Publications

Adding Solar PV to the Saudi Power System: What is the Cost of Intermittency?

Energy Transitions

Amro Elshurafa, Walid Matar

Adding Photovoltaics to the Saudi Power System: What are the Costs of Intermittency?

Energy Transitions

Walid Matar, Amro Elshurafa

Striking a balance between profit and carbon dioxide emissions in the Saudi cement industry

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

Cement manufacturing is a major industry in Saudi Arabia. As a highly polluting sector, it may be part of CO2 abatement policy for the country. This paper presents a multi-criteria analysis to examine how two competing objectives affect the performance…

Walid Matar, Amro Elshurafa

Estimating the Learning Curve of Solar PV Balance-of-Systems for Over 20 Countries

Amro Elshurafa, Shahad Albardi, Carlo Andrea Bollino

The capital cost of a solar photovoltaic (PV) system comprises the module and balance-of-systems (BOS). The latter refers to everything else that is needed to make the solar system functional including cables, mounts, labor, etc. While modules are priced internationally,…

Elshurafa, Amro

Albardi, Shahad

Bollino, Carlo Andrea

The Economics of Solar PV Energy

HAEE Energy Conference

Amro Elshurafa, Shahad Albardi, Carlo Andrea Bollino, Simona Bigerna

Reporting LCOE for Solar PV: Apples to Apples Comparisons

Amro Elshurafa

Solar energy is expected to be an integral technology in the creation of a low-carbon future. Hence, as photovoltaics (PV) installations continue to grow at an exponential rate, a better understanding of the generation costs of this relatively young industry…

Elshurafa, Amro

Adding Photovoltaics to the Saudi Power System: What are the Costs of Intermittency?

Amro Elshurafa, Walid Matar

Intermittent generation from wind or photovoltaics (PV) imposes a cost on the power systems in which they are deployed. These costs vary regionally due to different fuel costs and ramping flexibility of existing grid capacities. With 2015 as a reference…

Elshurafa, Amro

Matar, Walid

Fractal Structures for MEMS Fixed Capacitors

US Patent

Amro Elshurafa

Solar Photovoltaic Toolkit

Amro Elshurafa, Shahad Albardi

This data set compiles capital costs (CAPEX) and levelized cost of energy (LCOE) data for the solar photovoltaic (PV) technology by year and country and presents the data in an interactive manner. Although, the data set contains information that dates…

Elshurafa, Amro

Albardi, Shahad

High Voltage Charge Pump

US Patent

Amro Elshurafa

A Fractional Order Capacitor

US Patent

Amro Elshurafa

Achieving Submicron Lateral Separations in the Standard 2m PolyMUMPS Process

Journal of Applied Nanoscience

Amro Elshurafa

Changing Competitive Landscape: Transition Policy’s Blind Spots

Shahad Albardi, Jorge Blazquez, Amro Elshurafa, Nora Nezamuddin

For the past two to three decades, and particularly in the wake of the Great Recession, clean energy transitions have been sold as a three-for-the-price-ofone policy: creating “green collar” jobs to get the unemployed back to work, using domestic resources…

Albardi, Shahad

Blazquez, Jorge

Elshurafa, Amro

Nezamuddin, Nora

50V All PMOS Charge Pump using Low Voltage Capacitors

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Amro Elshurafa

A New Vertical Suspension Inertial Grade Gyroscope

IEEE International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems – TRANSDUCERS

Amro Elshurafa

Microscale Electrostatic Fractional capacitors using Reduced Graphene Oxide Percolated Polymer Composites

Applied Physics Letters

Amro Elshurafa

Microscale Electrostatic Fractional capacitors using Reduced Graphene Oxide Percolated Polymer Composites

Applied Physics Letters

Amro Elshurafa

Modeling and Fabrication of RF MEMS Variable Capacitors Using a Fractal Geometry

IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems – ISCAS

Amro Elshurafa

Method and Sensors for Estimating and Predicting Air Flow Around Air Vehicles

US Patent Application

Amro Elshurafa

Electrostatic Puzzle-Like RF MEMS Fractal Variable Capacitors Suppressing Pull-in

IET/IEEE Micro & Nano Letters

Amro Elshurafa