Tentative Schedule Friday 1st April 4:00 – 7:00 PM Reception and Registration of the Participants at the GIK Institute

Guest House

7:00– 7:20PM Recitation of the Holy Quran Welcome remarks

Session 1

Session Chair/Co-Chairs Dr. Suhail Zaki Farooqui, DG PCRET Prof. Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi, Dean FES, GIK Institute Prof. Dr. Nisar Ahmed, Dean FEE, GIK Institute Prof. Dr. Khasan S. Karimove, FEE, GIK Institute

7:20 – 7:40 PM

ICONGET2016-OP-01

Syed Abdul Moiz Polymer-nanowire hybrid solar cell

Syed Abdul Moiz1 and Kh. S. Karimov2 1Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Umm Al Qura University, Makkah,

Saudi Arabia 2Faculty of Electrical Engineering, GIK Institute, Pakistan

7:40 – 8:00 PM

ICONGET2016-OP-02

Misbah Mumtaz Synthesis and characterization of copper doped lithium nickel

phosphate for the Li-ion battery application Misbah Mumtaz1, Naveed Kausar Janjua2

1Department of metallurgy and material engineering, PIEAS, Pakistan 2Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan

8:00 – 8:20 PM

ICONGET2016-OP-03

Muhammad Hassan Sayyad Next generation efficient solar energy harvesting technologies:

Challenges and Opportunities Muhammad Hassan Sayyad1 and Qiquan Qiao2

1Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute, Pakistan 2Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, SDSU, USA

8:20 – 8:30 M. Hammad B. Saeed, UNIDO Call for Awards for Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP)

8:30 – 10:30 PM Dinner at GIK Institute Faculty Club (FC)

Saturday 2nd April

7:00 – 8:30 AM Breakfast at Cafe

Session 2

Session Chair/Co-Chairs Prof. Dr. Qiquan Qiao, SDSU, SD, USA Dr. Afzal Hussain Kamboh, DD, PCRET, Islamabad, Pakistan Prof. Dr. Safeer Ahmed, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan Prof. Dr. Ghulam Shabbir, Dean GS, GIK Institute, Pakistan Dr. Hummera Rafique, University of Gujrat, Pakistan

8:30 – 9:00 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-04

Qiquan Qiao Measurements of Solar Cell Energy Conversion Efficiency and

Quantum Efficiency Qiquan Qiao1,* Ashish Dubey, Nirmal Adhikari, and Muhammad Hassan

Sayyad2 1Center for Advanced Photovoltaics, South Dakota State University,

Brookings, USA 2Advance Photovoltaic Research Labs , GIK Institute, Pakistan

9:00 – 09:30 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-05

Ashim Gurung Engineering of Photo-Rechargeable Storage Device “Solar Battery”

Ashim Gurung, Geetha Varnekar, Bjorn Vaagensmith, Roya Naderi, Hytham Elbohy, Qiquan Qiao

Department of EECS, SDSU, Brookings, SD, USA

09:30 – 10:00 AM

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Nirmal Adhikari Nanoscale study of Perovskite solar cells for efficient charge

transport Nirmal Adhikari, Ashish Dubey, Md. Hasan Nazmul, Khan Mamun

Reza, Behzad Bahrami, Qiquan Qiao Center for Advanced Photovoltaics, DEECS, South Dakota State

University, Brookings, SD, USA

10:00 – 10:30 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-07

Talib Hussain

Excess Carrier Life Time Improvement in c-Si Solar Cell by YAG:Ce3+-Yb3+

Talib Hussain and Dong Xiao University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

10:30 – 11:00 AM Tea Break

Session 3

Session Chair/Co-Chairs Prof. Dr. Javed Ahmad Chattha. Pro-Rector (A), GIK Institute Prof. Dr. Yaseen Iqbal, Dr. S. M. Ahmed, Dean FME, GIK Institute Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Umrani, MUET, Jamshoro Dr. Muzzafar Ali, UET, Taxila

