Faculty Publications

*“Synthesis of Model Based Robust Stabilizing Reactor Power Controller for Nuclear Power Plant”, by Arshad Habib Malik, Aftab A. Memon & Rafiq Khan, MURJ, 2010.

*“Design of descrete two-time scale controller for Nuclear Power Plant”, by A. H Malik, A. A. Memon & M.R. Khan, Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 29, No.3, pp. 477-488 (July 2010). 
 *“Improved Texture description with features based on Fourier Transform”, by Ahsan A. Ursani, Kidiyo Kpalma, Joseph Ronsin, Aftab Memon, and B. S. Chowdhry, CCIS, IMTIC April 2008, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 19-28, July 2008.

* “Potentials of Location Based Services for Pakistani Cellular Market”, by Shiraz Latif, Aftab A. Memon, Ghazanfarullah Khan, Muhammad Shahzad, Journal of Information & Communication Technology, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp: 19-24, Spring 2008.
*  “Effects of Social Status on Foetal Growth Using Obstetric Ultrasonography – A Biometric Approach”, by Wahab Ansari1, Narinder P. Chowdhry, Kusum Pardeep, Aftab A. Memon, Karim Baloch, Abdul Qadeer Khan Rajput, and Bhawani S. Chowdhry, IMTIC 2008, CCIS 20, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 253–260, July 2008.
* “Bioinformatics Awareness System for Skin Diseases using Stem Cells Therapy in the Perspective of eHealth”, by Narinder Chowdhry, Wahab Ansari, Aftab Memon and Fatima Mir, CCIS, IMTIC 2008, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp: 262-267, July 2008.

