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1. Department of Physics Faculty of Sciences Alama Iqbal Open University Dr. Syed Raza Ali Raza Chairman

2. 2 Contents Department overview Faculty Members Offered Programs Enrollment Future Plan

3. Physics at AIOU: Overview 3 Establishment of Department 1998 Current Faculty (09) Assoc. Prof.: 01 Asst. Prof.: 05 Lecturers: 03 Research Associate 01 Current Enrollment Ph.D.: 34 M.Phil.: 135 BS: 156 M.Sc.: 14 Graduated: PhD: 09 M. Phil.: ~1000 MSc: ~1000 BS: ~400 Supporting Staff Assistant: 01 LDC: 01 Lab Assistant: 02 Lab Attendant: 01 Naib Qasid : 03

4. 4 Dr. Syed Raza Ali Raza Associate Professor/Chairman Mr. Athar Hassan, Assistant Professor Dr. Surayya Mukhtar, Assistant Professor Dr. Muhammad Tariq Jan, Assistant Professor Dr. Abdul Jalil, Assistant Professor Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah, Assistant Professor Ms. Hareem Mufti, Lecturer Dr. Uzma Nosheen Lecturer Dr Tayyaba Aftab, Lecturer Dr Hussain Ahmed, Research Associate Faculty Members: 09 Associate Professors 01 Assistant Professors 05 Lecturers 03 Research Associates 01

5. 5 Associate Professor/ Chairman HEC Approved Supervisor Highest Qualification: PhD Physics ( 2014 Yonsei University, South Korea ) Research Publications: 30 Publications in SCI indexed Journals (Impact Factor: 175+ ) Projects: 02 HEC NRPU funded project of 5.4 Million and 2.0 Million and One AIOU funded Project: 0.2 Million Experience: Total experience ( >16 Years 4 months ) Post PhD ( 8 years 9 months) Awards and Scholarships HEC Foreign Scholarship for MS Leading to PhD Physics Two gold medals in academic carrier Participated in various international conferences, seminars and workshops in USA, Russia, France, Korea, Poland. Research Area: magnetic semiconductors, nano devices, solar cells Thesis Supervision Supervised Co-Supervised Supervising MPhil 20 06 08 PhD 01 00 02 Syed Raza Ali Raza

6. 6 Assistant Professor PhD Physics ( 2022 to date continue .. Allama Iqbal Open University ) Research Area: (Energy, Environment and Materials ) Research Publications: 33 Publications in SCI indexed Journals (Total Citations: 350 , H. Index: 11 ) Projects: 03 AIOU funded Projects of 0.2 Million each. Experience: Total experience in AIOU ( 15 Y ears ) Thesis Supervision Supervised Co-Supervised Supervising MPhil 18 10 05 Ather Hassan

7. 7 Assistant Professor HEC Approved Supervisor PhD ( Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Auckland, Newzealand ( 2014 ) Research Area: Thin Films, Nanomaterials, Photocatalysis, Photonics Research Publications: 13 Publication in international reputed journals Projects: 03 Internal funded projects of AIOU. Experience: Total experience in AIOU ( 19 Y ear) Thesis Supervision Supervised Co-Supervised Supervising MPhil 30 Nil 10 PhD Nil 01 Nil Surayya Mukhtar

8. 8 Assistant Professor HEC Approved Supervisor PhD Physics ( Nanotechnology, Biomedical and Environmental Applications) Highest Qualification: PhD ( International Islamic university Islamabad, 2015 ) Research Publications: 47 Publications in SCI indexed Journals (Total Citations: 1556 , H. Index: 25 , Impact Factor: 200+ ) Projects: 01 HEC funded project: 0.5 Million, Two AIOU funded Projects: 0.2 Million each. Experience: Total experience in AIOU ( 5 Year 4 months ) Post PhD ( 7 years 4 months) Awards and Scholarships (Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan Scholarship for MS Physics Degree HEC Pakistan Scholarship for PhD Physics Degree IRSIP Fellowship for LION, Leiden University, Netherlands Thesis Supervision Supervised Co-Supervised Supervising MPhil 37 01 08 PhD 01 00 01 Muhammad Tariq Jan

9. 9 Assistant Professor HEC Approved Supervisor Highest Qualification: PhD ( University of Science and Technology of Chin in Material Science and Engineering ,China 2018 ) Research Area ( Structure prediction Photocatalysis, Gas sensors, Hydrogen storage, Energy storage materials ) Research Publications: Published 44 papers in ( 37 W-Category ) Journal with cumulative impact factor of 250 . H-index 12 citation( 1126 ). Projects: HEC-NRPU(PKR 10.27 M). 02 internal funded project of AIOU. Experience: Total experience in AIOU ( 12 Y ear 9 months) Post PhD ( 5 years ) Invited Speaker: Presented as invited speaker in GANDE Xian China ,GNN- Shenzen China, PIEAS, Air University . Awards : Chinese Government Scholarship 2015-2018 Thesis Supervision Supervised Co-Supervised Supervising MPhil 20 00 03 PhD 02 01 04 Abdul Jalil

