Activity
Report
Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology
January – December 2016
IFM
Acitvity Report
The department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM) hereby presents its 46th consecutive progress report since the start in
1970. The report contains descriptions of activities in research and education within the department and in collaborations and it is intended as a source of information for colleagues and other interested readers.
IFM WAS DURING 2016 ORGANAZED IN FIVE SCIENTIFIC AREAS
• Applied Physics • Biology • Chemistry • Material Physics • Theory and Modelling
A large part of the research within these divisions are made possible by generous grants from funding agencies like The Swedish Research Council (VR), The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, VINNOVA, FORMAS, and also different international and European research programs.
During the year 2016, 31 doctorial and 8 licentiate theses were presented. More than 240 undergraduate courses were offered in programs for Masters of Science in Engineering, for Master of Science, for Bachelor of Science in Engineering, and for teacher training programs.
I also want to take this opportunity to thank all staff, teachers, researchers and students for their dedication and hard work for the department and for the university. This report reflects their love for and dedication to the academic world.
Ulf Karlsson
Department chair About the cover:
The cover image is also the cover of the PhD thesis of Erica Zeglio ”Selfdoped conjugated polyelectrolytes for bioelectronics applications” and shows an artistic rendering of a curved biomembrane, a double layer of phospholipid molecules with active ion channels controlling the flow of potassium ions. The molecular structure is that of a metallic polyelectrolyte which can be inserted into synthetic biomembranes, thus enabling a new form of electrical contact between electronic conductors and biological cells. The electrical activity of cells are most pronounced in neural processes, described by the lighted neurons. In this thesis, Zeglio has shown how insert conjugated polyelectrolytes into biomembranes, as an optical reporter or an electronic conductor.
Index
IFM Acitvity Report
2
Organisation
5
Economy8
New Professors 20169
The Environment11
Equal Opportunities13
Collaboration14
Education for
Undergraduate Students
15
Physics16
Biology18
Chemistry20
Physics - Measurement Technology
22
International Master’s Programme23
Graduate Education
24
Forum Scientium
25
The Graduate School Agora Materiae
26
IFM Graduate Program
27
Scientific Branch of
Applied Physics
30
Applied Optics
33
Applied Sensor Science
36
Biomolecular and Organic Electronics
39
Biosensors and Bioelectronics41
Biotechnology
47
Chemical and Optical Sensor Systems
51
Complex Materials and Devices53
Molecular Physics
55
Molecular Surface Physics
and Nano Science
57
Surface Physics and Chemistry
61
Scientific Branch of
Biology
63
AVIAN Behavioural Genomics and
Physiology
65
The Sensory and Behavioral
Physiology Group
68
Conservation Ecology Group
69
Plant Evolution Group
71
Scientific Branch of
Chemistry
72
Materials Chemistry79
Organic Chemistry81
Physical Chemistry85
Protein Chemistry87
Scientific Branch of
Material Physics
91
Functional Electronic Materials
93
NanoscaleEngineering
95
Nanostructured Materials
98
Plasma & Coatings Physics
100
Semiconductor Materials
102
Surface and Semiconductor Physics
107
Thin Film Physics
110
Scientific Branch of
Theory and Modeling
115
Bioinformatics
117
Theoretical Biology119
Theoretical Chemistry120
Theoretical Physics122
Research Centres
130
AFM131
CeNano133
FunMat135
Linköping Linnaeus Initiative for
Novel Functional Materials (LiLi-NFM)
139
Linköping Biosensors andBioelectronics Centre (LBB)
145
SIMARC148
Theses
150
Doctoral theses 2016151
Licentiate theses 2016153
Undergraduate theses 2016154
Organisation
Administration
Head of Department Ulf Karlsson
Deputy Heads Magdalena Svensson
Kenneth Järrendahl
Head of Administration Inger Johansson/Jens Trosell
HR Manager Louise Gustafsson
Technology Manager Henrik Jacobsson /Sven Andersson
Members
Deputy
Members
Ulf Karlsson, Chairperson Kenneth Järrendahl
Peter Nilsson, Teacher Representative Elke Schweda
Uno Wennergren, Teacher Representative Björn Wallner
Karin Enander, Teacher Representative Urban Friberg
Per Eklund, Teacher Representative Hans Högberg
Jordi Altimiras, Teacher Representative
Simona Eles, Adm/tech Representative Anna Sundin
Linda Lantz, PhD-student Representative Mattias Tengdelius, Nov 2015-Nov 2016
Martin Eriksson, PhD-student Representative Katarina Bengtsson Zuzanna Kluska, Student Representative Jan 2016-Aug 2016
Sofia Bengtsson, Student Representative Sep 2016- Inger Marie Wohlfart Hasle Sep 2016-Lena Martinsson, Secretary Jan-Feb 2016
Lise-Lotte Lönndahl Ragnar, Secretary Mar
2016-Department Board
Other Members
Louise Gustafsson Kenneth Järrendahl
Inger Johansson until Sep 2016 Jens Trosell Sep
2016-Department board Head of Department
Administrative support Technical Division
Study Programmes Scienfific Areas
Divisions
LSG, Local cooperating group
Research Centres
Applied Physics Applied Optics, Applied Sensor Science,
Biomolecular and Organic Electronics, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Biotechnology,
Chemical and Optical Sensor Systems, Complex Materials and Devices, Molecular Physics,
Molecular Surface Physics and Nanoscience, Surface Physics and Chemistry
Biology Ecology, Molecular genetics, Zoology
Chemistry Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Biotechnology, Organic Analytical Chemistry,
Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Protein Chemistry Material Physics
Functional Electronic Materials, Nanoscale Engineering, Nanostructured materials, Plasma and Coating Physics,
Semiconductor Materials, Surface and Semiconductor Physics,
Thin Film Physics Theory and Modelling Bioinformatics, Theoretical Biology, Theoretical Chemistry, Theoretical Physics
Ph.D. studies Biology Chemistry Physics – Engineering Physics – Natural Science Physics – Measurement Technology
AFM
Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre CeNano
FunMat LiLi – NFM
SIMARC
Undergraduate Teaching
Area
Director of Studies
Biology Agneta Johansson
Chemistry Magdalena Svensson
Physics Magnus Johansson
Physics – Measurement Technology Magnus Boman
International Master’s Programme
Applied Ethology and Biology Agneta Johansson
Molecular Genetics and Physiology Agneta Johansson
Ecology and the Environment Agneta Johansson
Materials Science and Nanotechnology Wei-Xin Ni
Organic synthesis/medicinal chemistry Magdalena Svensson
Graduate Teaching
IFM Graduate Programme Per-Olof Holtz
Forum Scientium Stefan Klintström
Research Divisions
Scientific Branch of Applied Physics
Applied Optics Kenneth Järrendahl, prof.
Applied Sensor Science Anita Lloyd-Spetz, prof.
Biomolecular and Organic Electronics Olle Inganäs, prof.
Biosensors and Biolelectronics Anthony Turner, prof.
Biotechnology Carl.Fredrik Mandenius, prof.
Chemical and Optical Sensor Systems Stefan Klintström, Dr., chairperson
Complex Materials and Devices Martijn Kemerink
Molecular Surface Physics and Nanoscience Kajsa Uvdal, prof.
Molecular Physics Thomas Ederth, assoc. prof.
Surface Physics and Chemistry Mats Fahlman, prof.
