Employee Profile

COMSATS University Islamabad

Lahore Campus

Dr. Muhammad Habib
Assistant Professor
Physics
HEC approved PhD Supervisor
Area of Interest
Nanomaterials, Nanofabrication, Energy storage, Magnetism
Office Telephone
111-001-007 Ext. (192)
Official Email
Available via Message Portal

Biography

Publications

Journal Papers 0
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Tahmina Afzal, Maria Imran Chaudhary, Hafiz Tariq Masood, Muhammad Habib, Shoaib Anwer, Aamir Razaq, Amin Abid, Sajid Farooq, Ayesha Aslam, Wang Deliang (2026), "Large-area synthesis of highpurity WSe2 single crystals for photovoltaic applications", Royal Society Open Science, pp: 250741, Vol: 13, ISSN: 2054-5703, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250741, Impact Factor: 2.9
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Muhammad Habib, Sajid Farooq, Ishrat Sultana, Azizur Rehman, Saleh S. Alarfaji, Bin Hong, Zahir Muhammad (2025), "Influence of Cu doping on magnetic properties of HfSe2 grown by chemical vapor transport technique", Materials Science and Engineering , pp: 118837, Vol: 323, ISSN: 1873-4944, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2025.118837, Impact Factor: 4.6
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Sameen Ilyas, Ishrat Sultana, Fatima Kainat, Waris Ali, Maleeka Batool, Muhammad Habib, Imran Rafiq, Faisal Iqbal, Sultan Akhtar, Aamir Razaq (2025), "ZnO and carbon nanotubes-based freestanding binder-free paper electrodes for environmentally safe energy storage devices", Ioincs, pp: 13, ISSN: 1862-0760, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-025-06595-5, Impact Factor: 2.6
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Sajid Farooq, Muhammad Habib, Olavo Cardozo, Kaleem Ullah, A.K. Pandey, Zafar Said (2025), "Exploring the impact of particle stability, size, and morphology on nanofluid thermal conductivity: A comprehensive review for energy applications", Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, pp: 103495, Vol: 341, ISSN: 0001-8686, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cis.2025.103495, Impact Factor: 16.0
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Rashid Khan, Yasir A. Haleem*, Muhammad Imran Rafiq, Nadeem Abbas, Akif Zeb, Shafaq Sahar, Mohamed A. Habila, Sajid Farooq, Amna Mir, Muhammad Farooq Saleem*, and Muhammad Habib* (2025), "Synthesis of HfSe2 and CuHfSe2 crystalline materials using the chemical vapor transport method and their applications in supercapacitor energy storage devices", Nanotechnology Reviews, pp: 0198, Vol: 14, Issue: 1, ISSN: 2191-9097, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ntrev-2025-0198, Impact Factor: 6.1
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Muhammad Habib, Zahir Muhammad, Yasir A. Haleem, Sajid Farooq, Raziq Nawaz,Adnan Khalil, Fozia Shaheen, Hamza Naeem, Sami Ullah and Rashid Khan (2024), "Bridging the gap: an in-depth comparison of CVT-grown layered transition metal dichalcogenides for supercapacitor applications", Materials Advances, pp: 11, Vol: Will be assigned in 2024., Issue: Will be assigned in 2024., ISSN: 2633-5409, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3MA00672G, Impact Factor: 5.36
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MUHAMMAD FAROOQ SALEEM, GHULAM ABBAS ASHRAF, MUHAMMAD JAVID, YASIR A. HALEEM, AZHAR ALI HAIDR, SAJID FAROOQ, MA LEI, MUHAMMAD BILAL, MUHAMMAD HABIB, MUHAMMAD SAEED AKHTAR, RASHID KHAN, TIANWU WANG (2024), "Dielectric Properties of Zirconium Carbide (ZrC) in the Terahertz Domain: Challenges with Surface Layers", JOM, pp: 898-910, Vol: 77, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-024-07010-6, Impact Factor: 2.1
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Renlong Zhou, Muhammad Habib, Muhammad Faisal Iqbal, Naveed Hussain, Sajid Farooq, Yasir A. Haleem, Faizan Ali, Kaleem Ullah (2024), "Twisto-photonics in two-dimensional materials: A comprehensive review", Nanotechnology Review, pp: 20240086, Vol: 13, Issue: 1, ISSN: 2191-9097, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ntrev-2024-0086, Impact Factor: 7.1
