Thin Film Physics (TUNNF)

Our research concerns design of new multifunctional materials for hard and wear-resistant coatings, energy materials, magnetic materials, electronics, optics, neutron-converting materials, wide-bandgap semiconductors, and more.

Deposition of aluminum nitride by magnetron sputtering Photo credit Samiran Bairagi

Brief overview

The Thin Film Physics Division conducts application-inspired basic research on thin films to fundamentally understand the atomistic nature of materials properties and behavior and learn how to make materials perform better through new methods of synthesis and processing. Our research concerns design of new multifunctional materials for hard and wear-resistant coatings, energy materials, magnetic materials, electronics, optics, neutron-converting materials for the ESS, wide-bandgap semiconductors, and more. Results are explored in collaboration with industry and the properties of structures unique to thin films form the basis for new and improved materials and processes in applications. We work in an excellent infrastructure with access to a large number of deposition systems, and analytical instruments. Many of them are found in the department instrument booking system.

More about our research

Four researchers

Neutron optics company started by LiU-researchers

Quantum Beam Optics (QBO) aims to bring advanced multilayer neutron optics technology to the international market. Neutron optics is used in a wide variaty of research and the company is promising high performance and cost-effectiveness.

Two researchers in a lab.

A single atom layer of gold – LiU researchers create goldene

For the first time, scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick. According to the researchers from LiU this has given the gold new properties that can make it suitable for use in various applications.

Tre persons in lab coates.

Better neutron mirrors can reveal the inner secrets of matter

An improved neutron mirror has been developed by researchers at LiU by coating a silicon plate with extremely thin layers of iron and silicon mixed with boron carbide. It paves the way for better studies of materials.

