About Nasir Alfaraj Nasir Alfaraj Ibn Rushd Postdoctoral Fellow, The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto Deep-ultraviolet optoelectronic devices group III–oxide materials hybrid integration of group III–nitrides III–oxides two-dimensional materials Journal Publications Photoinduced entropy of InGaN/GaN p-i-n double-heterostructure nanowires Nasir Alfaraj, Somak Mitra, Feng Wu, Idris A. Ajia, Bilal Janjua, Aditya Prabaswara, Renad A. Aljefri, Haiding Sun, Tien Khee Ng, Boon S. Ooi, Iman S. Roqan, Xiaohang Li, Applied Physics Letters (2017). Functional integrity of flexible n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors on a reversibly bistableplatform Nasir Alfaraj, Aftab Hussain, Galo A. Torres Sevilla, Mohamed T. Ghoneim, Jhonathan P. Rojas, Abdulrahman B. Aljedaani, Muhammad M. Hussain, Applied Physics Letters (2015). Top Articles Related News July 2025 Driving KSA’s semiconductor innovation future 1 min read · Thu, Jul 3 2025 News Clip Spotlight News advanced semiconductors optoelectronics semiconductor power electronics KAUST Ph.D. alum Dr. Nasir Alfaraj, recipient of the Ibn Rushd Fellowship, is advancing semiconductor tech, fueling progress toward Vision 2030. November 2019 Nasir Alfaraj's Ph.D. Dissertation Defense 1 min read · Mon, Nov 11 2019 News Study on Deep-Ultraviolet Optoelectronic Devices Enabled by the Hybrid Integration of Next-Generation Semiconductors and Emerging Device Platforms October 2018 Nasir Alfaraj represents KAUST and Saudi Arabia at the 2018 Chicago Forum on Global Cities 1 min read · Mon, Oct 8 2018 News Photonics Lab Ph.D. student Nasir Alfaraj was recently selected to represent KAUST and Saudi Arabia at the 2018 Chicago Forum on Global Cities in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. July 2017 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. May 2017 Nasir is invited to attend the Saudi Arabia/United States Innovation to Impact Roundtable! 1 min read · Mon, May 15 2017 News saudi vision 2030 This exclusive series of roundtables will bring together 100+ university presidents, senior innovation and technology business leaders, entrepreneurs, government agencies, and venture capitalists from Saudi Arabia and the United States of America. Discussions will focus on enhancing collaboration and partnership agreements between the two countries and exploring joint research and investment opportunities catalyzed by Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. April 2017 Nasir's APL paper is highlighted by Compound Semiconductor! 1 min read · Tue, Apr 25 2017 News Pasternack Nasir's APL paper is highlighted by Compound Semiconductor! 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 1 min read · Thu, Apr 6 2017 News time-resolved photoluminescence nanowires semiconductors 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. July 2016 Nasir's abstract is accepted in the International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors meeting in Orlando, FL, USA 1 min read · Fri, Jul 1 2016 News Nitride Semiconductors Nasir's abstract is accepted in the International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors meeting in Orlando, FL, USA June 2016 Kuang-Hui and Nasir's abstract is accepted as a late news abstract of the 18th ICMOVPE conference in San Diego, CA, USA 1 min read · Sat, Jun 4 2016 News Kuang-Hui and Nasir's abstract is accepted as a late news abstract of the 18th ICMOVPE conference in San Diego, CA, USA. February 2016 ASL welcomes the first Ph.D. student, Nasir Alfaraj 1 min read · Tue, Feb 9 2016 News PhD student ASL welcomes the first Ph.D. student, Nasir Alfaraj.
Driving KSA’s semiconductor innovation future 1 min read · Thu, Jul 3 2025 News Clip Spotlight News advanced semiconductors optoelectronics semiconductor power electronics KAUST Ph.D. alum Dr. Nasir Alfaraj, recipient of the Ibn Rushd Fellowship, is advancing semiconductor tech, fueling progress toward Vision 2030.
Nasir Alfaraj's Ph.D. Dissertation Defense 1 min read · Mon, Nov 11 2019 News Study on Deep-Ultraviolet Optoelectronic Devices Enabled by the Hybrid Integration of Next-Generation Semiconductors and Emerging Device Platforms
Nasir Alfaraj represents KAUST and Saudi Arabia at the 2018 Chicago Forum on Global Cities 1 min read · Mon, Oct 8 2018 News Photonics Lab Ph.D. student Nasir Alfaraj was recently selected to represent KAUST and Saudi Arabia at the 2018 Chicago Forum on Global Cities in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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.
Nasir is invited to attend the Saudi Arabia/United States Innovation to Impact Roundtable! 1 min read · Mon, May 15 2017 News saudi vision 2030 This exclusive series of roundtables will bring together 100+ university presidents, senior innovation and technology business leaders, entrepreneurs, government agencies, and venture capitalists from Saudi Arabia and the United States of America. Discussions will focus on enhancing collaboration and partnership agreements between the two countries and exploring joint research and investment opportunities catalyzed by Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030.
Nasir's APL paper is highlighted by Compound Semiconductor! 1 min read · Tue, Apr 25 2017 News Pasternack Nasir's APL paper is highlighted by Compound Semiconductor!
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 1 min read · Thu, Apr 6 2017 News time-resolved photoluminescence nanowires semiconductors 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.
Nasir's abstract is accepted in the International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors meeting in Orlando, FL, USA 1 min read · Fri, Jul 1 2016 News Nitride Semiconductors Nasir's abstract is accepted in the International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors meeting in Orlando, FL, USA
Kuang-Hui and Nasir's abstract is accepted as a late news abstract of the 18th ICMOVPE conference in San Diego, CA, USA 1 min read · Sat, Jun 4 2016 News Kuang-Hui and Nasir's abstract is accepted as a late news abstract of the 18th ICMOVPE conference in San Diego, CA, USA.
ASL welcomes the first Ph.D. student, Nasir Alfaraj 1 min read · Tue, Feb 9 2016 News PhD student ASL welcomes the first Ph.D. student, Nasir Alfaraj.
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