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Hafiz Sohail

My current research interest encompasses the study of electronic and atomic structures of oxide surfaces and ultra-thin films with various exotic properties for future electronics applications.

Presentation

Oxide materials offer a wide range of intriguing phenomena such as superconductivity, ferroelectricity, magnetoresistance, and magnetism. To unveil the physics of these phenomena is currently an important area of scientific interest in the condensed matter physics community.

My focus is to study the electronic and atomic structures of titanium-based oxides such as strontium titanate (SrTiO3) particularly, and oxide materials in general.

I mainly utilize synchrotron-based angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), and low energy electron diffraction (LEED) techniques to explore the exotic physics of these materials. The study is mainly performed at the MAX IV synchrotron radiation facility in Lund. Besides, at the department of physics, chemistry, and biology (IFM) at Linköping University, we have ARPES and STM laboratories where part of the research is performed. 

Hafiz Sohail completed Ph.D. studies within the Surface and Semiconductor Physics division at Linköping University. During the Ph.D. work, Hafiz got very thorough experience of surface science techniques such as ARPES, STM, and LEED. In addition, during his postdoctoral period at Stanford University, Hafiz was involved in cuprate superconductor research and oxide thin film growth by MBE techniques. During these years, most of the experimental work was performed at synchrotron radiation facilities such as MAX-IV in Lund Sweden, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), and Advanced Light Source (ALS) in the USA
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Publications

2021

Jalil Shah, Weimin Wang, Hafiz Muhammad Sohail, Roger Uhrberg (2021) Atomic and electronic structures of the Au2Sn surface alloy on Au(111) Physical Review B, Vol. 104, Article 125408 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2020

Jalil Shah, Weimin Wang, Hafiz Muhammad Sohail, Roger Uhrberg (2020) Quasi One-Dimensional Structure Formed by an As/Ag(111) Surface Alloy The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 124, p. 24196-24203 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Jalil Shah, Weimin Wang, Hafiz Muhammad Sohail, Roger Uhrberg (2020) Experimental evidence of monolayer arsenene: an exotic 2D semiconducting material Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, Vol. 7, Article 025013 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Jalil Shah, Hafiz Muhammad Sohail, Roger Uhrberg, Weimin Wang (2020) Two-Dimensional Binary Honeycomb Layer Formed by Ag and Te on Ag(111) The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 11, p. 1609-1613 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2019

Tao Jia, Slavko N. Rebec, Shujie Tang, Kejun Xu, Hafiz Muhammad Sohail, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, Robert G. Moore, Zhi-Xun Shen (2019) Epitaxial growth of TiSe2/TiO2 heterostructure Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, Vol. 6, Article 011008 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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