10. 10 Zulfiqar Ali Shah , HEC Approved Supervisor Highest Qualification: PhD ( Hazara University, Mansehra 2015 ) Research Area ( Molecular Dynamics studies Structural , electronic, optical, magnetic, and elastic properties of binary and turnery compounds/alloys. ) Research Publications: Published 34 Projects: 01 NRPU, 01 SRGP, 01 Internal AIOU Experience: Total experience ( 12 Y ear 4 months) Post PhD ( 8 years 9 month) Thesis Supervision Supervised Co-Supervised Supervising MPhil 32 05 08 PhD 00 00 02 Zulfiqar Ali Shah

11. 11 Lecturer Highest Qualification: (PhD Scholar, Allama Iqbal Open University ) Research Area ( Hydrogen Energy & Technology, Renewable energy, materials science, environment ) Research Publications: Published Projects: 01 Internal funded AIOU Experience: Total experience ( 17 Y ear ) Thesis Supervision Supervised Co-Supervised Supervising MPhil 05 Hareem Mufti

12. 12 Lecturer Highest Qualification: PhD Physics (AIOU, Islamabad 2023) Research Area ( Gas sensors ) Research Publications: Published 5 Projects: Nill Experience: Total experience ( 7 Y ear Thesis Supervision Supervised Co-Supervised Supervising MPhil 6 3 6 PhD 00 00 00 Uzma Nosheen

13. 13 Lecturer HEC Approved Supervisor Highest Qualification: PhD Physics ( Quaid- i - Azam University, Islamabad 2021 ) Area of Interests (Condensed Matter Physics) Research Publications: Published 08 papers in ( 06 W -Category) Projects: Nill Experience: Total experience ( 11 Y ear) Thesis Supervision Supervised Co-Supervised Supervising MPhil 5 12 PhD 00 00 00 Tayyaba Aftab

14. 14 Offered Programs Current Degree Programs Ph.D. Physics (Start 2004, De- freez 2015) M.Phil. Physics (Start 2000, De- freez 2011) BS Physics (2017) BS 2.5 Years (Spring 2023) BS 2 Years (Fall 2023) M.Sc. Physics (Start 1999, Now Stopped as per HEC )

15. 15 Program Autumn 2023 Spring 2023 Autumn 2022 Spring 2022 Total Ph.D. 9 12 8 29 M.Phil. 41 52 49 12 154 BS 4 Years 11 6 22 21 60 BS 2.5 Years 8 5 - - 13 BS 2 Years 3 - - - 4 Total 63 73 93 41 Enrollment: Last 2 Years These numbers reflect fresh enrolment in 1 st semesters of each program. Total current Enrolment in All semesters of all programs is: BS 156 (Male: 78 Female: 78 ) M.Phil. 135 (Male: 85 , female: 50 ) Ph.D. 34 (Male: 2 8, Female: 06 ) MS.c . 14 (Male: 9 , Female: 05 ) Total: 339

16. Current Research Resources Dell Server R940 X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD) UV-Visible Spectrometer FTIR Spectrometer FTIR Microscope X-Ray Florescence Spectrometer Gamma Spectroscopy Furnaces, Convection Oven 16

17. Current Research Resources 17 Processor 4x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8270 2.7G, 26C/52T, 10.4GT/s, 35.75M Cache, Turbo, HT (205W) DDR4- 2933 Memory Capacity 64GB RDIMM, 2933MT/s, Dual Rank(2TB) Hard Drives 32TB 7.2K RPM SATA 6Gbps 512n 2.5in Hot-plug Hard Drive The Dell R940 supercomputer plays a crucial role in advancing material simulation labs, particularly in the realm of parallel computing. Dell Server R940

18. Current Research Resources 18 X-Ray Diffractometer (XRD ) X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a versatile non-destructive analytical technique used to analyze physical properties such as phase composition, crystal structure and orientation of powder, solid and liquid samples. UV-Visible Spectrometer Ultraviolet-visible (UV-VIS) spectroscopy is an analytical method that can measure the analyte quantity depending on the amount of light received by the analyte .

19. Current Research Resources 19 FTIR Spectrometer FTIR Microscope FTIR spectra reveal the composition of solids, liquids, and gases. The most common use is in the identification of unknown materials and confirmation of production materials (incoming or outgoing). FTIR Microscope is a classical spectroscopic method based on inducing molecular vibration in matter by infrared light, used in biology, chemistry, material science and many other disciplines across science.

