energy

Blue LED material extended to Green, Yellow, and now Red

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KAUST

In this seminar, the science of MOCVD, the material science of InGaN, and the new-born InGaN-based red LED performance will be discussed. The three primary colors in light are RGB. Green and blue LEDs have been realized by using InGaN active region. The current red LEDs are based on AlGaAs or InGaP as the active region. If we can realize red LEDs by InGaN, it is possible to integrate RGB LEDs in a wafer. Such RGB integration is a breakthrough to develop the next displays, so-called, micro-LED displays that are the next after the OLED displays, and functional LED lightings.

Game-Theoretic Analysis of Smart Grid Markets: From Retail to Wholesale

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KAUST

As end-consumers of electricity become more proactive and as many countries around the world push for a deeper penetration of renewable resources into the power grid, critical issues and challenges arise to the design and operation of deregulated electricity markets. In this presentation, we show how one can exploit tools from game theory to address some of these critical issues. Firstly, wholesale and retail markets are becoming more integrated due to the increasing adoption of distributed energy resources, creating a large gap in the current understanding of the impact of such small-scale energy resources on the larger power system operation and electricity market outcomes. This motivates us to develop a metric, called the Price of Aggregation, which quantifies the impact of integrating distributed energy resources in the retail-level on wholesale market efficiency. Secondly, evidence from real markets indicate that large-scale adoption of wind energy in the transmission system leads to significantly higher price volatility in wholesale markets. To mitigate the effects of price volatility, we propose an add-on centralized clearing mechanism that is applicable to any wholesale market, with the aim of allowing any market participant to hedge against profit volatilities, without changing the existing market operations. Finally, we develop a multiperiod-multicompany demand response framework in retail markets, which captures the behavior of competing companies and their price-responsive end-consumers. Using real-life data, we demonstrate potential savings that can exceed 30% for end-consumers, in addition to revealing desirable mathematical properties and deep insights.

Flexible Electronics Beyond Mechanical Flexibility: Multifunctional Flexible Semiconductor Materials and Devices for Photonic, Electronic, Energy, and Sensing Applications

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B9 L3 R3223

Flexible electronics is an emerging and widely explored area. Most research groups in the area focus on fabrication processes to provide mechanical flexibility and their use in bendable and stretchable applications. Also, most semiconductors employed in flexible electronics are non-single-crystalline thin films which compromise the performance of the flexible devices.

Numerical Methods for Energy Minimisation: Application to Machine Learning Algorithms

Prof. Charalambos Makridakis, Director of the Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics of FORTH, Greece

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B2 L5 R5220

In this talk, we discuss problems and numerical methods arising in the calculus of variations and energy minimization. Among numerous applications, energy minimization is a core element of Machine Learning algorithms. Within the field of nonlinear PDEs, the calculus of variations has received a lot of attention from the analysis point of view. Although quite interesting and challenging, the numerical analysis of these problems is much less developed.

Panel Discussion: A Roadmap for Bringing to Earth the Energy of the Stars

Prof. Amitava Bhattacharjee, Dr. Michael Zarnstorff, Dr. Spencer Pitcher, Mr. Richard Carty

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B20 Auditorium

“Practical fusion power is thirty years off and always will be.” Most people are instantly enraptured at the thought that a single glass of water will provide enough fusion fuel for their lifetime – if only it could be safely unlocked – and most of us have heard, as well, that we should not set our watches for when this will occur.

Lecture 1: Hidden Symmetries and Fusion Energy

Prof. Amitava Bhattacharjee, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University

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B20 Auditorium

The most compelling transformational use of magnetically confined, high-temperature plasma is to realize sustained fusion energy. The tokamak, which is the leading magnetic confinement concept in the world today, first realized in 1958, has the geometry of a torus and toroidal symmetry, giving it good confinement properties. Nevertheless, the tokamak has a number of unresolved stability issues related to its current-carrying plasma that may be obstacles to its ultimate success. In contrast, in the stellarator, the confining magnetic field is mostly produced by external current-carrying coils.

Powering the bottom line

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A risk-based optimization scheme boosts confidence and profitability for future mixed-technology power plants.

Alumni Focus: Wail Bamhair (M.S. '10, electrical engineering)

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Wail Khalid Bamhair (M.S. '10, electrical engineering - nanotechnology) hails from Jeddah and is currently the CEO of TAQNIA Energy, the energy arm of Saudi Investment and Development. Bamhair received his master's degree from KAUST in 2010, the year the University's first class of graduating students were awarded their degrees.

Solving the grandest of challenges

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Around the world, scientists, researchers and engineers seek to develop sustainable alternatives to the burning of fossil fuels. Some explore the kinetic energy of wind, gravity or water. Others capture excited electrons using photosensitive materials. William Tang, a principal research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory at Princeton University, wants to power the world using the chemical reaction that stars run on—nuclear fusion—and he believes deep learning is a key.

Standing the test of time with a perfect partner

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Identifying the ideal co-catalyst can significantly extend the working lifetime of solar fuel–generating photocatalysts.

Haytham Alhamed

Research Interests Life cycle sustainability assessment, Drilling tools, Drilling automation, Underbalanced drilling, Coiled tubing drilling, Well completion, Energy economics, and Rock mechanics Professional Profile 2015-2016, Drilling Engineer- Oil Drilling Engineering Department, Saudi Aramo 2016-2017, Drilling Foreman- Oil Drilling Engineering Department, Saudi Aramco. 2017-2018, Workover Engineer- Workover Engineering Department, Saudi Aramco. 2018-2019, Drilling Foreman- Gad Drilling Engineering Department, Saudi Aramco. 2018- 2019, Researcher- Drilling Technology Team in EXPEC Advanced