Dr.Abdulrahman Alajlan |Heat transfer Award | Best Researcher Award

Dr.Abdulrahman Alajlan,KACST, Saudi Arabia

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Education:

• Doctor of Philosophy: Physics, 12/2019
  • Texas A&M University – College Station
• Master of Science: Physics, 08/2015
  • Texas A&M University – College Station
• Bachelor of Science: Physics, 05/2010
• Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University – Riyadh

Skills :

• Energy efficiency and sustainability
• Radiative/Passive cooling
• Software programming: COMSOL, MEEP, Lumerical, Mathematica
• Solar thermal systems
• Polymer coatings preparations
• Transparent woods treatments
• Teaching and training

Professional Experience:

• Assistant Professor, 11/2020 to Current
  • KACST – Riyadh, Riyadh
  • KACST excellent research awards, 2023
  • KACST research institute awards, 2022
  • Established the first radiative cooling lab in the kingdom at KACST.
  • Building two rooftop setups for radiative cooling experiments.
• Physics Researcher, 07/2010 to 11/2020
  • KACST – Riyadh, Riyadh
  • Developed detectors for high energy physics experiments in GSI labs, Germany.
  • Member of the overseeing committee for physics and mathematics national Olympiad.
  • Designed and fabricated nano optical fibers and cavities using clean room facility at TAMU.
  • Conducted numerical and theoretical calculations for light-matter interaction.

Publications:

1. • Alajlan, A. M. et al. “Gap-mode enhancement on MoS2 probed by functionalized tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.” Applied Physics Letters 109 (2016).
   • Russotto, P., et al. “Results of the ASY-EOS experiment at GSI: The symmetry energy at suprasaturation density.” Physical Review C 94.3 (2016): 034608.
   • Fan, J. W. et al. “Germanium-Vacancy Color Center in Diamond as a Temperature Sensor” (vol 5, pg 765, 2018). Acs Photonics 5, 4710-4710 (2018).
   • Alajlan, A. et al. “Compact design of a gallium phosphide nanobeam cavity for coupling to diamond germanium-vacancy centers.” Opt Mater Express 9, 1678-1688 (2019).
   • Alajlan, Abdulrahman, et al. “Free-standing silicon nitride nanobeams with an efficient fiber-chip interface for cavity QED.” Optical Materials Express 10.12 (2020): 3192-3201.
   • Alajlan, Abdulrahman, et al. “All-Day Thermoelectric Power Generation Using Radiative Heat Exchange with Space and Water-Based Heat Storage.” Applied physics letters 121 (2022) (Featured article).
   • Alajlan, Abdulrahman, et al. ” Enhanced nighttime power generation and photovoltaic cooling in photovoltaic-thermoelectric hybrid systems.” (accepted in ECMX).
   • Dang, Saichao, et al. “Sky cooling through a nanoporous polyethylene cover for LED streetlights” (submitted).