Vanya Darakchieva

Professor, Head of Unit

Publications

2026

Daniela Gogova-Petrova, Dat Tran, Vallery Stanishev, Danial Shafizadeh, Ching-Lien Hsiao, Minho Kim, B. Pecz, A. Kovacs, K. Frey, A. Sulyok, Niraj Kumar Singh, Arnaud Le Febvrier, Per Eklund, Vanya Darakchieva (2026)

Epitaxial MgSnN2 on 4H-SiC (0001): An Earth-Abundant Nitride for Green Optoelectronics and Photovoltaics Advanced Optical Materials (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adom.71758

Weiwei Liu, Chaoyang Kuang, Vallery Stanishev, Vanya Darakchieva, Shangzhi Chen, Magnus Jonsson (2026)

Tunable Quasi-Resonances in Polypyrrole Nanodisks Advanced Optical Materials, Vol. 14 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adom.71556

Mohammad Akram, Alireza Farhadizadeh, Minho Kim, Robert Boyd, K. M. Calamba Kwick, Lina Rogström, L. J. S. Johnson, Vanya Darakchieva, Magnus Odén (2026)

Mechanical and electrical behaviour of reactive magnetron sputtered low-Al content epitaxial single-crystalline Ti1-xAlxNy thin films Materials & design, Vol. 269, Article 116760 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2026.116760

Quanzheng Tao, Andrejs Petruhins, Rui Shu, Alexis Papamichail, Iurii Kibalin, Bachir Ouladdiaf, Fabio Orlandi, Dmitry Khalyavin, Pascal Manuel, Vanya Darakchieva, Johanna Rosén, Andrew T. Boothroyd (2026)

Structural and magnetic properties of epitaxial Mn3Ga thin films Physical Review Materials, Vol. 10, Article 074404 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/vkgw-nfbs

Yu-Hsuan Hsu, Roger Magnusson, Rohini Sanikop, Shailesh Kalal, Justinas Palisaitis, Sagar Jathar, Katrin Pingen, Per Sandström, Issa Nseir, Arnaud le Febvrier, Urban Forsberg, Ray-Hua Horng, Kenneth Järrendahl, Per Eklund, Vanya Darakchieva, Jens Birch, Ching-Lien Hsiao (2026)

Growth and optical properties of polar-, nonpolar, and semi-polar wurtzite ScGaN films Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 129, Article 031902 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0325421

Research

Semiconductor Device Materials

Our research focuses on the development of novel semiconductor materials for high-frequency and power electronics.

News

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Research for a sustainable future in ten new projects

Photosynthetic materials, two-dimensional noble metals and sustainable semiconductors are some of the projects at LiU that have been granted funding from the research programme Wallenberg initiative materials science for sustainability – WISE.

Organisation

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Semiconductor Materials (HALV)

Our division develops and investigates materials for novel electronics with the main focus on silicon carbide, III-nitrides and graphene.

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Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM)

Excellent undergraduate teaching and research in the areas of biology, chemistry, materials and applied physics and theory and modelling are conducted at this department.