<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp3ecc3912yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi All QE users,</div><div class="ydp3ecc3912yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I am writing to explore the possibility of working in collaboration.</div><div class="ydp3ecc3912yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So far, I mainly studied electronic and thermoelectric properties of 2D materials</div><div class="ydp3ecc3912yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">but I am open to work on a topic of mutual interest.</div><div class="ydp3ecc3912yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I mainly used QUANTUM ESPRESSO/BoltzTrap/ShengBTE for my calculation</div><div class="ydp3ecc3912yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydp3ecc3912yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Further discussion may be done on SKYPE.</div><div class="ydp3ecc3912yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Anxiously waiting for response.</span></span></div><div class="ydp3ecc3912yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div class="ydp3ecc3912yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">List of my few recent publication</div><div class="ydp3ecc3912yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydp3ecc3912yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Sohail
Ahmad</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>, "Strain and electric field dependent variation in
electronic and thermoelectric properties of PtS<sub>2</sub>" <b><i>Results
in Physics, 17, 103088 (2020)</i>. [IF 3.042] </b><span></span></span></p>
<span></span>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></i></b></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Sohail
Ahmad</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'> and Georg Schreckenbach, "Ab initio study of strain and
electric field dependent variation in electronic and thermoelectric properties
of PdS<sub>2</sub>" <b><i>Materials Communications Today, 24, 100976
(2020). </i>[IF 1.859] </b></span></p>
<span></span>
<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>D.
P. Rai, Tuan V. Vu, Amel Laref, Md. Anwar Hossain, Enamul Haque, <b>Sohail
Ahmad</b>, R. Khenata and R. K. Thapa, “Low lattice thermal conductivity and
promising thermoelectric response of mono-layer MoS2: FP-LAPW incorporated with
spin-orbit coupling (SOC)” <b><i>RSC Adv., 10, 18830 (2020)</i>.</b> <b>[IF
3.049] </b></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Ransell
D’Souza,<b> </b>Sugata Mukherjee and <b>Sohail Ahmad</b>, "Strain induced
large enhancement of thermoelectric figure-of-merit (ZT~2) in transition metal
dichalcogenide monolayers ZrX<sub>2</sub> (X = S, Se, Te)”, <b><i>Journal of
Applied Physics, 126, 214302 (2019). </i>[IF 2.328] </b><i></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Sohail
Ahmad</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>, Ransell D’Souza, and Sugata Mukherjee, "Band gap
modulation of ZrX2 (X = S, Se, Te)
mono-layers under biaxial strain and transverse electric field and its lattice
dynamic properties: A first-principles study", <b><i>Materials Research
Express, 6, 036308 (2019). </i>[IF 1.449] </b></span></p>
<span></span>
<p dir="RTL"><b><i><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"' dir="LTR"> </span></i></b></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Sohail
Ahmad</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>, Pere Miro Ramirez, Martha Audiffred, Thomas Heine, "Control
of electronic properties in Graphene by intercalation of alkali metals and its
halides", <b><i>Solid State Communications, 272, 22 (2018). </i>[IF 1.433]
</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Sohail
Ahmad</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>, "Strained noble metal di chalcogenides PtX<sub>2</sub>
(X=S, Se) mono-layer: ab initio study of electronic and lattice dynamic
properties" <b><i>Physica E, 95, 139 (2018)</i></b>. <b>[IF 3.176] </b></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Sohail
Ahmad</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'>, "Strain dependent tuning electronic properties of noble
metal di chalcogenides PdX<sub>2</sub> (X = S, Se) mono-layer" <b><i>Materials
Chemistry and Physics, 198, 162 (2017)</i></b>. <b>[IF 2.781] </b></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Sohail
Ahmad</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'> and Nadir Bouarissa, "Strained Rocksalt ScN: ab initio
studies of electronic structure and lattice-dynamical properties" <b><i>Materials
Research Express, 4, 055001(2017)</i></b>. <b>[IF 1.449] </b><i></i></span></p>
<p dir="RTL"><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"' dir="LTR"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'>Sohail
Ahmad</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New"'> and Sugata Mukherjee, "A comparative study of bulk MoS<sub>2</sub>
and its monolayers using DFT technique: Application of mechanical strain on MoS<sub>2</sub>
monolayer" <b><i>GRAPHENE, Vol 3, 52, 2014</i></b>. </span></p>
<p> </p>
</div><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><div class="ydp3ecc3912yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydp3ecc3912signature" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><p>--------------------------------------------------------------------- <br><br><strong><font color="#0000ff" size="4">Dr. Sohail Ahmad</font></strong></p><p><font color="#0000ff">King Khalid University</font></p><p><font color="#0000ff">Abha, Saudi Arabia</font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"></font> --------------------------------------------------------------------<br></p></div></body></html>