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The role of mega projects in redefining housing development in gulf cities (2016)
Journal Article
Wiedmann, F., Salama, A. M., & Ibrahim, H. G. (2016). The role of mega projects in redefining housing development in gulf cities. Open House International, 41(2), 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/OHI-02-2016-B0008

Since the end of the 1990s, large-scale mega projects have been initiated in Gulf cities to enable an unprecedented urban growth and the expansion of new economic sectors. In this respect, mega projects have played a key role in redefining housing de... Read More about The role of mega projects in redefining housing development in gulf cities.

Real Estate Liberalization as Catalyst of Urban Transformation in the Persian Gulf (2016)
Book Chapter
Wiedmann, F. (2016). Real Estate Liberalization as Catalyst of Urban Transformation in the Persian Gulf. In M. Kamrava (Ed.), Gateways to the World: Port Cities in the Persian Gulf, 172-195. C. Hurst & Co

This chapter discusses the liberalization of the real estate sector which has accompanied the recent urbanization in emerging Gulf cities. It outlines the key role played by real estate in redefining development patterns, and promoting both economic... Read More about Real Estate Liberalization as Catalyst of Urban Transformation in the Persian Gulf.

Knowledge economy as an initiator of sustainable urbanism in emerging metropolises: The case of Doha, Qatar (2016)
Journal Article
Salama, A. M., Wiedmann, F., Thierstein, A., & Al Ghatam, W. (2016). Knowledge economy as an initiator of sustainable urbanism in emerging metropolises: The case of Doha, Qatar. Archnet-IJAR, 10(1), 274-324

© 2016 Archnet-IJAR, International Journal of Architectural Research. This paper is a comprehensive coverage of a research project of the National Priority Research Program of the Qatar National Research Fund, entitled 'Investigating the Qualities of... Read More about Knowledge economy as an initiator of sustainable urbanism in emerging metropolises: The case of Doha, Qatar.

Knowledge economy as an initiator of sustainable urbanism in emerging metropolises: The case of Doha, Qatar (2016)
Journal Article
Salama, A. M., Wiedmann, F., Thierstein, A., & Al Ghatam, W. (2016). Knowledge economy as an initiator of sustainable urbanism in emerging metropolises: The case of Doha, Qatar. Archnet-IJAR, 10(1), 274-324. https://doi.org/10.26687/archnet-ijar.v10i1.927

© 2016 Archnet-IJAR, International Journal of Architectural Research. This paper is a comprehensive coverage of a research project of the National Priority Research Program of the Qatar National Research Fund, entitled 'Investigating the Qualities of... Read More about Knowledge economy as an initiator of sustainable urbanism in emerging metropolises: The case of Doha, Qatar.

The impact of affordable housing developments on sustainability in Gulf cities (2016)
Journal Article
Wiedmann, F., Salama, A. M., & Ibrahim, H. G. (2016). The impact of affordable housing developments on sustainability in Gulf cities. Open House International, 41(4), 31-38

The recent construction boom has led to new urban development dynamics in Gulf cities driven by real-estate speculations and large infrastructure investments. While in the past affordable housing for medium income migrants and their families was inte... Read More about The impact of affordable housing developments on sustainability in Gulf cities.

Charge transport control via polymer polymorph modulation in ternary organic photovoltaic composites (2015)
Journal Article
Kan, Z., Colella, L., Canesi, E. V., Vorobiev, A., Skrypnychuk, V., Terraneo, G., …Keivanidis, P. E. (2016). Charge transport control via polymer polymorph modulation in ternary organic photovoltaic composites. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 1195-1201. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ta08120c

The control on the charge transport properties of ternary organic photovoltaic P3HT?:?PCBM?:?QBT devices is enabled by modulating the distribution of P3HT polymorphs in the device photoactive layers. Negligible amounts of QBT induce striking modifica... Read More about Charge transport control via polymer polymorph modulation in ternary organic photovoltaic composites.

Loss mechanisms in high efficiency polymer solar cells (2015)
Journal Article
MacKenzie, R. C. I., Balderrama, V. S., Schmeisser, S., Stoof, R., Greedy, S., Pallarès, J., …von Hauff, E. (2016). Loss mechanisms in high efficiency polymer solar cells. Advanced Energy Materials, 6(4), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201501742

Performance losses and aging mechanisms are investigated in state‐of‐the‐art PTB7:PC70BM solar cells. Inverted devices incorporating a vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) top contact have efficiencies of 8%. After aging the unencapsulated devices, no changes a... Read More about Loss mechanisms in high efficiency polymer solar cells.

