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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

Jui-Che Chang, Justinas Palisaitis, Shailesh Kalal, Gueorgui Kostov Gueorguiev, Axel Persson, Eric Nestor Tseng, Grzegorz Greczynski, Per O A Persson, Jianwu Sun, Yu-Kuei Hsu, Lars Hultman, Jens Birch, Ching-Lien Hsiao (2025) The Role of a Ta2O5 Seed Layer on Phase Evolution and Epitaxial Growth of Ta3N5 Thin Films on Al2O3(0001) ACS Applied Energy Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anton Zubayer, Naureen Ghafoor, A. Glavic, J. Stahn, Marcus Lorentzon, Arnaud Le Febvrier, Per Eklund, Jens Birch, Fredrik Eriksson (2025) Expanding polarization bandwidth in neutron optics by eliminating the non-polarized low scattering vector region Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 1077, Article 170576 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anton Zubayer, Naureen Ghafoor, A. Devishvili, A. Vorobiev, A. Glavic, J. Stahn, T. Hanashima, J. Sugiyama, V. A. de Oliveira Lima, Jens Birch, Fredrik Eriksson (2025) Diminished spin-flip reflectivity in stacked multilayers with varying period thicknesses of Fe/Si by incorporating 11B4C Materials Today Advances, Vol. 26, Article 100578 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Marcus Lorentzon, Davide Sangiovanni, Naoki Takata, Tianqi Zhu, Rainer Hahn, Justinas Palisaitis, Lars Hultman, Jens Birch, Naureen Ghafoor (2025) Metal-like ductility and high hardness in nitrogen-rich HfN thin films by point defect superstructuring Communications Materials, Vol. 6, Article 46 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Anton Zubayer, Fredrik Eriksson, Martin Falk, Marcus Lorentzon, Justinas Palisaitis, Christine Klauser, Gyula Nagy, Philipp M. Wolf, Eduardo Pitthan, Radek Holenak, Daniel Primetzhofer, Gavin B. G. Stenning, Artur Glavic, Jochen Stahn, Samira Dorri, Per Eklund, Jens Birch, Naureen Ghafoor (2025) The Role of 11B4C Interlayers in Enhancing Fe/Si Multilayer Performance for Polarized Neutron Mirrors The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 129, p. 7921-7930 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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