Tuan Thien Tran
Researcher at Department of Physics and Astronomy; Materials Physics
- E-mail:
- tuan.tran@physics.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmlaboratoriet, Regementsvägen 10
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 524
751 20 UPPSALA
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-1393-1723
Short presentation
My research interests are:
- Modification and analysis of materials using energetic ion beams, particularly porous materials and 2D materials.
- Ion beam-material interactions at micro and nanoscale.
- Growth of epitaxial ultrathin films using molecular beam epitaxy.
- Characterization of materials using transmission electron microscopy.
Keywords
- transmission electron microscopy
- ion beam modification of materials
- ion beam analysis of materials
- ion beam-matter interactions at nanoscale
- growth of epitaxial ultrathin films
Biography
PhD, Electronic Materials Engineering, Australian National University, Australia.
M. Eng, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
B. Eng, Material Engineering, University of Technology, Vietnam National University (HCM City), Vietnam.
Research
- In-situ growth and characterization of ultra-thin metal silicides and transition metal oxides nitrides using molecular beam epitaxy and ion beam techniques.
- Deterministic patterning of 2D materials with ion beams.
- Ion beam-material interactions.

Publications
Recent publications
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Part of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, p. 28009-28019, 2026
- DOI for Tuning TiO2 memristors by defect engineering: From short-term memory to recoverable long-term resistance states
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Part of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, p. 28009-28019, 2026
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Structural and mechanical signatures of maximally amorphous transition metal alloys
Part of Physical Review Materials, 2026
- DOI for Structural and mechanical signatures of maximally amorphous transition metal alloys
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Part of Applied Surface Science, 2026
- DOI for Probing formation and epitaxy of ultrathin titanium silicide using low and medium energy ion scattering
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Kinetics of the photochromic effect in oxygen-containing yttrium hydrides
Part of AIP Advances, 2026
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Articles in journal
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Part of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, p. 28009-28019, 2026
- DOI for Tuning TiO2 memristors by defect engineering: From short-term memory to recoverable long-term resistance states
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Part of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, p. 28009-28019, 2026
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Structural and mechanical signatures of maximally amorphous transition metal alloys
Part of Physical Review Materials, 2026
- DOI for Structural and mechanical signatures of maximally amorphous transition metal alloys
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Part of Applied Surface Science, 2026
- DOI for Probing formation and epitaxy of ultrathin titanium silicide using low and medium energy ion scattering
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Kinetics of the photochromic effect in oxygen-containing yttrium hydrides
Part of AIP Advances, 2026
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Ti-induced surface stabilization for Enhanced capacity of Aqueous-Processed Ni-Rich Cathodes
Part of EES Batteries, p. 620-632, 2025
- DOI for Ti-induced surface stabilization for Enhanced capacity of Aqueous-Processed Ni-Rich Cathodes
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Mobility of Single Vacancies and Adatoms in Graphene at Room Temperature
Part of Small, 2025
- DOI for Mobility of Single Vacancies and Adatoms in Graphene at Room Temperature
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Part of Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2025
- DOI for Deuterium retention in sputter-deposited W-B layers: in-situ implantation and ion beam analysis during annealing
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Part of Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2025
- DOI for The influence of geometry and specific electronic and nuclear energy deposition on ion-stimulated desorption from thin self-supporting membranes
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Ion Track Formation and Nanopore Etching in Polyimide: Possibilities in the MeV Ion Energy Regime
Part of Macromolecular materials and engineering, 2024
- DOI for Ion Track Formation and Nanopore Etching in Polyimide: Possibilities in the MeV Ion Energy Regime
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Magnetic metamaterials by ion-implantation
Part of Applied Physics Letters, 2024
- DOI for Magnetic metamaterials by ion-implantation
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Part of Physica Status Solidi. Rapid Research Letters, 2024
- DOI for Position‐Selective Introduction of Ferromagnetism on the Micro‐ and Nanoscale in a Paramagnetic Thin Palladium Film
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Part of Surface & Coatings Technology, 2024
- DOI for Ion-beam assisted synthesis and thermal oxidation of TiN thin films combined with in-situ, depth-resolved characterization using MeV ions
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Part of Applied Surface Science, 2024
- DOI for Enabling tailored nanoporous germanium by quantifying the evolution of structural properties during self-irradiation
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A scalable, resource-efficient process for synthesis of self-supporting germanium nanomembranes
Part of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2024
- DOI for A scalable, resource-efficient process for synthesis of self-supporting germanium nanomembranes