A comparative assessment of housing dynamics In Abu Dhabi and Doha (2015)
Journal Article
Ibrahim, H., Salama, A. M., Wiedmann, F., & Awwaad, R. (2016). A comparative assessment of housing dynamics In Abu Dhabi and Doha. Archnet-IJAR, 10(3), 152-169

© 2016 Archnet-IJAR, International Journal of Architectural Research. Abu Dhabi and Doha have evolved rapidly in the twentieth century due to the investment of oil and gas revenues. The fast economic growth resulted in an extensive period of urbaniza... Read More about A comparative assessment of housing dynamics In Abu Dhabi and Doha.

The image of the city in the information era: analyzing the effect of digital mobile devices on city imaging process (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Ahmadpoormobarakeh, N., & Heath, T. (2015). The image of the city in the information era: analyzing the effect of digital mobile devices on city imaging process. In I. Theona, & D. Charitos (Eds.), Hybrid City 2015: Data to the People: Proceedings of the 3rd International Biennial Conference, 185-188

This paper presents the early stages of a PhD research which attempts to analyze the effect of using digital mobile devices on the process of city imaging in The Information Era. Within this process, some guidelines are suggested in order to facilita... Read More about The image of the city in the information era: analyzing the effect of digital mobile devices on city imaging process.

Novel Approach Toward Plasma Enhancement in Trench-Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (2015)
Journal Article
Antoniou, M., Lophitis, N., Bauer, F., Nistor, I., Bellini, M., Rahimo, M., …Udrea, F. (2015). Novel Approach Toward Plasma Enhancement in Trench-Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors. IEEE Electron Device Letters, 36(8), 823-825. https://doi.org/10.1109/LED.2015.2433894

In this letter, a trench-insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) design with local charge compensating layers featured at the cathode of the device is presented and analyzed. The superjunction or reduced surface effect proves to be very effective in... Read More about Novel Approach Toward Plasma Enhancement in Trench-Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors.

Organic semiconductors with a charge carrier life time of over 2 hours at room temperature (2015)
Journal Article
Liu, Y., MacKenzie, R. C., Xu, B., Gao, Y., Gimeno-Fabra, M., Grant, D., …Tian, W. (2015). Organic semiconductors with a charge carrier life time of over 2 hours at room temperature. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 3(47), 12260-12266. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5tc02678d

Recently, Gao et al. reported being able to measure significant quantities of photogenerated charge up to one hour after it had been generated in an organic semiconductor device. The aim of this paper is twofold; (a) to provide conclusive experimenta... Read More about Organic semiconductors with a charge carrier life time of over 2 hours at room temperature.

Assessing Handheld Mobile Laser Scanners for Forest Surveys (2015)
Journal Article
Ryding, J., Williams, E., Smith, M. J., & Eichhorn, M. P. (2015). Assessing Handheld Mobile Laser Scanners for Forest Surveys. Remote Sensing, 7(1), 1095-1111. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs70101095

Abstract: A handheld mobile laser scanning (HMLS) approach to forest inventory surveying allows virtual reconstructions of forest stands and extraction of key structural parameters from beneath the canopy, significantly reducing survey time when comp... Read More about Assessing Handheld Mobile Laser Scanners for Forest Surveys.

When the Oryx takes off: Doha a new rising knowledge hub in the gulf region? (2015)
Journal Article
Conventz, S., Thierstein, A., Wiedmann, F., & Salama, A. M. (2015). When the Oryx takes off: Doha a new rising knowledge hub in the gulf region?. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, 6(1), 65-82. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJKBD.2015.069443

Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. With accelerating pace in the past years, Qatar has strategically pushed forward its economic diversification. According to Qatar's long-term development vision, the knowledge-economy is taking a key rol... Read More about When the Oryx takes off: Doha a new rising knowledge hub in the gulf region?.

Aging behavior of thermoplastic elastomers in the laser sintering process (2014)
Journal Article
Ziegelmeier, S., Wöllecke, F., Tuck, C. J., Goodridge, R. D., & Hague, R. J. (2014). Aging behavior of thermoplastic elastomers in the laser sintering process. Journal of Materials Research, 29(17), 1841-1851. https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2014.172

It is known that polymers used in laser sintering (LS) change their intrinsic properties due to processing conditions that are close to the crystalline melting temperature. This paper evaluates the aging behavior of a thermoplastic polyurethane powde... Read More about Aging behavior of thermoplastic elastomers in the laser sintering process.

A general mechanism for controlling thin film structures in all-conjugated block copolymer:fullerene blends (2014)
Journal Article
Dattani, R., Bannock, J. H., Fei, Z., MacKenzie, R. C., Guilbert, A. A., Vezie, M. S., …Nedoma, A. J. (2014). A general mechanism for controlling thin film structures in all-conjugated block copolymer:fullerene blends. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2, 14711-14719. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ta03146f

Block copolymers have the potential to self-assemble into thermodynamically stable nanostructures that are desirable for plastic electronic materials with prolonged lifetimes. Fulfillment of this potential requires the simultaneous optimisation of th... Read More about A general mechanism for controlling thin film structures in all-conjugated block copolymer:fullerene blends.