Events

Dec 8 - Dec 14, 2024

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  Innovating Tomorrow: Research, Opportunities, and Future Semiconductor and Digital Technologies

  Sohail Faizan Shaikh

  Dec 10, 14:00 - 15:00

  B3, L5, R5220

  Electronics have become an integral part of our daily lives, thanks to the continuous scaling and maturity of CMOS technology. Over the past decade, we've witnessed the rise of new applications such as health monitoring, point-of-care diagnostics, and environmental monitoring, which often require physically flexible systems and the emergence of flexible electronics field. With the advent of AI and ML, the race to develop hardware that meets these immense demands and challenges has begun. As we push the boundaries of technology, the importance of collaboration cannot be overstated.

Nov 19 - Nov 25, 2023

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  Future Electronics Beyond the FinFET and GAA-FETs

  Uttam Kumar Das, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Nov 19, 16:00 - 18:00

  B9 L2 H2322

  Quantum theory and relativity have shown the solid path for solid-state computation in the early 20th century. Since then, many theoretical breakthroughs accompanied by experimental discoveries have ultimately led us to this modern-day electronic society.

Nov 5 - Nov 11, 2023

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  Atomic Layer Deposition Reaction Parameters Influence on ZnO's Electrical Properties on Cotton Fabric for Textile Electronics

  Huda Badghaish, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Nov 5, 16:00 - 18:00

  KAUST

  Textile electronics is a newly emerging field that is gaining the interest of researchers due to its wide range of applications and prospects. Despite the variety of materials and methods used to fabricate textile electronic devices, there is a lack of focus and direction needed for the rapid advancement of this field.

Sep 25 - Oct 1, 2022

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  Solution Processable Carbon Nanotubes Based Sensors: Towards 4D Printed Electronics

  Lana Joharji, M.S. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Sep 26, 13:00 - 14:00

  B2 L5 R5209

  3D printing 4D printing

  In this thesis, we focus on the design and development of 4D printed sensors. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are used as the active sensing medium as they have proven to be ideal for application in sensors due to their high electric conductivity, stability, and mechanical flexibility. The effect of a heat-shrinkable substrate on the electronic and structural properties of CNTs is analyzed in depth, followed by the application in temperature, humidity, and pressure sensors. The results show that the 4D effect results in a more porous yet more conductive film due to an increase in the charge carrier concentration, enabling an improved sensitivity of the devices and allowing us to tune the selectivity based on the shrinking percentage. The developed device was fabricated using a rapid, cost-effective technique that is independent of advanced fabrication facilities to expand its applications to low-resource settings and environments.

Aug 28 - Sep 10, 2022

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  Compound Semiconductor Weekend

  Integrated Photonics Laboratory; Smart, Advanced Memory devices and Applications Laboratory; Photonics Laboratory; Advanced Semiconductor Laboratory

  Sep 3, 09:00 - Sep 5, 17:00

  B3 L5 R5209

  The Compound Semiconductor Weekend will focus on some of the most important research areas on the beautiful KAUST campus by the Red Sea. It features 18 invited and contributed oral talks and a poster competition. Semiconductor technology is a major foundation of the third and fourth Industrial Revolutions as well as the modern society. While silicon remains as the widest-employed semiconductor, compound semiconductors have emerged from lab research to becoming the second most widely used within a short period of time. This is because compound semiconductors could possess multiple superior key properties simultaneously. They include high speed, high power, and efficient light emission and absorption, as well as that they can be produced in large scale at low cost and are highly robust. As a result, they have become cornerstones of many crucial technologies including lighting, display, communication, space exploration, and electric vehicles. While semiconductor researchers are plowing deeper for those technologies, compound semiconductors attract increasing attention for future computing, memory, and quantum information science as the pursuit of Moore’s Law has slowed down dramatically when the size of silicon transistors is approaching the physical limit of a few atoms.