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Sajid Farooq, Muhammad Habib, Muhammad Farooq Saleem, Rashid Hussain Dahar, Olavo Cardozo, Renato E. de Araujo (2024), "Advanced Sensing Applications Utilizing a High-Performance Narrowband Metamaterial Perfect Absorber Based on ZnO Architecture", IEEE Sensors, pp: 23968-23975, Vol: 24, Issue: 15, ISSN: 1558-1748, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3412730, Impact Factor: 4.3
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Olavo Cardozo· Muhammad Habib· Weixiong Jiang· Renato E. de Araujo· Sajid Farooq (2024), "Superior Performance of Hollow Plasmonic Cubic Structures for Solar Energy Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage Systems", Plasmonics, pp: 1-8, ISSN: 1557-1955, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-024-02374-6, Impact Factor: 3.3
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Sheheera Irfan, Yasir A. Haleem, Muhammad Usman, Naseeb Ahmad, Muhammad Arshad, M Imran Irshad, M Farooq Saleem, Muhammad Habib, Rashid Khan, Serdar Altin (2024), "Validating superior electrochemical properties of Ti3C2 MXene for supercapacitor applications through first-principles calculations", New Journal of Chemistry, ISSN: 1369-9261, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3NJ05075K, Impact Factor: 3.3
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Muhammad Habib, Zahir Muhammad, Yasir A. Haleem, Sajid Farooq, Raziq Nawaz, Adnan Khalil, Fozia Shaheen, Hamza Naeem, Sami Ullah and Rashid Khan (2023), "Bridging the gap: an in-depth comparison of CVT-grown layered transition metal dichalcogenides for supercapacitor applications", Materials Advances, pp: 1088-1098, Vol: 5, ISSN: 2633-5409, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3MA00672G, Impact Factor: 5.36
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Muhammad Habib, Sami Ullah, Firoz Khan, Muhammad Imran Rafiq, Awatef Salem Balobaid, Thamraa Alshahrani, Zahir Muhammad (2023), "Supercapacitor electrodes based on single crystal layered ZrX2 (X = S, Se) using chemical vapor transport method", Materials Science & Engineering B, pp: 116904, Vol: 298, Issue: 1, ISSN: 1873-4944, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2023.116904, Impact Factor: 3.6
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Sheheera Irfan 1,Yasir A. Haleem 1,*,Muhammad Imran Irshad, Muhammad Farooq Saleem, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Habib (2023), "Tunability of the Optical Properties of Transition-Metal-Based Structural Phase Change Materials", Optics, pp: 351-363, Vol: 4, Issue: 2, ISSN: 2673-3269, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/opt4020026
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Abdul Hannan, Adnan Khalil*, Muhammad Habib*, Zia ur Rehman, Abdul Ghafar Wattoo, Muhammad Yousaf, Hamza Naeem, Imen Kebaili, Hussein Alrobei, Meshal Alzaid (2022), "Ferromagnetic Properties of Ni9S8/MoS2 Hybrid Structure", Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, pp: 1-7, Vol: 35, ISSN: 1557-1947, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-022-06182-z, Impact Factor: 1.506
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F Shaheen, R Ahmad, S Sharif, M Habib, R Sharif, M Fatima, C Wang (2021), "Polyaniline effect on rGO@NiPbTiO3 for enhanced supercapacitor performance", Materials Letters, pp: 4, Vol: 284, Issue: 1, ISSN: 0167-577X, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2020.129031, Impact Factor: 3.204
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Zia ur Rehman, Wen Zhu, Sheng Wang, Yijie Niu, Zahir Muhammad, Oyawale Adetunji Moses, Chuanqiang, Wu, Muhammad Habib, Shuangming Chen, Xiaojun Wu, Zhe Sun, Pulickel M. Ajayan, and Li Song (2019), "Selective Selenium-Substituted Metallic MoTe2 Towards Ternary Atomic Layers with Tunable Semiconducting Character", Journal of Physical Chemistry C , pp: 24927-24933, Vol: 123, Issue: 40, ISSN: 1932-7447, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b06881, Impact Factor: 4.189
