Education

• 2021 - present Ph.D student
  Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, USTC, China (Advisor: Prof. Feng Zhang)
• 2018-2020 Master of philosophy in Chemistry
  University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
• 2014-2018 Bachelor of science in Chemistry
  Government College Women University Faisalabad, Pakistan

Publications

1. Afifa Farhat, Rasheed Ahmad Khera*, Saleem Iqbal, Javed Iqbal*, “Tuning the optoelectronic properties of Subphthalocyanine (SubPc) derivatives for photovoltaic applications” 
Optical Materials, 2020, 107, 110154 Doi: 10.1016/j.optmat.2020.110154 
2.Afifa Farhat, Aqsa Yaqoob, Rasheed Ahmad Khera*, Muhammad Uzair Riaz, Farhan Abbas Anjum, Peter Langer, Javed Iqbal*, “Designing and theoretical characterization of benzodithiophene dione based donor molecules for small molecule organic solar cells”
Optik, 2021, 242, 167098 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijleo.2021.167098
3.Rabia Saleem, Afifa Farhat, Rasheed Ahmad Khera*, Peter Langer, Javed Iqbal*, “Designing of small molecule non-fullerene acceptors with cyanobenzene core for photovoltaic application”
Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 2021, 1197, 113154. DOI:10.1016/j.comptc.2021.113154
4.Arooj Fatima, Afifa Farhat, Rabia Saleem, Rasheed Ahmad Khera*, Saleem Iqbal, Javed Iqbal*, “Designing of 5, 10-dihydroindolo [3, 2-b] indole (DINI) based donor materials for small molecule organic solar cells”
J. of Comput. Biophy. and Chem., 2021, 20, 71-84. DOI: org/10.1142/S2737416521500058 
5.Rubab Sikandar, Afifa Farhat, Rasheed Ahmad Khera*, Sobia Jabeen, Ali Raza Ayub, Peter Langer, Javed Iqbal*, “Tuning the optoelectronic properties of oligothienyl silane derivatives and their photovoltaic properties”
Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, 2021, 106, 107918. DOI: org/10.1016/j.jmgm.2021.107918
6.Mahnoor Javed, Afifa Farhat, Sobia Jabeen, Rasheed Ahmad Khera*, Muhammad Khalid, Javed Iqbal* “Optoelectronic properties of naphthalene bis-benzimidazole based derivatives and their photovoltaic applications”
Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 2021, 1204, 113373. DOI: org/10.1016/j.comptc.2021.113373
7.Usama Mubashar, Afifa Farhat, Rasheed Ahmad Khera*, Naseem Iqbal, Rabia Saleem, Javed Iqbal*, “Designing and theoretical study of fluorinated small molecule donor materials for organic solar cells”
Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2021, 27, 1-13. DOI: org/10.1007/s00894-021-04831-z
8.Amtul Musawwir, Afifa Farhat, Rasheed Ahmad Khera*, Ali Raza Ayub, Javed Iqbal*, “Theoretical and computational study on electronic effect caused by electron withdrawing/electron-donating groups upon the coumarin thiourea derivatives”
J. Comput. and Theoretical. Chem., 2021, 1201, 113271, DOI: org/10.1016/j.comptc.2021.113271
9.Sadaf Bibi, Rasheed Ahmad Khera*, Afifa Farhat, Javed Iqbal*, “Triphenylamine based donor-acceptor-donor type small molecules for organic solar cells”
J. Comput. and Theoretical. Chem., 2021, 1198, 113176, DOI: org/10.1016/j.comptc.2021.113176
10.Ayesha Naveed, Rasheed Ahmad Khera*, Urwah Azeem, Iqra Zubair, Afifa Farhat, Ali Raza Ayub, Javed Iqbal*, “Tuning the optoelectronic properties of benzodithiophene based donor materials and their photovoltaic applications”
Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2021, 137, 106150, DOI: org/10.1016/j.mssp.2021.106150