices connected. The cellular support infrastructure should be developed accordingly, making of network performance analysis a critical task. The existing elementary probability methods are currently inefficient when it comes to detecting mobility faults and interference.
The crest of waveforms for next-gen radar 1 min read · Sat, May 6 2017 News electrical engineering Computer science radar A new method for shaping the waveform generated by multi-antenna radar systems is inexpensive and practical.
A simple nose for noxious gases 1 min read · Thu, May 4 2017 News material science and engineering metal-organic framework chemical science Tunable porous MOF materials interface with electrodes to sound the alarm at the first sniff of hydrogen sulfide.
Adel Bibi and Matthias Mueller going to ICVSS 2017 1 min read · Mon, May 1 2017 News Italy Summer School Computer Vision ICVSS Adel Bibi and Matthias Mueller have been accepted to participate in the ICVSS (International Computer Vision Summer Schoole) 2017 in Italy. Admission into this summer school is quite competitive in the vision community.
Thinking outside the box in flood control 1 min read · Mon, May 1 2017 News inkjet printing technologies paper cube electronic sensor wireless monitor Floating paper cubes containing low-cost, inkjet printed electronic sensors can wirelessly monitor floods in real time.
Tien Khee Ng presented an invited talk "Nanowires for Optoelectronic and Solar Water Splitting Applications" at AOM 2017 1 min read · Tue, Apr 25 2017 News Tien Khee Ng presented an invited talk and chaired a Micro/nano Optics, Nanophotonics session at the 6th Conference on Advances in Optoelectronics and Micro/Nano-optics at Nanjing, China (April 23-26, 2017).
Compound Semiconductor and Nanowerk features "KAUST Team Reveals Thermodynamic Disorder In GaN-Based Nanowires" 1 min read · Tue, Apr 25 2017 News "New study shows the thermodynamic entropy behaviour of InGaN/GaN nanowires." "GaN-based p-i-n power devices based on nanowires are suitable for attenuators, high-frequency switches, as well as photodetector applications. However, non-radiative recombination affects their performance." "Led by Xiaohang Li, Iman S. Roqan, and Boon S. Ooi, the team studied the photoinduced entropy of InGaN/GaN p-i-n double-heterostructure nanowires using temperature-dependent photoluminescence." "They hypothesised that the amount of generated randomness in the InGaN layers in the nanowires eventually increases
Deep thinking brings underwater robot to life 1 min read · Mon, Apr 24 2017 News marine science mechanical engineering robot An international, multidisciplinary collaboration that led to the world’s first underwater robotic avatar.
Feeling the heat in cells 1 min read · Sat, Apr 8 2017 News sensors heat transfer nanomembrane New nano-sized sensors provide unprecedented data on how heat diffuses in and out of living cells.
SCI Chemistry & Industry features "What a bright idea" 1 min read · Tue, Apr 4 2017 News "Thomas Alva Edison’s incandescent light bulb, patented in 1879, has served us well for more than a century. But, in the modern eco-conscious environment, it is fantastically wasteful – turning 98% of the electricity into heat rather than light." http://www.soci.org/chemistry-and-industry/cni-data/2016/9/what-a-bright-idea
Team KAUST places 3rd at the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge 1 min read · Wed, Mar 29 2017 News Spotlight robotics intelligent systems control systems A team from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) competed in the inaugural Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC), held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 2017, and took a 3rd place finish in the ground robotics challenge.
