Dr. Haris Mehmood

Assistant Professor

PhD - Electrical Engineering, NUST

  • haris.mehmood@newitu2.itu.edu.pk

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Haris Mehmood’s research interests lies in the following areas:

  • Semiconductors
  • TCAD Simulation
  • Thin-film fabrication and characterization
  • Optoelectronics and Photonics
  • Smart Energy Systems using IoT/AI
  • Nanotechnology in Renewable Energy Systems

Biography

Dr. Haris Mehmood has accomplished his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST). During his Ph.D. studies, he was awarded the TÜBİTAK Research Fellowship and proceeded to Middle East Technical University (METU) in Turkey where he gained considerable experience in the area of semiconductors and the development of photovoltaic devices. He has successfully incorporated the dopant-free thin film of Transition Metal Oxide for improving their charge transportation characteristics as well as mitigating thermal losses. He has demonstrated proven experience in vigorous physical device modeling and experimental investigations e.g., stoichiometry composition analysis, optical transmittance, Sinton Carrier Lifetime measurement using QPSSC and Transient mode, work function, defects analysis, surface analysis, Solar IV tester, Suns-Voc measurement, etc. His research work has been published in prestigious SCI-indexed journals such as Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, and International Journal of Energy Research etc.

Dr. Haris is an HEC Approved Ph.D. Supervisor and has ample teaching experience. In recognition of his teaching excellence, he has been awarded the Best University Teacher Award by ITU. He is also a certified Associate Fellow (AFHEA) of Advance Higher Education United Kingdom (UK) which recognizes his teaching practice in line with the UK’s Professional Standards Framework. He has won several FYP grants under the IGNITE program of the Government of Pakistan. Dr Haris also has an active research collaboration ongoing with several international universities. During his tenure at ITU, he has significantly contributed in various capacities to incorporate the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) philosophy in the curriculum of the Electrical Engineering degree program.