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Kaleem Ullah, Muhammad Habib, Lujun Huang and Braulio Garcia-Camara (2019), "Analysis of the Substrate Effect on the Zero-Backward Scattering Condition of a Cu2O Nanoparticle under Non-Normal Illumination", Nanomaterials, pp: 12, Vol: 9, Issue: 4, ISSN: 2079-4991, DOI: doi:10.3390/nano9040536, Impact Factor: 4.324
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Kaleem Ullah, Lujun Huang, Muhammad Habib, Xuefeng Liu (2018), "Engineering the Optical Properties of Dielectric Nanospheres by Resonant Modes", Nanotechnology, pp: 505204 (9 pages), Vol: 29, Issue: 50, ISSN: 0957-4484, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aae4d2, Impact Factor: 3.440
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Kaleem Ullah, Nagendra Yadav, Braulio Garcia-Camara, Muhammad Habib, Xuefeng liu (2018), "An Indirect Method of Imaging the Stokes Parameters of a Submicron Particle with Sub-diffraction Scattering", Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer , pp: 35–40, Vol: 213, ISSN: 0022-4073, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.04.015, Impact Factor: 2.419
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Kaleem Ullah, Xuefeng Liu, Alex Krasnok, Muhammad Habib, Li Song, Braulio Garcia Camara (2018), "Resolving Multipolar Scattering Modes of Submicron Dielectric Particle using Parametric Super Resolution Method", Photonics and Nanostructures-Fundamentals and Applications, pp: 5, Vol: 30, ISSN: 1569-4429, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.photonics.2018.04.001, Impact Factor: 1.705
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Wen Zhu, Haohao Shi, Wei Gan, Pengju Li, Chuanqiang Wu, Shuangming Chen, Muhammad Habib, Hengjie Liu, Shengyong Qin and Li Song (2018), "Size dependence of electronic property in CVD-grown single-crystal graphene", Material Research Express , pp: 8, Vol: 5, Issue: 7, ISSN: 2053-1591, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/aace87, Impact Factor: 1.068
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Yuan Sang, Chuanhong Jin, Muhammad Habib, Li Song (2018), "Growth of Carbon Nanotubes in Nanocutting Channel on Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite", Nano-Brief Reports, pp: 7, Vol: 13, Issue: 6, ISSN: 1793-2920, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793292018500716, Impact Factor: 1.025
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Zia ur Rehman, Zahir Muhammad, Oyawale Adetunji Moses, Wen Zhu, Chuanqiang Wu, Qun He, Muhammad Habib, Li Song (2018), "Magnetic Isotropy/Anisotropy in Layered Metal Phosphorous Trichalcogenide MPS3 (M = Mn, Fe) Single Crystals", Micromachines, pp: 292, Vol: 9, Issue: 6, ISSN: 2072-666X, DOI: doi:10.3390/mi9060292, Impact Factor: 1.833
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Zahir Muhammad, Kejun Mu, Haifeng Lv, Chuanqiang Wu, Zia ur Rehman, Muhammad Habib, Zhe Sun, Xiaojun Wu and Li Song (2018), "Electron-doping induced semiconductor to metal transitions in ZrSe2 layers via copper atomic intercalation", Nano Research, pp: 4914-4922, Vol: 11, Issue: 9, ISSN: 1998-0124, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-018-2081-1, Impact Factor: 7.354
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Zahir Muhammad, Haifeng Lv, Chuanqiang Wu, Muhammad Habib, Zia ur Rehman, Rashid Khan, Shuangming Chen, Xiaojun Wu and Li Song (2018), "Room temperature ferromagnetism in Fe-doped semiconductor ZrS2 single crystals", Room temperature ferromagnetism in Fe-doped semiconductor ZrS2 single crystals, pp: 046110, Vol: 5, Issue: 4, ISSN: 2053-1591, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/aabe65, Impact Factor: 1.068
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Muhammad Habib, Zahir Muhammad, Rashid Khan, Chuanqiang Wu, Zia ur Rehman, Yu Zhou, Hengjie Liu and Li Song (2018), "Ferromagnetism in CVT Grown Tungsten Diselenide Single Crystals with Nickel Doping", Nanotechnology, pp: 115701, Vol: 29, Issue: 11, ISSN: 0957-4484, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aaa63e, Impact Factor: 3.440
