Qurat Ul Ain

Physicist working in optoelectronics and photovoltaics — perovskite solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells, and the liquid-crystal hole-transport materials that keep them stable.

Her recent work spans dopant-free hole-transporting materials, lead-free absorber simulation with SCAPS-1D, and stability engineering for perovskite devices, with papers in Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, and Solar RRL.

Analytical & Computational Frameworks

Perovskite PhotovoltaicsSpectroscopic CharacterizationThin-Film Device PhysicsPhotoluminescence DynamicsMaterial Defect Engineering

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Research

Research areas.

Perovskite solar cells

Stability engineering and device optimization for perovskite and dye-sensitized architectures — from liquid-crystal hole-transport layers to carbon-nanotube interfaces.

Optoelectronics

Hybrid organic–inorganic materials, their morphology, and their optical behavior in thin-film devices.

Hole-transport materials

Dopant-free spiro-type and discotic liquid-crystal hole conductors for stable perovskite cells.

Numerical device simulation

SCAPS-1D modeling of lead-free chalcogenide and all-inorganic perovskite absorbers.

Publications

Journal articles

2025
P‐Dopant with Spherical Anion for Stable n‐i‐p Perovskite Solar Cells
Guang Shao, Zu-Kun Zhou, Dian Wang, Jing Xiao, Shang-Gen Yang, Hui-Juan Yu, Jun-Feng Qu, Zhi-Zheng Wu, Jun-Jie Zhang, Lifen Peng, Qurat Ul Ain, Ammar Ahmed Khan, Yu Chen, Hua Yang, Zeliang Qiu, Ruiyuan Hu, Xingao Li, Khalid A. Alamry, Jianxing Xia, Yi Zhang, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
DOI
2025
Temperature-dependent photoluminescence and grain size control in a prototypical lead-free bismuth halide perovskite
Muhammad Jawad, Sumera Siddique, Zainab Aslam, Sajid Hussain, Tahir Sajjad Butt, Faisal Saeed, Qurat Ul Ain, Ata Ulhaq, Ammar A. Khan
Advanced Engineering Materials
DOI
2024
Quasi‐Planar Core based Spiro‐Type Hole‐Transporting Material for Dopant‐Free Perovskite Solar Cells
Guang Shao, Dian Wang, Zu-Kun Zhou, Hui-Juan Yu, Tao Kang, Wei-Hua Zhu, Jing Xiao, Zhi-Lan Yu, Lifen Peng, Jian Chen, Qurat Ul Ain, Yu Chen, Hua Yang, Zeliang Qiu, Ruiyuan Hu, Ammar Ahmed Khan, Khalid A Alamry, Yi Zhang, Jianxing Xia, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
DOI
2023
Transparent Liquid Crystal Hole‐Transporting Material for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
Qurat Ul Ain, Jianxing Xia, Hiroyuki Kanda, Imanah Rafieh Alwani, Xiao-Xin Gao, Habib Ur Rehman, Guang Shao, Vygintas Jankauskas, Kasparas Rakstys, Ammar Ahmed Khan, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
Solar RRL
DOI
2023
Foldable Hole‐Transporting Materials for Merging Electronic States between Defective and Perfect Perovskite Sites
Jianxing Xia, Povilas Luizys, Maryte Daskeviciene, Chuanxiao Xiao, Kristina Kantminiene, Vygintas Jankauskas, Kasparas Rakstys, Gediminas Kreiza, Xiao-Xin Gao, Hiroyuki Kanda, Keith Gregory Brooks, Imanah Rafieh Alwani, Qurat Ul Ain, Jihua Zou, Guang Shao, Ruiyuan Hu, Zeliang Qiu, Andre Slonopas, Abdullah M. Asiri, Yi Zhang, Paul J. Dyson, Vytautas Getautis, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
Advanced Materials
DOI
2023
Interface connection of functionalized carbon nanotubes for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells
Guang Shao, Hui-Juan Yu, Dian Wang, Jing Xiao, Zhi-Lan Yu, Jun-Feng Qu, Jian Chen, Qurat Ul Ain, Ammar Ahmed Khan, Zeliang Qiu, Ruiyuan Hu, Jianxing Xia, Khalid A. Alamry, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
DOI
2022
Columnar liquid crystals as stability enhancing hole transport layers for Ruddlesden–Popper perovskite optoelectronics
Qurat ul Ain, Sumera Siddique, Shahzad Akhtar Ali, Hasan Ahmed, Mohsin Khan, Murtaza Saleem, Habib ur Rehman, Ata Ulhaq, Ammar A. Khan
Molecular Systems Design & Engineering
DOI

Education

PhD in Physics, LUMS

Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan — photovoltaics and optoelectronics.

Now

Current work

Materials design

Dopant-free spiro-type and discotic liquid-crystal hole conductors for stable perovskite cells.

Device simulation with SCAPS-1D

SCAPS-1D modeling of lead-free chalcogenide and all-inorganic perovskite absorbers.

Stability characterization

Stability engineering and device optimization for perovskite and dye-sensitized architectures.