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Jens Birch

Professor, Head of Unit

My research focuses at understanding the physics and materials science behind creation of new artificial 0D, 1D, and 2D nanostructures as well as multilayers in the size-range 0.2-50 nm, typically with new unique physical properties.

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Jens Birch is a professor in Materials Science and obtained his PhD at Linköping University in 1994.

My research focuses at understanding the physics and materials science behind creation of new artificial 0D, 1D, and 2D nanostructures as well as multilayers in the size-range 0.2-50 nm, typically with new unique physical properties. The materials range from amorphous metals and oxides to single crystal Group-III Nitride semiconductors, providing multifunctional properties to X-ray and neutron optics, neutron detectors, opto-electronics, and hard protective coatings for cutting tools and space applications.

My expert field is advanced PVD synthesis and materials characterization. I am taking an active role in Swedish development of scattering techniques for in situ thin film characterization at the major European large scale materials research infrastructures; the Swedish High-Energy Materials Science beamline SMS (P21) at the PETRA III synchrotron in Hamburg, the Swedish neutron reflectometer Super ADAM at ILL, Grenoble, and the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund.

I am leading the Thin Film Physics division at LiU. which is comprised of 7 units, summing up to about 75 researchers, PhD students, technical and administrative personel.

Publications

2025

Arun Haridas Choolakkal, Pamburayi Mpofu, Pentti Niiranen, Jens Birch, Henrik Pedersen (2025) Using a Heavy Inert Diffusion Additive for Superconformal Atomic Layer Deposition The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 16, p. 2369-2372 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Arun Haridas Choolakkal, Ingemar Persson, Jarkko Etula, Emma Salmi, Taneli Juntunen, Per O A Persson, Jens Birch, Henrik Pedersen (2025) Conformal chemical vapor deposition of B4C thin films onto carbon nanotubes Nanoscale (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Samira Dorri, Olle Nyqvist, Justinas Palisaitis, Alexei Vorobiev, Anton Devishvili, Pär Sandström, Per O.Å. Persson, Naureen Ghafoor, Fredrik Eriksson, Jens Birch (2025) Artificial superlattices with abrupt interfaces by monolayer-controlled growth kinetics during magnetron sputter epitaxy, case of hexagonal CrB2/TiB2 heterostructures Materials & design, Vol. 251, Article 113661 (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

2024

V. Karpus, S. Tumenas, R. Juskenas, Jens Birch, Fredrik Eriksson (2024) Paviršiaus centruotų ikosaedrinių ZnMgY kvazikristalų atvirkštinės erdvės pjūviai [Reciprocal Space Mapping of Znmgy Face-Centred Icosahedral Quasicrystals] Lithuanian Journal of Physics, Vol. 64 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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