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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

2023

Sanjay Kumar Nayak, Sathish Kumar Shanmugham, Ivan Petrov, Johanna Rosén, Per Eklund, Jens Birch, Arnaud Le Febvrier (2023) Growth and stability of epitaxial zirconium diboride thin films on silicon (111) substrate Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 134, Article 135303 Continue to DOI
Johan Nyman, Muhammad Junaid, Niklas Sarius, Jens Birch, Sören Kahl, Hans Högberg (2023) Substrate bias effects on cathodic arc deposited Cr coatings Results in Materials, Vol. 19, Article 100450 Continue to DOI
Manoel Alves Machado Filho, Ching-Lien Hsiao, Renato Batista dos Santos, Lars Hultman, Jens Birch, Gueorgui Kostov Gueorguiev (2023) Self-Induced Core-Shell InAlN Nanorods: Formation and Stability Unraveled by Ab Initio Simulations ACS Nanoscience Au, Vol. 3, p. 84-93 Continue to DOI
Jui-Che Chang, Eric Nestor Tseng, Yi-Ling Lo, Sanjay Kumar Nayak, Daniel Lundin, Per O. Å. Persson, Ray-Hua Horng, Lars Hultman, Jens Birch, Ching-Lien Hsiao (2023) HiPIMS-grown AlN buffer for threading dislocation reduction in DC-magnetron sputtered GaN epifilm on sapphire substrate Vacuum, Vol. 217, Article 112553 Continue to DOI
Samiran Bairagi, Jui-Che Chang, Fu-Gow Tarntair, Wan-Yu Wu, Gueorgui Kostov Gueorguiev, Edward Ferraz de Almeida, Roger Magnusson, Kun-Lin Lin, Shao-Hui Hsu, Jia-Min Shieh, Jens Birch, Ray-Hua Horng, Kenneth Järrendahl, Ching-Lien Hsiao (2023) Formation of quaternary Zn(AlxGa1−x)2O4 epilayers driven by thermally induced interdiffusion between spinel ZnGa2O4 epilayer and Al2O3 substrate Materials Today Advances, Vol. 20, Article 100422 Continue to DOI

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