Scientific Branch of Biology
Ecology Per Milberg, prof.
Molecular Genetics Johan Edqvist, assoc. prof.
Zoology Jordi Altimiras, assoc. prof.
Scientific Branch of Chemistry
Materials Chemistry Henrik Pedersen, assoc. prof.
Organic Chemistry Peter Konradsson, prof.
Physical Chemistry Lars Ojamäe, prof.
Protein Science Per Hammaström, prof., chairperson
Scientific Branch of Material Physics
Functional Electronic Materials Weimin Chen, prof.
Nanoscale Engineering Kostas Sarakinos, Dr.
Nanostructured Materials Magnus Odén, prof.
Plasma and Coatings Physics Ulf Helmersson, prof.
Semiconductor Materials Erik Janzén, prof., deputy chairperson
Surface and Semiconductor Physics Roger Uhrberg, prof.
Thin Film Physics Jens Birch, prof.
Scientific Branch of Theory and Modelling
Bioinformatics Björn Wallner, Dr.
Theoretical Biology Uno Wennergren, prof.
Theoretical Chemistry Patrick Norman, prof.
Economy
External sources of income (amounts in MSEK) 2016 2015
Swedish Research Council. VR 58 64
Other Research-funding agencies, e.g. Vinnova, Formas 29 27
Research foundations, e.g. SSF 24 23
Other private foundings, e.g. Wallenberg 63 57
Founding from the European Union 19 26
Other sources of funding 14 20
Contarct research 5 6 Total 212 223 Finansiär 2014 2015 2016 VR 64 220 64 176 58 367 Övr forskningsrå d, Vinnova, Formas 23 694 26 770 29 479 Övr statliga mynd 14 469 14 884 11 404 VR 27% Övriga forsknin Vinnova, Fo 14% Övriga statliga mynd
5% Forsknings-stiftelser bl a SSF 11% Org, bl a KAW 30% EU 9% Övriga bidrag 1% Uppdrags-forskning 3%
Intäkter 2016
VR Övriga forskningsråd, Vinnova, Formas Övriga statliga mynd Forsknings-stiftelser bl a SSF Org, bl a KAW EU
Övriga bidrag Uppdrags-forskning
Funding from the EU 9% Other external funding 1% Contract research 3% Swedish Research Council (VR) 27% Other research funding agencies, e.g. Formas, Vinnova 14% Other state authorities 5% Research foundations, e.g. SSF 11% Other private foundations, e.g. KAW 30%
New Professor 2016
Prof. Mathias Schubert from University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is a world-leading expert in the fields of optics and materials science. He received his PhD degree and Doctor Habilis in physics from the University Leipzig in 1997 and 2003, respectively. Before joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNL in 2005, Mathias Schubert worked at University Leipzig, Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, University of Fribourg, and Linköping Institute of Technology. Prof. Mathias Schubert is the director of the Center for Nanohybrid Functional Materials at UNL, and he also leads the Complex Materials Optics Network – a UNL association of researchers pursuing common interests in optical physics and instrumentation design. Prof. Schubert has served as a president of the UNL Faculty senate and has received prestigious international awards such as the 2006 Ludwig-Genzel-Prize for ground-breaking contributions to
Condensed Matter Physics and Spectroscopy. He is an Associate editor for the Optical Society of America A, and a fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2014 Prof. Schubert was named Fellow of the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research in Dresden. In 2015, Prof. Schubert was received an honorary doctorate from LiU for his contributions to the development of blue and white LEDs, fast processors and efficient biological and chemical sensors, and for collaborations with researchers from Linköping University that resulted in theses, scientific papers, and patents, as well as student and researcher exchanges. Since September 2016 Prof. Schubert is Guest Professor at the Terahertz Materials Analysis Center and Semiconductor Materials Division.
He is also actively involved in research within the Advanced Functional Materials research environment, AFM, at LiU. Prof. Schubert has published 1 book, 11 book chapters, more than 270 publications, and his work has attracted over 5200 citations.
Mathias Schubert has made seminal contributions to the fields of spectroscopy, condensed matter physics and materials science and technology. He has pioneered infrared, far-infrared and terahertz spectroscopic
ellipsometry, and invented the optical Hall effect. These techniques helped his team and researchers world-wide to develop and implement novel materials for blue and white light emitting diodes, organic solar cells, high-speed processor technologies and bio-, and chemical sensing. Recently, Prof. Schubert has begun developing revolutionary concepts for contrast improvements in optical microscopy, and he invented the anisotropy contrast optical microscope. Currently, he is developing together with Prof. Vanya Darakchieva new imaging and spectroscopy concepts for characterization of transport properties of layered and nanoscale materials, and biomedical applications at the Terahertz Materials Analysis Center. He is also
collaborating with Prof. Kaisa Uvdal, Prof. Olle Inganas, and others on broad areas of optical physics and materials sciences.
Prof. Jill Trewhella, from the University of Sydney, Australia, is an internationally recognized structural biologist known for her studies of bio-molecular signaling and
regulation. She earned BSc and MSc degrees in Mathematics and Physics (University of New South Wales) and a PhD in Chemistry (University of Sydney) before moving to the USA in 1980 to take up a post-doctoral appointment at Yale University. In 1984 she took a position at Los Alamos National Laboratory where she pursued her research while also serving in significant leadership positions. She was the founding Leader of the multi-disciplinary Bioscience Division with more than 300 researchers working on projects such as the Human Genome Project, Structural Genomics of TB, the international HIV AIDS Gene Data Base, and stewarding National Institutes of Health research resources for flow cytometry and stable isotopes. Professor Trewhella returned to Australia in 2005 as an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow having gained international recognition for her contributions to our understanding of the molecular communications underpinning healthy function. Again she pursued her research while also taking on a significant leadership position, this time as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Sydney (2009-2015) overseeing the development of major collaborative,
cross-disciplinary research programs with supporting infrastructure; such as the Charles Perkins Centre that focuses on solutions for individuals and communities for the problems arising from the increasing incidence of obesity.
Prof. Trewhella’s current main research focus is on proteins that regulate heart muscle action and how clinically-linked mutations result in disease development. Over her career she has published 9 book chapters and more than 150 original research publications that have attracted over 4500 citations.
In 2015, Prof. Trewhella was awarded the Swedish Research Council’s Tage Erlander Guest Professorship and, based mainly at LiU, she extended her collaborations with Swedish researchers and established an X-ray scattering laboratory capability at LiU that adds to the complement of tools used by researchers and collaborators throughout the region as they develop projects that will use Sweden’s new neutron and synchrotron sources based in Lund.
In 2016 Prof. Trewhella returned to Sweden to continue to develop her research
collaborations and also to teach a practical course in biological small-angle scattering at LiU, Lund and Uppsala Universities. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from LiU in 2016 for her contributions to research and education at the IFM where she has opened up entirely new possibilities for X-ray and neutron research at LiU, especially in protein chemistry and structural biology, but also in chemical biology and nanomaterials. She will return in 2017 to work with early career researchers at LiU and Lund, and also attend the Nobel Symposium on “Protein Folding from Molecular Mechanisms to Impact on Cells” in Stockholm in June.
Legislation
IFM has an injunction, according to the Swedish Environmental Code, to submit a yearly report to the local environmental agency describing the laboratory work at the
department. The agency makes regular inspections at IFM.
