The recent conference organized by KSC was highlighted in KAUST News.

Senior Editor at Nature Energy, Dr. Elsa Couderc discussed the editorial process for scientific publications and shared her insights and tips on making excellent figures and creating a catchy and accurate title.

KAUST Solar Center's Ph.D. student Esma Ugur caught up with NREL’s Center Director for the Materials Science Center in the Materials and Chemical Sciences Directorate Dr. Nancy Haegel to discuss and understand the future of Photovoltaic (PV) technologies. Watch the video interview here.

NC State University professor, Dr. Harald Ade speaks with KAUST Solar center’s Ph.D. student Rahim Munir about the future of OPV and also the advantages gained from Organic solar cells such as their transparency and flexibility.

Four young scientists awarded prizes for their outstanding contriubuitions to the KAUST Research Conference: Synergistic Approaches in Solar Energy Conversion

Simple chemicals called glycol ethers help make better perovskite thin films for solar cells.

Thin films for use in solar cells are more effective when simple chemicals called glycol ethers are added to the film-forming mix, a KAUST team has found.  “This is an unexpected discovery,” says Esma Ugur, a Ph.D. student in the KAUST Solar Center team that observed the effect. “It yields more uniform thin films with improved structure and efficiency.”

A mild post-fabrication doping approach can boost the solar conversion of quantum dot-based photovoltaic cells. The performance of solar cells that consist of semiconductor nanoparticles surrounded by ligand molecules is now easier to control. Researchers from KAUST have developed a method that enhances the ability of these colloidal quantum dot (CQD) solar cells to convert the sun’s energy into electricity by altering the surface chemistry of their functional layers in a noninvasive way.

In the Science as Story Telling sessions, KAUST’s young scientists learn the latest technology and techniques for visual science communication

Fundamentals of Project Management course completed by 15 KSC members.

Congratulations to KAUST Solar Center Director Prof. Iain McCulloch who has been listed on Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2017 for both Chemistry and Materials Science.

On November 22nd KSC's Rahim Munir presented his research and successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.

Daniel Corzo wins the Science as Art competition

Research into solar energy was a dominant subject in this year’s Saudi Research Science Institute (SRSI).

Thin films for use in solar cells are more effective when simple chemicals called glycol ethers are added to the film-forming mix, a KAUST team has found.

Sara Abbas wins RSC poster prize at 13th International Conference on Materials in Chemistry

Abdulkhaleq Almansaf is a winner of 3M’s 2017 Invent a New Future Challenge, a global case competition from 3M which aims to reward the extraordinary thinking of talented college and graduate students around the world.

11th Grade student, Hamza Mohammed, to gain an insight into KSC research as part of the SRSI program which aims to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers and mathematicians.

Ahmad R. Kirmani successfully presented his research and defended his PhD thesis.

Hanlin Hu successfully completed his PhD

Find out more about KSC Prof. Stefaan De Wolf's research.