Chairman/Associate Professor
Dr Syed Raza Ali Raza
raza.ali@aiou.edu.pk

Education

  • MS Leading to Ph.D. Physics, Institute of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University, Korea (2010.03 ~ 2014.12)
  • Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Physics, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan (2004.08 ~ 2006.12)
  • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Physics and Mathematics, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan (2002.08 ~ 2004.08)

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Experience

  • Associate Professor BPS-20, Department of Physics, Allama Iqbal Open University, H-8, Islamabad, Pakistan. (2022.02.16 ~ Now).
  • Director High-Tech Lab, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad (2020.10.15 ~ 2022.02.15).
  • Assistant Professor BPS-19 Department of Physics, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan (2015.03 ~ 2022.02.15).
  • Manager Linkages (Office of Research Industrialization and Commercialization, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan (2016.10 ~ June 2020).
  • Research Associate Physics BPS-17 Department of Physics, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan (2010.01 ~ 2015.03).
  • Scientific Officer (Physics) SPS-08/BPS-17, Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA), G-8/1 Mauve Area, Islamabad (2007.08 ~ 2009.12)

Publications

    1. Raja Azhar Saeed Khan, Bushra Ansari, Syed Raza Ali Raza*, Nadia Tabbasum, Jamil Kazmi, Zamir-ul-Hassan, Muhammad Naeem Ahmed, Asif Majeed, Syed Manzoor Hussain Bukhari N-Pentylisatin and ZnO NWs based Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Device for Broad Range Photodetection  Materials Chemistry and Physics 281, 125919 2022[Impact Factor: 4.09]
    2. Nasar Ahmed, Rashad Mahmood, Zeshan Adeel Umar, Usman Liaqat, Muhammad Anwar ul Haq, Rizwan Ahmed, Pervaiz Ahmad, Syed Raza Ali Raza, Muhammad Aslam Baig Near room temperature, SMT and visible photo-response in pulsed laser deposited VO2 (M1) thin films Physica B: Condensed Matter 635, 413841, 2022[Impact Factor: 2.436]
    3. Zamir ul Hassan; Razwan Saddique, Syeda Amna Sajjad, Zeshan Adeel Umar, Shujaht Bukhari, Muhammad Anwar-ul-Haq, Mohsin Rafique, Syed Raza Ali Raza* (Corresponding Author), Self-powered and temperature-tunable infrared-visible photodetector based on VO2/Si Heterojunction Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2021 Accepted DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/abdb0d [Impact Factor: 3.16]
    4. T Iqbal, SK Zahra, M Shafique, SRA Raza, S Andleeb Microplasma-assisted electrochemical synthesis of ZnO nanostructures for photocatalytic and antibacterial applications Physica Scripta 2021 96 (12), 125801
    5. Jamal Kazmi, Poh Choon Ooi, Syed Raza Ali Raza, Goh Boon Tong, Siti Shafura A Karim, Mohd Hazrie Samat, Min-Kai Lee, MF Mohd Razip Wee, Mohamad Fariz Mohamad Taib, Mohd Ambri Mohamed Evidence of Room Temperature Ferromagnetism in Vertically Aligned Bi-Co co-doped ZnO Nanowires Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2021 54, 415301.
    6. Jamal Kazmi, Poh Choon Ooi, Syed Raza Ali Raza, Boon Tong Goh, Siti Shafura A Karim, Mohd Hazrie Samat, Min Kai Lee, MF Mohd Razip Wee, Mohamad Fariz Mohamad Taib, Mohd Ambri Mohamed Appealing stable room-temperature ferromagnetism by well-aligned 1D Co-doped zinc oxide nanowires Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2021 Volume 872 Pages 159741.