Environmental management system
The Rector at LiU decided in 2006 that all departments must work according to an environmental management system. Since 2009 a regulation of environmental management for government agencies stipulates how to perform the environmental work. In 2015 a new environmental enquiry was performed at LiU to identify the environmental aspects and significant aspects of the
organization. Based on that environmental enquiry the Rector has decided about the environmental objectives for LiU 2016-2018.
Environmental action plan at IFM 2016-2018
The environmental action plan for 2016-2018 was decided by the IFM board in February 2016. The IFM environmental action plan is based on the LiU environmental objectives and consists of environmental objectives and measures needed to be taken within IFM. The objectives are organized according to environmental objective areas.
The environmental action is followed up annually in January.
Increase knowledge on sustainable development
1. Increase the dissemination of environmental-related research internally and externally. At IFM measures will be taken to communicate
information about environmental related research practiced at IFM and start with an inventory of environmental related research at IFM. Work to fulfill the objective and measures at IFM will begin in 2017.
Limit the climate impact
2. Reduce the CO2 emissions from business trips (per employee) by 10 % from 2015 to 2018.
At IFM measures will be taken to increase the availability of travel-free meetings. Information efforts will be made to increase the knowledge about the opportunity to use the existing video conference equipment available in Hertz. More information efforts are also needed to increase the knowledge about the opportunity to use the web camera, microphone and headset available at the technical unit at IFM.
At IFM measures will be taken to increase awareness of the availability of LiU-cars and bikes as well as campus bus for shorter business trips. Information is available on the internal environmental website and information was also published in the IFM weekly newsletter during 2016.
Work to fulfil the objective and measures within environmental objective area “Limit the climate impact” will continue during 2017.
Efficient use of natural resources
3. All new constructions and renovation projects at the campuses, which are planned or under construction within the period 2016-2018, will result in energy and natural resource efficient buildings.
At IFM measures will be taken to consider environmental issues in renovations within IFMs premises when planning renovations. In
2016 a printer room was converted to a laboratory and a condenser fan was installed to decrease the need to vent out heat.
4. At latest 2018-12-31 all office furniture/ equipment at LiU, with utilization value, shall be included in a recycling system.
At IFM measures will be taken to participate in the project of recycling of office furniture/ equipment at LiU. During 2016 IFM has recovered office drawer units from the recycling system and delivered lockable metal cabinets and office shelves to the recycling system. More information efforts will be needed during 2017 about the recycling system and it intensions for example in the IFM weekly newsletters and on the internal environmental website.
5. Reduce the electricity/energy consumption by 2018 compared to 2015. (Electricity
consumption is not electricity for e.g. ventilation).
At IFM measures will be taken to reduce the electricity/energy consumption in premises at IFM for example by measurement of electricity/ energy consumption in the premises and implementation of possible measures based on the measurements. Akademiska hus will be contacted to initiate a cooperation on how to measure the electricity consumption and based on the measurement implement possible measures.
6. Reduce the amount of condemned equipment and computers
At IFM measures will be taken to reduce the volume of condemned equipment and computers by establish routines for disposal. Routines exists at IFM but not in written. The routine will be documented during 2017. An annual house-cleaning day for disposal of old and condemned equipment and computers was arranged in May 2016
Work to fulfil objectives and measures within environmental objective area “Efficient use of natural resources” will continue during 2017.
Minimizing the spread of harmful and infectious substances
7. Reduce the use of substances harmful to health or to the environment in laboratory environments.
IFM has an overall risk analysis and action plan for reduced influence on the environment. During 2016 work has been initiated to compile and update the risk analysis based on the activities at IFM. An action plan based on the risk analysis will also be compiled.
IFM will work with substitution of substances that are harmful to health and environment and discard old and no longer used chemicals. Information is available on the intranet and information has also been
published in the IFM weekly newsletter. During 2017 more information efforts will be needed.
During 2016 work has been initiated to update and expand the routine of chemicals that can or cannot be poured down the drain. Work will continue during 2017.
During 2016 a routine for taking care of equipment and scrap metal waste was developed but more information efforts will be needed during 2017.
Work to fulfil objectives and measures within environmental objective area “Minimizing the spread of harmful and infectious substances” will continue during 2017.
At IFM there is an ambition to integrate the perspective of equal opportunities throughout all our activities and with students, employees and temporary guests all in mind. This is a fundamental matter of fairness and meets national legislation, but we believe that it also contributes to an attractive study and work environment and results in increased creativity and quality in what we do. In this work, we mainly address issues of equality and gender, ethnic and religious diversity, accessibility and participation for people with disabilities, and equality of rights and treatment for everyone regardless of age or gender identity. It also concerns other forms of victimisation, related to e. g. social background.
Our vision:
- IFM should be free from discrimination, harassment and other victimisation. - IFM recruitment processes should be non-discriminatory.
- All employees and students at IFM should feel welcome.
- IFM should take advantage of the resources and experiences that students and employees with different backgrounds, life situations and skills can bring to the university.
- There should be equal opportunities in terms of employees’ working conditions, salaries, influence, career opportunities and possibilities to combine a professional career with
responsibility for home and family.
- There should be equal opportunities at all courses given by IFM and we are prepared to give special attention to students who have been granted special educational support.
There is a group at IFM dedicated to realising this vision by monitoring the situation at the department related to equal opportunities issues, by running projects, and by making sure that information about seminars and projects arranged by LiU is made available. This group had the following members at the end of 2016: Ann-Christin Brorsson (equal opportunities representative at IFM), Karin Enander (equal opportunities representative at IFM), Ulf Frykman (technical staff), Simona Eles (technical staff), Chun-Xia Du (technical staff), Therese Lindkvist (admin), Agneta Johansson (teacher), Per Persson (teacher), and
Mohammed Amin Gharavi (PhD student).
Collaboration
School contacts
Our department has always been very active in different forms of school contacts. For many years we have had young researchers part time employed for external contacts, one each from physics, chemistry and biology. IFM is represented in the board for school contacts of LiTH. The goal of this board is to coordinate and support existing activities, as well as developing new exciting activities. Perhaps the most frequent activity is various study visits by children, young people and teachers.
During 2016 IFM hosted numerous visits and we also visited the high-school Finnvedens gymnasium where we gave a physics lecture for science students in their 2nd and 3rd year. By these visits, we have under 2016 been interacting with more than 300 junior and
senior high-school students from e.g. Värnamo, Eksjö, Västervik, Vadstena and Linköping. In November we also were fortunate to have some high-school science students in their 3rd year at Birgittaskolan for a one week internship in ethology.
Summer school
”Sommarveckan” is a summer school in natural science and technology arranged by LiTH. It is open for elementary school pupils at the age of 14-15 years. In 2016 there were 162 participants from the region. During four days in June the pupils were introduced to different subjects at Campus Valla and Fenomenmagasinet in Gamla Linköping.
At IFM the pupils were shown a demonstration about physics phenomena
occurring at low temperatures obtained by liquid nitrogen cooling. They were also introduced to the physics of sound and had a short lecture that discussed various scenes in science fiction movies from a physics stand point.
Popular science week
In October we participated in a Popular Science week for the general public. The IFM-professor Per Jensen initiated this event in 2005, and the interest is steady growing since then. The success of the initial Popular Science day has led to a larger three-day arrangement involving fields from the entire university, the Popular Science week, with about 2000 visitors. IFM participated 2016 with exhibitions and lectures given by PhD students as well as senior researchers on ethology, protein chemistry, nanophysics, theoretical biology, theoretical physics, conservation biology and molecular physics.
