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MS2E - strategic research centre for materials science for nanoscale engineering

The MS2E strategic centre was formed in 2006 to provide the strongest research platform and framework for cooperation between organisations in the area of advanced surface engineering, with a focus on nanotechnology for tools, components, contacts and sensors.

During the project, we worked to expand core R&D capabilitites by enlarging and protecting the IPR base of Swedish companies in key industrial sectors. We aimed to offer knowledge based design of functional materials on the nanoscale to provide unique and improved surface properties with industrial opportunities, as well to train future generations of engineers, researchers and industrialists.

MS2E board members were:

  • Dr Ingrid Reineck (chairman)
  • Dr Peter Isberg (vice chairman)
  • Prof Sven Lidin
  • Prof Jan-Åke Schweitz
  • Prof Helen Dannetun
  • Dr Lars Bråthe
  • Prof Lars Hultman (centre leader)
  • Prof Karin Larsson (vice centre leader)
  • Dr Johanna Rosén (secretary)

SSF representative was:

  • Joakim Amorin

The project was closed in 2012.

Publications

Following articles were produced as a result of MS2E.

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Martin Magnuson, Maurizio Mattesini, Carina Höglund, Jens Birch, Lars Hultman (2010)
Electronic structure of GaN and Ga investigated by soft x-ray spectroscopy and first-principles methods

Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics , Vol.81 , s.085125- Continue to DOI

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Martin Magnuson, Erik Lewin, Lars Hultman, Ulf Jansson (2009)
Electronic structure and chemical bonding of nanocrystalline-TiC/amorphous-C nanocomposites

Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics , Vol.80 Continue to DOI

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Martin Magnuson, M. Mattesini, Carina Höglund, Jens Birch, Lars Hultman (2009)
Electronic structure and chemical bonding anisotropy investigation of wurtzite AlN

Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics , Vol.80 , s.155105- Continue to DOI

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Martin Magnuson, Maurizio Mattesini, Carina Höglund, Igor Abrikosov, Jens Birch, Lars Hultman (2008)
Electronic structure investigation of the cubic inverse perovskite Sc3AlN

Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics , Vol.78 , s.235102- Continue to DOI

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Martin Magnuson, Ola Wilhelmsson, Maurizio Mattesini, Sa Li, Rajeev Ahuja, Olle Eriksson, Hans Högberg, Lars Hultman, Ulf Jansson (2008)
Anisotropy in the electronic structure of V2GeC investigated by soft x-ray emission spectroscopy and first-principles theory

Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics , Vol.78 Continue to DOI

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Martin Magnuson, M. Mattesini, S. Li, Carina Höglund, Lars Hultman, O. Eriksson (2007)
Bonding mechanism in the nitrides Ti2AlN and TiN: An experimental and theoretical investigation

Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics , Vol.76 Continue to DOI

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E. Holmstrom, W. Olovsson, Igor Abrikosov, A.M.N. Niklasson, B. Johansson, M. Gorgoi, O. Karis, S. Svensson, F. Schafers, W. Braun, G. Ohrwall, G. Andersson, M. Marcellini, W. Eberhardt (2006)
Sample preserving deep interface characterization technique

Physical Review Letters , Vol.97 Continue to DOI

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Martin Magnuson, M. Mattesini, Ola Wilhelmsson, Jens Emmerlich, Jens-Petter Palmquist, Sa Li, Rajeev Ahuja, Lars Hultman, Olle Eriksson, Ulf Jansson (2006)
Electronic structure and chemical bonding in Ti4SiC3 investigated by soft x-ray emission spectroscopy and first-principles theory

Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics , Vol.74 Continue to DOI

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E. Broitman, V. V. Pushkarev, A. J. Gellman, Jörg Neidhardt, Andrej Furlan, Lars Hultman (2006)
Water adsorption on lubricated fullerene-like CNx films

Thin Solid Films , Vol.515 , s.979-983 Continue to DOI

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Per Eklund, Chariya Virojanadara, Jens Emmerlich, Leif Johansson, Hans Högberg, Lars Hultman (2006)
Photoemission studies of Ti3SiC2 and nanocrystalline-TiC/amorphous-SiC nanocomposite thin films

Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics , Vol.74 , s.045417- Continue to DOI

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Gueorgui Kostov Gueorguiev, Andrej Furlan, Hans Högberg, Sven Stafström, Lars Hultman (2006)
First-principles calculations on the structural evolution of solid fullerene-like CPx

Chemical Physics Letters , Vol.426 , s.374-379 Continue to DOI

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Jens Birch, Torbjörn Joelsson, Fredrik Eriksson, Naureen Ghafoor, Lars Hultman (2006)
Single crystal CrN/ScN superlattice soft X-ray mirrors: epitaxial growth, structure, and properties

Thin Solid Films , Vol.514 , s.10-19 Continue to DOI

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O. Wilhelmsson, J.-P. Palmquist, E. Lewin, Jens Emmerlich, Per Eklund, Per Persson, Hans Högberg, S. Li, R. Ahuja, O. Eriksson, Lars Hultman, U. Jansson (2006)
Deposition and characterization of ternary thin films within the Ti-Al-C system by DC magnetron sputtering

Journal of Crystal Growth , Vol.291 , s.290-300 Continue to DOI

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Herbert Willmann, P. H. Mayrhofer, Per Persson, A. E. Reiter, Lars Hultman, C. Mitterer (2006)
Thermal stability of Al-Cr-N hard coatings

Scripta Materialia , Vol.54 , s.1847-1851 Continue to DOI

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P.H. Mayrhofer, C. Mitterer, Lars Hultman, H. Clemens (2006)
Microstructural design of hard coatings

Progress in Materials Science , Vol.51 , s.1032-1114 Continue to DOI

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Henry Riascos, Jörg Neidhardt, G. Z. Radnoczi, Jens Emmerlich, G. Zambrano, Lars Hultman, P. Prieto (2006)
Structure and properties of pulsed-laser deposited carbon nitride thin films

Thin Solid Films , Vol.497 , s.1-6 Continue to DOI