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Dr. Muhammad Khuram Shahzad
Assistant Professor
Research Interests

  • Theoretical and Experimental research work on advanced materials:
  • Up-converting nanomaterials, Nanomaterials, Perovskites materials, DFT, CASTEP, Photocatalysis,
  • Battery and solar cell applications

Biography

Dr. Muhammad Khuram Shahzad received a Doctorate Degree in Physics in the year of 2019. He did his MPhil from the University of Agriculture Faisalabad in April 2015. He is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Physics at Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan  Pakistan. He is an approved supervisor of HEC to supervise PhD and MPhil scholars. He has published 45 international research articles with 400 citations up to date.

Awards and Honors

  • HEC approved supervisor
  • Won CSC scholarship for doctoral degree admission in China
  • Won Mari curi fellowship
  • An active member of SPIE, OSA, and IEEE societies
  • Reviewer of the RSC Advances
  • Reviewer of Journal of Materials science
  • Reviewer of Materials Chemistry C

Publications

  1.  Muhammad Khuram Shahzad etal, “Structural, Electronic, Optical, and Mechanical Properties of Cubic Perovskite LaMnX3 (X = Cl, Br, I) Compound for Optoelectronic Applications: A DFT Study”Physica Scripta,99, 025902, DOI 10.1088/1402-4896/ad17ae
  2. Waqar Azeem, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, Tasawar Ali, Yew Hoong Wong, N. Sfina, Structural, Electronic, Mechanical, and Optical properties of the lead-free halide perovskites XGeCl3 (X = Cs, K, and Rb) for the photovoltaic and optoelectronic applications, Chinese Journal of Physics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjph.2023.12.041  
  3. Muhammad Khuram Shahzad etal, First-principles calculations to investigate structural, electronic, elastic and optical properties of radium based cubic fluoro- perovskite materials, Heliyon, 9 (2023) e13687.
  4. Abdullah M. Asiri, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad etal, Analysis of XGaO3 (X= Ba and Cs) cubic based perovskite materials for photocatalytic water splitting applications: a DFT study, Heliyon, 9 (2023) e14112.
  5. Muhammad Khuram Shahzad etal “Investigation of structural, electronic, mechanical, & optical characteristics of Ra based-cubic hydrides RbRaX3 (X= F and cl) perovskite materials for solar cell applications: First principle study,” Heliyon 9(Issue 6):e18407
  6. Muhammad Khuram Shahzad etal “First Principle Investigation of Tungsten Based Cubic Oxide Perovskite Materials for Superconducting Applications: A DFT Study, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, accepted on 27 November-23
  7. Waqar Azeem, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad etal, “A DFT Study of Structural, electronic, optical, thermal, and mechanical properties of cubic perovskite KGeX3 (X = Cl, Br) compound for solar cell applications, Physica Scripta, accepted on 17 November-23.
  8. Pengfei Wang, Wende Bai, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad etal, Regulating surface    condition     of     cotton-derived     carbon     towards     enhanced lithium ion storage behavior, Electrochimica Acta, 455 (2023) 142431
  9. Waqar Azeem, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, “Ab-initio calculations for the study of the hydrogen storage properties of CsXH3 (X= Co, Zn) perovskite-type hydrides, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 21 July 2023, DOI:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.07.072
  10. Shanawer Niaz, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad etal, “Ab-initio evaluation of Mn doped Cs2GeCl/Br6 halides for spintronics and energy harvesting applications, Materials today communications, Vol.37, December 2023, 106959, https://doi.org/1016/j.mtcomm.2023.106959 
  11. Muhammad Khuram Shahzad etal, Zirconium-based cubic-perovskite materials for photocatalytic solar cell applications: a DFT study, RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 27517. 
  12. Muhammad Khuram Shahzad etal, Influence of VO2 based structures and smart coatings on weather resistance for boosting the thermochromic properties of smart window applications, RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 30985.
  13. Muhammad Khuram Shahzad etal, Lithium-based perovskites materials for photovoltaic solar cell and protective rays window applications: a first-principle calculations, Nanoscale research letters, Accepted: 27 December 2022, 18:15.
  14. Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, Usman Farooq, Adil Raza, Ghulam Abbas, Muhammad Ikram and Yundong Zhang, Investigation on optical temperature sensing behaviour via Ag island-enhanced luminescence doped β- NaGdF4:Yb3+/Tm3+ films/microfibers, RSC Advances, 2021, DOI: 10.1039/d1ra06336g.
  15. Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, etal, “Polymer microfibers incorporated with silver nanoparticles: A new platform for optical sensing”, Nanoscale Research Letters, 2019, DOI: 10.1186/s11671-019-3108-6.
  16. Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, etal “Dispersing upconversion nanocrystals in PMMA microfiber: A novel methodology for temperature sensing”, RSC Advances, 2018, DOI: 10.1039/c8ra01146j.
