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Kazuhiro Ohkawa

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division

Kazuhiro.ohkawa@kaust.edu.sa
https://ecodevices.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/Overview.aspx


Affiliations

Education Profile

  • PhD, University of Tokyo, 1992
  • MSc, University of Tokyo, 1985
  • BSc, Tokyo University of Science,1983

Research Interests

​Professor Ohkawa‘s research interests include science and device application of energy-conversion phenomena toward a more sustainable future. Promising applications are solid state lighting and artificial photosynthesis. Ohkawa has refined MOVPE technique to the point where only his MOVPE can grow specifically designed InGaN as an essential component to fabricate efficient yellow- amber- and red-LEDs. InGaN is environmentally benign, and will snatch the device field by arsenides and phosphides. He is also trying to generate clean chemical energy from light energy by using nitride photocatalyst he invented. It is so-called artificial photosynthesis which produces not only H2 from H2O reduction but also HCOOH, CH4 and C2H5OH from CO2 reduction. Efficiency of nitride photosynthesis is already greater than average of biological photosynthetic one.

Selected Publications

  • D. Iida, S. Lu, S. Hirahara, K. Niwa, S. Kamiyama, K. Ohkawa, "Investigation of amber light-emitting diodes based on InGaN/AlN/AlGaN quantum wells", Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 55, 05FJ06 (2016).
  • T. Sekimoto, S. Shinagawa, Y. Uetake, K. Node, M. Deguchi, S. Yotsuhashi, K. Ohkawa, "Tandem photo-electrode of InGaN with two Si p-n junctions for CO2 conversion to HCOOH with the efficiency greater than biological photosynthesis", Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 073902, (2015).
  • K. Ohkawa, T. Watanabe, M. Sakamoto, A. Hirako, et al., "740-nm emission from InGaN-based LEDs on c-plane sapphire substrates by MOVPE", J. Cryst. Growth 343, pp.13-16 (2012).
  • T. Hayashi, K. Ohkawa, et al., "High stability and efficiency of GaN photocatalyst for hydrogen generation from water", Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 51, 112601 (2012).
  • K. Nakamura, A. Hirako, K. Ohkawa, "Analysis of pulsed injection of precursors in AlN-MOVPE growth by computational fluid simulation", Phys. Stat. Sol. (c) 7, pp.2268-2271 (2010).