    7. S. Bukhari; Syed Raza Ali Raza, and S. Ali Kinetic instability of twisted ion-acoustic mode with superthermal species of plasma. Chinese Journal of Physics 2021 , (Accepted) [Impact Factor: 2.638]
    8. Book/Thesis: Syed Jamal Ahmed Kazmi (Author), Dr. Syed Raza Ali Raza (Author)  Synthesis and Magnetic Characterization of Bismuth Doped ZnO Nanowires: The basics of ZnO and effect of different doping such as Bi-doping on magnetic properties of ZnO NWs Publisher : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (26 Aug. 2020), ISBN-10 : 6202794305, ISBN-13 : 978-6202794305 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Synthesis-Magnetic-Characterization-Bismuth-Nanowires/dp/6202794305
    9. SRA Raza, JY Lim, S Im, YT Lee Electrical joule heating for the isolation of ZnO nanowire channel and subsequent high-performance 1D circuit integration Current Applied Physics 2020 (12), 1424-1428[Impact Factor: 2.281]
    10. J Kazmi, PC Ooi, BT Goh, MK Lee, MFMR Wee, SSA Karim, SRA Raza, Bi doping improves the magnetic properties of zinc oxide nanowires RSC Advances 2020 10 (39), 23297-23311. [Impact Factor: 3.01]
    11. J Ahn, PJ Jeon, SRA Raza, A Pezeshki, SW Min, DK Hwang, S Im Transition metal dichalcogenide heterojunction PN diode toward ultimate photovoltaic benefits 2D Materials 3 (4), 2016 045011 [I.F. 6.937]
    12. Junyeong Lee, Syed Raza Ali Raza, Pyo Jin Jeon, Jin Sung Kim, Seongil Im Deep blue energy harvest photovoltaic switching by heptazole-based organic Schottky diode circuits Nature Publishing Group, NPG Asia Materials 2016, e278, Volume 8 [I.F. 10.089]
    13. Kyunghee Choi, Syed Raza Ali Raza, Hee Sung Lee, Pyo Jin Jeon, Atiye Pezeshki, Sung-Wook Min, Jin Sung Kim, Woojin Yoon, Sang-Yong Ju, Kimoon Lee, Seongil Im Trap density probing on top-gate MoS 2 nanosheet field-effect transistors by photo-excited charge collection spectroscopy, Nanoscale, 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C4NR06707J [Impact Factor: 7.367]
    14. Pyo Jin Jeon, Sung-Wook Min, Jin Sung Kim, Syed Raza Ali Raza, Kyunghee Choi, Hee Sung Lee, Young Tack Lee, Do Kyung Hwang, Hyoung Joon Choia and Seongil Im Enhanced device performances of WSe2–MoS2 van der Waals junction p–n diode by fluoropolymer encapsulation J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015,3, 2751-2758 [Impact Factor: 5.256]
    15. Shokouh, S. H. H.; Pezeshki, A.; Raza, S. R. A.; Lee, H. S.; Min, S. W.; Jeon, P. J.; Shin, J. M.; Im, S., High-Gain Sub-nanowatt Power Consumption Hybrid Complementary Logic Inverter with WSe2 Nanosheet and ZnO Nanowire Transistors on Glass Adv Mater 2014, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201403992. [Impact Factor: 19.79]
    16. Pezeshki, A.; Shokouh, S. H. H.; Raza, S. R. A.; Kim, J. S.; Min, S. W.; Shackery, I.; Jun, S. C.; Im, S., Top and back gate molybdenum disulfide transistors coupled for logic and photo-inverter operation. J Mater Chem C 2014, 2, (38), 8023-8028. [Impact Factor: 5.256]
    17. Shokouh, S. H. H.; Raza, S. R. A.; Lee, H. S.; Im, S., Non-classical logic inverter coupling a ZnO nanowire-based Schottky barrier transistor and adjacent Schottky diode. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014, 16, (31), 16367-16372. [Impact Factor: 4.123]