Dental braces get smart 1 min read · Mon, Mar 27 2017 News CMOS nanoelectronics flexible -By Francesca Serra Muhammad Hussain, associate Professor of electrical engineering at the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division of KAUST, recently developed a new dental brace technology that can straighten teeth faster and more effectively than actual products. The orthodontic system was designed to induce faster bone regeneration and to enhance protection of the enamel. According to Hussain and his team, the technology is going to introduce a paradigm shift in orthodontic treatments "The integration of high performance inorganic mechanically conformable and
Semiconductor Today features "Semi-polar indium gallium nitride laser diode/waveguide photodiode combo" 1 min read · Fri, Mar 24 2017 News "Researchers based in Saudi Arabia and USA have integrated a waveguide photodetector (WPD) with a 405nm laser diode (LD) using free-standing semi-polar gallium nitride (GaN) technology." http://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2017/mar/kaust_240317.shtml
Post-Doctoral Fellow Ahmed Bader bestowed YPs Best Innovation Award at IEEE WCNC 2017 1 min read · Wed, Mar 22 2017 News Spotlight Energy-efficient wireless multihop networks Cross-layer protocol design Dr. Ahmed Bader, a CEMSE Post-Doctoral Fellow in electrical engineering, won the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Young Professionals (YPs) Best Innovation Award at Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2017, in San Francisco, USA, on March 22.
EE Graduate Seminar | Towards Efficient Fuel Alternatives: Unbiased Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation from Pure Water using III-Nitride Nanowires 1 min read · Sun, Mar 19 2017 News By Dr. Mohamed Ebaid: The expected depletion of fossil fuel reserves and its severe environmental impact have emphasized the need for sustainable and clean energy resources. Solar hydrogen generation from water splitting using sunlight and semiconductors is a promising alternative to conventional fossil fuels, which has great potential to relieve energy and environmental issues and bring an energy revolution in a clean and sustainable manner. To be practical, hydrogen production needs to tackle the challenges of high solar-to-hydrogen (STH) energy conversion efficiency and high stability of
EE Graduate Seminar | Hybrid perovskites: approaches towards green lasing 1 min read · Sun, Mar 19 2017 News By Dr. Mohd Sharizal Alias: The high optical gain and absorption of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites have attracted extensive research for photonic device applications. Using the bromide halide as an example, we present key approaches of our work towards realizing green lasing in hybrid perovskites. The approaches involved determination of optical constants for the hybrid perovskites thin films, understanding the material morphologies, fabrication of photonic nanostructures to reflect and manipulate light emission from the perovskite active media, and enhancing the emission property of the
Stretching toward energy efficiency 1 min read · Sat, Mar 18 2017 News Thermoelectric materials Applied physical sciences electrical engineering Deformable thermoelectric materials add a new twist to the design of energy-scavenging devices.
Compound Semiconductor features "Researchers Simplify Fabrication Of Nanowire UV-LEDs On Silicon" 1 min read · Mon, Mar 6 2017 News KAUST team demonstrates dislocation-free AlGaN nanowires that spontaneously coalesce to allow device fabrication without planarization. https://compoundsemiconductor.net/article/101173-Researchers-simplify-fabrication-of-nanowire-UV-LEDs-on-silicon.html
Dr. Hesham ElSawy Elevated to Senior Member of IEEE and Recognized as an Exemplary Reviewer by the IEEE Transactions on Communications 1 min read · Sun, Mar 5 2017 News Cognitive radio network Stochastic Geometry Green communications Dr. Hesham ElSawy has been elevated to the rank of Senior Member of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology. The achievement is considered a significant honor since it is granted only to researchers who have shown a significance and continuous performance over a period of five years in professional practice. At present, only an 8% of 400,000 IEEE members have received this honor because of their superior professional achievements.
Signaling success for 5th gen communications 1 min read · Sat, Mar 4 2017 News applied mathematics mobile An efficient wireless signal optimization scheme achieves peak performance for next-generation mobile communications.
Blind matchmaking for more efficient wireless networks 1 min read · Sat, Feb 25 2017 News algorithm applied mathematics electrical engineering Autonomously pairing network users could expand the capability of the next generation of wireless networks
SPIE Newsroom features "Perovskite nanocrystals as color converters for record-breaking visible light communications" 1 min read · Wed, Feb 22 2017 News Cesium lead bromide perovskite nanocrystals are used to generate white light that can be used as both an efficient lighting source and for ultrafast data transfer. https://doi.org/10.1117/2.1201611.006756
Self-destructible electronics is a Mission Impossible no more 1 min read · Fri, Feb 17 2017 News CMOS nanoelectronics flexible In today's digital age, the increasing dependency on information makes everyone potentially exposed to privacy invasion and cyber security. Annual reports on tech-safety breaches are alarming, with stolen portable devices, laptops or mobiles, along with hacked hardware skyrocketing to 50% in the United States only. Bigger the picture, global is the risk of unwilling access to private lives or strategical documents, with everyone in the eye of the most dangerous of information violation. In such cases, an immediate ability to remotely destroy the sensitive parts, if it is not possible to regain them, would save us.