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Part of Materials Research Express, 2024
- DOI for Sputter-deposition of ultra-thin film stacks from EUROFER97 and tungsten: characterisation and interaction with low-energy D and He ions
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Part of Applied Surface Science, 2023
- DOI for An in situ ToF-LEIS characterization of the surface of Ti-based thin films under oxygen exposure and at elevated temperatures
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Part of Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2023
- DOI for Influence of thermal annealing and of the substrate on sputter-deposited thin films from EUROFER97 on tungsten
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Part of Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2023
- DOI for Thin films sputter-deposited from EUROFER97 in argon and deuterium atmosphere: Material properties and deuterium retention
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High hole mobility and non-localized states in amorphous germanium
Part of APL Materials, 2023
- DOI for High hole mobility and non-localized states in amorphous germanium
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Part of Materials Characterization, 2023
- DOI for Analysis of (Al,Cr,Nb,Ta,Ti)-nitride and-oxynitride diffusion barriers in Cu-Si interconnects by 3D-Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
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Part of Fusion engineering and design, 2023
- DOI for Retention of noble and rare isotope gases in plasma-facing components-Experience from the JET tokamak with the ITER-like wall
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Part of 2D Materials, 2023
- DOI for A contactless single-step process for simultaneous nanoscale patterning and cleaning of large-area graphene
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Part of Small, 2022
- DOI for Direct Transition from Ultrathin Orthorhombic Dinickel Silicides to Epitaxial Nickel Disilicide Revealed by In Situ Synthesis and Analysis
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Part of Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2022
- DOI for Synthesis of ferromagnetic thin films and engineering of their magnetic properties by Fe ion implantation in polycrystalline Pd
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Unprecedented severe atomic redistribution in germanium induced by MeV self-irradiation
Part of AIP Advances, 2022
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Growth of two-dimensional WS2 thin films by reactive sputtering
Part of Vacuum, 2021
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Interstitial Hydrogen in Fe/V Superstructures: Lattice Site Location and Thermal Vibration
Part of Physical Review Letters, 2021
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Fuel retention and erosion-deposition on inner wall cladding tiles in JET-ILW
Part of Physica Scripta, 2021
- DOI for Fuel retention and erosion-deposition on inner wall cladding tiles in JET-ILW
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Self-Limited Formation of Bowl-Shaped Nanopores for Directional DNA Translocation
Part of ACS Nano, p. 17938-17946, 2021
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Photochromic Response of Encapsulated Oxygen-Containing Yttrium Hydride Thin Films
Part of Physica Status Solidi. Rapid Research Letters, 2021
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Part of Applied Surface Science, 2021
- DOI for In-situ nanoscale characterization of composition and structure during formation of ultrathin nickel silicide
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Chalcogen-hyperdoped germanium for short-wavelength infrared photodetection
Part of AIP Advances, 2020
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Ion beam synthesis and photoluminescence study of supersaturated fully-relaxed Ge-Sn alloys
Part of Materials Science & Engineering, 2020
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In-situ characterization of ultrathin nickel silicides using 3D medium-energy ion scattering
Part of Scientific Reports, 2020
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Photochromic Mechanism and Dual-Phase Formation in Oxygen-Containing Rare-Earth Hydride Thin Films
Part of Advanced Optical Materials, 2020
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Gold-Hyperdoped Germanium with Room-Temperature Sub-Band-Gap Optoelectronic Response
Part of Physical Review Applied, 2020
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Electronic interaction of slow hydrogen and helium ions with nickel-silicon systems
Part of Physical Review A: covering atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum information, 2019
- DOI for Electronic interaction of slow hydrogen and helium ions with nickel-silicon systems
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Ion-beam synthesis and thermal stability of highly tin-concentrated germanium – tin alloys
Part of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, p. 192-195, 2017
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Suppression of ion-implantation induced porosity in germanium by a silicon dioxide capping layer
Part of Applied Physics Letters, 2016
- DOI for Suppression of ion-implantation induced porosity in germanium by a silicon dioxide capping layer
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Part of Journal of Applied Physics, 2016
- DOI for Synthesis of Ge1−xSnx alloys by ion implantation and pulsed laser melting: Towards a group IV direct bandgap material
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Part of Journal of Applied Physics, 2015
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Part of Journal of Applied Physics, p. 205901, 2015
Articles, review/survey
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Towards a direct band gap group IV Ge-based material
Part of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, p. 39-46, 2019