A scientific team of the University manages to achieve a scientific breakthrough in the field of solar cells.
A scientific team from the Materials Science Research Center of King Khalid University (KKU) has succeeded in achieving a new scientific breakthrough in the field of solar cells. The new achievement works through the preparation of organic pigments and uses them as sensors for proportional moisture.
This research was published in the Chemical Sensors and Actuators B magazine, under the title "Improve the performance of sensors remotely by adjusting the surface of organic pigments (morphology) of a kind (D-π-A depending on the sensors of moisture). The research was conducted in collaboration with the University of Malaya in Malaysia and the promising center for electronic sensors at the University of Najran.
The main researcher who is the Dean of Scientific Research and the director of the center at King Khalid University, prof. Dr. Abdullah Ghadran Al-Suhaimi, has explained that such cooperation between the institutions would enhance the university's efforts to encourage and support research collaboration with local, as well as with other world universities. Profr. Al-Suhaimi added that, such achievement was consistent with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, which believes that the scientific research is a key tributary of the economy; hence the sensor of the research can be manufactured in the form of a device that could determine the moisture proportion or could improve the efficiency of the currently used moisture sensors.