Wrist sensor for health screening 1 min read · Sun, Feb 5 2017 News sensors flexible nanoelectronics Give a Post-It Note paper to an Electrical Engineering team and you will see it turn onto the new alley to revolutionize modern medicine; an unprecedented wearable, budget-friendly and reliable a paper-based sensor for health screening encapsulated in a silicon wrist with a recycling high-tech design. Body temperature, sweat levels, heart rate and blood pressure can now be monitored with no need to go to hospitals nor using costly technologies, dramatically rare in underdeveloped or developing countries.
Costless and reliable 3D high-speed printing process to revolutionize decal sensors fabrication 1 min read · Fri, Jan 27 2017 News 3D fabrication CMOS 3D high-speed printing printed decal sensors Attempts for 3D fabrication of decal electronics were previously made. But, rigid, bulky, and planar CMOS electronics were larger in size and limited in adaptability with the human body. Unwillingly, such obsolete device creates localized heating, power-loss and grumpy data performances.
Rolling out an e-sticker revolution 1 min read · Mon, Jan 2 2017 News sensors Electronic devices High-speed fabrication developed at KAUST can turn out adhesive and flexible electronic devices in any shape imaginable.
KAUST 7th Commencement: Dr. Ahmad Ali Al-Jabr, Dr. Hala H. Al-Hashim, Dr. Amanda Ooi, and Master Edgars Stegenburgs 1 min read · Mon, Dec 19 2016 News Dr. Ahmad Ali Al-Jabr, Dr. Hala H. Al-Hashim, Dr. Amanda Ooi, and Master Edgars Stegenburgs graduates from KAUST Class of 2016!
KAUST-born robotic avatar sets new era for undersea archaeology 1 min read · Thu, Dec 15 2016 News sensors antenna arrays In 2015, an extensive archaeological programme led by the French Ministry of Culture and the University of Montpellier set up a scientific collaboration with Khaled Nabil Salama, Professor from CEMSE Division and co-worker Professor Christian R. Voolstra, from the KAUST Red Sea Research Center, in partnership with Stanford University and Meka Robotics, in California, to develop Ocean One, an agile avatar that affords immediate and haptic-visual interaction â the process of recognizing objects through touch - in the ocean environment at depths greater than 50m.
Rawan Naous: a student with a knack for success 1 min read · Tue, Nov 22 2016 News system on chip wireless communications network Computer architecture "KAUST is a unique place!" said Rawan. "The university has an interdisciplinary environment that offers great opportunities both at academic and social level. Working at KAUST has made possible improving my professional skills while raising a family, a mission impossible for most women out there."
Color-changing coatings ready for the big time 1 min read · Sat, Nov 19 2016 News applied mathematics nanomaterials light electrical engineering The dazzling colors of peacock feathers arise from the physical interaction of light with biological nanostructures. Researchers have discovered how to exploit this natural trickery known as structural coloration into a large-scale printing technology that produces lightweight and ultraresistant coatings in any color desirable.
Driven to diffraction 1 min read · Wed, Nov 9 2016 News electrical engineering bioscience light Optical elements that diffract light could lead to smaller and more powerful cameras.
A modern way to heal old wounds 1 min read · Sat, Oct 15 2016 News sensor-laden bandage wearable sensors inkjet printing technologies Injuries that fail to heal within three months, such as many diabetic foot ulcers, can require years of treatment and significant healthcare resources. A sensor-laden bandage developed by a research team at KAUST promises to reduce the burden on hospitals and enhance patient well-being by transforming how chronic wounds are monitored.