11:00 – 11:20 AM

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Zulfiqar Ali Umrani

Livestock and Renewable Energy: Challenges and Opportunities in Pakistan

Zulfiqar Ali Umrani and Muhammad Aslam Uqaili Energy & Environment Engineering Research Group (EEERG),

Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Sindh

11:20 – 11:40 AM

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Muzzafar Ali

Design and Experimental Investigation of Closed Loop Geothermal Air Conditioning System in Climate of Pakistan

Muzzafar Ali, Qasim Allah Ditta, Ghulam Qadir Ch, Shoaib Javed, Usman Nadeem and Ahsan Ali

Faculty Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan

11:40 AM – 12:00 PM

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Arifa Batool

Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of some selected dye-functionalized p and n-type nanoparticles in DSSCs.

Arifa Batool and.Syed Mujtaba Shah Department of Chemistry, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan.

12:00 – 12:15 PM

ICONGET2016-OP-11

Aakash Hassan CFD Analysis of Solar Chimney Power Plant

Aakash Hassan, Majid Ali and Adeel Waqas USPCAS-E, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan

12:15 – 12:30 PM

ICONGET2016-OP-12

Shomaz ul Haq

Heat transfer enhancement using nanofluids for energy applications Shomaz ul Haq, Hamza Ahmad Raza, Sara Sultan and Majid Ali

USPCAS-E, NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan

12:30 – 12:45 PM

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Nazia Nasr

Doped photoanode for higher efficiency of DSSCs Nazia Nasr1, Muhammad Hassan Sayyad1, Ramshah Ahmad1, Sarah

Sajjad1, Syed Afaq Ali Shah1and Qiquan Qiao2 1Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute, Pakistan

2Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, SDSU, USA

12:45 – 1:00 PM

ICONGET2016-OP-14

Alam Ali Low Energy Carbon-nanotube field effect transistor based system-in-a-

package solution for environmental gas sensing Alam Ali

Department of Electrical Engineering, UET, Lahore, Pakistan

1:00 -2:30 PM Prayer Break and Lunch @FC

Session 4

Session Chair/Co-Chairs Prof. Dr. Eugene Kennedy, DCU, Dublin, Ireland Prof. Dr. M. Aslam Baig (SI, TI, HI), NCP, Islamabad, Pakistan Prof. Dr. Javeed Akhtar, CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan Dr. Madiha Irfan, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan

Dr. Muhammad Arshad, University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.

2:30 – 2:50 PM ICONGET2016-OP-15

Madiha Irfan Carbazole/fluorene based conjugated small

molecules: Design, synthesis and properties for potential applications in organic light emitting diodes

Madiha Irfan1,2, Kevin. D. Belfield3,4, and Aamer Saeed1

1Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

2Department of Chemistry, The Women University Multan, Pakistan

3Department of Chemistry, UCF, Florida, USA

4College of Science and Liberal Arts, New Jersey Institute of Technology,

University Heights, Newark, New Jersey, USA

2:50 – 3:10 PM ICONGET2016-OP-16

M. Abbas

Deposition of n - ZnSe thin films by High Vacuum Heat Resistive Coating Plant and their Structural, Optical and Electrical

Characterization

M. Abbas1, Anjum Zaidi2, M. Kashif2, M. Fareed2, N. A. Shah1

1Comsats Institute of Information Technology Islamabad Pakistan

2Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies Islamabad Pakistan

3:10 – 3:30 PM ICONGET2016-OP-17

Safeer Ahmed Y and Tl doped TiO2 Photoanodes for DSCs- Effect of Mesoporous

Microsphere Layers Safeer Ahmed and Sadia Baig

Department of Chemistry, QAU, Islamabad, Pakistan

3:30 – 3:45 PM ICONGET2016-OP-18

Sara Sultan

Solar energy driven water desalination system using Humidification-Dehumidification technique

Sara Sultan, Adeel Waqas , Hamza Ahmad Raza and Shomaz Ul Haq Department of Energy Systems Engineering, USPCAS-E, NUST, Islamabad,

Pakistan

3:45 – 4:00 PM ICONGET2016-OP-19

Shahid Raza Bioenergy: Challenges and Opportunities in Pakistan

Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of South Asia, Lahore, Pakistan