International Journals:
  • Fatima Rehman, Iqrar Hussain Syed, Saira Khanam, Sumbel Ijaz, Haris Mehmood, Muhammad Zubair, Yehia Massoud, Muhammad Qasim Mehmood, “Fourth Generation Solar Cells: A Review” Energy Advances, Accepted and In Press, 2023
  • Sumbel Ijaz, Ehsan Raza, Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Qasim Mehmood, Haris Mehmood, Yehia Massoud, M. Muqeet Rehman, “Numerical simulation to optimize the efficiency of HTM-free perovskite solar cells by ETM engineering” Solar Energy, Vol. 250, pp. 108-118, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2022.12.027, 2023
  • Murat Gülnahar, Haris Mehmood, Hasan Hüseyin Canar, Hisham Nasser, Raşit Turan, “Analysis on the capacitance-voltage characteristics of metal-insulator-semiconductor capacitors based on thermally evaporated WOx on n- and p- type crystalline silicon,” SSRN Electronic Journal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4040422, 2022
  • Haris Mehmood, Hisham Nasser, Syed Muhammad Hassan Zaidi, Tauseef Tauqeer, Raşit Turan, “Physical Device Simulation of Dopant-Free Asymmetric Silicon Heterojunction solar cell featuring Tungsten Oxide as a hole-selective layer with ultrathin Silicon Oxide passivation layer,” Renewable Energy, Vol. 183, pp. 188-201, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.10.073, 2022
  • Muhammad Haroon Rashid, Ants Koel, Toomas Rang, Nadeem Nasir, Haris Mehmood, and Salman Cheema, “Modeling and Simulations of 4H-SiC/6H-SiC/4H-SiC Single Quantum-Well Light Emitting Diode Using Diffusion Bonding Technique,” Micromachines, Vol. 12, No. 12, 1499, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12121499, 2021
  • Haris Mehmood, Hisham Nasser, Tauseef Tauqeer, Raşit Turan, "Numerical Analysis of Dopant-Free Asymmetric Silicon Heterostructure Solar Cell with SiO2 as Passivation Layer," International Journal of Energy Research, Vol. 44, No. 13, pp. 10739-10753, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/er.5720, 2020
  • Ayyaz Ahmed, Kashif Riaz, Haris Mehmood, Tauseef Tauqeer, and Zubair Ahmad, "Performance optimization of CH3NH3Pb(I1-xBrx)3 based perovskite solar cells by comparing different ETL materials through conduction band offset engineering," Optical Materials, Vol. 105, pp. 109897, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2020.109897, 2020
  • Haris Mehmood, Gence Bektaş, Tauseef Tauqeer, İlker Yıldız, Hisham Nasser, Raşit Turan, “Electrical, optical and surface characterization of Reactive RF magnetron sputtered molybdenum oxide films for solar cell application,” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Vol. 101C, pp. 46-56, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2019.05.018, 2019
  • Haris Mehmood, Hisham Nasser, Tauseef Tauqeer, Raşit Turan, “Simulation of silicon heterostructure solar cell featuring dopant-free carrier-selective molybdenum oxide and titanium oxide contacts,” Renewable Energy, Vol. 143, pp. 359-367, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.05.007, 2019
  • Maryam Tanveer, Tauseef Tauqeer, Haris Mehmood, Hammad Butt, James Sexton, Mohamed Missous, “Physical Device Modelling of Emitter-Base Junction of In0.52Al0.48As/In0.53Ga0.47As based SHBTs,” International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 106, No. 11, pp. 1710-1725, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207217.2019.1611944, 2019
  • Haris Mehmood, Tauseef Tauqeer, Shahzad Hussain, “Recent Progress in Silicon-based Solid state Solar Cells,” International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 105, No. 9, pp. 1568-1582, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207217.2018.1477191, 2018
  • Wajid Zaman, Hamza Ahmad, Haris Mehmood, “A Miniaturized Meandered Printed Monopole Antenna for Triband Applications,” Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 60, pp. 1265-1271, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mop.31149, 2018
  • Haris Mehmood, Hisham Nasser, Engin Özkol, Tauseef Tauqeer, Shahzad Hussain, Raşit Turan, “Simulation of an efficient Silicon Heterostructure Solar cell concept featuring Molybdenum Oxide Carrier-selective contact,” International Journal of Energy Research, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 1563-1579, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/er.3947, 2018
  • Shahzad Hussain, Haris Mehmood, Muhammad Khizar, “Design and analysis of an ultra-thin crystalline silicon heterostructure solar cell featuring SiGe absorber layer,” IET Circuits, Devices and Systems, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 309-314, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cds.2017.0132, 2018
  • Haris Mehmood, Tauseef Tauqeer, “Modeling and performance analysis of amorphous silicon solar cell using wide band gap nc-Si:H window layer,” IET Circuits, Devices and Systems, Vol. 11, No. 6, pp. 666 – 675, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-cds.2017.0072, 2017
  • Rabia Saroosh, Tauseef Tauqeer, Sara Afzal, Haris Mehmood, “Performance enhancement of AlGaN/InGaN MQW LED with GaN/InGaN Superlattice Structure,” IET Optoelectronics, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 156-162, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-opt.2016.0141, 2017
  • Shahzad Hussain, Haris Mehmood, Ghulam Ali, “Nanocrystalline Silicon (nc-Si:H) and Amorphous Silicon (a-Si:H) Based Thin-Film Multijunction Solar cell,” Sains Malaysiana, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 895-898, 2014
  • Shahzad Hussain, Ghulam Ali, Haris Mehmood, Muhammad Omar, Tahir Zaidi, “Theoretical studies of InGaN/GaN multiple junction solar cell with enhanced tunneling junction diode,” Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 895, pp. 535-538, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.895.535, 2014
International Conference Proceedings
  • Haris Mehmood, Tauseef Tauqeer, Hisham Nasser, Shahzad Hussain, Raşit Turan, “Effect of Hole Selective Molybdenum Oxide Work Function and Silicon Wafer Resistivity on Dopant-Free Asymmetric Silicon Heterostructure Solar Cell,” 5th IEEE International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC), Tangier, Morocco, 4-7 December 2017, pp. 1-5, ISBN: 978-1-5386-2847-8, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IRSEC.2017.8477335, Indexed on IEEE Xplore: 1 Oct 2018.
  • Haris Mehmood, Hisham Nasser, Engin Özkol, Tauseef Tauqeer, Shahzad Hussain, Raşit Turan, “Physical Device Simulation of Partial-Dopant-Free Asymmetric Silicon Heterostructure Solar Cell (P-DASH) based on Hole-selective Molybdenum Oxide (MoOx) with Crystalline Silicon (cSi),” 4th IEEE International Conference on Engineering and Technology (ICET), Antalya, Turkey, 21-23 August 2017, pp. 1-6, ISBN: 978-1-5386-1949-0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEngTechnol.2017.8308155, Indexed on IEEE Xplore: 8 March 2018.
  • Haris Mehmood, Hisham Nasser, Tauseef Tauqeer, Raşit Turan, “Numerical Analysis of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell Based on Molybdenum Oxide as a Back Surface Field (BSF),” 33rd European Union Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU-PVSEC), Amsterdam, Holland, pp. 932-936, ISBN: 3-936338-47-7, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4229/EUPVSEC20172017-2CV.2.66, 25-29 September 2017.
  • Hisham Nasser, Gamze Kökbudak, Haris Mehmood, and Raşit Turan, “Dependence of n-cSi/MoOx heterojunction performance on cSi doping concentration,” Energy Procedia, Special Issue of 7th International Conference on Silicon Photovoltaics, SiliconPV 2017, 3-5 April 2017, Freiburg, Germany, Vol. 124, pp. 418–424, ISSN: 1876-6102, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.267, 21 September 2017 (Cite Score = 1.3)