Muhammad Hussain elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) 1 min read · Thu, Oct 13 2016 News CMOS nanoelectronics flexible The Fellowship is an international distinction assigned only to highly selected scientists for their contributions in the fields of APS, and was given to Prof Hussain for contributions to exploration, evaluation, and transition of planar and nonplanar high-k/metal gate complementary metal oxide semiconductor electronics, silicon/silicongermanium/ III-V nanotube devices, and flexible, stretchable, reconfigurable complementary metalâoxideâsemiconductor electronic systems.
Helping computers to see who we really are 1 min read · Sat, Oct 8 2016 News algorithm machine learning algorithm Algorithms that train computers to automatically detect human activity in videos can improve online searches and real-world surveillance systems.
Ph.D. student Muhammad Akram Karimimi among Best Paper Award finalists 1 min read · Thu, Oct 6 2016 News energy harvesting oil and gas sensors embedded systems sensors Ph.D. student Muhammad Akram Karimimi from the research team of Atif Shamim, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at KAUST and Director of IMPACT Laboratory, was one of the finalists in the Student Paper Competition at the International Microwave Symposium held in San Francisco, California, in May 2016.
Professor Shamim's Smart Bandage hits Nature Scientific Report and win the IEEE MECAP' 16 Best Paper Award 1 min read · Tue, Sep 27 2016 News RFICs sensors Professor Shamim's new cutting edge, flexible and low-cost technology to monitor chronic wounds recently put CEMSE on the map of health care system research. His scientific paper " Low-Cost Inkjet Printed Smart Bandage for Wireless Monitoring of Chronic Wounds " appeared on Nature Scientific Reports and won IEEE MECAP'16 - Middle East Conference on Antennas and Propagation - Best Paper Award, in Beirut, last September.
Gentle sensors for diagnosing brain disorders 1 min read · Sat, Sep 24 2016 News sensors bain science electrical engineering New sensor design paves the way for safer and more effective brain monitoring.
Flash Microfluidics, rapid Lab on a Chip fabrication method for cost- effective in situ production. 1 min read · Thu, Sep 1 2016 News sensors lab-on-a-chip antenna arrays magnetic sensors consumer electronics IoT From DNA sequencing to environment monitoring, microfluidics devices have been broadly employed, but their production is more and more time-consuming and expensive. Researchers from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, have developed an innovative prototyping method for Lab on a Chip (LOC) production to plummet costs while augmenting performances.
Crafting technology from nature's darkest secrets 1 min read · Sat, Aug 20 2016 News nanofabrication resonator Exploiting the properties of disordered chaotic systems leads to low-cost energy harvesting and innovative micro-surgery applications.
Step into the white light for faster communication 1 min read · Sat, Aug 13 2016 News electromagnetic waves nanocrystals laser emission data communication Nanocrystals that generate white light could help combine lighting and communications systems into one.
Victor participates in the Deep Learning Summer School 1 min read · Mon, Aug 8 2016 News An IVUL Ph.D. student (Victor Escorcia) participated in the Deep Learning Summer School. He was selected among many students/researchers worldwide to attend this event, where he had the opportunity to interact with and learn from leaders in the field of deep learning.
Prof. Salama's paper hits the top for 6 months in the row! 1 min read · Thu, Aug 4 2016 Spotlight News sensors antenna arrays wireless communications network In August 2016, Prof. Salama's article "Stochasticity Modeling in Memristors", was for the sixth time consecutively among the most downloaded paper of the month and the most read article in the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO).
Fabian participates in the Computer Vision Summer School 1 min read · Sun, Jul 24 2016 News ICVSS PhD student participated IVUL international event An IVUL Ph.D. student (Fabian Caba) participates in the Computer Vision Summer School.
Jeff Shamma elected IFAC fellow 2014-17 1 min read · Fri, Jul 15 2016 News robotics intelligent systems control systems robust control game theory The award is an international distinction given to scientists for their contributions in the fields of interest of IFAC under the form of technical publications, patents, control solutions, products, software, and leadership in research, development, and education.