Open house
days
During the annual Open House days arranged by Linköping University, IFM participated with hands-onexhibitions. These days aim to inspire teachers and pupils from upper secondary school and encourage the pupils to head for higher education.
A pupil investigating the brittleness of a frozen rose.
Olle Kordina presenting energy related physics for our young visitors.
A science demonstration for high-school students.
Education for
Undergraduate
Students
The undergraduate education given by the Department
of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM) had four main
teaching areas 2016.
• Physics (Director of Studies: Magnus Johansson)
• Physics -Measurement Technology
(Director of Studies: Magnus Boman)
• Biology at the Natural science, Teachers and
Engine-ering programs
(Director of Studies: Agneta Johansson)
• Chemistry at the Natural science, Teachers and
Engineering programs
(Director of Studies: Magdalena Svensson)
Main Director of Studies was Kenneth Järrendahl.
Staff
• Director of studies: Magnus Johansson • Administrative assistant: Lena Wide • Technical staff: Hasan Dzuho and Jonas
Wissting
• Course leaders: Rickard Armiento, Jens
Birch, Emma Björk, Magnus Boman, Irina Buyanova, Valeriu Chirita, Marcus Ekholm, Per Eklund, Fredrik Eriksson, Jens Eriksson, Mats Eriksson, Mats Fahlman, Urban Forsberg, Carl Hemmingsson, Ivan Ivanov, Jens Jensen, Magnus Johansson, Kenneth Järrendahl, Fredrik Karlsson, Martin Magnuson, Peter Münger, Son Tien Nguyen, Wei-Xin Ni, Weine Olovsson, Plamen Paskov, Nathaniel D Robinson, Johanna Rosén, Per Sandström, Kostas Sarakinos, Sergei Simak, Niclas Solin, Mikael Syväjärvi, Ferenc Tasnadi, Roger Uhrberg, Sergiy Valyukh, Irina Yakimenko
• Assistant lecturers: Peter Andersson • Teaching assistant: Maria Pihl
In our teaching area, we are responsible for physics courses on the following Engineering M.Sc. programs offered by the Institute of Technology at Linköping University.
(The Swedish name of the degree from one of these programs is “Civilingenjör”.) A total of about 700 students are annually accepted in these programs.
D: Computer Science and Engineering (90) I: Industrial Engineering and
Management (180) Ii: Industrial engineering and Management - International (40) IT: Information Technology (30) M: Mechanical Engineering (120) MED: Biomedical Engineering (30)
MT: Media Technology and Engineering (60) TB: Engineering Biology (30)
U: Computer Science and Software Engineering (30)
Y: Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering (90)
Yi: Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering - International (20) The nominal time for the Engineering M.Sc. programs is 5 years. The first three years mainly consist of compulsory courses in basic subjects and corresponds to B.Sc. degree. Starting from 2014, the third-year students on the Y(Yi)-program can choose to make a Bachelor Project in Applied Physics offered by our teaching area. During the third year the students make a choice among the different specialisations (Master profiles) in years 4-5, which contain some compulsory courses (profile courses) but most are selectable and can be composed to fit the students own interest.
The Y(Yi)-students can choose between 11 profiles, two of which are organized in our teaching area:
• Theory, modelling and visualization (Rickard Armiento)
• Material and nano physics (Fredrik Eriksson) The MED-students can choose between 3 profiles; of these, Biomedical engineering materials is organized in our area (Thomas Ederth).
The profiles organized in our area all lead to a M.Sc. with a major in Applied Physics. In addition, we also give physics courses on the Programme in Physics and Nanoscience (FyN), leading to a Bachelor of Science (3 years) with a major in Physics, on the Master's Programme in Physics and Nanoscience (MFYS), on the International Master's Programmes in
Materials Science and Nanotechnology (MSN), and, to a minor extent, Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Electronics Engineering (ELE). Contact persons in our teaching area are Marcus Ekholm (FyN, MFYS) and Wei-Xin Ni (MSN).
Below is a list of the courses given by our teaching area in 2016.
Tuition in Physics
• Basic courses:
Alternative Energy Sources and their Applications (FyN, MFYS, Y), 6hp
Applied Physics - Bachelor Project (Y, Yi), 16hp Electromagnetic Field Theory (FyN, Y, Yi), 8hp Electromagnetism - Theory and Applications (IT), 8hp
Electromagnetism - Theory and Applications (MED), 6hp
Engineering Mechanics (D), 6hp Engineering project (MED, Y, Yi), 6hp Mechanical waves (FyN), 2hp
Models in Physics (IT), 8hp Modern Physics (MED), 6hp Modern Physics I (FyN, Y, Yi), 4hp Modern Physics II (FyN, Y, Yi), 4hp Nano Scientific Project (FyN), 6hp
Nanotechnology (BME, FyN, MFYS, MSN, TB, Y, Yi), 6hp
Optics - Theory and Application (FyN, MED, Y, Yi), 4hp
Oscillations and Mechanical Waves (MED), 4hp
Oscillations and Mechanical Waves (Y, Yi), 4hp Perspectives on Physics (D, FyN, Y, Yi), 2hp Physics (D), 5hp
Physics (I, Ii), 6hp Physics (M), 6hp
Physics and Mechanics (U), 6hp Physics of Sound (MT), 6hp
Principles of Physics and introduction to Nanophysics (FyN), 10hp
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (FyN, Y, Yi), 6hp
• Advanced courses:
Additive Manufacturing: Tools, Materials and Methods, 6hp
Analytical Mechanics, 6hp
Analytical Methods in Materials Science, 6hp Chaos and Non-Linear Phenomena, 6hp Classical Electrodynamics, 6hp
Experimental Physics, 6hp
Fundamentals in Materials Science, 6hp Mathematical Methods of Physics, 6hp
Nano Physics, 6hp Optoelectronics, 6hp Physical Metallurgy, 6hp
Physics of Condensed Matter I, 6hp Physics of Condensed Matter II, 6hp Project Course in Physics - Design and Fabrication of Sensor Chip, CDIO, 12 hp Quantum Dynamics, 6hp
Quantum Mechanics, 6hp Semiconductor Physics, 6hp Semiconductor Technology, 6hp Soft Condensed Matter Physics, 6hp Surface Physics, 6hp
Thin Film Physics, 6hp
• Single subject course:
Physics and the Environment, 6hp We also examined and supervised the individual Degree projects for 19 Master's Theses (30hp) in Physics or Applied Physics, finished in 2016.