4:00 – 4:15 PM ICONGET2016-OP-20

Farooq Wasiq

Making I-V Measurements on Solar/Photovoltaic Cells Using Keithley Model 4200 Semiconductor Characterization System

4:30 – 4:45 PM ICONGET2016-OP-21

Muhammad Arshad

Power Cogeneration from Bagasse: An Outlook of Pakistan’s National Policy

Department of Basic Sciences, (Jhang Campus), University of Veterinary &

Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

4:45 – 5:00 PM ICONGET2016-OP-22

Sufyan Naeem Analysis on reducing the domestic cooling of Islamabad by

modifications in the architectural design

Sufyan Naeem and Muhammad Bilal Khan Department of Energy Systems Engineering, USPCAS-E, NUST,

Islamabad, Pakistan

5:00 – 7:00 PM Break for Prayers and Sports

Session 5

Session Chair/Co-Chairs Dr. Suhail Zaki Farooqui, DG PCRET Prof. Dr. Jameel-Un Nabi, Dean FES, GIK Institute Prof. Dr. Nisar Ahmed, Dean FEE, GIK Institute Prof. Dr. Khasan S. Karimove, FEE, GIK Institute

7:00 – 7:20 PM

ICONGET2016-OP-23

Yousaf Ali The Interactions between Pakistan economic growth and dominant

sectors in final energy consumption: An Input-Output approach Department of Management Science

GIK Institute of Engineering Science & Technology, Pakistan

7:20 – 7:40 PM

ICONGET2016-OP-24

Masroor Hussain Computational Science and Engineering for Next Generation Energy

Technologies Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, GIK Institute of

Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, Pakistan

7:40 – 8:00 PM

ICONGET2016-OP-25

G.Q. Chaudhary Design and performance evaluation of flat plate solar collector under

the climate condition of Pakistan G.Q. Chaudhary1, Muzaffar Ali1, Amir Gulnawaz2, Haider Ali1, M. Irfan

Khalid1 1Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Engineering and

Technology Taxila Pakistan 2Department of Mechanical Engineering Mirpur University of Science and

Technology Mirpur (AJK)

8:30 – 10:30 PM Dinner at GIK Institute Faculty Club (FC)

Sunday 3nd April

7:00 – 8:00 AM Breakfast at Cafe

Session 6

Session Chair/Co-Chairs

8:00 – 8:20 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-26

Kamran Ul Hasan Fabrication of energy harvesting devices using ZnO nanowires and

graphene NESCOM Islamabad

Department of Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

8:20 – 08:40 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-27

Umair Saleem Effect of air velocity and air inlet temperature on heat transfer in pcm

based cooling system: a case study Umair Saleem1, Muhammad Adnan Hanif2, Adeel Waqas1

, Qurat-ul-ain2,

Muhammad Shahzad Aziz1

1Faculty of U.S Pakistan Centre for Advance Studies in Energy, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

2School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

08:40 – 9:00 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-28

Abdul Kashif Janjua

Integration of Economic Smart Nano Grids in Pakistan Abdul Kashif Janjua and Muhammad Bilal Khan

1Department of Energy Systems Engineering, USPCAS-E, National University of Sciences and Technology, NUST Islamabad 45000, Pakistan

9:00 – 9:15 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-29

Maryam Zafar

SCREENING FOR ANTI-PROLIFERATIVE POTENTIAL OF PHYTOEXTRACTS AGAINST ESTROGEN-DEPENDENT BREAST

CANCER Maryam Zafar, Roheena Abdullah, Tayyab Husnain.

[Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Center for Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB) & Lahore College for Women University (LCWU),

Lahore, Pakistan

9:15 – 9:30 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-30

Syed Afaq Ali Shah Photovoltaic and impedance spectroscopic studies on broad absorbing

metallic and organic dyes based DSSCs Syed Afaq Ali Shah1, Muhammad Hassan Sayyad1, Ramshah Ahmad1,

Sarah Sajjad1, Nazia Nasr1and Qiquan Qiao2 1Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute, Pakistan

2Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, SDSU

09:30 – 9:45 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-31

Hamza Ahmad Raza

Solar Thermal potential of Pakistan and Modeling of 1MW solar thermal power plant using TRNSYS

Hamza Ahmad Raza, Majid Ali, Shomaz Haq, and Sara Sultan Department of Energy Systems Engineering, U.S.-Pakistan Center for

Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Federal Capital 44000, Pakistan

09:45 – 10:00 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-32

Ramshah Ahmed Toor Study of additive on the performance enhancement of DSSC

Ramshah Ahmed Toor1, Muhammad Hassan Sayyad1, Syed Afaq Ali Shah1, Sarah Sajjad1, Nazia Nasr1and Qiquan Qiao2

1Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute, Pakistan 2Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, SDSU

10:00 – 10:30 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-33

Aamer Saeed Electronic effects and Carboxylic Acid Anchoring Substitution Effects

in Azo Dyes to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Performance Aamer saeed and Fayaz Ali Larik

Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.Pakistan 10:30 – 11:00 AM Tea Break

Session 7

Session Chair/Co-Chairs

11:00 – 11:15 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-34

Tayyaba Ghani Synthesis of titanium oxide nanotubes by two Step anodization method

for dye-Sensitized solar cells Tayyaba Ghani1,2, Mohammad Mujahid1and Mazhar Mehmood2

1School of Chemical and Materials Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, H-12 Islamabad, Pakistan

2National Center for Nanotechnology, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan

11:15 – 10:30 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-35

Sarrah Sajjad Synthesis of quantum dots for dye-sensitized solar cells

Sarrah Sajjad1, Muhammad Hassan Sayyad1, Syed Afaq Ali Shah1, Ramshah Ahmed Toor1, Nazia Nasr1and Qiquan Qiao2

1Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute, Pakistan 2Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, SDSU

11:30 – 11:45 AM

ICONGET2016-OP-36

Fayaz Ali Larik

Electronic effects and Carboxylic Acid Anchoring Substitution Effects in Azo Dyes to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Performance

Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.Pakistan

Session 8

Judges:

Saturday 02 April 01:00 – 2:30 PM

Sunday 03 April 11:45 – 2:30 PM

Poster Presentations

ICONGET2016-PP-01

Javeed Akhtar High Efficiency Solar Device based on Hybrid Organic-Inorganic

Perovskite Halides Muhammad Aamir,a Syed Zawar Hussain Shah,b Muhammad Sher,a Azhar

Iqbal,b Neerish Revaprasadu,c Mohammad Azad malikd and Javeed Akhtar*e

Department of Chemistry, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Department of Chemistry, University of Zululand, Private Bag X1001,

KwaDlangezwa, 3880, South Africa. School of chemistry & materials science centre, The university of

Manchester, oxford Road united kingdom, M13 9PL eDepartment of physics, Nanoscience and Materials Synthesis Lab

(NMSL), COMSATS, Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, Pakistan.

ICONGET2016-PP-02

Atif Islam Liquid Phase exfoliation of graphene

School of chemical and materials engineering

National University of Sciences and Technology, H-12 Campus, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan

ICONGET2016-PP-03

Nazia Nasr Vanadium (V) Oxide (V2O5) as charge recombination blocking layer to

improve the dye sensitized solar cell efficiency Hytham Elbohy1, Nazia Nasr2, Ramshah Ahmed2, Syed Afaq A. Shah2, M.

