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Martin Magnuson

Senior Associate Professor

Materials Science Research using X-ray Spectroscopy with Synchrotron Radiation and Computations

Electronic Structure and Chemical Bonding in Materials

Presentation

This research area focuses on detailed studies of the electronic structure and chemical bonding in materials, and how these determine their physical and functional properties. By combining suitable elements into different compounds and alloys, properties such as hardness, elasticity, conductivity, band gap, and superconductivity can be tailored.

The work represents application-oriented basic research conducted at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM). It includes synthesis processes, material selection, and temperature-dependent phenomena such as spinodal decomposition and superconductivity, which are also of industrial relevance. Experimental investigations using advanced X-ray spectroscopic techniques with synchrotron radiation are combined with corresponding computational methods.

Research Focus

The research explores how electronic structure and chemical bonding govern the functional properties of advanced materials – ranging from two-dimensional (2D) MAX and MXene systems to amorphous nanocomposites, nitrides,and minerals.

Using synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopy together with quantum-mechanical calculations, the relationships between orbital hybridization, charge transfer, and local bonding environments are analysed, as well as their influence on electrical, magnetic, and mechanical properties.

Methods and Applications

The research combines materials synthesis with experimental characterisation using synchrotron-based X-ray absorption (XAS), X-ray emission (XES), resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS), and photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). These are complemented by first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT), as well as multiplet and charge-transfer models.

The aim is to achieve a deeper understanding of the relationship between structure and function, and to contribute to the development of sustainable, high-performance materials for energy, electronics, and mining technologyapplications.

Current Research Topics

  • Electronic structure in MAX- and MXene-based 2D materials
  • Metallenes – atomically thin metallic layers such as goldene
  • Amorphous carbide, hydride, boride, and nitride films and their local bonding environments
  • Complex nitride and oxide systems with directional electronic anisotropy
  • Gold-bearing minerals and environmentally friendly separation strategies
  • Current material studies include MAX phases, MXenes, amorphous carbides, and nitrides.

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Highlights

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Yuchen Shi, Shun Kashiwaya, Jun Lu, Martin Dahlqvist, Davide Giuseppe Sangiovanni, Vladyslav Rogoz, Martin Magnuson, Grzegorz Greczynski, Mike Andersson, Johanna Rosén, Lars Hultman (2025)

Science Advances , Vol.11

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Martin Magnuson, Per Eklund, Craig Polley (2025)

Physical Review Letters , Vol.134

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Lars-Åke Näslund, Esko Kokkonen, Martin Magnuson (2025)

Applied Surface Science , Vol.684

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Shun Kashiwaya, Yuchen Shi, Jun Lu, Davide Giuseppe Sangiovanni, Grzegorz Greczynski, Martin Magnuson, Mike Andersson, Johanna Rosén, Lars Hultman (2024)

Nature Synthesis , Vol.3 , s.744-751

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Lars-Åke Näslund, Martin Magnuson (2023)

2D Materials , Vol.10

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Lars-Åke Näslund, Mikko-Heikki Mikkelä, Esko Kokkonen, Martin Magnuson (2021)

2D Materials , Vol.8

Earlier projects

CV

Short CV 

Present employment
University Lecturer (Associate Prof.) at the Thin Film Physics Group, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University from 2008-03-01.

Docent competence
Docent in Physics with Specialization in Atomic, Molecular and Condensed Matter Physics , Uppsala University, 2005-09-16.

Post Doc position
Two year Post Doc/Guest Scientist at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Laboratoire de Chimie Physique - Matiere et Rayonnement, CNRS, Paris, France, from 1999-09-01 to 2001-08-31. Funded by a grant from STINT.

Doctorate Degree

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics
, Ph.D. (Tekn. Dr.), Uppsala University, 1999-05-14. Thesis title: Electronic Structure Studies Using Resonant X-ray and Photoemission Spectroscopy. Supervisor: Joseph Nordgren

Master degree
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in International Business at the School of Economics and Commercial Law, 1 year education, 40p, Gothenburg University and Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, 2002-2003.

Master degree

Master of Science in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
, (M.Sc.), 4.5 year education, 180p Linköping University, 1987-1992.

