Life is all about struggles and hardships. Sometimes, you are fortunate to have everything you need but at other times, you miss something and desperately need that. What keeps me going in life is thankfulness.

Thankfulness for having a beautiful life, family, health, friends, and everything around which is made for us. Everyday, sunset takes worries with it and return back next day with new opportunities. We should be thankful to ALMIGHTY ALLAH for new rays of light everyday, hope and being alive to experience this beautiful world. Will do this and that is all a fantasy. Life is all what you are living in this moment of time and we can make it beautiful by being thankful and showing gratitude.

This work is now available to read on IOP 2D Materials website.

2D Materials is a flagship journal publishing quality research on 2D materials. We studied thin films of magnetic topological insulator MnBi₂Te₄ and demonstrate how relative spin alignments in constituent septuple layer together with film thickness can be useful to achieve higher-Chern-number states, alongside Chern and Axion insulating states, in this material. We proposed magneto-optical Faraday rotation can be used to confirm these effects, since the response is quantized.

I should acknowledge the hard work of my co-authors who did an amazing job and get it published in this journal.

The weblink to the paper is here.

It is time to activate this website again, but this time with a more focused purpose: sharing research, academic resources, and useful learning materials. Although this update comes a little late, it is a meaningful point from which to begin again.

I would like to start by sharing a link to my first publication, titled “Solid Argon as a Possible Substrate for Quasi-Freestanding Silicene.” The paper was published in New Journal of Physics in 2014 and was written by S. Sattar, R. Hoffmann, and U. Schwingenschlögl.

This work studies the structural and electronic properties of silicene on a solid argon Ar(111) substrate using ab initio calculations. The study shows that the weak interaction between silicene and solid argon can help realize quasi-freestanding silicene, which is important for preserving its unique material properties. The paper also reports a small binding energy, a band gap of 11 meV, and notable spin-orbit coupling effects.

For me, this publication represents an important academic milestone and a valuable starting point in my research journey. It also reflects my broader interest in computational materials science, condensed matter physics, and two-dimensional materials.

You can read the publication online through IOPscience:

Solid Argon as a Possible Substrate for Quasi-Freestanding Silicene
New Journal of Physics, 16, 065001
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/6/065001