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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.

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2025

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
Arun Haridas Choolakkal, Pentti Niiranen, Samira Dorri, Jens Birch, Henrik Pedersen (2024) Competitive co-diffusion as a route to enhanced step coverage in chemical vapor deposition Nature Communications, Vol. 15 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Samira Dorri, Justinas Palisaitis, Szilárd Kolozsvári, Peter Polcik, Per Persson, Naureen Ghafoor, Fredrik Eriksson, Jens Birch (2024) TiB1.8 single layers and epitaxial TiB2-based superlattices by magnetron sputtering using a TiB (Ti:B = 1:1) target Surface & Coatings Technology, Vol. 494, Article 131534 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Satoru Yoshioka, Kazuhiro Yasuda, Ching-Lien Hsiao, Chih-Wei Hsu, Weine Olovsson, Jens Birch, Carl Hemmingsson, Galia Pozina (2024) Local Structure of Zn Dopant in ß-Phase Ga2O3 The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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