Referee and supervision 

Referee of papers submitted to high-level scientific journals
Referee of numerous papers in Phys. Rev. (PRL and PRB), Europhys. Lett, The Eur. Phys. J, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., Thin Solid Films and many other scientific journals. 

Supervision of PhD-students
• At Uppsala University: Financed and co-supervised PhD student Egil Andersson who started in 2005 with my VR grant (PhD 2010-05-29).
• Informal supervisor for undergraduate students and PhD students, at Linköping Univ., Uppsala Univ. as well as Guest Researchers, and Post Docs. 

Teaching experience

Lecturer, course leader, developer and organizer of the Synchrotron Radiation and
Nanoscience courses at Linköping University and Uppsala University.
• at Linköping University 2010 (7.5 hp).
• at Linköping University 2008 (7.5 hp).
•Synchrotron Radiation at Uppsala University 2007 (10 hp) and 2005 (7.5 hp).
•Nanoscience, Ångström at Uppsala University 2006 (7.5 hp) and 2004 (7.5 hp).
•Surface and Interface Physics at Uppsala University 2002 (7.5 hp).

Commission of trust and examination committees

• Member of the Board of the Materials and Nanoscience section; Swedish Physical Society (2011-).
• Member of the National Reference Group of MAX IV (2009/10/11).
• Organizer of ³¢Ã¤²Ô²õ²õ³Ù³Ü»å¾±±ð»å²¹²µ±ð²Ô for gymnasielärare at LiU (2011-).
• Session Chair of New Materials in the American Ceramic Society (2011).
• PhD board of Ola Wessely; Theory of X-ray Abs. Spectra and Spin Tr. Torque (2006-04-28).

News about my research

Publications

2025

Susmita Chowdhury, Hector Guerra Yanez, Sanath Kumar Honnali, Grzegorz Greczynski, Per O A Persson, Arnaud Le Febvrier, Martin Magnuson, Per Eklund (2025) Applied Materials Today, Vol. 44, Article 102730 (Article in journal)
Yuchen Shi, Shun Kashiwaya, Jun Lu, Martin Dahlqvist, Davide Giuseppe Sangiovanni, Vladyslav Rogoz, Martin Magnuson, Grzegorz Greczynski, Mike Andersson, Johanna Rosén, Lars Hultman (2025) Science Advances, Vol. 11 (Article in journal)
Martin Magnuson, Per Eklund, Craig Polley (2025) Physical Review Letters, Vol. 134, Article 106201 (Article in journal)
Lars-Åke Näslund, Esko Kokkonen, Martin Magnuson (2025) Applied Surface Science, Vol. 684, Article 161926 (Article in journal)

2024

Gabriel Kofi Nzulu, Lina Rogström, Jun Lu, Hans Högberg, Per Eklund, Lars Hultman, Martin Magnuson (2024) Journal of African Earth Sciences, Vol. 220, Article 105439 (Article in journal)
Susmita Chowdhury, Niraj Kumar Singh, Sanath Kumar Honnali, Grzegorz Greczynski, Per Eklund, Arnaud le Febvrier, Martin Magnuson (2024) Physical Review B, Vol. 110, Article 115139 (Article in journal)
Shun Kashiwaya, Yuchen Shi, Jun Lu, Davide Giuseppe Sangiovanni, Grzegorz Greczynski, Martin Magnuson, Mike Andersson, Johanna Rosén, Lars Hultman (2024) Nature Synthesis, Vol. 3, p. 744-751 (Article in journal)
Gabriel Kofi Nzulu, Hans Högberg, Per Eklund, Lars Hultman, Prosper M. Nude, Abu Yaya, Martin Magnuson (2024) MINING METALLURGY & EXPLORATION, Vol. 41, p. 1533-1533 (Article in journal)
Gabriel Kofi Nzulu, Hans Högberg, Per Eklund, Lars Hultman, Prosper M. Nude, Abu Yaya, Martin Magnuson (2024) Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, Vol. 41, p. 1013-1023 (Article in journal)
Fuxiang Ji, Johan Klarbring, Bin Zhang, Feng Wang, Linqin Wang, Xiaohe Miao, Weihua Ning, Muyi Zhang, Xinyi Cai, Babak Bakhit, Martin Magnuson, Xiaoming Ren, Licheng Sun, Mats Fahlman, Irina A Buyanova, Weimin Chen, Sergei I Simak, Igor A. Abrikosov, Feng Gao (2024) Advanced Optical Materials, Vol. 12, Article 2301102 (Article in journal)
Rui Shu, Xiaofu Zhang, Ferenc Tasnadi, Weine Olovsson, Smita Gangaprasad Rao, Grzegorz Greczynski, Arnaud Le Febvrier, Martin Magnuson, Per Eklund (2024) Annalen der Physik, Vol. 534, Article 2300470 (Article in journal)
Elena Naumovska, Gabriel Kofi Nzulu, Laura Mazzei, Arnaud Le Febvrier, Kristina Komander, Martin Magnuson, Max Wolff, Per Eklund, Maths Karlsson (2024) Vibrational Spectroscopy, Vol. 130, Article 103622 (Article in journal)