Staff
• Director of studies: Agneta Johansson; • Education administrator:
Eva-Maria Stigsdotter, Rita Fantl;
• Engineers: ToveBjerg, Lejla Bektic;
• Teachers: Jordi Altimiras, Mats Amundin,
Karl-Olof Bergman, Kjell Carlsson, Bo Ebenman, Johan Edqvist, Urban Friberg, Jenny Hagenblad, Anders Hargeby, Per Jensen, Anna Eklöf, Hanne Lövlie, Jennie Westander, Matthias Laska, Eva Mattsson, Per Milberg, Lina Roth, Karin S Tonderski, Uno Wennergren, Dominic Wright and Thomas Östholm
Courses in biology are offered as parts of
the following study programmes:
• Bachelor of Science in Biology, profiles in Ecology, Environmental Management and Nature Conservation, Ethology and AnimalBiology and Molecular Genetics and Physiology
• Masters of Science in Biology, profiles, Applied Ethology and Animal Biology, Ecology and the Environment • Chemical Biology
• Engineering Biology
• Industrial Engineering and Management • Experimental and Medical Biosciences • The Program for education in Linköping • Separate courses
• Basic year
Bachelor of Science in Biology, profiles in Ecology, Environmental Management and Nature Conservation, Ethology and Animal Biology and Molecular Genetics and Physiology (180 credit points/hp). The Programmes include, in the first two years, basic courses in chemistry and general biology. In the third year here are courses specific for each profile.
Master of Science in Biology, profile in Applied Ethology and Animal Biology, and Ecology and
the Environment. The profiles in Applied Ethology and Physiology are a collaboration between the department of biology at Linköping University and the Kolmårdens Djurpark.
The first year includes nine courses and at the end of the year the student start with his/ her Master thesis. The Master thesis is a full year project that will take most of the second year. At the end of the second year the programme ends with a final course – Communicating science.
The current Program for teacher education for the Upper Secondary School and the Primary School started in 2011. The program involves a Biology and a Nature Science profile. The division has been responsible for the biology part of the program.
Biology courses are also given in
the program:
• Chemical Biology • Engineering Biology
• Industrial Engineering and Management • Experimental and Medical Biosciences
Separate courses. All courses within the Biology programme are also available as separate courses. Besides the courses in the Biology programme 7 separate courses have been given.
Basic year, with introductory courses in biology on the Upper Secondary School level.
Bachelor programmes
Animal Function and Environmental Adaptation, 15 hp
Animal Husbandry and its Administration, 6hp Applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 6 hp
Botany 1, 6 hp Botany 2, 6 hp Cell Biology, 6 hp,
Degree Project - Bachelor's Thesis, 16 hp Ecology, 6 hp
Ecology, second course, 15 hp
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Monitoring, 6 hp
Environmental Management, 6 hp
Environmental Protection and Environmental Impact Assessments, 9 hp
Ethology and Animal Welfare, 15hp Evolution, 6 hp
Genes and Gene expressions, 15 hp Genetics, 6 hp
Microbiology, 6 hp Molecular Genetics, 6hp
Molecular Physiology and Cell Signaling Mechanisms, 6 hp
Nature Conservation in Practise, 15 hp Principals in Physiology, 6 hp
Scientific Methods, Analysis and Statistics, 6 hp Sustainable Development – Project Course, 6 hp Zoology, Morphology and Systematics, 6 hp
Masters of Science in Biology, profile Ecology and the Environment
Communicating science, 6hp
Degree Project - Master's Thesis, 60 hp
Ecological Applications in Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, 9 hp
Ecosystem Service Valuation, 6 hp Internship in Ecology, 9 hp Methods in ecology, 15 hp
Modelling of Biological Systems, 6 hp
Population Ecology: Theories and Applications, 9 hp
Masters of Science in Biology, profile Applied Ethology and Animal Biology
Applied Ethology, 15hp Behaviour Genetics, 7,5 hp Behavioral Neurobiology, 7,5 hp Communicating science, 6 hp
Conversation Biology for Ethologists, 7,5 hp Degree Project - Master's Thesis, 60 hp Primate Ethology, 9 hp
Zoo Biology, 7,5 hp
Programme For Education - Biology courses Biology (1-15 hp), 15 hp Biology (16-30 hp), 15 hp Biology (31-37,5 hp), 7,5 hp Biology (38-45 hp), 7,5 hp Biology (46-60 hp), 15 hp Biology (61- 67,5 hp), 15 hp Biology (68-75 hp), 7,5 hp Biology (76-90 hp), 15 hp Biology (91-97,5 hp) 7,5 hp Biology thesis, 15 hp Engineering Biology Cell Biology, 6 hp Microbiology, 6 hp
Principals in Physiology and Ethics, 6 hp
Chemical Biology
Cell Biology, 6 hp
Genes and Gene Expression, 15 hp Genetics, 6 hp
Microbiology, 6 hp Molecular Genetics, 6 hp
Molecular Physiology and Cell Signaling Mechanisms, 6 hp
Principals in Physiology, 6 hp
Industrial Engineering and Management
Advanced Project Course in Ecosystem Service Valuation, 6 hp
Biotechnology - Bachelor Project, 18 hp Cell biology and microbial processes, 6hp Ecology and the Environment, 6 hp
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Monitoring, 6 hp
Genetics and Evolution, 6hp
Modelling of Biological Systems, 6 hp Principles in Physiology and Ethics, 6hp
Experimental and Medical Biosciences
Cardiovascular Biology 7,5 hp
Laboratory Techniques in Experimental Biosciences 7,5 hp
Separate Courses
Behaviour and Biology of the Dog, part 1 7,5p Behaviour and Biology of the Dog, part 2, 7,5hp Behaviour and Biology of the Dog, part 3, 7,5hp Introduction to Ethology, 7,5hp
Senses and Behaviour of the Horse, 7,5 hp Ethology - Continued Course, 7,5 hp Faunistics & Floristics, 9hp, summer course
Basic year
Biology 1 for Foundation Year, 7 hp Biology 2 for Foundation Year, 7 hp
Staff
• Director of studies: Magdalena Svensson • Education secretary: Rita Fantl
• Study counselor: Helena Herbertsson • Technical staff: Cecilia Andrésen,
Fredrik Söderlind
• Teachers: Anki Brorsson, Marcus Bäck,
Johan Dahlén, Karin Enander, Per
Hammarström, Helena Herbertsson,, Martin Josefsson, Peter Konradsson, Ingemar Kvarnström, Maria Lundkvist, Patrik Lundström, Annika Niklasson, Gunilla Niklasson, Lars Göran Mårtensson, Peter Nilsson, Lars Ojamäe, Elke Schweda, Maria Sunnerhagen, Magdalena Svensson, Henrik Pedersen, Fredrik Söderlind, Gunnar Höst
Study programmes in Chemistry:
• Chemistry (Ke) • Chemical Biology (KB)
• Chemical Analysis Engineering (KA) • Master of Science program. Profiles: Organic
Synthesis/Medicinal Chemistry and Protein Science.
• Technical Biology (TB) • Teacher Training Programs • Separate Courses
• Basic Year
Most of the chemistry courses offered are part of the three-year programmes, Chemistry (Ke)
and Chemical Biology (KB), (180 credits points/ hp). Students completing these programmes are awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. All courses within the Chemistry Program are also available as separate courses. The program, Chemical Biology (KB), have an open entrance for the students: after a year of studies the students can choice to continue in natural science (or to choose a more technical variant to become engineers). Chemical Biology combines understanding of complex biological processes with the fundamental principles of chemistry.
All study programs consist of three-year Bachelor of Science programs (180 hp) and master programs on advanced level for further two years (120hp). Chemistry offers master profiles in Organic Synthesis/Medicinal Chemistry and Protein Science.
Some of the chemistry courses are also included in the study programmes of students majoring in Biology, Medicinal Biology and in
Teacher Training Programs (students becoming Upper Secondary School teachers). Biology bachelors are required to earn 21 hp chemistry, while Science Education majors earn up to 45-120 hp of chemistry.
