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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

2022

Rouzbeh Samii, Anton Fransson, Pamburayi Mpofu, Pentti Niiranen, Lars Ojamäe, Vadim Kessler, Nathan O´brien (2022) Synthesis, Structure, and Thermal Properties of Volatile Group 11 Triazenides as Potential Precursors for Vapor Deposition Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 61, p. 20804-20813 Continue to DOI
Pamburayi Mpofu, Polla Rouf, Nathan O´brien, Urban Forsberg, Henrik Pedersen (2022) Thermal atomic layer deposition of In2O3 thin films using a homoleptic indium triazenide precursor and water Dalton Transactions, Vol. 51, p. 4712-4719 Continue to DOI