Review paper on Self-assembled InAs/InP quantum dots and quantum dashes has been published on the review journal Progress in Quantum Electronics by Dr. Mohammed Zahed Mustafa Khan​​​.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pquantelec.2014.11.001

Photonics lab member Damian Pablo San Roman Alerigi​ has successfully defended his PhD dissertation.​

Ahmed Ben Slimane​ has successfully defended his PhD work on III-Nitride Micro and Nano-Structures for Solid State Lightning, and heading for a French multinational integrated oil and gas company​, TOTAL.​

Researchers from Photonics laboratory demonstrates a record bandwidth of 700 nm from novel III/V semiconductor based broadband light emitters

Photonics lab member Mohammed Zahed Mustafa Khan has successfully defended his PhD dissertation and graduates from KAUST class 2013.

Photonics lab member Mohammed Zahed Mustafa Khan won the Best Paper Award (Photonics Track) at the 2nd SIECPC.​​​

Kazi's paper titled “A novel optical transmitter for energy efficient computing architecture and communications” was awarded Best paper presentation award for the Society of Petroleum Engineer's Student Paper Contest in Bahrain.​

Yasser Khan won the Best Graduate Student Research Poster award at first KAUST Winter Enrichment Period Poster Competition

Ten students from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have received awards for research presentations made at the institution's first annual Graduate Research Symposium (GRS).

Zahed wins the Best Paper Award at Photonics Global Conference (PGC 2010).

The Department of Electrical Engineering held its annual ‘end of year party’ on 19 May, 2011. The Recognition Award ceremony was the centerpiece of the celebrations, where over achieving members of the department were recognized and awarded gifts.

Nature Photonics | Editorial features the Photonics activity of KAU​ST.

http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v5/n2/full/nphoton.2011.14.html

The second KAUST-KFUPM one day Photonics Workshop drew faculty, students, researchers, and visitors from the University of Michigan, University of St. Andrews, University of Central Florid, City University of London, and KFUPM.