Besides the above mentioned courses as part of the Mathematical Natural Science, chemistry courses are offered for engineering students in the M.Sc. program Chemical Biology (also mentioned above) and Engineering Biology (TB)
(270 hp). The Chemical Analysis Engineering (KA)
(180 hp), a three-year programme, has analytical chemistry as the main profile.
Basic Year with introductory courses in Chemistry on a secondary school level, is offered to students who do not meet the requirements for studies at the University.
Courses
Natural sciences courses
hp
Advanced Organic Synthesis 12
Analytical Chemistry - Chromatography 6
Analytical Chemistry S 6
Analytical Chemistry T 6
Biochemistry 1 6
Combinational Protein Engineering 6
Experimental Chemistry 6 General Chemistry 1 6 General Chemistry 2 6 General Chemistry 9 Inorganic Chemistry 6 Medicinal Chemistry 6
Medicinal Natural Products 6
Molecular Design - Project Course 6
Organic Analytical Chemistry 12
Organic Chemistry 15
Organic Chemistry 3
Organic Chemistry 1 6
Organic Chemistry 2 12
Organic Synthesis 9
Physical Chemistry Spectroscopy 6 Physical Chemistry Thermodynamic 6
Physical-Organic Chemistry 6
Protein Chemistry 12
Statistical Tools for Chemical Analysis 6 Degree Project - Bachelor's Thesis (KB) 16 Degree Project - Bachelor's Thesis 16 Degree Project - Master's Thesis 60 Degree Project - Master's Thesis (KB) 60
Technical courses
hp
Advanced Bioinformatics 6
Analytical Chemistry 6
Application Areas to Chemical Analysis Engineering 6
Applied Structural Biology 6
Biochemistry 1 (KA) 6
Biochemistry 2 6
Bioinformatics 3
Biological Measurements 6
Biomolecular Disease Processes 6
Biostructural Technologies 6
Chemistry for Foundation Year 8 + 7 Chemometrics 3 Environmental Chemistry 6 Forensic Biochemistry 6 Forensic Chemistry 6 Fundamentals of Chemistry 6 Gene Technology 3
Industrial Protein Engineering 6
Life Scientific Research Review 6
Organic Chemistry 6
Physical Chemistry (KB) 6
Preparation of Proteins 3
Project Course; Chemical Biology 6
Project in Chemical Analysis Engineering 6
Protein Chemistry 6
Protein Engineering and
Project Management - Bachelor Project 16 Proteomics 6
Spectroscopy and Kinetics 6
Degree Project - Bachelor's Thesis (KA) 16 Degree Project - Master's Thesis (KB) 30 Degree Project - Master's Thesis (KB-TB profile) 30
Teacher Education
hp
Chemistry (1-15 hp) 15
Chemistry (16-30 hp) 15
Chemistry (31-45 hp) 15
Chemistry: Teaching Practice (46-52,5 hp) 7,5
Chemistry (53-60 hp) 7,5
Chemistry (61-75 hp) 15
Chemistry (76-90 hp) 15
Chemistry (91-97,5 hp) 7,5
Activity field
The division provides undergraduate courses in: • Physics
• Measurement technology • Biomaterials and Biotechnology
Staff
• Director of studies: Magnus Boman • Administrative assistant: Lena Wide • Technical staff: Hasan Dzuho,
Jonas Wissting
• Course leaders: Daniel Aili, Peter Andersson,
Peder Bergman, Emma Björk, Jonas Björk, Lars Björklund, Caroline Brommesson, Bo Durbeej, Thomas Ederth, Marcus Ekholm, Jens Eriksson, Mats Eriksson, Karin Enander, Daniel Filippini, Robert Gustavsson, Anne Henry, Gunnar Hörnsten, Fredrik Jeppsson, Magnus Johansson, Kenneth Järrendahl, Roger Magnusson, Martin Mak, Carl-Fredrik Mandenius, Magnus Odén, Mehrdad Rafat, Lina Rogström, Niclas Solin, Per Sandström, Vallery Stanishev, Anke Suska, Anthony Turner, Kajsa Uvdal
Programmes
The courses are given for the:
• Engineering Master of Science programmes: BME, D, I, Ii, KB, M, MED, TB, Y, Yi. • Engineering Bachelor of Science
programmes: DI, EL, KA, MI. • Bachelor of Science program: FyN. • Teacher training programmes: LP. • Basic year and semester: BAS, BAST.
Profiles
At an advanced level, courses are provided for two profiles:
• Devices and Materials in Biomedicine (TB) Profile leader: Karin Enander.
• Industrial Biotechnology and Production (KB, TB).
Profile leader: Carl-Fredrik Mandenius.
Courses
Physics
hp
Astronomy and Geophysics (FyN) 6 hp
Basic year, Physics 1 (BAS) 12 hp
Basic year, Physics 2 (BAS) 8 hp
Basic year, Physics 3 (BAS) 7 hp
Engineering Mechanics (KB, TB), 6 hp
Mechanics (MED, Yi), 6 hp
Mechanics I (FyN), 6 hp Mechanics II (FyN), 4 hp Molecular Physics (TB), 6 hp Physics (KB, TB), 6 hp Physics 1-15 hp, (LP), 15 hp Physics 16-30 hp, (LP), 15 hp Physics 31-45 hp, (LP), 15 hp Physics 46-60 hp, (LP), 15 hp Physics 61-75 hp, (LP), 15 hp, Physics 75-90 hp (LP), 15 hp Physics 91-97,5 hp (LP), 7,5 hp Thesis 1 Physics (LÄR), 15 hp Thesis 2 Physics (LÄR), 15 hp
Wave Physics (EL), 4hp
Measurement technology
hp
Computers in Measurement Systems (KA), 6 hp Contemporary Sensor Systems
(BME, FyN, MED, MFYS, Y), 6 hp
Electrical Measurement Systems (EL), 4 hp Measurement Technology (FyN, Mat,
MED, Y, Yi), 1,5 hp
Measurement Technology (D, DI), 4 hp Measurement Technology (M, MI), 6 hp
Measurement Technology (TB), 6 hp
Biomaterials and Biotechnology
hp
Biomedical Materials (BME, TB), 6 hp Biosensor Technology (KB, MED, TB), 6 hp Biotechnology Manufacturing (KB, TB), 6hp Biotechnology Project (I, Ii), 6 hp Degree project - Master’s Thesis (TB, KB), 30 hp Design of Biotechnical Process and
Production -systems, project Course (KB,TB), 6 hp Engineering Project (TB, KA), 6 hp
Physics
Materials and Nanotechnology (TB), 6 hp Materials for Biomedical Engineering;
from-nano- to macro-level (MED), 8 hp Materials in Medicine, CDIO-Project (TB), 6 hp Microsystems and Nanobiology (TB, Y), 6 hp Imaging and ubiquitous biosensing (TB), 6 hp Industrial Biotechnology (KB, TB), 6 hp Introduction to Biosensor Technology
(I, Ii, MED), 6 hp
Supramolecular Chemistry (TB), 6 hp Surfaces and interfaces (KB, MED, TB), 6 hp
Surface Science (KB, TB), 6 hp
Master’s Programme in Applied
Ethology and Animal Biology
This programme deals with animal behaviour and biology from an applications perspective. Central issues are the biology of stress and animal welfare, domestication effects on behaviour, physiology of behaviour and conservation biology.