* “Effect of surface states on piezoelectric photothermal spectra of silicon single crystals”, by A. Memon, M. Malinski, A. Fukuyama, and T. Ikari, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 43, No. 5A, pp. 2397-2401, May 2004.
* "Investigation of nonradiative transition processes in p- and n-type silicon single crystals by piezoelectric photothermal spectroscopy", by A. MEMON, A. FUKUYAMA, S. SATO, and T. IKARI, Rev. Sci. Instrum., Vol. 74, No.1, pp. 592-594, January 2003.
* "Surface states and band-to-band nonradiative transitions in silicon single crystal investigated by piezoelectric photothermal spectroscopy", by A. MEMON, A. FUKUYAMA, S. SATO, and T. IKARI, Materials Science and Engineering B, Elsevier Science, Vol. 102/1-3, pp. 12-15, 2003.
* "Near band-edge non-radiative recombination of Si single crystal investigated by piezoelectric photothermal spectroscopy", by A. MEMON, A. FUKUYAMA and T. IKARI, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Pt1, Vol. 42, No. 2A, pp. 358-362, Feb 2003.
* "Investigation of deep levels in semi-insulating GaAs by means of the temperature change piezoelectric photo-thermal measurements", by A. FUKUYAMA, A. MEMON, K. SAKAI, Y. AKASHI, and T. IKARI, J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 89, No. 3, pp. 1751-1754, Feb 2001.
*  "Piezoelectric photothermal study of AlxGa1-xAs epitaxial layer (x=0.22, 0.28 and 0.5) grown on semi-insulating GaAs substrate", by A. FUKUYAMA, H. FUKUHARA, S. TANAKA, A. MEMON, K. SAKAI, Y. AKASHI, and T. IKARI, J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 90, No. 9, pp. 4385-4391, Nov 2001.
*  “Deep level photothermal spectroscopy for characterizing Ni impurities in Si by temperature dependent piezoelectric photothermal spectroscopy”, by S. Sato, A. MEMON, A. FUKUYAMA, S. TANAKA, and T. IKARI, Rev. Sci. Instrum., Vol. 74, No.1, pp. 340-342, January 2003.
*  “Nonradiative electron-hole recombination in ZnSSe epitaxial layers examined by piezoelectric photothermal spectroscopy”, by K. YOSHINO, A. MEMON, M. YONETA and K. ANDO, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Vol. 14, pp. 421-425 (2003).
*  "Optical characterization of High quality ZnTe substrate", by K. YOSHINO, A. MEMON, M. YONETA, A. ARAKAWA, K. OHMORI, H. SAITO, and M. OHISHI, phys. Stat. Sol. (a), Vol. 192, No. 1, pp. 218-223 (2002).
* "Nonradiative and radiative recombination processes of ZnS epitaxial layers", by K. YOSHINO, A. MEMON, P. PRETE, K. ICHINO, H. KOMAKI, M. YONETA, N. LOVERGINE, and A.M. MANCINI, phys. Stat. Sol. (a), Vol. 192, No. 1, pp. 230-235 (2002).
* "Intrinsic defects of ZnS epitaxial layers grown by MOVPE", by K. YOSHINO, H. KOMAKI, P. PRETE, A. MEMON, M. YONETA, H. KOBAYASHI, N. LOVERGINE, and A.M. MANCINI, phys. Stat. Sol. (b), Vol. 229, No. 1, pp. 351-354 (2002).
* "Optical characterization of the ZnTe pure-green LED", by K. YOSHINO, A. MEMON, M. YONETA, K. OHMORI, H. SAITO, and M. OHISHI, phys. Stat. Sol. (b), Vol. 229, No. 2, pp. 977-980 (2002).
* "Interpretation of the piezoelectric photothermal spectra of p-type silicon samples", by M. MALINSKI, A. MEMON and T. IKARI, Archives of Acoustics, Warszawa, Poland, Vol. 28 No. 2, pp. 139-148 (2003).
* Umrani A. W., “A Unified Framework for Characterization of Fading Channels and Their Deterministic Simulations: Part-1”, Quaid-e-Awam University Research J. of Eng & Tech., Vol. 7, No. 2, Pakistan, July-Dec 2006. pp. 29-38
*  Umrani A. W., “Performance of Sub-Optimum Decorrelating Receiver for Multi-User CDMA Communication Systems over Auto-Regressive Fading Channels” MUET Research J. of Eng & Tech., Vol. 25, No. 4, October 2006 (ISSN 0254-7821), pp. 285-296.
*  Umrani A. W., Dubey, V. K., “Outage Capacity Analyses of Transmit Diversity and Beamforming System in Correlated Fading Channels” International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEU), Elsevier Science, 2005, Germany, in press.
*  Umrani A. W., Dubey V. K., “Correction to BER Performance of Uniform Circular Array versus a Uniform Linear Array in a Mobile Radio Environment”, IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, vol. 5 no. 4, April 2006, USA.
* Umrani A. W. and Dubey V. K., “Effect of Angle of Arrival on Transmit Diversity and Beamforming Systems under Correlated Fading”, IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 41, No. 6, March 2005, UK.
* Umrani A. W., Baloch, A. K., Faheem, A. U., “Coherent BPSK Receiver for Multi-user CDMA Communication Systems over Auto-regressive Fading Channels: Performance comparisons” MUET Research Journal of Eng. & Tech., vol. 24, No. 2, July 2005 (ISSN 0254-7821).
* Umrani A. W., Dubey, V. K, Chowdhry B. S., “Dual diversity performance of DS CDMA system performance over a LEO Satellite channel” MUET Research J. of Eng & Tech, Vol. 23, No. 3, July 2004, pp145-156.
* Umrani A. W., “DS CDMA system performance over a LEO Satellite channel”, MUET Research J. of Eng & Tech., Vol. 22, No. 1, January 2003 (ISSN 0254-7821), pp. 1-11.
* Umrani A. W., “A Unified Framework for Characterization of Fading Channels and Their Deterministic Simulations: Part-2”, submitted to QUEST Research J. of Eng&Tech.,Pakistan, 2007.
* Umrani A. W., Dubey, V. K. and Guan Y. L., “Effect of Steering Error Vector and Angular Power Distributions on Beamforming and Transmit Diversity Systems in Correlated Fading Channels” submitted to IEEE Trans. on Antennas&Propagation,USA, 2006.
* Umrani A. W., “Smart Antennas for CDMA based Wireless Communication System” Interim Report, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2003.
* Umrani A. W., “DS CDMA System Performance for LEO Satellite Channel” Interim Report, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2000.
* Umrani A. W., Faheem A. Umrani, B.S. Choudhry, “Information and Communication Technology for Rural Poverty Reduction” Proc. ITU TELECOM World Forum 2006,Hong Kong, China, 4-8 Dec 2006.
* Umrani A. W. and Dubey V. K., “DS CDMA System Performance for Linear and Circular Antenna Arrays in Cellular Environment”, Proc. IEEE International Multi-topic Conference on Information and Communications, INMIC 2005, Karachi, Pakistan, 23-25 Dec. 2005.
* Umrani A. W. and Dubey V. K., “Effect of Angle of Arrival on Transmit Diversity and Beamforming Systems under Correlated Fading”, Proc. IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, NJ,USA, 16-18 April 2005.
* Umrani A. W. and Dubey V. K., “Effect of Angle of Arrival Energy Distributions on Transmit Diversity and Beamforming Systems”, Proc. 4th Asia Pacific Symposium on Information Technology, Gold Coast, Australia 26-27 Jan. 2005, pp. 133-136.
* Umrani A. W. and Dubey V. K., “Performance of a 2D-RAKE receiver over spatially correlated Rayleigh fading channel”, Proc. IEEE Information, communications and signal processing and 4th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, ICICS-PCM, Singapore, 15-18 Dec. 2003, pp. 396-400.
* Waheed U. A. and Dubey V. K., “Deterministic simulation of spatial fading correlation for MIMO communication channels”, Proc. IEEE International Multi-topic Conference on Information and Communications, INMIC 2003, Islamabad, Pakistan, 8-9 Dec. 2003, pp. 78-83.
* WaheedU. A. and Dubey V. K., “Uplink spatial fading correlation of MIMO communication channels” Proc. IEEE 58th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC’03 Fall, Florida, USA, 6-9 Oct. 2003. pp. 94-98.
* WaheedU. A. and Dubey V. K., “Downlink performance of multi-beam multi-satellite CDMA-based LEO Satellite system with Power Control”, Proc. IEEE Global Conference on Communications, GLOBECOM’00, San Francisco, Ca, USA. 27-1st Dec. 2000, pp. 1139-1144.
* Waheed U. A. and Dubey V. K., “Role of PAF in a multi-satellite CDMA-based LEO Satellite System”, in proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference VTC’00 Fall, Boston, Ma, USA, 24-28 Sept. 2000, pp. 1309