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Grzegorz Greczynski

Professor, Head of Unit

Head of the Fundamental Science of Thin Films unit at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, LiU. Expert in high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) and X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)

Presentation

My research interests are presently focused on low-energy ion/surface interactions (including both gas and metal ions) for nanostructure control during low-temperature growth of transition-metal-based nitride, boride, and carbide thin films by physical vapor deposition. In addition, I'm active in the field of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), with the aim to develop nondestructive analysis methods and to increase reliability of the technique.

I received my MSc degree in Materials Physics in 1997 from University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland as well as from Linköping University, Sweden.

In 2001 I obtained PhD in Materials Physics for the thesis “Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Conjugated Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces for Organic-based Light Emitting Devices” under supervision of Prof. William R. Salaneck and the opponent was Prof. Hans Siegbahn.

Between 2001 and 2008 I worked in industry, first for Thin Film Electronics AB and later for Chemfilt Ionsputtering AB. The latter company pioneered the novel magnetron sputtering technique - high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS or HPPMS) which has become very popular in the recent years.

In 2009, I rejoined academia as an Assistant Professor of Thin Film Physics working with Professor Lars Hultman. My close collaborators are Professors Joe Greene and Ivan Petrov from University of Illinois (USA) and Professor Jochen Schneider from Aachen University (Germany).

In 2018 I was nominated Fellow of the American Vacuum Society for "seminal contributions to nondestructive XPS surface analysis, and the development of novel next-generation HiPIMS metal-ion deposition techniques".

Publications

2025

Bartosz Wicher, Vladyslav Rogoz, Jun Lu, Krzysztof Kulikowski, Artur Lachowski, Szilard Kolozsvari, Peter Polcik, Grzegorz Greczynski (2025) The crucial influence of Al on the high-temperature oxidation resistance of Ti1-xAlxBy diboride thin films (0.36 ≤ x ≤ 0.74, 1.83 ≤ y ≤ 2.03) Applied Surface Science, Vol. 686, Article 162081 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Tomasz Suszko, Ewa Dobruchowska, Witold Gulbinski, Grzegorz Greczynski, Jerzy Morgiel, Bartosz Kawczynski, Karol Zaleski, Krzysztof Dorywalski, Stanislaw Pogorzelski (2025) NiMo-C Coatings Synthesized by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering for Application as a Catalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in an Acidic Environment ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
J. -E. Wahlund, J. E. S. Bergman, L. Ahlen, W. Puccio, B. Cecconi, Y. Kasaba, I. Mueller-Wodarg, H. Rothkaehl, M. Morawski, O. Santolik, J. Soucek, J. Grygorczuk, L. Wisniewski, P. Henri, J. L. Rauch, O. Le Duff, A. Retino, M. Mansour, S. Stverak, J. Laifr, D. Andrews, M. Andre, I. Benko, M. Berglund, V. Cripps, C. Cully, J. Davidsson, A. Dimmock, N. J. T. Edberg, A. I. Eriksson, J. Fredriksson, R. Gill, S. Gomis, B. Holback, S. -E. Jansson, F. Johansson, E. P. G. Johansson, Y. Khotyaintsev, B. Martensson, M. W. Morooka, T. Nilsson, D. Ohlsson, D. Pelikan, L. Richard, F. Shiwa, E. Vigren, H. C. Wong, X. Bonnin, J. N. Girard, L. Grosset, F. Henry, L. Lamy, J. -P. Lebreton, P. Zarka, Y. Katoh, H. Kita, A. Kumamoto, H. Misawa, F. Tsuchiya, M. Galand, T. Barcinski, J. Baran, T. Kowalski, P. Szewczyk, B. Grison, J. Jansky, I. Kolmasova, R. Lan, D. Pisa, U. Taubenschuss, L. Uhlir, K. Bochra, M. Borys, M. Duda, T. Kucinski, M. Ossowski, P. Palma, M. Tokarz, F. Colin, P. Dazzi, E. De Leon, T. Hachemi, A. -L. Millet, O. Randrianboarisson, O. Sene, T. Chust, O. Le Contel, P. Canu, L. Hadid, F. Sahraoui, Y. Zouganelis, D. Alison, N. Ba, A. Jeandet, M. Lebassard, J. -D. Techer, F. Mehrez, L. Varizat, A. V. Sumant, G. Sou, P. Hellinger, P. Travnicek, L. Bylander, G. Giono, N. Ivchenko, A. Kullen, L. Roth, A. Vaivads, K. Tanimoto, H. Mizuno, A. Sawamura, T. Suzuki, M. Namiki, S. Fujishima, K. Asai, T. Shimoyama, M. Fujii, Y. Sato, Jens Birch, Babak Bakhit, Grzegorz Greczynski, P. Gare, S. Landstrom, R. LeLetty, E. Ryszawa, I. Torralba, J. L. Trescastro, S. Osipenco, U. Wiklund, A. Roos, J. C. Soderstrom, O. Bjorneholm, G. Fischer, T. Nyberg, K. K. Kovi, M. Balikhin, K. H. Yearby, M. Holmberg, C. M. Jackman, C. K. Louis, A. Rhouni, V. Leray, N. Geyskens, C. Berthod, B. Lemaire, A. Clemencon, G. Wattieaux, N. Andre, P. Garnier, V. Genot, P. Louarn, A. Marchaudon, R. Modolo, C. -A. Baskevitch, L. G. Hess, L. Leclercq, J. Saur, T. Kimura, H. Kojima, S. Yagitani, Y. Miyoshi (2025) The Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation (RPWI) for the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) Space Science Reviews, Vol. 221, Article 1 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Sanath Kumar Honnali, Robert Boyd, Roger Magnusson, Arnaud Le Febvrier, Daniel Lundin, Grzegorz Greczynski, Per Eklund (2025) Epitaxial growth of TiZrNbTaN films without external heating by high-power impulse magnetron sputtering Surface & Coatings Technology, Vol. 495, Article 131583 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

Grzegorz Greczynski, Jun Lu, Vladyslav Rogoz, Lars Hultman (2024) Eliminating surface charging in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of insulators for reliable bonding assignments Applied Surface Science Advances, Vol. 24, Article 100659 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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