  17. Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, etal, “Upconversion thermometer through novel PMMA fiber containing nanocrystals”, Optical Material Express, 2018, DOI: 10.1364/OME.8.002321.
  18. Muhammad                           Khuram               Shahzad,             etal,       “Optical      thermometry      probe    via          fiber containing β             -NaLuF4:Yb3+/Er3+/Tm3+”,Current                       Applied Physics, DOI:10.1016/j.cap.2019.03.007
  19. Usman Farooq, Fei Wang, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, Kenneth C. Carroll, Shuguang Lyu and Xinhai Wang, Study the activation mechanism of peroxymonosulfate iron copper systems for trichloroethane degradation, Chemical    Engineering       Journal Advances,           100343, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceja.2022.100343.
  20. AdilRaza, Azhar AliHaidry,Muhammad KhuramShahzad, Abdul AhadHussain,Ahmad Azam,Muhammad Shahzad Saeed,MuhammadAhsan,Adsorption kinetics and photocatalytic properties of Cu2ZnSnS4@porous g-C3N4for contaminant removal, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2022, 150, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2022.106912.
  21. Ghulam Abbas, Saba Maqbool,   Muhammad   Khuram   Shahzad, Muhammad   Afzaal,   Muhammad   Usama   Daud,   Nazma    Goher     Fatima and Abdul Ghuffar, Analysis of gold   nanospheres,   nano   ellipsoids, nanorods, and effect of core–shell structures for hyperthermia treatment, RSC Adv., 2022, 12, 9292-9298
  22. Abdullah M. Asiri, Adil Raza, Muhammd Khuram Shahzad, Waheed A. Adeosun, Sher Bahadar Khan, Khalid A Alamry, Hadi M. Marwani, Maha M. Alotaibi, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Michael Gratzel, Construction of Fe3O4 bridged Pt/g-C3N4 heterostructure with enhanced solar to fuel conversion, Applied Surface Science, 592 (2022) 153159.
  23. Ji Li, Li Xu, Kailei Lu, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, etal “Efficient nanoheater operated in biological window for photo-hyperthermia therapy”, Biomedical Optics Express, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.10.001935.
  24. Li Xu, Kailei Lu, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, etal, “Sub-10 nm NaNdF4 Nanoparticles as Near-Infrared Photothermal Probes with Self-Temperature Feedback”  ACS        Applied Nano     Materials,           DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.9b02606.
  25. Hanyang Li, Sun Xiao, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad etal, “Facile preparation of upconversion microfibers for efficient luminescence and distributed temperature measurement,” Journal of Materials Chemistry C, DOI:10.1039/C9TC01543D.
  26. Lu Liu, Kailei Lu, Li Xu, Dongyang Tang, Chao Liu, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, etal, “Highly efficient upconversion luminescence of Er heavily doped nanocrystals through 1530 nm excitation”, Optics Letters, DOI: 10.1364/OL.44.000711.
  27. Lu Liu, Kailei Lu, Dong Yan, Enming Zhao, Hanyang Li, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad etal, “Concentration dependent optical transition probabilities in ultra- small upconversion nanocrystals”,Optics Express, DOI:10.1364/OE.26.023471.
  28. Li Xu, Jiaming Zhang, Danheng Gao, Kailei Lu, Isam Ud Din, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, etal, “Upconversion enhancement through a facile, ultrafast, and low-threshold laser annealing strategy”, Nanotechnology, (DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab32f6)
  29. Tahira Shujah, Muhammad Ikram, Alvina Rafiq Butt, Syed Ghazanfar Hussain, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, etal, “Growth of Zinc Oxide and Zinc Stannate Nanostructured Thin Films for Carbon Monoxide Sensing Application,” Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters, Vol. 11, No.8,pp.1050- 1059,August2019
  30. Tahira Shujah, Muhammad Ikram, Alvina Rafiq Butt, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, etal “H2S Gas Sensor Based on WO3 nanostructures synthesized via Aerosol Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition Technique”, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters, 11, 1–10, 2019.
  31. Adil Raza, Honglie Shen, Azhar Ali Haidry, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, etal, “In-situ synthesis of mesoporous TiO2- Cu2ZnSnS4 heterostructured nanocomposite for enhanced photocatalytic degradation,” Applied Surface Science, DOI:10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.144540.
  32. B. Ren, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, etal, “Fermented Corn Stalk for Biosorption of Copper (II) from Aqueous Solution”, Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 2018,DOI:10.1155/2018/8989053.
  33. Muhammad Usman Khan, Yongpeng Zhao, Tong Hui, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, etal, “Impact of discharge currents on the intensity of 46.9 nm capillary discharge   soft        X-ray      laser”,   Optics    Express, https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.016738
  34. Adil Raza, Honglie Shen, Azhar Ali Haidry, Muhammad Khuram Shahzad, “Facile in-situ fabrication of TiO2-Cu2ZnSnS4 hybrid nanocomposites and their photoreduction of CO2 to CO/CH4 generation” Applied Surface Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147005.