Welcome to the Plasma & Coatings Physics Division

The Plasma & Coatings Physics group is a division at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, Sweden. Our overall goal is to contribute towards addressing challenges of contemporary materials science and technology through the synthesis of novel films and nanomaterials.To realize this goal, we employ innovative processes which allow for the generation of plasmas with unique properties as well as control of the material synthesis at the atomic level. Through a combination of advanced experimental and theoretical tools we seek to understand the process-plasma-material interactions and gain insight into the knowledge-based synthesis of functional films and nanomaterials.

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News

• January 2012:The article High power pulsed magnetron sputtering: A review on scientific and engineering state of the art by Kostas Sarakinos et al. is number 8 on the list of the most cited articles during the last 5 years in Surface and Coatings Technology.
  
  
• January 2012: Daniel Lundin article Internal current measurements in high power impulse magnetron sputtering, is number 6 on the most read articles in "Plasma Sources Science and Technology" this month.
  
• November 2011: Both Kostas and Ulf secured grants from the Swedish Science Council. See grant 86743 and 85711.
  
• May 2011: Daniel Lundin has been awarded a postdoc research fellowship by the The Swedish Research Council.
  
• March 2011: Daniel Söderström has been selected to be one of three young scientists that “LiU Fund of U” will support this year towards securing research funding from LiU alumni.
  
• March 2011: Kostas Sarakinos has been awarded a “LiU postdoc research fellowship" in very strong competition. More information will be available in due time on LiU future research leaders.
  
• January 2011: One of our papers are second on the list of highly cited papers the last five years in Thin Solid Films: Ionized physical vapor deposition (IPVD): A review of technology and applications, U. Helmersson, M. Lattemann, J. Bohlmark, A.P. Ehiasarian, J.T. Gudmundsson, Thin Solid Films 513, 1, (2006)
  
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