2023 Markus Hellenbrand, Babak Bakhit, Hongyi Dou, Ming Xiao, Megan O. Hill, Zhuotong Sun, Adnan Mehonic, Aiping Chen, Quanxi Jia, Haiyan Wang, Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll (2023) Thin-film design of amorphous hafnium oxide nanocomposites enabling strong interfacial resistive switching uniformity Science Advances, Vol. 9, Article eadg1946 Continue to DOI Fuxiang Ji, Johan Klarbring, Bin Zhang, Feng Wang, Linqin Wang, Xiaohe Miao, Weihua Ning, Muyi Zhang, Xinyi Cai, Babak Bakhit, Martin Magnuson, Xiaoming Ren, Licheng Sun, Mats Fahlman, Irina A Buyanova, Weimin Chen, Sergei I Simak, Igor A. Abrikosov, Feng Gao (2023) Remarkable Thermochromism in the Double Perovskite Cs2NaFeCl6 Advanced Optical Materials, Article 2301102 Continue to DOI Samira Dorri, Jens Birch, Fredrik Eriksson, Justinas Palisaitis, Per O A Persson, Babak Bakhit, Lars Hultman, Naureen Ghafoor (2023) Effects of stoichiometry and individual layer thickness ratio on the quality of epitaxial CrBx/TiBy superlattice thin films Materials & design, Vol. 228, Article 111842 Continue to DOI Oleksandr Pshyk, Ivan Petrov, Babak Bakhit, Jun Lu, Lars Hultman, Grzegorz Greczynski (2023) Energy-efficient physical vapor deposition of dense and hard Ti-Al-W-N coatings deposited under industrial conditions Materials & design, Vol. 227, Article 111753 Continue to DOI Naureen Ghafoor, Samira Dorri, Justinas Palisaitis, Lina Rogström, Babak Bakhit, Grzegorz Greczynski, Lars Hultman, Jens Birch (2023) Phase separation paths in metastable Zr1-xAlxN monolithic layers compared to multilayers with TiN: Growth versus annealing temperatures Materialia, Vol. 28, Article 101758 Continue to DOI
Markus Hellenbrand, Babak Bakhit, Hongyi Dou, Ming Xiao, Megan O. Hill, Zhuotong Sun, Adnan Mehonic, Aiping Chen, Quanxi Jia, Haiyan Wang, Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll (2023) Thin-film design of amorphous hafnium oxide nanocomposites enabling strong interfacial resistive switching uniformity Science Advances, Vol. 9, Article eadg1946 Continue to DOI
Fuxiang Ji, Johan Klarbring, Bin Zhang, Feng Wang, Linqin Wang, Xiaohe Miao, Weihua Ning, Muyi Zhang, Xinyi Cai, Babak Bakhit, Martin Magnuson, Xiaoming Ren, Licheng Sun, Mats Fahlman, Irina A Buyanova, Weimin Chen, Sergei I Simak, Igor A. Abrikosov, Feng Gao (2023) Remarkable Thermochromism in the Double Perovskite Cs2NaFeCl6 Advanced Optical Materials, Article 2301102 Continue to DOI
Samira Dorri, Jens Birch, Fredrik Eriksson, Justinas Palisaitis, Per O A Persson, Babak Bakhit, Lars Hultman, Naureen Ghafoor (2023) Effects of stoichiometry and individual layer thickness ratio on the quality of epitaxial CrBx/TiBy superlattice thin films Materials & design, Vol. 228, Article 111842 Continue to DOI
Oleksandr Pshyk, Ivan Petrov, Babak Bakhit, Jun Lu, Lars Hultman, Grzegorz Greczynski (2023) Energy-efficient physical vapor deposition of dense and hard Ti-Al-W-N coatings deposited under industrial conditions Materials & design, Vol. 227, Article 111753 Continue to DOI
Naureen Ghafoor, Samira Dorri, Justinas Palisaitis, Lina Rogström, Babak Bakhit, Grzegorz Greczynski, Lars Hultman, Jens Birch (2023) Phase separation paths in metastable Zr1-xAlxN monolithic layers compared to multilayers with TiN: Growth versus annealing temperatures Materialia, Vol. 28, Article 101758 Continue to DOI
Fundamental Science of Thin Films unit We aim at increasing the atomistic understanding of vapor phase deposition, ion-surface interactions, and phase transitions in advanced materials.
Thin film physics contribute to space mission The European Space Agency is launching their Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE). On the spacecraft, plasma probes made at LiU will investigate the ice on moons orbiting Jupiter.
Gold Graduate Student Award to LiU Babak Bakhit has received the gold Graduate Student Award at the 47th International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF), 2021.
VR International Postdoc Grant to LiU Babak Bakhit, a former PhD at Thin Film Physics Division at IFM, has been awarded the prestigious International Postdoc Grant from Swedish Research Council (VR).
Agora Materiae Graduate School Helping degree and licentiate students in the research field of novel functional materials excel in their fields, in a truly multidisciplinary environment.
Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM) Undergraduate teaching and research in the areas of biology, chemistry, materials and applied physics and theory and modelling are conducted at this department.