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Pamburayi Mpofu

PhD student

Doctoral Student in Chemistry / Materials Science - specialization in Materials Chemistry

Pamburayi Mpofu is a Doctoral Candidate in Materials Science and a member of the Henrik Pedersen Group in the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology at Linköping University, Sweden. 

Pamburayi received his M.Sc in Chemistry in 2021 and soon after started his PhD journey. His research interests are in Inorganic Materials Chemistry with a focus on atomic layer deposition (ALD). He is currently working on understanding, on a fundamental atomic level, the surface chemistry governing the deposition of metastable ternary nitride (in particular AlTiN) thin layers of materials by time-resolved Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) and or ALD, for protective hard coating applications.

Publications

2025

Pamburayi Mpofu (2025) Divide in Time to Conquer the Surface: ALD Studies to Understand Surface Chemistry of AlxTi1-xN CVD
Pamburayi Mpofu, Pentti Niiranen, Oscar Alm, Jonas Lauridsen, Tommy Larsson, Henrik Pedersen (2025) Atomic layer deposition of AlxTi1-xN via co-evaporation of metal precursors Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. A. Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, Vol. 43, Article 032405 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
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

2024

Pamburayi Mpofu, Houyem Hafdi, Jonas Lauridsen, Oscar Alm, Tommy Larsson, Henrik Pedersen (2024) A mass spectrometrical surface chemistry study of aluminum nitride ALD from tris-dimethylamido aluminum and ammonia Materials Advances, Vol. 5, p. 9259-9269 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Pamburayi Mpofu, Houyem Hafdi, Pentti Niiranen, Jonas Lauridsen, Oscar Alm, Tommy Larsson, Henrik Pedersen (2024) Surface chemistry in atomic layer deposition of AlN thin films from Al(CH3)3 and NH3 studied by mass spectrometry Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Vol. 12, p. 12818-12824 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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