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Kaleem Ullah, Braulio Garcia-Camara, Muhammad Habib, Xuefeng Liu, Alex Krasnok, Sergey Lepeshov, Jingjing Hao, Juan Liu, and N.P Yadav (2018), "Chiral All-Dielectric Trimer Nanoantenna", Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, pp: 7, Vol: 208, ISSN: 0022-4073, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2018.01.015, Impact Factor: 2.419
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Kaleem, Ullah; Liu, Xuefeng; Muhammad, Habib; Shen, Zhe (2018), "Subwavelength Far Field Imaging of Nanoparticles with Parametric Indirect Microscopic Imaging", ACS Photonics, pp: 1388-1397, Vol: 4, Issue: 5, ISSN: 2330-4022, DOI: DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01406, Impact Factor: 6.756
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Hengjie Liu, Qun He, Hongliang Jiang, Yunxiang Lin, Youkui Zhang, Muhammad Habib, Shuangming Chen and Li Song (2017), "Electronic Structure Reconfiguration toward Pyrite NiS2 via Engineered Heteroatom Defect Boosting Overall Water Splitting", ACS Nano, pp: 10, Vol: 11, Issue: 11, ISSN: 1936-086X, DOI: DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b06501, Impact Factor: 13.942
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Rashid Khan, Muhammad Habib, Mohammed A Gondal, Adnan Khalil, Zia Ur Rehman, Zahir Muhammad, Yasir A Haleem, Changda Wang, ChuanQiang Wu and Li Song (2017), "Facile synthesis of CuFe2O4–Fe2O3 composite for high-performance supercapacitor electrode applications", Material Research Express, pp: 8, Vol: 4, Issue: 10, ISSN: 2053-1591, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/aa8dc4, Impact Factor: 1.068
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Muhammad Habib, Adnan Khalil, Zahir Muhammad, Rashid Khan, Changda Wang, Zia ur Rehman, Hafiz Tariq Masood, Weiyu Xu, Hengjie Liu, Wei Gan, Chuanqiang Wu, Haiping Chen, Li Song (2017), "WX2 (X=S, Se) Single Crystals: A Highly Stable Material for Supercapacitor Applications", Electrochimica Acta , pp: 71-79, Vol: 258, ISSN: 0013-4686, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2017.10.083, Impact Factor: 4.798
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Irfan Ali, Zaka Ullah, Imran Rehan, Adnan Khalil, Muhammad Habib, Hafiz Tariq Masood, Yasir Sohail, Muhammad Waseem (2017), "Annealing disintegrates Cu2MoS4 nanosheets into MoS2 and Cu2S nanoheterostructures", Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, pp: 6, Vol: 28, Issue: 21, ISSN: 0957-4522, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-017-7490-5, Impact Factor: 2.019
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Qin Liu, Qi Fang, Wangsheng Chu, Yangyang Wan, Xiuling Li, Weiyu Xu, Muhammad Habib, Shi Tao, Yu Zhou, Daobin Liu, Ting Xiang, Adnan Khalil, Xiaojun Wu, Manish Chhowalla, Pulickel M Ajayan, and Li Song (2017), "Electron-Doped 1T-MoS2 via Interface Engineering for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution", Chemistry of Materials , pp: 4738-4744, Vol: 29, Issue: 11, ISSN: 1520-5002, DOI: DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00446, Impact Factor: 9.466
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Hafiz Tariq Masood, Zahir Muhammad, Muhammad Habib, Dong-Ming Wang, and De-Liang Wang (2017), "Low temperature ferromagnetic properties of CdS and CdTe thin films", Chinese Physics B , pp: 067503, Vol: 26, Issue: 6, ISSN: 1674-1056, DOI: DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/26/6/067503, Impact Factor: 1.233
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Adnan Khalil, Qin Liu, Zahir Muhammad, Muhammad Habib, Rashid Khan, Qun He, Qi Fang, Hafiz Tariq Masood, Zia ur Rehman, Ting Xiang, ChuanQiang Wu, and Li Song (2017), "Synthesis of Ni9S8/MoS2 heterocatalyst for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Reaction", Langmuir, pp: 6, Vol: 33, Issue: 21, ISSN: 1520-5827, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00694, Impact Factor: 3.833
