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Jens Birch

Professor, Head of Division, 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

2024

Sjoerd Stendahl, Naureen Ghafoor, Matthias Schwartzkopf, Anton Zubayer, Jens Birch, Fredrik Eriksson (2024) Morphology of Buried Interfaces in Ion-Assisted Magnetron Sputter-Deposited 11B4C-Containing Ni/Ti Multilayer Neutron Optics Investigated by Grazing-Incidence Small-Angle Scattering ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 16, p. 22665-22675 Continue to DOI
Sanjay Kumar Nayak, Tun-Wei Hsu, Robert Boyd, Jens Gibmeier, Norbert Schell, Jens Birch, Lina Rogström, Magnus Odén (2024) Dynamic evolution of internal stress, grain growth, and crystallographic texture in arc-evaporated AlTiN thin films using in-situ synchrotron x-ray diffraction Acta Materialia, Vol. 272, Article 119899 Continue to DOI
Manoel Alves Machado Filho, William Farmer, Ching-Lien Hsiao, Renato Batista dos Santos, Lars Hultman, Jens Birch, Kumar Ankit, Gueorgui Kostov Gueorguiev (2024) Density Functional Theory-Fed Phase Field Model for Semiconductor Nanostructures: The Case of Self-Induced Core-Shell InAlN Nanorods Crystal Growth & Design Continue to DOI
Anton Zubayer, Naureen Ghafoor, Kristbjoerg Anna Thorarinsdottir, Sjoerd Stendahl, Artur Glavic, Jochen Stahn, Gyula Nagy, Grzegorz Greczynski, Matthias Schwartzkopf, Arnaud Le Febvrier, Per Eklund, Jens Birch, Fridrik Magnus, Fredrik Eriksson (2024) Reflective, polarizing, and magnetically soft amorphous neutron optics with 11B-enriched B4C Science Advances, Vol. 10, Article eadl0402 Continue to DOI
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 Continue to DOI

Research

LiU logo consisting of GaN nanorods selected grown onto the patterned area on a Si substrate by magnetron sputter epitaxy

Nano-materials Science unit

Conducting focused research aimed at understanding and controlling atomistic processes during synthesis of nanostructures and thin films.

News

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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.
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Linköping University develops neutron optics for surface physics instruments

The Swedish Research Council has granted funding for two projects as feasibility studies for future instruments at ESS, the world's most powerful research facility for neutron radiation. Researchers at LiU will develop neutron optics.
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Researcher from LiU receives SEK 9.4 million for neutron research

The Swedish Research Council has awarded Jens Birch, professor of materials science, 9.4 million SEK for research into neutron technology.

Organisation

LiU logo consisting of GaN nanorods selected grown onto the patterned area on a Si substrate by magnetron sputter epitaxy

Nano-materials Science unit

Conducting focused research aimed at understanding and controlling atomistic processes during synthesis of nanostructures and thin films.

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