Research at Thin film physics division

Doctoral education

Contact

Staff

Visiting address

Campus Valla, Building F

Mail address

Linköping University
IFM
581 83 Linköping

Publications

2025

Bartosz Wicher, Vladyslav Rogoz, Jun Lu, Krzysztof Kulikowski, Artur Lachowski, Szilard Kolozsvari, Peter Polcik, Grzegorz Greczynski (2025) The crucial influence of Al on the high-temperature oxidation resistance of Ti1-xAlxBy diboride thin films (0.36 ≤ x ≤ 0.74, 1.83 ≤ y ≤ 2.03) Applied Surface Science, Vol. 686, Article 162081 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Tomasz Suszko, Ewa Dobruchowska, Witold Gulbinski, Grzegorz Greczynski, Jerzy Morgiel, Bartosz Kawczynski, Karol Zaleski, Krzysztof Dorywalski, Stanislaw Pogorzelski (2025) NiMo-C Coatings Synthesized by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering for Application as a Catalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in an Acidic Environment ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
J. -E. Wahlund, J. E. S. Bergman, L. Ahlen, W. Puccio, B. Cecconi, Y. Kasaba, I. Mueller-Wodarg, H. Rothkaehl, M. Morawski, O. Santolik, J. Soucek, J. Grygorczuk, L. Wisniewski, P. Henri, J. L. Rauch, O. Le Duff, A. Retino, M. Mansour, S. Stverak, J. Laifr, D. Andrews, M. Andre, I. Benko, M. Berglund, V. Cripps, C. Cully, J. Davidsson, A. Dimmock, N. J. T. Edberg, A. I. Eriksson, J. Fredriksson, R. Gill, S. Gomis, B. Holback, S. -E. Jansson, F. Johansson, E. P. G. Johansson, Y. Khotyaintsev, B. Martensson, M. W. Morooka, T. Nilsson, D. Ohlsson, D. Pelikan, L. Richard, F. Shiwa, E. Vigren, H. C. Wong, X. Bonnin, J. N. Girard, L. Grosset, F. Henry, L. Lamy, J. -P. Lebreton, P. Zarka, Y. Katoh, H. Kita, A. Kumamoto, H. Misawa, F. Tsuchiya, M. Galand, T. Barcinski, J. Baran, T. Kowalski, P. Szewczyk, B. Grison, J. Jansky, I. Kolmasova, R. Lan, D. Pisa, U. Taubenschuss, L. Uhlir, K. Bochra, M. Borys, M. Duda, T. Kucinski, M. Ossowski, P. Palma, M. Tokarz, F. Colin, P. Dazzi, E. De Leon, T. Hachemi, A. -L. Millet, O. Randrianboarisson, O. Sene, T. Chust, O. Le Contel, P. Canu, L. Hadid, F. Sahraoui, Y. Zouganelis, D. Alison, N. Ba, A. Jeandet, M. Lebassard, J. -D. Techer, F. Mehrez, L. Varizat, A. V. Sumant, G. Sou, P. Hellinger, P. Travnicek, L. Bylander, G. Giono, N. Ivchenko, A. Kullen, L. Roth, A. Vaivads, K. Tanimoto, H. Mizuno, A. Sawamura, T. Suzuki, M. Namiki, S. Fujishima, K. Asai, T. Shimoyama, M. Fujii, Y. Sato, Jens Birch, Babak Bakhit, Grzegorz Greczynski, P. Gare, S. Landstrom, R. LeLetty, E. Ryszawa, I. Torralba, J. L. Trescastro, S. Osipenco, U. Wiklund, A. Roos, J. C. Soderstrom, O. Bjorneholm, G. Fischer, T. Nyberg, K. K. Kovi, M. Balikhin, K. H. Yearby, M. Holmberg, C. M. Jackman, C. K. Louis, A. Rhouni, V. Leray, N. Geyskens, C. Berthod, B. Lemaire, A. Clemencon, G. Wattieaux, N. Andre, P. Garnier, V. Genot, P. Louarn, A. Marchaudon, R. Modolo, C. -A. Baskevitch, L. G. Hess, L. Leclercq, J. Saur, T. Kimura, H. Kojima, S. Yagitani, Y. Miyoshi (2025) The Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation (RPWI) for the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) Space Science Reviews, Vol. 221, Article 1 (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
E. B. Thorsteinsson, Martin Dahlqvist, Anna Elsukova, Andrejs Petruhins, Per O A Persson, Johanna Rosén, A. S. Ingason, F. Magnus (2025) Growth and magnetic properties of epitaxial thin films of the i-MAX phase (Mn2/3Sc1/3)2GaC Vacuum, Vol. 233, Article 113856 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Sanath Kumar Honnali, Robert Boyd, Roger Magnusson, Arnaud Le Febvrier, Daniel Lundin, Grzegorz Greczynski, Per Eklund (2025) Epitaxial growth of TiZrNbTaN films without external heating by high-power impulse magnetron sputtering Surface & Coatings Technology, Vol. 495, Article 131583 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2024

V. Karpus, S. Tumenas, R. Juskenas, Jens Birch, Fredrik Eriksson (2024) Paviršiaus centruotų ikosaedrinių ZnMgY kvazikristalų atvirkštinės erdvės pjūviai [Reciprocal Space Mapping of Znmgy Face-Centred Icosahedral Quasicrystals] Lithuanian Journal of Physics, Vol. 64 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Arun Haridas Choolakkal, Pentti Niiranen, Samira Dorri, Jens Birch, Henrik Pedersen (2024) Competitive co-diffusion as a route to enhanced step coverage in chemical vapor deposition Nature Communications, Vol. 15 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Grzegorz Greczynski, Jun Lu, Vladyslav Rogoz, Lars Hultman (2024) Eliminating surface charging in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of insulators for reliable bonding assignments Applied Surface Science Advances, Vol. 24, Article 100659 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Grzegorz Greczynski, Lars Hultman (2024) Binding energy referencing in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy NATURE REVIEWS MATERIALS (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Faezeh A.F. Lahiji, Biplab Paul, Arnaud Le Febvrier, Per Eklund (2024) Conventional epitaxy of NiO thin films on muscovite mica and c-Al2O3 substrates Thin Solid Films, Vol. 808, Article 140566 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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