  • FYP project titled "Smart Solar Powered Grass Cutter and Plant Sprayer" secured IGNITE grant of PKR 34,769 under my supervision at Information Technology University of the Punjab (ITU) Lahore dated 1 August 2023 (Project ID: NGIRI-2023-21397)
  • FYP project titled "Design and Development of an Indoor Air Purifier" secured IGNITE grant of PKR 16,950 under my supervision at Information Technology University of the Punjab (ITU) Lahore dated 1 August 2023 (Project ID: NGIRI-2023-21763)
  • FYP project titled "Autonomous solar panel cleaning robot" secured IGNITE grant under my co-supervision at Information Technology University of the Punjab (ITU) Lahore dated 1 August 2023 (Project ID: NGIRI-2023-20398)
  • FYP project titled "Intelligent Shopping Trolley using Auto Billing System" secured IGNITE grant of PKR 20,194 under my supervision at Information Technology University of the Punjab (ITU) Lahore dated 13 September 2022 (Project ID: NGIRI-2022-15077)
  • FYP project titled "IoT-Based Smart Helmet For Unsafe Event Detection For Mining Industry" secured IGNITE grant of PKR 24,570 under my supervision at Information Technology University of the Punjab (ITU) Lahore dated 13 September 2022 (Project ID: NGIRI-2022-12054)
  • FYP project titled "Smart Cane For Visually Impaired" secured IGNITE grant under my co-supervision at Information Technology University of the Punjab (ITU) Lahore dated 13 September 2022 (Project ID: NGIRI-2022-12232)
  • FYP project titled "Speak Through Eye Movement Glasses" secured IGNITE grant under my co-supervision at Information Technology University of the Punjab (ITU) Lahore dated 13 September 2022 (Project ID: NGIRI-2022-15265)
  • FYP project titled "MOBDIW: Monitoring Of Brainwaves For Development Of Intelligent Wheelchair", secured IGNITE grant of PKR 78,300 under my supervision at Information Technology University of the Punjab (ITU) Lahore dated 1 July 2021 (Project ID: NGIRI-2021-10761)
  • FYP project titled "IoT Enabled Water Metering for Domestic Consumers", secured IGNITE grant under my co-supervision at Information Technology University of the Punjab (ITU) Lahore dated 1 July 2021 (Project ID: NGIRI-2021-7375)
  • FYP project titled "S-HELM Smart Electrochemical gas detecting Helmet for Miners", secured IGNITE grant of PKR 35,666 under my supervision at Information Technology University of the Punjab (ITU) Lahore dated 4 August 2020 (Project ID: NGIRI-2020-3398)
  • FYP project titled "Impurity detection and filtration of water using biosensors and EDR", secured IGNITE grant of PKR 20,210 under my supervision at Information Technology University of the Punjab (ITU) Lahore dated 4 August 2020 (Project ID: NGIRI-2020-5361)
  • FYP project titled "Android Based Load Control and Monitoring System", secured NGIRI grant of PKR 67,750 under my supervision at The University of Faisalabad (TUF) Lahore dated 9 May 2014

  • Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) Registered Engineer
  • Associate Fellow of Advance HE United Kingdom (AFHEA)
  • Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) On Campus ITU Founding Supervisor
  • Reviewer of various SCI-cited journals
    • Research collaborations with METU Turkey, RMIT Australia
  • PhD Students: a. Muhammad Afzal, ITU 2022-Present (Co-supervisor)
  • MS Students: b. Aqsa Latif, ITU 2020-2023 (Graduated), Supervisor c. Iqrar Hussain Syed, ITU 2022-Present, Co-supervisor