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Osman M. Bakr

Professor, Material Science and Engineering | Vice Provost for Strategy

Physical Science and Engineering Division 
Center membership :
KAUST Catalysis Center

osman.bakr@kaust.edu.sa
Functional Nanomaterials Lab


Affiliations

Education Profile

  • Ph.D. Applied Physics, Harvard University, 2009
  • M.S. Applied Physics, Harvard University, 2005
  • B.S. Material Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003

Research Interests

Professor Bakr's interests are in the design, synthesis, and property elucidation of hybrid and nanoscale materials to generate breakthrough applications in renewable energy, photonics, and imaging systems.

Selected Publications

  • Shi, D.; Adinolfi, V.; Comin, R.; Yuan, M.; Alarousu, E.; Buin, A.; Chen, Y.; Hoogland, S.; Rothenberger, A.; Katsiev, K.; Losovyj, Y.; Zhang, X.; Dowben, P.A.; Mohammed, O.F.; Sargent, E.H.; and Bakr, O.M.: "Low Trap-State Density and Long Carrier Diffusion in Organolead Trihalide Perovskite Single Crystals", Science, 2015, 347, (6221), pp. 519-522.

  • Saidaminov, M.I.; Abdelhady, A.L.; Burlakov, V.; Murali, B.; Peng, W.; Dursun, D.; Wang, L.; Goriely, A.; Wu, T; Mohammed, O.F.; and Bakr, O.M.:"High-quality bulk hybrid perovskite single crystals within minutes by inverse temperature crystallization” Nature Communications, 2015, 6:7586,10.1038/ncomms8586.

  • Zheng, X.; Hou, Y.; Bao, C.; Yin, J.; Yuan, F.; Huang, Z.; Song. K.; Liu. J.; Troughton, J.; Gasparini, N.; Zhou, C.; Lin, Y.; Xue, B.C.; Johnston, A.K.; Wei, N.; Hedhili, M. N.; Wei, M.; Alsalloum, A. Y.; Maity, P. ; Turedi, B.; Yang, C.; Baran, D.; Anthopolous, T.D.; Han, Y.; Lu, Z.-H.; Mohammed, O. F.; Gao, F.; Sargent, E.H.; Bakr, O.M.††:"Managing grains and interfaces via ligand anchoring enables 22.3%-efficiency inverted perovskite solar cells", Nature Energy, 2020, 5(2), 131-140.

  • Sakhatskyi, K.; Turedi, B.; Matt, G.J.; Wu, E.; Sakhatska, A.; Bartosh, V.; Lintangpradipto, M.N.; Naphade, R.; Shorubalko, I.; Mohammed, O.F.; Yakunin, S.; Bakr, O.M.; and Kovalenko, M.V.: “Stable perovskite single-crystal X-ray imaging detectors with single-photon sensitivity”, Nature Photonics, 2023, 17, 510.

  • Zhu, HW; Shao, BY; Shen, ZJ; You, S; Yin, J; Wehbe, N; Wang, LJ; Song, X; Abulikemu, M; Basaheeh, A; Jamal, A; Gereige, I; Freitag, M; Mohammed, OF; Zhu, K; and Bakr, OM: “In situ energetics modulation enables high-efficiency and stable inverted perovskite solar cells”, Nature Photonics, 2025, 19, 28-35.