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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Saudi Arabia
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
56
Citations
12531
World Ranking
2066
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Saudi Arabia Leader Award

Overview

Tien Khee Ng is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research spans across the broad fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • Ga2O3 and related materials
  • Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
  • GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • ZnO doping and properties
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices

Frequent collaborators in their research include Boon S. Ooi, Omar Alkhazragi, Chun Hong Kang, Islam Ashry, and Yue Wang.

The scientist has published in a variety of journals and conference venues. Some of the journals with the highest number of their publications are:

  • IEEE Photonics Journal
  • Optics Express
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
  • AIP Advances

Several recent papers by the scientist illustrate the scope of their research. These include:

  • "A Review of Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing in the Oil and Gas Industry" (2021), published in Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • "Pt/AlGaN Nanoarchitecture: Toward High Responsivity, Self-Powered Ultraviolet-Sensitive Photodetection" (2020), published in Nano Letters
  • "Early detection of red palm weevil using distributed optical sensor" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Cl2-Doped CuSCN Hole Transport Layer for Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells with Improved Stability" (2022), published in ACS Energy Letters
  • "Non-line-of-sight methodology for high-speed wireless optical communication in highly turbid water" (2020), published in Optics Communications

Best Publications

  • A polydimethylsiloxane-coated metal structure for all-day radiative cooling

    Lyu Zhou;Haomin Song;Haomin Song;Jian Wei Liang;Matthew Singer

  • Air-Stable Surface-Passivated Perovskite Quantum Dots for Ultra-Robust, Single- and Two-Photon-Induced Amplified Spontaneous Emission

    Jun Pan;Smritakshi P. Sarmah;Banavoth Murali;Ibrahim Dursun

  • 4.8 Gbit/s 16-QAM-OFDM transmission based on compact 450-nm laser for underwater wireless optical communication

    Hassan M. Oubei;Jose R. Duran;Bilal Janjua;Huai Yung Wang

  • 20-meter underwater wireless optical communication link with 1.5 Gbps data rate

    Chao Shen;Yujian Guo;Hassan M. Oubei;Tien Khee Ng

  • A Review of Distributed Fiber–Optic Sensing in the Oil and Gas Industry

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  • High-speed colour-converting photodetector with all-inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals for ultraviolet light communication

    Chun Hong Kang;Ibrahim Dursun;Guangyu Liu;Lutfan Sinatra

  • Perovskite Nanocrystals as a Color Converter for Visible Light Communication

    Ibrahim Dursun;Chao Shen;Manas R. Parida;Jun Pan

  • 2.3 Gbit/s underwater wireless optical communications using directly modulated 520 nm laser diode.

    Hassan Makine Oubei;Changping Li;Ki-Hong Park;Tien Khee Ng

  • A Review on Practical Considerations and Solutions in Underwater Wireless Optical Communication

    Xiaobin Sun;Boon S. Ooi;Chun Hong Kang;Meiwei Kong

  • Surface Passivation of GaN Nanowires for Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water-Splitting.

    Purushothaman Varadhan;Hui-chun Fu;Davide Priante;Jose Ramon Duran Retamal

  • Pt/AlGaN Nanoarchitecture: Toward High Responsivity, Self-Powered Ultraviolet-Sensitive Photodetection

    Danhao Wang;Xin Liu;Shi Fang;Chen Huang

  • Unambiguously Enhanced Ultraviolet Luminescence of AlGaN Wavy Quantum Well Structures Grown on Large Misoriented Sapphire Substrate

    Haiding Sun;Somak Mitra;Ram Chandra Subedi;Yi Zhang

  • Highly transparent, low-haze, hybrid cellulose nanopaper as electrodes for flexible electronics

    Xuezhu Xu;Xuezhu Xu;Jian Zhou;Long Jiang;Gilles Lubineau

  • Light based underwater wireless communications

    Hassan M. Oubei;Chao Shen;Abla Kammoun;Emna Zedini

  • Simple statistical channel model for weak temperature-induced turbulence in underwater wireless optical communication systems.

    Hassan Makine Oubei;Emna Zedini;Rami T ElAfandy;Abla Kammoun

  • Going beyond 4 Gbps data rate by employing RGB laser diodes for visible light communication

    Bilal Janjua;Hassan M. Oubei;Jose R. Duran Retamal;Tien Khee Ng

  • The recombination mechanisms leading to amplified spontaneous emission at the true-green wavelength in CH3NH3PbBr3 perovskites

    Davide Priante;Ibrahim Dursun;Mohd Sharizal Alias;Dong Shi

  • Performance Evaluation of Underwater Wireless Optical Communications Links in the Presence of Different Air Bubble Populations

    Hassan Makine Oubei;Rami T. ElAfandy;Ki-Hong Park;Tien Khee Ng

  • Droop-Free, Reliable, and High-Power InGaN/GaN Nanowire Light-Emitting Diodes for Monolithic Metal-Optoelectronics

    Chao Zhao;Tien Khee Ng;Rami T. ElAfandy;Aditya Prabaswara

  • Optical constants of CH 3 NH 3 PbBr 3 perovskite thin films measured by spectroscopic ellipsometry.

    Mohd Sharizal Alias;Ibrahim Dursun;Makhsud I. Saidaminov;Elhadj Marwane Diallo

  • 2 Gbit/s data transmission from an unfiltered laser-based phosphor-converted white lighting communication system.

    Changmin Lee;Chao Shen;Hassan M. Oubei;Michael Cantore

Frequent Co-Authors

Boon S. Ooi
Boon S. Ooi King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Dalaver H. Anjum
Dalaver H. Anjum Khalifa University
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Mohamed-Slim Alouini King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Osman M. Bakr
Osman M. Bakr King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Steven P. DenBaars
Steven P. DenBaars University of California, Santa Barbara
Shuji Nakamura
Shuji Nakamura University of California, Santa Barbara
James S. Speck
James S. Speck University of California, Santa Barbara
Iman S. Roqan
Iman S. Roqan King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Mohamed N. Hedhili
Mohamed N. Hedhili King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Lain-Jong Li
Lain-Jong Li National University of Singapore

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