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Kaleem Ullah, Xuefeng Liu, N P Yadav, Muhammad Habib, Li Song and Braulio García-Cámara, (2017), "Light scattering by sub-wavelength Cu2O particles", Nanotechnology, pp: 134002, Vol: 28, Issue: 13, ISSN: 0957-4484, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aa5e3c, Impact Factor: 3.440
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Wei Gan, Nannan Han, Chao Yang, Peng Wu, Qin Liu, Wen Zhu, Shuangming Chen, Chuanqiang Wu, Muhammad Habib, Yuan Sang, Zahir Muhammad, Jijun Zhao and Li Song (2017), "A Ternary Alloy Substrate to Synthesize Monolayer Graphene with Liquid Carbon Precursor", ACS Nano, pp: 1371-1379, Vol: 11, Issue: 1936-086X, ISSN: 1936-086X, DOI: DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b06144, Impact Factor: 13.942
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Weiyu Xu, Qi Fang, Daobin Liu, Ke Zhang, Muhammad Habib, Chuanqiang Wu, Xusheng Zheng, Hengjie Liu, Shuangming Chen and Li Song (2016), "Growing and Etching MoS2 on Carbon Nanotube Film for Enhanced Electrochemical Performance", Molecules, pp: 10, Vol: 21, Issue: 10, ISSN: 1420-3049, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules21101318, Impact Factor: 2.861
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Qun He, Weiyu Xu, Shuangming Chen, Daobin Liu, Muhammad Habib, Qin Liu, Changda Wang, Yasir A. Haleem, Ting Xiang, Chuanqiang Wu, Adnan Khalil, Qi Fang, Zhiqiang Niu and Li Song (2016), "In situ growth of metallic 1T-WS2 nanoislands on single-walled carbon nanotube films for improved electrochemical performance", RSC Advances, pp: 87919, Vol: 6, Issue: 91, ISSN: 2046-2069, DOI: 10.1039/C6RA19680B , Impact Factor: 3.108
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Changda Wang, Daobin Liu, Shuangming Chen, Yuan Sang, Yasir A. Haleem, Chuanqiang Wu, Weiyu Xu, Qi Fang, Muhammad Habib, Jun Cao, Zhiqiang Niu, Pulickel M. Ajayan and Li Song (2016), "All-Carbon, Ultrafast Supercapacitor by Integrating Multidimensional Nanocarbons", Small, pp: 8, Vol: 12, Issue: 41, ISSN: 1613-6829, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201601738, Impact Factor: 8.643
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Chao Yang, Peng Wu, Wei Gan, Muhammad Habib, Weiyu Xu, Qi Fang, and Li Song (2016), "Low temperature CVD growth of ultrathin carbon films", AIP Advances , pp: 055310, Vol: 6, Issue: 5, ISSN: 2158-3226, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4949755, Impact Factor: 1.30
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K.Ullah, S.Riaz, M.Habib, F.Abbas, S.Naseem, I.Shah, A.Bukhtiar (2015), "Effect of Channel Doping Concentration on the Impact ionization of nChannel Fully Depleted SOI MOSFET", International Journal of Engineering Works, pp: 18-22, Vol: 2, Issue: 2, ISSN: 2409-2770, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15756
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K. Ullah, S. Riaz, M.Habib, F. Abbas, S. Naseem, G. Abbas (2014), "Effect of High Temperature on the Impact Ionization of N-Channel Fully Depleted SOI MOSFET", International Journal of Engineering Works, pp: 48-51, Vol: 1, Issue: 3, ISSN: 2409-2770, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15756
Conference Papers 0
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Muhammad Habib, Syed Sajjad Hussain, Saira Riaz, Shahzad Naseem (2015) "Preparation and characterization of ZnO nanowires and their applications in CO2 gas sensors", nternational Conference on Solid State Physics 2013 (ICSSP’13) Materials Today: Proceedings (Elsevier), pp: 6, Vol: 2, Issue: 10, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2015.11.116, Impact Factor: 1.8

Experience

Assistant Professor
COMSATS University Islamabad.
Dec 2019 to Date

Assistant Professor
CUI Islamabad campus
Dec 2018 to Dec 2019

Qualification

PhD
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei., China
Sep 2014 to Apr 2018