Gunnar Karl Pálsson
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy; Materials Physics
- Telephone:
- +46 73 469 79 30
- E-mail:
- gunnar.palsson@physics.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Lägerhyddsvägen 1
SE-75120 Uppsala
Sweden - Postal address:
- Box 524
751 20 UPPSALA
Keywords
- neutron scattering
- hydrogen in metals
- standing wave photomemission
- hard x-ray photoemission
- light scattering
- x-ray diffraction
- x-ray reflectometry
Biography
Research
Research
- Neutron scattering
- Dimensionality aspects of phase transitions
- Energy related materials for hydrogen storage
- X-ray and light scattering

Publications
Recent publications
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Part of Journal of Physics, 2026
- DOI for Influence of the electronic density of states on the trajectory-dependent energy deposition of keV ions in silicon
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Structural and mechanical signatures of maximally amorphous transition metal alloys
Part of Physical Review Materials, 2026
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GENL: An extensible fitting program for Laue oscillations
Part of Journal of applied crystallography, p. 968-977, 2026
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The influence of the detector field of view on overillumination in reflectometry
Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 2026
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Inverse Spillover and Dimensionality Effects on Interstitial Hydrogen
Part of Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2025
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All publications
Articles in journal
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Part of Journal of Physics, 2026
- DOI for Influence of the electronic density of states on the trajectory-dependent energy deposition of keV ions in silicon
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Structural and mechanical signatures of maximally amorphous transition metal alloys
Part of Physical Review Materials, 2026
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GENL: An extensible fitting program for Laue oscillations
Part of Journal of applied crystallography, p. 968-977, 2026
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The influence of the detector field of view on overillumination in reflectometry
Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 2026
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Inverse Spillover and Dimensionality Effects on Interstitial Hydrogen
Part of Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2025
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Determining drivers of chemical diffusion of hydrogen in the thin transition metallic glass V80Zr20
Part of Physical Review B, 2025
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Magnetic structure of Mn2GaC thin film by neutron scattering
Part of Journal of Physics, 2025
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Influence of hydrogen on the electronic structure in the transition metallic glass V80Zr20
Part of Physical Review B, 2025
- DOI for Influence of hydrogen on the electronic structure in the transition metallic glass V80Zr20
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Determining pair distribution functions of thin films using laboratory-based X-ray sources
Part of Journal of applied crystallography, p. 1373-1383, 2024
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Boundary-induced phase in epitaxial iron layers
Part of Physical Review Materials, 2024
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Correlation of optical transmittance and hydrogen concentration in Cr/V superlattices
Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B, 2024
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Part of International journal of hydrogen energy, p. 583-588, 2024
- DOI for Accurate measurement of hydrogen concentration in transition metal hydrides utilizing electronic excitations by MeV ions
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Epitaxy enhancement in oxide/tungsten heterostructures by harnessing the interface adhesion
Part of Applied Physics A, 2024
- DOI for Epitaxy enhancement in oxide/tungsten heterostructures by harnessing the interface adhesion
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Emergent tricriticality in magnetic metamaterials
Part of Physical Review B, 2023
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Influence of misfit strain on the physical properties of Fe thin films
Part of Thin Solid Films, 2022
- DOI for Influence of misfit strain on the physical properties of Fe thin films
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Part of Physical Review B, 2022
- DOI for Influence of deuterium-induced volume changes on optical transmission in Fe/V (001) and Cr/V (001) superlattices
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Part of Physical Review B, 2022
- DOI for Hydrogen-induced volume changes, dipole tensor, and elastic hydrogen-hydrogen interaction in a metallic glass
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Hydrogen-induced enhancement of thermal stability in VZr(H) metallic glasses
Part of Materialia, 2022
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Reversible exchange bias in epitaxial V2O3/Ni hybrid magnetic heterostructures
Part of Journal of Physics, 2022
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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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Tuneable exchange-spring stiffness in amorphous magnetic trilayer structures
Part of Journal of Physics, 2021
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Resonant enhancement of grazing incidence neutron scattering for the characterization of thin films
Part of Physical Review B, 2021
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Part of Soft Matter, p. 7063-7076, 2020
- DOI for On the interaction of softwood hemicellulose with cellulose surfaces in relation to molecular structure and physicochemical properties of hemicellulose
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Hydrogen site location in ultrathin vanadium layers by N-15 nuclear reaction analysis
Part of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B, p. 57-60, 2019
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Giant magnetic proximity effect in amorphous layered magnets
Part of Physical Review Materials, 2019
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Part of Journal of Applied Physics, 2019
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Part of Applied Physics Letters, 2019
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Nuclear Spin Incoherent Neutron Scattering from Quantum Well Resonators
Part of Physical Review Letters, 2019
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Part of Soft Matter, p. 2178-2189, 2019
- DOI for Interfacial properties of lipid sponge-like nanoparticles and the role of stabilizer on particle structure and surface interactions
