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Department of Aerospace Engineering

Sohail Ahmed

Associate Professor

Ext: 890-5150

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Sohail Ahmed

Associate Professor

Ph.D. in Material Science & Engineering UNSW, Sydney, Australia M.S. in Aerospace Engineering Air University, Islamabad B.E. in Aerospace Engineering National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad

An interval-valued neutrosophic based MAIRCA method for sustainable material selection, R.S. Ul Haq, M. Saeed, N. Mateen, F. Siddiqui, S. Ahmed, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2023; Volume 123; Page(s) 106177 (IF: 7.802). Co and Nd codoping induced high magnetization in layered MoS2 crystals, S. Ahmed, P. P. Murmu, C.I. Sathish, X. Guan, R. Geng, N. Bao, R. Liu, J. Kennedy, J. Ding, M. Peng, A. Vinu, J. Yi, physica status solidi (RRL)–Rapid Research Letters 2022; Volume ; Page(s) (IF: 3.277). Doping and Defect Engineering Induced Extremely High Magnetization and Large Coercivity in Co Doped MoTe2, S. Ahmed, X.Y. Cui, P.P. Murmu, X. Ding, X.Z. Chu, C.I. Sathish, N.N. Bao, R. Liu, W.Y. Zhao, J. Kennedy, T. Tan, M. Peng, L. Wang, J. Ding, T. Wu, X.L. Wang, S. Li, A. Vinu, S.P. Ringer, J.B. Yi, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2022; Volume ; Page(s) 165750 (IF: 6.371). Sustainable material selection with crisp and ambiguous data using single-valued neutrosophic-MEREC-MARCOS framework, R.S. Ul Haq, M. Saeed, N. Mateen, F. Siddiqui, M. Naqvi, J.B. Yi, S. Ahmed, Applied Soft Computing 2022; Volume 128; Page(s) 109546 (IF: 8.263). Defects Engineering Induced Ultrahigh Magnetization in Rare Earth Element Nd‐doped MoS2, X. Ding, X.Y.C. Cui, S. Ahmed, P. P. Murmu, J. Kennedy, N. Bao, J. Ding, R. Liu, M. Peng, L. Wang, X. Chu, A. Vinu, S. P. Ringer, J.B. Yi, Advanced Quantum Technologies 2021; page(s): 2000093 (IF: 5.310). Colossal Magnetization and Giant Coercivity in Ion-Implanted (Nb and Co) MoS2 Crystals , S. Ahmed, X.Y.C. Cui, X. Ding, P.P. Murmu, N. Bao, X. Geng, S. Xi, R. Liu, J. Kennedy, T. Wu, L. Wang , K. Suzuki, , J. Ding, X. Chu, S. C. Indirathankam, M. Peng, A. Vinu, S. P. Ringer and J.B.Yi, ACS Applied Materials & Interface 2020; page(s): 58140-58148 (IF: 10.383). Shape and orientation controlled hydrothermal synthesis of silicide and metal dichalcogenide on a silicon substrate, S. Ahmed, X. Ding, X. Chu, M. Li, D. Chu, T. Ma, T.Wu, A. Vinu, J. Yi, ACS Applied Materials & Interface 2020; page(s): 18850-18858 (IF: 10.383). High coercivity and magnetization in WSe2 by codoping of Co and Nb elements, S. Ahmed, X. Ding, P.P. Murmu, N.N. Bao, R. Liu, J.V. Kennedy, J. Ding, T. Wu, and J.B. Yi, small 2020; Page(s): 1903173 (IF: 15.153). Confinement-Induced Giant Spin–Orbit-Coupled Magnetic Moment of Co Nanoclusters in TiO2 Films, X. Ding, X. Cui, C. Xiao, X. Luo, N. Bao, A. Rusydi, X. Yu, Z. Lu, Y. Du, X. Guan, L. Tseng, W.T. Lee, S. Ahmed, R. Zheng, T. Liu, T. Wu, J. Ding, K. Suzuki, V. Lauter, A. Vinu, S.P. Ringer, J. Yi. ACS Applied Materials & Interface 2019; Issue 46: Page(s): 43781-43788 (IF: 10.383). Clustering-induced high magnetization in Co-doped TiO2, X. Ding, S. Ahmed, N. Bao, Jun Ding, R. Liu, J. Yi. Emergent Materials 2019; Issue 3: Page(s): 295-301 (IF: 1.096) Inducing high coercivity in MoS2 nanosheets by transition element doping, S. Ahmed, X. Ding, N. Bao, Y. Wang, R. Liu, H. Fan, K. Suzuki, J. Ding and J. Yi. Chemistry of Materials 2017; Issue 21: Page(s): 9066-9074 (IF: 10.508). Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Their Charge Carrier Mobilities in Field-Effect Transistors, S. Ahmed and J. Yi. Nano-Micro letters 2017; Issue 9: Page(s) 50 (IF: 23.655). Magnetic properties of Co doped WSe2 by implantation, S. Ahmed, X. Ding, P. P. Murmu, N. Bao, R. Liu, J. Kennedy, J. Ding and J. Yi. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2018; Volume 731; Page(s) 25-31 (IF: 6.371). Annealing effect on the ferromagnetism of MoS2 nanoparticles, S. Ahmed, P. Viboon, X. Ding, N. Bao, Y. H. Du, T. S. Herng, J. Ding and J. Yi. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2018; Volume 746; Page(s) 399-404 (IF: 6.371). Enhanced ferromagnetism in WS2 via defect engineering, X. Ding, T. Liu, S. Ahmed, N. Bao, J. Ding and J. Yi. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 2018; Volume 772; Page(s) 740-744 (IF: 6.371). Torsional analysis of multi-cell multi-tapered composite beams with cantilever configuration, S. Ahmed, M. N. Ahmed. Thin-Walled Struct 2015; Issue 96C: Page(s):75–81 (IF: 5.881). Modal analysis of thin-walled multi-cell multitapered composite beams of closed cross sections, S. Ahmed, M. N. Ahmed., Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2014; 629, Page(s) 82-88. Failure analysis of composite thin-walled multi-cell closed cross-section beams with multi-tapered configuration, S. Ahmed, S. Ayub. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2015; 789, Page(s) 382-388.

Enhance the magnetic properties of the 2D Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) materials (i.e MoS2, WSe2 and MoTe2 etc) by annealing, physical or chemical doping. Performing characterization by Raman, XRD, SEM, AFM, TEM, XPS, EPR and SIMS and examine the magnetic properties for the application in spintronics devices and diluted magnetic semiconductor.

The effect of Sulfur vacancies and rare earth elements doping on the structure and magnetic properties of MoS2 Fabrication and characterization of Fe and V co-doped MoS2 Structural optimization of aircraft wing using multi-disciplinary optimization Standardization of Procedures for Load Spectrum Development for a UAV and Life Assessment for UAV Wing Structure Development of Integrated Design and Simulation Framework for Multi- Objective Optimization in Aircraft Conceptual Design