Igor Zhirkov

Publications

2025

Igor Zhirkov, Ali Saffar Shamshirgar, Niklas Hellgren, Quanzheng Tao, Andrejs Petruhins, Peter Polcik, Szilard Kolozsvari, Philipp Immich, Johanna Rosén (2025) DC arc plasma generation and thin film deposition from an industrial scale TiB2 cathode Surface & Coatings Technology, Vol. 516, Article 132804 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2025.132804

2024

Igor Zhirkov, Andrejs Petruhins, Peter Polcik, Szilard Kolozsvari, Philipp Immich, Johanna Rosén (2024) Stable DC vacuum arc plasma generation from a 100 mm TiB2 cathode Surface & Coatings Technology, Vol. 484, Article 130824 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2024.130824

Yi-Ling Lo, Aditya Prabaswara, Jui-Che Chang, Samiran Bairagi, Igor Zhirkov, Per Sandström, Johanna Rosén, Kenneth Järrendahl, Lars Hultman, Jens Birch, Ching-Lien Hsiao (2024) Determination of effective Ga/N ratio to control GaN growth behavior in liquid-target reactive magnetron sputter epitaxy Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, Vol. 176, Article 108292 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mssp.2024.108292

Niklas Hellgren, Igor Zhirkov, Mauricio A. Sortica, Andrejs Petruhins, Grzegorz Greczynski, Lars Hultman, Johanna Rosén (2024) High-power impulse magnetron sputter deposition of TiB_x thin films: Effects of pulse length and peak current density Vacuum, Vol. 222, Article 113070 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2024.113070

2023

Igor Zhirkov, Peter Polcik, Andrejs Petruhins, Szilard Kolozsvari, Johanna Rosén (2023) A comparison of plasma generation, plasma transport, and film formation for a DC vacuum arc source with Ti-X compound cathodes (X = W, C, Al, and Si) Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 133, Article 233301 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0154489