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Unexpected termination switching and polarity compensation in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures
Part of Physical Review Materials, 2018
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Lipid Sponge-Phase Nanoparticles as Carriers for Enzymes
Part of Biophysical Journal, 2018
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Sequential magnetic switching in Fe/MgO(001) superlattices
Part of Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 2018
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Part of Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, p. 474-481, 2018
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Part of Journal of applied crystallography, p. 1556-1563, 2018
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Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2018
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Part of Physical Review B, 2018
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Part of Journal of Physics, 2018
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Part of Colloids and Surfaces B, p. 76-87, 2017
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Finite size effects: deuterium diffusion in nm thick vanadium layers
Part of New Journal of Physics, 2017
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Concentration dependence of hydrogen diffusion in clamped vanadium (001) films
Part of Journal of Physics, 2017
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Crystal perfection by strain engineering: The case of Fe/V (001)
Part of Thin Solid Films, p. 608-614, 2017
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Experimental observation of hysteresis in a coherent metal-hydride phase transition
Part of Journal of Physics, 2017
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Temperature responsive lipid liquid crystal layers with embedded nanogels
Part of Chemical Communications, p. 1417-1420, 2017
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Part of Interface Focus, 2017
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Discrete Layer-by-Layer Magnetic Switching in Fe/MgO(001) Superlattices
Part of Physical Review Applied, 2016
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Överlåtaren: a fast way to transfer and orthogonalize two-dimensional off-specular reflectivity data
Part of Journal of applied crystallography, p. 2091-2099, 2016
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Part of Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, p. 70-81, 2016
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Accurate determination of the valence band edge in hard x-ray photoemission spectra using GW theory
Part of Journal of Applied Physics, 2016
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Long-range antiferromagnetic order in epitaxial Mn2GaC thin films from neutron reflectometry
Part of PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2016
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Depth Profiling Charge Accumulation from a Ferroelectric into a Doped Mott Insulator
Part of Nano letters (Print), p. 2533-2541, 2015
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Proximity effects on the H absorption in ultra-thin V layers
Part of Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 2014
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Finite-Size Effects: Hydrogen in Fe/V(001) Superlattices
Part of Physical Review Letters, 2014
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The effect of microstructure on the hydrogenation of Mg/Fe thin film multilayers
Part of International journal of hydrogen energy, p. 17092-17103, 2014
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Hydrogen induced changes in the optical properties of Pd capped V thin films
Part of Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2013
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Using light transmission to watch hydrogen diffuse
Part of Nature Communications, p. 892, 2012
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Part of Journal of Physics, p. 495402, 2012
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Hydrogen site occupancy and strength of forces in nanosized metal hydrides
Part of Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, p. 195407, 2012
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Hydrogen distribution in Nb/Ta superlattices
Part of Journal of Physics, p. 255306, 2012
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Temperature-and hydrogen-induced changes in the optical properties of Pd capped V thin films
Part of Physica Scripta, 2012
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Part of Physical Review E. Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2011
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Part of High Energy Density Physics, p. 336-342, 2011
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Significance of self-trapping on hydrogen diffusion
Part of Physical Review Letters, p. 185901, 2010
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Influence of Titanium and Vanadium on the Hydrogen transport through amorphous alumina films
Part of Journal of Alloys and Compounds, p. 239-244, 2010
- DOI for Influence of Titanium and Vanadium on the Hydrogen transport through amorphous alumina films
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Combined light and electron scattering for exploring hydrogen in thin metallic films
Part of Applied Physics Letters, p. 251910, 2010
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Deuterium-induced volume expansion in Fe0.5V0.5/V superlattices
Part of Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, p. 245424, 2010
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Mg/Ti multilayers: Structural and hydrogen absorption properties
Part of Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, p. 224203, 2010
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The influence of amorphous Al2O3 coating on the hydrogen uptake properties of materials
Part of Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2008
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Examination of the reliability of X-ray techniques for determining hydrogen-induced volume changes
Part of Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, p. 104118, 2008
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Manuscripts (preprints)
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Temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity of highly amorphous Fe-Zr films and multilayers
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Using interfaces to influence thermodynamic properties of metal hydrides
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Tailoring thermodynamic properties of metal hydrides with interfaces
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Beating effects in multilayer systems studied with neutron reflectometry
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Proximity and dimensionality effects on interstitial hydrogen
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