Muhammad Shahid Arshad, PhD

Muhammad Shahid Arshad has received his B.Sc (Hons) Physics degree from Punjab University, Lahore Pakistan in 2008. He has obtained his Master in applied physics from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden in 2011. During his master he developed experimental skills and showed deep interest in several experimental techniques like scanning probe microscopy (SPM), magnetron sputtering, pulse laser deposition, fabrication and characterization of amorphous materials. After the successful completion of his master degree he started his PhD degree from Dec 2011 at the Department for Nanostructured Materials, K7, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, to work in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology programme. During his PhD, he worked in magnetization reversal and magnetic domain configurations in Co-Pt nanostructures. He worked on the synthesis of the nanowires (NWs) via template-assisted electrodeposition and studied their magnetic domain configurations with magnetic force microscopy (MFM). The magnetic domain, magnetization reversal and domain wall pinning effect was investigated and confirmed with analytical modelling and micromagnetic simulations. The main contributions undertaken and accomplished are including the study of growth mechanism of Co-Pt NWs with electrodepositions, microstructural analysis of Co-Pt NWs, magnetization reversal investigation (experimental and analytical analysis), magnetostatic interactions between the NWs with Henkel Plots (δM) and First-Order Reversal Curves (FORC), effective anisotropy and magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA) with Ferromagnetic Resonance analysis (FMR), magnetic domains and domain walls investigation with MFM technique, micromagnetic modelling mainly focused on the optimization of NWs to utilize them in applications such as racetrack memory devices etc. The quality of his PhD research is reflected by exciting publication record in international peer reviewed journals (7 articles), as high quality conference papers (1 article), fruitful collaborations, oral and poster presentations (21 in total). Apart from his own research work he performed some collaborative work which includes theoretical study of the localized surface plasmon resonance properties of noble metals (gold, silver, copper etc.) nanostructures with computer simulations such as MiePlot and DDSCAT7.6 which results in fruitful publications. he finished his PhD on Jan 2016 and since then he is working in Department for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, D05, National institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia. further details are available in CV.