The programme is taught in association with Kolmården Zoo which sometimes is the teaching venue. Learning rests on a mix of classroom lectures , seminars and hands-on projects invol-ving studies of animals in captive environnments.
All over the world, problems associated with keeping animals in captivity require increased attention and knowledge.
After completed studies, the student should be well-acquainted with theories of animal
behaviour and biology, and have a close under-standing of the concepts of animal welfare and conservation. Examination requires the ability to plan, implement and present a scientific investiga-tion in the subject framework of the programme.
More information: old.liu.se/utbildning/ pabyggnad/6METH?l=en&sc=true
Master’s Programme in Ecology
and the Environment, 120 ECTS
The programme has a strong focus on the practical application of ecological knowledge in society. It takes up, for example, environmental and natural resource management, and studies how interactions with various stakeholders affect this. The courses cover population ecology, community ecology and ecology systems theories, including their relationship to current environmental problems. Furthermore, the programme has an internship period and one course that focusses on ecological decision support for forestry and agriculture. Students have the opportunity to take elective courses, such as environmental impact assessment.
More information: old.liu.se/utbildning/ pabyggnad/6MECO?l=en&sc=true
International
Master’s Programme
Organic Synthesis/Medicinal
Chemistry
Deals with the design, synthesis and evaluation of low molecular weight organic substances which are biologically active. The programme begins with courses in organic chemistry and organic synthesis, building from the basic concepts to the advanced level, followed by an introduction to medicinal chemistry. Students will acquire the theoretical knowledge and practical experience needed to work with organic synthesis in the pharmaceutical industry.
More information: http://www.liu.se/ utbildning/pabyggnad/6MKOS?l=en&sc=true
Graduate
Education
A multidisciplinary doctoral
programme within biology,
chemistry, medicine, physics
and technology
• Programme director, director of studies:
Stefan Klintström
• Assistant director of studies:
Charlotte Immerstrand
• Chairperson of the scientific advisory committee: Karl-Eric Magnusson • Administrator: Anette Andersson
IFM is the host for the network and graduate school Forum Scientium (http://www.liu.se/ forskning/scientium/?l=en).
Forum Scientium is a multidisciplinary programme and the members have backgrounds within biology, chemistry, medicine, physics and technology. The research projects are located at two faculties; Faculty of Health Science and the Faculty of Science and Engineering, three campuses; Norrköping, US and Valla, and five departments; ITN, IKE,
Forum Scientium
IMT, IFM and IMH. Forum Scientium has financial support from the faculty and from the supervisors.
The strategic objectives are “PhDs and postdocs well prepared for their future careers through a structured programme which includes research of world class, and collaboration and multifaceted contacts with industry and society”.
During 2016, the doctoral programme Forum Scientium had around 40 PhD-students. During the year 15 PhD and one licentiate theses were presented and defended.
Other activities during 2015: • Ten monthly meetings at Campus US,
Norrköping and Valla
• Study visit to the Gothenburg area, May 2016 • Summer Conference at Vadstena, August
2016
• Courses and workshops of high quality • 20-year anniversary with workshops and
seminar on “Collaborations Academia and Industry”, Oct 2016 August 2016. The Forum Scientium Summer Conference at Vadstena
• AFM Director: Magnus Berggren • Graduate School Head: Per Olof Holtz • Graduate School Administrator: Karina
Malmström
• Agora Student Council in the end of 2016:
Jalil Shah (Surface and Semiconductor Physics, IFM)
• Krishna Praveen Jonnalagadda (Engineering Materials, IEI)
• Johan Jönsson (Theoretical Physics, IFM) • Hatim Alnoor (Physical Electronics and Nano
Technology, ITN)
• Lida Khajavizadeh (Applied Physics, IFM) • Robin Karhu (Semiconductor Materials, IFM) The Agora Materiae Graduate School for PhD students working in the research field of novel functional materials was formed in the beginning of 2012. In the end of year 2016, Agora Materiae had 49 members, from the three departments IFM, ITN and IEI. In year 2016, 2 licentiate theses of Agora members were presented and defended, and 11 dissertations of Agora PhDs took place.
The Graduate School Agora Materiae provides financial support from its “mother organization” AFM (Advanced Functional Materials), which manages larger investments
The Graduate School
Agora Materiae
in research and infrastructure, based on the strategic support from the Swedish government for materials science. The Graduate School is dedicated to offer graduate studies in a true multi-disciplinary environment.
Some important activities within the Agora
Materiae Graduate School during 2015:
Summer conference: In August 2016, the yearly summer conference was coordinated with the AFM Material conference and took place at Kolmården Vildmarkshotell. The first session was synchronized with the AFM Material conference with several invited speakers and researchers from industries, institutes and from universities, while the second part was for Agora solely with invited speakers, poster presentations and social activities.Study visit: The yearly Agora study visit was aiming for Lund for a two-day study visit. In the first day, Agora made a visit to Nano-Lund at the University with an extensive presentation session of their nano activities. For the second day, Agora members went to the novel MAX IV facilities. This study visit was postponed until October, since the inauguration of MAX IV took place at the usual time for the Agora study visit, i.e. June.
Agora Materiae group photo taken at the summer conference in Kolmården, aug 2016
Director of Graduate Studies: Per Olof Holtz
The PhD program at IFM aims at a degree of Licentiate or Doctor of either Technology or Philosophy. In year 2016, 25 new PhD students entered the graduate program at IFM (see diagram below). To fulfill the requirements for a PhD or a licentiate exam, the student must partly complete a number of graduate courses and partly perform research work resulting in a doctoral/licentiate thesis. The nominal time for training to the Doctor degree is four years with full-time training, while the corresponding time for the Licentiate degree is two years. However, most PhD students also do teaching (up to 20% of their time) or other department duties, which means that the total time to provide the PhD degree can be up to five years, or 2,5 years for the licentiate degree.
There were 31 PhD exams at IFM during 2016 (see diagram below), corresponding to 37% of all PhD exams at LiTH.
During 2016, the number of graduate programs at IFM has been reduced. The earlier 14 programs have merged into 5 graduate programs, with specializations in some of them:
- Biology - Chemistry - Material science
- Theory and modeling in natural science - Applied physics
At IFM, the required number of credit points for a PhD / Licentiate exam, varies in the range 60-90 / 30–45 hp for the different graduate programs. An extensive course menu is offered for the IFM PhD students at IFM. During 2016, the PhD students could choose among about 60 courses at IFM (see Table I below).
There are mandatory courses for all PhD students at LiU: i) Research Ethics, 2 ECTS, ii) Methodology of Science and Technology, 4 ECTS and a course in teaching in higher
IFM Graduate
Program
Seminar activities. One of the regular Agora activities is the seminar series, taking place every fourth week. At these seminars, three Agora members give a presentation in a way such that all members in Agora, representing a broad scientific spectrum within Materials can follow the presentation. At each seminar, also an invited speaker gives a talk. During 2016, the theme for the invited speakers has been PIs from AFM in order to increase the mutual knowledge about and interaction between Agora and AFM.
Common courses and workshops. Agora Materiae graduate school has been arranging common courses, such as Basic Management of Research Projects, Intellectual Property as a Business Tool and Analytical Methods in Materials Science (AMMS). In year 2016, Agora also arranged different workshops on various topics, such as Matlab, R and IPR.