Hassan Sayyad2 and Qiquan Qiao1 1Center for Advanced Photovoltaics

Department of EECS, South Dakota State University Brookings, SD-57007, USA

2Advanced Photovoltaic Research Labs, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology

Topi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 23640, Pakistan

ICONGET2016-PP-04

Syed Afaq Ali Shah Photovoltaic and Impedance Spectroscopic Study of Broad Absorbing

Organic Dye for Higher Efficiency of DSSC Syed Afaq Ali Shah1, Muhammad Hassan Sayyad1, Nazia Nasr1, Ramshah

Ahmad1, Sarah1 and Qiquan Qiao2 1Advanced Photovoltaic Research Labs,

GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology Topi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 23640, Pakistan

2Center for Advanced Photovoltaics Department of EECS, South Dakota State University

Brookings, SD-57007, USA

ICONGET2016-PP-05

M .Hilal Fabrication and characterization of AlPc:H2Pc bulk heterojunction

(BHJ) solar cells M .Hilal, Kh. S Karimov, J.-U. Nabi

Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute, Topi 23640, Swabi, Pakistan

ICONGET2016-PP-06

Muhammad Ishaq Physical characterization of Mesoporous Titania Film and Their

Application in Solid State Dye Sensitized Solar Cell. M.Ishaq1, 2, S. K. Shah1, Z.Shah1, 2, I.Ali1, 2, N.Shahzad2,3

1 Department of Physics, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan. 2 Nano Science & Technology Department, National Centre for Physics

(NCP), Islamabad-Pakistan,

3Center for Advanced Studies in Energy, National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad-Pakistan

ICONGET2016-PP-07

Arifa Batool Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of some selected dye-

functionalized p and n-type nanoparticles in DSSCs. Arifa Batool1, Dr.Syed Mujtaba Shah2

Department of Chemistry, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad 45320 Pakistan.

ICONGET2016-PP-09

Ramshah Ahmed Toor and Fatima Ijaz Novel Organic Azo Dye for stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell

Ramshah Ahmad Toor, Prof. Dr. M. Hassan Sayyad Ramshah Ahmed Toor1, Fatima Ijaz3, Munawar Ali Munawar3, Muhammad Hassan Sayyad1, Nazia Nasr1, Syed Afaq Ali Shah1, Sarah1

and Qiquan Qiao2 1Advanced Photovoltaic Research Labs,

GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology Topi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 23640, Pakistan

2Center for Advanced Photovoltaics Department of EECS, South Dakota State University

Brookings, SD-57007, USA 3Institute of Chemistry, PU, Lahore

ICONGET2016-PP-10

Irfan ullah Role of Zinc Oxide nanostructure on the performance of

Inverted Polymeric Solar Cells

University of Peshawar, Pakistan

ICONGET2016-PP-11

Asad Munir, Shoaib Akram, Walli Ur Rehman Control and monitoring of solar form using optical fiber

communication Asad Munir, Shoaib Akram, Walli Ur Rehman and Muhammad Hassan

Sayyad Faculty of Engineering Sciences,

GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology Topi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 23640, Pakistan

ICONGET2016-PP-12

Khan Wali, Bilal Khan, Muhammad Usman, Furqan Sadiq andShah Saood Smart and Time efficient charge storing system

Khan Wali, Bilal Khan, Muhammad Usman, Furqan Sadiq andShah Saood Faculty of Electronics Engineering, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences

and Technology, Topi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 23640, Pakistan

ICONGET2016-PP-13 S. Shaheen Shahah Processing, device fabrication and electrical characterization of

������ nanofibers S. Shaheen Shaha, 1M. Yousafa, 1,2Khizar Hayata,b, 1M. Javid

Iqbala, 1Muhammad Alia, 1S. Alia, 3Muhammad Ajmalc, 1Yaseen Iqbalaa

1Materials Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Peshawar, 25120, Pakistanb

2Department of Physics, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM), 23200 Mardan, Pakistanc

3Department of Physics, Islamia College University, Peshawar, 25120, Pakistan

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1:00 -2:30 PM Prayer Break and Lunch @FC

Session 9 Workshop on Solar Cell Characterization

2:30 – 4:30 PM Hands-on experience with the advanced solar cell characterization facilities and HPC

4:30 – 5:00 PM Closing

5:00 Transport will be ready to drop our distinguished guests, participants and students back to their homes

For any queries, please contact:

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Hassan Sayyad, Conference President

Telephone office: +92 - 938-271858 Ext: 2550, 2551 Cell #: +92-3004800595 E-mails: sayyad@giki.edu.pk; hsayyad62@gmail.com;