Boon S. Ooi

Boon S. Ooi is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at KAUST. He is also the Director of KACST - Technology Innovation Center (TIC) for Solid-State Lighting. Professor Ooi received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Glasgow (Scotland, U.K) in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He joined KAUST from Lehigh University (Pennsylvania, USA) where he held an Associate Professor position and headed the Photonics and Semiconductor Nanostructure Laboratory. In the U.S., his research was primarily funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Defense and the Army Research Office. In KSA, major funding support for his research is from King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology (KACST), Saudi Aramco, SABIC, Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), and the U.S. Office of Navy Research-Global (ONR).

His research is primarily concerned with the study of semiconductor lasers and photonic integrated circuits. Specifically, he has contributed significantly to the development of practical technologies for semiconductor photonics integrated circuits and the development of novel broadband semiconductor lasers, multiple-wavelength lasers, and superluminescent diodes. Most recently, he focuses his research on the areas of GaN-based nanostructures and lasers for applications such as solid-state lighting and visible light communications.

He has given many lectures, seminars and invited talks at universities, research institutions, and international conferences. He has been the organizing chair for several IEEE, OSA and MRS conferences, and served on the technical program committee of CLEO, IPC, and IEDM. He was an associate editor of IEEE Photonics Journal from 2009-2015. Presently, he serves as Senior Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal, and Associate Editor of OSA Optics Express and SPIE Journal of Nanophotonics​​.

In KSA, he has founded the IEEE Photonics Society Western Saudi Arabia Chapter and been serving as the Chapter Chair since 2010. He has also been serving in the executive board member of IEEE Western Saudi Arabia Section since 2010.

Dr. Ooi is a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), and the Institute of Physics (London).

Selected Publications

• D. Prianti, I. Dursun, M.S. Alias, D. Shi, V.A. Melnikov, T.K. Ng, O.F. Mohammed, O.M. Bakr, and B.S. Ooi, "The recombination mechanisms leading to amplified spontaneous emission at the true-green wavelength in CH3NH3PbBr3 perovskites", Applied Physics Letters, 106, 081902, 2015
• R. T. ElAfandy, M. A. Majid, T. K. Ng, L. Zhao, D. Cha and B. S. Ooi, "Exfoliation of threading dislocation free single crystalline ultrathin gallium nitride nanomembrane", Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 24(16), pp2305-2311, 2014
• Mohammed Zahed Mustafa Khan, Tien Khee Ng, and Boon S. Ooi, "Self-assembled InAs/InP quantum dots and quantum dashes: Material structures and devices",Progress in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 38(6), pp237–313, 2014
• T. Frost, S. Jahangir, E. Stark, S. Deshpande. A. Hazari, C. Zhao, B. S. Ooi, P. Bhattacharya, "A monolithic electrically injected nanowire laser on (001) silicon",Nano Letters, Vol.14 (8), pp4535-4541, 2014
• M. Z. M. Khan, M. A. Majid, T. K. Ng, D. Cha, and B. S. Ooi "Simultaneous quantum dash-well emission in a chirped dash-in-well superluminescent diode with spectral bandwidth >700nm", Optics Letters, vol. 38 (19), pp. 3720-3723, 2013
• B. S. Ooi, H. S. Djie, Y. Wang, C. L. Tan, J. C.M. Hwang, X. M. Fang, J. M. Fastenau, A. W.K. Liu, G. T. Dang, and W. H. Chang "Quantum dashes on InP substrate for broadband emitter applications", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 14(4), pp 1230-1238, July/August 2008