Yearly individual follow-up. All Agora members were offered to have a discussion on their project progress, time schedule, but also problems in the graduate program with the graduate school director in November/ December 2016.
education of at least 3 ECTS (this course is mandatory for all PhD students who have teaching duties). LiTH offers courses for i) and ii), while LiU and IFM offer pedagogics courses. LiTH is also arranging courses of more general character, such as management, IPR and writing scientific papers.
IFM is the base for two graduate schools: Agora Materiae within the area of material science and Forum Scientium with its focus towards life science. These graduate schools also attract PhD students from other departments (e.g. ITN and IEI) within the technical faculty, but also from the medical faculty (HU).
At IFM, there is a Board of Graduate
Education, which is a forum for various topics associated with the graduate studies. This council, with four meetings per year, has the following members: The Director of Graduate Studies, one representative for each graduate program at IFM and two PhD student representatives from the doctoral reference group at IFM.
Each new PhD student at IFM will get a mentor. There are several reasons for the mentorship system at IFM, e.g. that each PhD student should have the possibility to go to another person than his/her supervisor with
various questions related to the graduate studies. This system should open up the possibility for the PhD students to discuss possible problems associated with the PhD program with the mentor. The mentor is also taking part in the annual follow-up of the individual study plans.
PhD courses offered in spring 2016
Quantum mechanics II 7,5 hp
Statistical and Thermal Physics II 7,5hp
Periodic System 5 hp
Introduction to Computational Chemistry
Semiconductor Physics 6 hp
Computational Quantum Chemistry 5 hp Chemical Sensor and Science Technology (web based)
Contemporary Sensor Systems 6 hp
Nucleation and Growth 2 hp
Defects
Biosensor Technology 6 hp
Graphene Spintronics
Science education for postgraduate/
doctoral students 3 hp
Functional semiconductor oxide materials 3 hp
Semiconductor physics I 8 hp
Additive manufacturing physics and chemistry
Neutron scattering 3 hp
Analytical Methods in Materials Science
(AMMS) 6 hp
XPS spectroscopy
Introduction to growth of III-nitride nano
structures 3 hp
Applied Structural Biology 6 hp
Theoretical Ecology
Protein Chemistry 6 hp
Scientific Publishing 3 hp
Introductory course in Scanning Probe
Microscopy 3 hp
Cardiovascular Biology 5 hp
Physical Metallurgy 6 hp
Vacuum science and Technology 6 hp Biomolecular Small-Angle Scattering 5 hp TEM Techniques for Material Analysis 3 hp
Polymer Physics 3 hp
Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
Number of PhD exams per department
Number of new PhD students per department
Diagrams showing the number of PhD exams and the number of students entering the graduate program at the different departments at LiTH during the last three years.
Specimen Preparation Methods in Materials
Science 1,5 hp
Python for scientists 6 hp
Chaos and Nonlinear Phenomena 6 hp
Quantum Mechanical Description of NMR
Spectroscopy 10 hp
Thin Film Physics 6 hp
Bayesian Statistics
Quantum Computers 6 hp
Optoelectronics 6 hp
PhD courses offered in autumn 2016
Plasma physics 5 hp
Semiconductor Physics 6 hp
Dislocations
Introduction to cathodoluminescence
spectroscopy 7,5 hp
Vacuum science and Technology 5 hp
Ion Beam Analysis in Material Science 7 hp
CAD for scientific use 3 hp
Surface Physics 6 hp
Transmission electron microscopy 7,5 hp
Nano Physics 6 hp
Semiconductor physics II 8 hp
Synchrotron radiation 7,5 hp
Modeling of CVD 6 hp
Solid State Physics I 7,5 hp
XRD Part I – theory
TEM Techniques for Material Analysis 3 hp
Chemical Vapor Deposition 8 hp
Chemical Sensor and Science Technology
(web based) 3 hp
Biotechnology advanced course 10 hp Biotechnology Exp. Techniques 10 hp
Fluorescence Spectroscopy 8 hp
Additive manufacturing 6 hp
Advanced organic electronics 8 hp
Supramolecular Chemistry 5 hp
Microsystem Technology 5 hp
Practical Electrochemistry 4 hp
Advanced bioinformatics 6 hp
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics 6 hp
Quantum Field Theory 6 hp
Molecular Basis of Protein Conformational
Diseases 6 hp
Biomolecular Disease Processes 6 hp Organic Chemistry of Sugars 10 hp
Computational Chemistry 7,5 hp
Behavior Genetics
Science education for doctoral students 3 hp Basic management of Research Projects 1,5 hp
Scientific Branch of
Research divisions and professors
• Applied Optics: Kenneth Järrendahl (head),
Hans Arwin
• Applied Sensor Science: Anita Lloyd Spetz
(head)
• Biomolecular and Organic Electronics:
Olle Inganäs (head), Fengling Zhang
• Biosensors and Bioelectronics: Anthony
Turner (head), Edwin Jager (deputy head), Fredrik Winquist (emeritus), Ingemar Lundström (emeritus)
• Biotechnology: Carl Fredrik Mandenius
(head), Johan Hyllner (adjunct), Gunnar Hörnsten (adjunct)
• Chemical and Optical Sensor Systems:
Stefan Klintström (head), Daniel Filippini, Helen Dannetun (rector)
• Complex Materials and Devices:
Martijn Kemerink (head)
• Molecular Physics: Doc. Thomas Ederth
(head), Doc. Daniel Aili (deputy head)
• Molecular Surface Physics and Nanoscience:
Kajsa Uvdal (head)
• Surface Physics and Chemistry:
Mats Fahlman (head), Nathaniel Robinson (deputy head)
Steering committee
Division heads and Dr. Stefan Klintström (chairperson).
Summary of activities
The Scientific Branch of Applied Physics with its ten divisions is one of the large research units at Linköping University. It covers a wide range of applied science where physics merges with chemistry, biology and engineering. The research activities target important needs in society where applied science contributes to create new products and new technical
solutions. By using cross-disciplinary mind-sets in an interactive environment with researchers from all areas of science and technology,
General Information
Applied Physics has the goal and ambition to provide new findings and results of high value for industry, healthcare and environmental protection.
The ten divisions contribute to this mainly within two areas: (1) sensors for analytical purposes and (2) molecular devices and functional materials.
In the area - sensors for analytical purposes - a variety of techniques and methods based on optical and electronic measurement principles are studied. The applications include sensor analysis in clinical medicine, drug development, bioprocess control, emission and environmental monitoring and control. Examples of research activities are:
Biosensors for distributed diagnostics, printed electrochemical sensors, wearable sensors for mobile health and environmental biosensors.
Silicon carbide gas sensors for applications such as vehicle exhaust after treatment and environmental monitoring.
Amplification of sensor signals using nanoparticles with functional properties for imaging in biomedicine.
Bioelectrocatalytic detection of single enzyme molecules interacting with electrode surfaces.
Ellipsometric measurement techniques for investigating biological films and structures.
On-line monitoring techniques for controlling stem cell and bio-therapeutic manufacture.
Nanoplasmonic biosensors for protein interaction and biomarker analysis.
Epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide and templated growth of other 2D sensing materials on SiC for ultra-sensitive gas and biosensors.
A particular challenge is to reach, the often required, extremely low limits of detection and selectivity of the sensors. Examples of
approaches to address this are development of new sensor materials using ultra-sensitive