20. Current Research Resources 20 X-Ray Florescence Spectrometer Gamma Spectroscopy EDXRF (energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence) is a non-destructive analytical technique that provides quick qualitative and quantitative elemental analysis of a wide range of matrices, from low ppm to high weight percent concentrations. Gamma spectrometry is used to detect, identify and quantify gamma-emitting radionuclides

21. Current Research Resources 21 Licensed Computational Material Physics Softwares The Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) is a computer program for atomic scale materials modelling, e.g. electronic structure calculations and quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics, from first principles. Quantum ATK is used to provide solutions for critical materials issues before wafer-based data is available and reduce time and cost in advanced semiconductor modeling and development. WIEN2k is an all-electron scheme including relativistic effects and has many features.

22. Teaching Labs Compton Effect : A. H. Compton : 1927 Lorentz force: H. A. Lorentz: 1902 Frank-Hertz experiment: J . Franck and G . Hertz: 1925 Zeeman Effect: P. Zeeman, Z. Neth. H . A. Lorentz : 1902 Michelson Interferometer: Al . A.  Michelson:1907 Electron spin resonance: P . Kusch, W. E. Lamb:1955

23. 23 Future Plan Academic Programs to be introduced Associate Degree Program 2 Years Hands on training program for college and university teachers on use of physics teaching and research lab equipment International and nation conferences and seminars Planned ICMMS in April 2024 Research activities Currently the department has state of the More faculty members are planning to submit the National and international grants HEC NRPU PSF NSFC China etc. DAAD Germany

24. 24 Achievements Events / workshops organized The Department organized over 100 National/International conferences, seminars and work shops in last 10 years Prizes won The faculty from the Department won 4 HEC NRPU projects Services provided to other departments Paid analytical lab equipment facilities to resaerchers within AIOU and all over Pakistan XRD, UV-Visible, FTIR, XRF Services provided to community Alumnae Others

25. Strengths State of the art computing facilities Server computer (2 TB RAM, 104 Physical Cores) for simulation of technologically important materials Materials for Energy Generation and Storage Electronic and Spintronic Materials Multifunctional and Smart Materials Purchase of one more server system from HEC NRPU project is in pipeline and will further reinforce the department computational resources Enhanced national and international collaborative research 25

26. International Linkages 26

27. Material Synthesis and Characterization XRD UV Visible spectrometer and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer Computer controlled Keithly source meter and four probe station setup with micro positioner tips and heat chunk (RT to 400 o C ) Furnaces up to temperature of 1600 o C. Two channel spectrometer Solution processed nanomaterial synthesis setup Atmospheric plasma nanomaterial growth setup Environmental Radiation Monitoring R emote Radon monitoring system installed along the earthquake Faultline Sodium iodide-based spectrometer and food analyzer LUDLUM Survey meters and GPS system ESR Apparatus Current Research Facilities/Equipment

28. University of AJK has got a funding from Saudi Government and sate-of-art research facilities are expected soon in near future. Thin film and nano /microfabrication Multi target DC Magnetron and RF Sputter Thermal Evaporator Laser beam lithography setup (down to 0.1 micron). Focused Ion Beam Etching setup Wire bonder Tube furnace with temperature upto 1600 o C. Analysis Powder and thin film-based X-ray diffraction setup (XRD) Jeol EDX System Vibrati ng sample magnetometer (VSM) down to cryogenic temperatures (4 K) Photoluminescence setup down to cryogenic temperatures (4 K) Closed cycle He Cryostat Variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometer Raman spectrometer Future Research Facilities/Equipment

29. Analysis High Purity Germanium Spectrometer Dielectric Analyzer/impedance Analyzer TMR measurement system Future Research Facilities/Equipment Radiation & Environmental Physics Lab   Pylon AB 6 Portable Radiation Monitor High Purity Germanium ( HPGe ) Detector Geo-exploration counter Food Guard-1 Grimm spectrometers Filter Efficiency Test Systems Bio-Scout (for detection of Radioactivity in Foods) PR670 Spectro scan Plasma processing and nanofabrication Lab Vacum chambers Diffusion & Rotary pumps Vacuum Valves & Vacuum feed through Power supply Laser Spectroscopy Lab Nd-Yag laser Chanel electron multiplier Digital oscilloscope

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31. Alumni Education sector, PAEC, NESCOM, AWC, PMO, NDC, MTC, KRL, Pakistan Navy, Pakistan Air Force, Pakistan Army, WAPDA, PNRA, PIA, Telecommunications, CSS, Overseas Jobs/Higher Education Alumni Serving In: 1. Izzaz -e- Sabqat : 01 (President of Pakistan) 2. Science Award & Medals: 04 (Dr. A. Q. Khan) 3. Young Mathematician Award: 01 National Awards:

32. 11/30/2023 32 PINSTECH Physics Division Islamabad PIEAS Islamabad NCP Islamabad Research Collaborations