2023

Susmita Chowdhury, Victor Hjort, Rui Shu, Grzegorz Greczynski, Arnaud Le Febvrier, Per Eklund, Martin Magnuson (2023) Physical Review B, Vol. 108, Article 205134 (Article in journal)
Lars-Åke Näslund, Martin Magnuson (2023) 2D Materials, Vol. 10, Article 035024 (Article in journal)
Lina Rogström, Maiara Moreno, J. M. Andersson, M. P. Johansson-Jöesaar, Magnus Odén, K. Klementiev, Lars-Åke Näslund, Martin Magnuson (2023) Applied Surface Science, Vol. 612, Article 155907 (Article in journal)
Gabriel Kofi Nzulu, Hans Högberg, Per Eklund, Lars Hultman, Prosper M. Nude, Abu Yaya, Martin Magnuson (2023) Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 82, Article 386 (Article in journal)
Gabriel Kofi Nzulu, Elena Naumovska, Maths Karlsson, Per Eklund, Martin Magnuson, Arnaud le Febvrier (2023) Thin Solid Films, Vol. 772, Article 139803 (Article in journal)
Andrej Furlan, Jun Lu, Lars Hultman, Ulf Jansson, Martin Magnuson (2023) Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 35, Article 139501 (Article in journal)

2022

Weine Olovsson, Martin Magnuson (2022) The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 126, p. 21101-21108 (Article in journal)
Martin Magnuson, Lars Hultman, Hans Högberg (2022) Vacuum, Vol. 196, Article 110567 (Article, review/survey)

2021

Rui Shu, Daniel Lundin, Binbin Xin, Mauricio A. Sortica, Daniel Primetzhofer, Martin Magnuson, Arnaud Le Febvrier, Per Eklund (2021) ACS Applied Electronic Materials, Vol. 3, p. 2748-2756 (Article in journal)
Lars-Åke Näslund, Mikko-Heikki Mikkelä, Esko Kokkonen, Martin Magnuson (2021) 2D Materials, Vol. 8, Article 045026 (Article in journal)

2020

Martin Magnuson, Lars-Åke Näslund (2020) Physical Review Research, Vol. 2, p. 033516-1-033516-10, Article 033516 (Article in journal)
Martin Magnuson, Weine Olovsson, Naureen Ghafoor, Magnus Odén, Lars Hultman (2020) Physical Review Research, Vol. 2 (Article in journal)
Martin Magnuson, Maurizio Mattesini (2020) Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 501, Article 166470 (Article in journal)

2019

Martin Magnuson, Lina Tengdelius, Fredrik Eriksson, Mattias Samuelsson, Esteban Broitman, Grzegorz Greczynski, Lars Hultman, Hans Högberg (2019) Thin Solid Films, Vol. 688, Article 137384 (Article in journal)
Weine Olovsson, Teruyasu Mizoguchi, Martin Magnuson, Stefan Kontur, Olle Hellman, Isao Tanaka, Claudia Draxl (2019) The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 123, p. 9688-9692 (Article in journal)
Martin Magnuson, Lina Tengdelius, Grzegorz Greczynski, Fredrik Eriksson, Jens Jensen, Jun Lu, Mattias Samuelsson, Per Eklund, Lars Hultman, Hans Högberg (2019) Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. A. Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, Vol. 37, Article 021506 (Article in journal)
Martin Magnuson, Grzegorz Greczynski, Fredrik Eriksson, Lars Hultman, Hans Högberg (2019) Applied Surface Science, Vol. 470, p. 607-612 (Article in journal)

