Prof. Iman Roqan has experience in fundamental studies of wide band gap semiconductors, mainly III-nitrides and Oxides; the material system that enabled high efficiency LEDs. Her main specialty is investigating the role of defects and material structure by optical spectroscopy. Her group focus on investigating the optical and structural characterizations of materials with different structures: nanorods, quantum well and quantum dots materials.

They could identify the carrier mechanism such as carrier confinement behavior, quantum stark effect, carrier density and carrier injection. Moreover, they could also identify the effect of the width of the quantum well/barrier, the effect of the nanorod structure, the bandgap structure, the polarization effect, the interaction of defect bands in the spectra and the identification of their source by time-resolved spectroscopy (TRS), photoluminescence (PL) and photoluminescence excitation (PLE). Second and third Harmonic Generator and OPO facilities add additional laser tunability and allow us to do PLE and selective TRS measurements simultaneously.

Introduction

Prof. Iman Roqan is an assistant professor in the Physical Sciences and Engineering Division at KAUST. She obtained her M.Sc. in optoelectronic and photonic devices from St. Andrews and Heriot-Watt Universities, United Kingdom. Her Ph.D. was obtained from the University of Strathclyde in semiconductor and spectroscopy. She also has established several collaborative projects with international universities, Saudi institutes and industrial companies.

• ​Ph.D. Semiconductor Spectroscopy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
• M.S. Photonics and Optoelectronics Devices, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and St Andrews University, Scotland.
• B.S. (Hons.) Physics and Education, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

• ​Assistant Professor at KAUST, Saudi Arabia.
• Academic visitor at Imperial college London, UK.
• Academic visitor at University of Strathclyde, UK
• Teacher Assistant at Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia.

• ​Associate Member, Institute of Physics
• Member, Material Research Society (MRS)
• Investigator, UK Synchrotron Radiation Source at the Science & Technology Facilities Council - Daresbury Laboratory

• In 2013 Ahmed Halawani, a student from Roqan's group, was the first Saudi student to receive international award from the American Physics Society and American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Physical Society for the achievement in Gd doped ZnO.
• Best presentation award ( MRS Fall 2013) was provided to Roqan's PhD student Idris Ajia. His talk was published online as a recognition.
• ​A grant from the UK Synchrotron Radiation Source at the Science & Technology Facilities Council - Daresbury Laboratory
• Student awards during Roqan's PhD from: C R Barber Trust, Institute of Physics (IOP); the Condense Matter and Material Physics (CMMP) Division, Institute of Physics; Semiconductor Division, Institute of Physics (IOP); Material Research Society, Boston; The UK Nitrides Consortium; and Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland
• Scholarship from the Higher Education Ministry of Saudi Arabia, for graduate-level studies in the United Kingdom