    18. Shokouh, S. H. H.; Pezeshki, A.; Raza, S. R. A.; Choi, K.; Min, S. W.; Jeon, P. J.; Lee, H. S.; Im, S., Molybdenum Disulfide Nanoflake-Zinc Oxide Nanowire Hybrid Photoinverter. Acs Nano 2014, 8, (5), 5174-5181. [Impact Factor: 12.02]
    19. Raza, S. R. A.; Shokouh, S. H. H.; Lee, Y. T.; Ha, R.; Choi, H. J.; Im, S., NiOx Schottky-gated ZnO nanowire metal-semiconductor field effect transistor: fast logic inverter and photo-detector. J Mater Chem C 2014, 2, (22), 4428-4435. [Impact Factor: 5.256]
    20. Nam, S. H.; Jeon, P. J.; Lee, Y. T.; Raza, S. R. A.; Im, S., NOT and NOR Logic Circuits Using Passivation Dielectric Involved Dual Gate in a-InGaZnO TFTs. IEEE Elect. Dev. Lett. 2013, 34, (12), 1527-1529. [Impact Factor: 3.01]
    21. Raza, S. R. A.; Lee, Y. T.; Shokouh, S. H. H.; Ha, R.; Choi, H. J.; Im, S., A ZnO nanowire-based photo-inverter with pulse-induced fast recovery. Nanoscale 2013, 5, (22), 10829-10834. [Impact Factor: 7.367]
    22. Lee, Y. T.; Raza, S. R. A.; Jeon, P. J.; Ha, R.; Choi, H. J.; Im, S., Long single ZnO nanowire for logic and memory circuits: NOT, NAND, NOR gate, and SRAM. Nanoscale 2013, 5, (10), 4181-4185. [Impact Factor: 7.367]
    23. Raza, S. R. A.; Lee, Y. T.; Chang, Y. G.; Jeon, P. J.; Kim, J. H.; Ha, R.; Choi, H. J.; Im, S., Photoelectric probing of the interfacial trap density-of-states in ZnO nanowire field-effect transistors. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013, 15, (8), 2660-2664. [Impact Factor: 4.123]
    24. Lee, H. S.; Lee, K. H.; Chang, Y. G.; Raza, S. R. A.; Im, S.; Kim, D. H.; Kim, H. R.; Lee, G. H., Photogating and electrical-gating of amorphous GaSnZnO-based inverter with light-transmitting gate electrode. Appl Phys Lett 2011, 98, (22). [Impact Factor: 3.51]
    25. Pyo Jin Jeon, Sung-Wook Min, Jin Sung Kim, Syed Raza Ali Raza, Kyung Hee Choi, Hee Sung Lee, Young Tack Lee, Do Kyung Hwang, Hyoung Joon Choi, Seongil Im Dipole-containing encapsulation on WSe2/MoS2 nanoflake p-n diode with glass substrate toward an ideal performance arXiv:1412.7593 [cond-mat.mes-hall] 2014
    26. Zamir-ul-Hassan1, Syed Raza Ali Raza*1,2, Jamal Kazmi1,3, Mohsin Rafique, Azhar Saeed, Jamil Kazmi, , Muhammad Ambri Muhammad3, Ayaz Arif Khan Thickness dependent and Wavelength Selective Photoresponse in NIR-Visible-UV of ZnO NWs and p-Si Heterojunction ZnO Nanowire and Silicon-Based NN and PN Heterojunctions for Visible and Infrared Photo-detection  Materials Letters 2022 (To Be Submitted)
    27. Syed Raza Ali Raza*1, Zamir-ul-Hassan1, Farzana Batool1, Ayaz Arif Khan1, Sertan Kemal Akay*2, Hussain Kaan Kaplan2, Raja Azhar Saeed Khan1,3, Mohsin Rafique4 ZnSe and ZnO Nanowire based nn-Heterojunction as a Fast and Self-Powered Photodetector in Visible and IR Region Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 2022 (To Be Submitted)
    28. Syed Raza Ali Raza*1, Zamir-ul-Hassan1, Farzana Batool1, Ayaz Arif Khan1, Sertan Kemal Akay*2, Hussain Kaan Kaplan2, Raja Azhar Saeed Khan1,3, Mohsin Rafique4 Large and Fast Speed Photovoltaic Device Based on PLD Deposited V2O5 on p_Si Heterojunction in Broad Spectral Range 2022 (Ready to be Submitted)

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The Allama Iqbal Open University was established in May, 1974, with the main objectives of providing educational opportunities to masses and to those who cannot leave their homes and jobs. During all these past years, the University has more than fulfilled this promise.