2018

Martin Magnuson, Thorsten Schmitt, Laurent Duda (2018) Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Vol. 224, p. 38-44 (Article in journal)
Martin Magnuson, Joseph Halim, Lars-Åke Näslund (2018) Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Vol. 224, p. 27-32 (Article in journal)
Martin Magnuson, Lina Tengdelius, Grzegorz Greczynski, Lars Hultman, Hans Högberg (2018) Thin Solid Films, Vol. 649, p. 89-96 (Article in journal)

2017

Martin Magnuson, Fredrik Eriksson, Lars Hultman, Hans Högberg (2017) The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 121, p. 25750-25758 (Article in journal)
Martin Magnuson, Susann Schmidt, Lars Hultman, Hans Högberg (2017) Physical Review B Condensed Matter, Vol. 96, Article 195103 (Article in journal)
Martin Magnuson, Maurizio Mattesini (2017) Thin Solid Films, Vol. 621, p. 108-130 (Article, review/survey)
Martin Magnuson (2017) Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 422, p. 362-366 (Article in journal)

2016

Weine Olovsson, Björn Alling, Martin Magnuson (2016) The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 120, p. 12890-12899 (Article in journal)

2015

Martin Magnuson, Maurizio Mattesini, Mattieu Bugnet, Per Eklund (2015) Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 27, p. 415501-415509 (Article in journal)
Andrej Furlan, Ulf Jansson, Jun Lu, Lars Hultman, Martin Magnuson (2015) Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 27, p. 045002- (Article in journal)

2014

Joseph Halim, Kevin M. Cook, Lars-Åke Näslund, Martin Magnuson, Lars Hultman, Yury Gogotsi, Per Eklund, Johanna Rosén, Michel W. Barsoum (2014)
Andrew Ritchie, Shaylin Eger, Chelsey Wright, Saniel Chelladurai, Cuyler Borrowman, Weine Olovsson, Martin Magnuson, Jai Verma, Debdeep Jena, Huili Grace Xing, Christian Duboc, Stephen Urquhart (2014) Applied Surface Science, Vol. 316, p. 232-236 (Article in journal)
Martin Magnuson, Thorsten Schmitt, Vladimir Strocov, Justina Schlappa, Alex Kalabukhov, Laurent Duda (2014) Scientific Reports, Vol. 4 (Article in journal)
Andrej Furlan, Jun Lu, Lars Hultman, Ulf Jansson, Martin Magnuson (2014) Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 26, p. 415501-415512 (Article in journal)

2012

Maurizio Mattesini, Martin Magnuson (2012) Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 25, p. 035601- (Article in journal)
Martin Magnuson, Maurizio Mattesini, Ngo Van Nong, Per Eklund, Lars Hultman (2012) Physical Review B Condensed Matter, Vol. 85, p. 195134- (Article in journal)
Martin Magnuson, Matilda Andersson, Jun Lu, Lars Hultman, Ulf Jansson (2012) Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Vol. 24, p. 225004- (Article in journal)

2011

Arturo Mendoza-Galvan, M Rybka, Kenneth Järrendahl, Hans Arwin, Martin Magnuson, Lars Hultman, Michel Barsoum (2011) Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 109, p. 013530- (Article in journal)
Maria Hahlin, M Odelius, Martin Magnuson, Erik Johansson, S Plogmaker, D Hagberg, L Sun, H Siegbahn, H Rensmo (2011) Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, Vol. 13, p. 3534-3546 (Article in journal)

2010

Martin Magnuson, Maurizio Mattesini, Carina Höglund, Jens Birch, Lars Hultman (2010) Physical Review B. Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 81, p. 085125- (Article in journal)

2009

Arturo Mendoza-Galvan, Marcin Rybka, Kenneth Järrendahl, Hans Arwin, Martin Magnuson, Lars Hultman, Michel Barsoum (2009) Proceedings of the AVS 56th International Symposium & Exhibition, 2009 (Conference paper)