"High-speed communication systems based on ultraviolet radiation are now in sight."​

https://discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/444/unleashing-ultraviolet-brings-visible%250aimprovement

Prof. Qiaoqiang Gan and Dr. Tien Khee Ng presented research seminars on "Fresh Water Generation Using Solar Energy" and "Research at KAUST Photonics Laboratory".​

"Boon Ooi, professor of electrical engineering in the University’s Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division, was recently elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)."

https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/news/boon-ooi-elected-osa-fellow

"Solution-processed semiconductors have come to rival traditional laser materials at visible wavelengths."

https://www.osapublishing.org/spotlight/summary.cfm?id=371454

"Modulating the signal of an ultraviolet LED emitting at 294nm, researchers from KAUST have demonstrated a high-speed near-solar-blind communication link with a data rate of 71 Mbit/s. Using UV-B light has several benefits..."

http://www.eenewseurope.com/news/researchers-prove-non-line-sight-ultraviolet-li-fi-71mbits

An underwater wireless optical communications system for streaming high-quality, live video.​

https://discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/409/no-strings-attached-for-underwater-video-system

Flatter materials have fewer imperfections, which makes for better solar cells and light sensors.

https://discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/394/fewer-defects-from-a-2d-approach

This year the conference is taking place October 1-5, 2017 at the Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA. Congratulations to Chao Shen.​

http://www.ipc-ieee.org/

"First demonstration of near-ultraviolet (NUV) laser diodes (LDs) and red-green-blue (RGB) phosphors for white visible light communication (VLC)."

http://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2017/aug/usb_090817.shtml

New study shows the thermodynamic entropy behaviour of InGaN/GaN nanowires.

https://compoundsemiconductor.net/article/101555/KAUST_team_reveals_thermodynamic_disorder_in_GaN-based_nanowires

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).

http://www.aom2017.com/show.asp?navid=7

"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

"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

By Dr. Mohd Sharizal Alias.

https://cemse.kaust.edu.sa/events/Pages/EE-Graduate-Seminar-Mohd-Sharizal-Alias.aspx

By Dr. Mohamed Ebaid.

https://cemse.kaust.edu.sa/events/Pages/EE-Graduate-Seminar-Mohamed-Ebaid.aspx

"KAUST team demonstrates dislocation-free AlGaN nanowires that spontaneously coalesce to allow device fabrication without planarisation."

https://compoundsemiconductor.net/article/101173-Researchers-simplify-fabrication-of-nanowire-UV-LEDs-on-silicon.html

"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

"KAUST's Laser Horticulture is a single source light solution for indoor agriculture that saves water, energy and performs longer."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2NtE47buY8

"Scientists from KAUST in Saudi Arabia succeeded in differentiating between two different types of cancer (cervical and breast cancers), and also between subtypes of the same cancer (basal and luminal cancer cells) by measuring their thermal-transport properties."

http://www.advancedsciencenews.com/thermal-transport-biosensor-distinguishes-different-types-cancer/