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Dr. Ahsan Sarwar Rana
Assistant Professor
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Education Detail
PhD (Electrical Engineering) Information and Technology University (ITU)
MS (Electrical Engineering) Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
BE (Electrical Engineering) University of Engineering and Technology (UET)

Journals:S. Shahid, G. G. Gentili, G. Bernasconi, H. Nawaz, and A. S. Rana, “Multi-Layer Material Characterization at Ka-Band Using Bayesian Inversion Method,” Electronics, vol. 12, no. 3, p. 563, Jan. 2023, doi: 10.3390/electronics12030563. IF=2.69.A. S. Rana, M. Zubair, Y. Chen, Z. Wang, J. Deng, M. T. S. Chani, et al., "Broadband solar absorption by chromium metasurface for highly efficient solar thermophotovoltaic systems," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 171, p. 113005, 2023/01/01/ 2023. IF=16.8.S. Ijaz, A. S. Rana, et al., "The Dawn of Metadevices: From Contemporary Designs to Exotic Applications," Advanced Devices & Instrumentation, vol. 2022, p. 9861078, 2022/07/03 2022.M. A. Abbas, J. Kim, A. S. Rana, et al., "Nanostructured chromium-based broadband absorbers and emitters to realize thermally stable solar thermophotovoltaic systems," Nanoscale, vol. 14, pp. 6425-6436, 2022. IF=8.307.S. Ijaz, A. S. Rana, Z. Ahmad, B. Rehman, M. Zubair, and M. Q. Mehmood, "Exploiting zirconium nitride for an efficient heat-resistant absorber and emitter pair for solar thermophotovoltaic systems," Optics Express, vol. 29, pp. 31537-31548, 2021. (IF:3.894)A. S. Rana, M. Zubair, M. S. Anwar, M. Saleem, and M. Q. Mehmood, "Engineering the absorption spectra of thin film multilayer absorbers for enhanced color purity in CMY color filters," Optical Materials Express, vol. 10, pp. 268-281, 2020. (IF:3.442) J. Kim, A. S. Rana, Y. Kim, I. Kim, T. Badloe, M. Zubair, et al., "Chiroptical Metasurfaces: Principles, Classification, and Applications," Sensors, vol. 21, p. 4381, 2021. (IF:3.576)T. Naeem, A. S. Rana, M. Zubair, T. Tauqeer, and M. Q. Mehmood, "Breaking planar symmetries by a single layered metasurface for realizing unique on-chip chiroptical effects," Optical Materials Express, vol. 10, pp. 3342-3352, 2020. (IF:3.442)A. S. Rana, M. Zubair, A. Danner, and M. Q. Mehmood, "Revisiting tantalum based nanostructures for efficient harvesting of solar radiation in STPV systems," Nano Energy, vol. 80, p. 105520, 2021. (IF:17.881)A. S. Rana, I. Kim, M. A. Ansari, M. S. Anwar, M. Saleem, T. Tauqeer, et al., "Planar Achiral Metasurfaces-Induced Anomalous Chiroptical Effect of Optical Spin Isolation," ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 12, pp. 48899-48909, 2020. (IF:9.229)A. S. Rana, M. Zubair, M. S. Anwar, M. Saleem, and M. Q. Mehmood, "Engineering the absorption spectra of thin film multilayer absorbers for enhanced color purity in CMY color filters," Optical Materials Express, vol. 10, pp. 268-281, 2020. (IF:3.442)M. R. Akram, M. Q. Mehmood, T. Tauqeer, A. S. Rana, I. D. Rukhlenko, and W. Zhu, "Highly efficient generation of Bessel beams with polarization insensitive metasurfaces," Optics express, vol. 27, pp. 9467-9480, 2019. (IF:3.894) A. S. Rana, M. Q. Mehmood, H. Jeong, I. Kim, and J. Rho, "Tungsten-based ultrathin absorber for visible regime," Scientific reports, vol. 8, pp. 1-8, 2018. (IF:4.379)A. S. Rana, M. Nasir, and H. A. Khan, "String level optimisation on grid-tied solar PV systems to reduce partial shading loss," IET Renewable Power Generation, vol. 12, pp. 143-148, 2017. (IF:3.930)Conferences:F. Sarfraz, M. A. Ch, and A. S. Rana, "Polarization-insensitive metalens with high efficiency for optical fiber communication," in 2022 Third International Conference on Latest trends in Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (INTELLECT), 2022, pp. 1-4.H. M. T. Raza and A. S. Rana, "Metamaterial Absorber for Solar Thermophotovoltaic Systems," in 2022 Third International Conference on Latest trends in Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (INTELLECT), 2022, pp. 1-7.S. H. Manzoor, A. S. Rana, and S. Manzoor, "Efficient Multi-layered Trans-Reflective RGB-CMY Colors Filters for Optical Communication," in 2022 Third International Conference on Latest trends in Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (INTELLECT), 2022, pp. 1-8.S. Ijaz, A. S. Rana, et al., "Ultra-black Pythagorean-tree metasurface antenna array based absorber and emitter for applications in solar thermophotovoltaics," 2021 1st International Conference on Microwave, Antennas & Circuits (ICMAC), 2021, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICMAC54080.2021.9678245.S. Ijaz, A. Sarwar Rana, et al., Evaluating the most efficient 2D ZrN nanostructures for broadband metasurface absorbers vol. 12004: SPIE, 2022.S. Ijaz, A. Sarwar Rana, et al., Investigating sunlight trapping efficiency of an ultrathin, ultrabroadband, thermostable, zirconium nitride (ZrN)-based metasurface for solar thermophotovoltaic systems vol. 12150: SPIE, 2022.T. Naeem, A. S. Rana, H. S. Khaliq, T. Tauqeer, M. Zubair, and M. Q. Mehmood, "C2 symmetric single-layered meta-atoms for asymmetric holography," in Practical Holography XXXV: Displays, Materials, and Applications, 2021, p. 1171007.A. S. Rana, T. Naeem, M. Zubair, and M. Q. Mehmood, "Tungsten based optical absorber," in 2020 17th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST), 2020, pp. 35-39.A. S. Rana, M. Q. Mehmood, H. J. Eong, I. Kim, and J. Rho, "Ultra-Broadband Tungsten Absorber," in 2018 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS-Toyama), 2018, pp. 297-300.A. S. Rana and H. A. Khan, "String level optimization on grid-tied solar PV systems for minimizing soft shading power loss," in 5th IET International Conference on Renewable Power Generation (RPG) 2016, 2016, pp. 1-6.

Research Interest
Electromagnetic waves
EM Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
Optics and Photonics
Nanophotonics and nanophotonic devices
RF and Microwave engineering
Renewable energy