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Pamburayi Mpofu

Principal Research Engineer

I am an experimental materials scientist and trained chemist, with research interests focused on chemical vapor deposition and etching of thin layers of materials.

Presentation

Research

I am a principal research engineer in materials chemistry and a member of the Pedersen Group in the Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology at Link枚ping University in Sweden; where I received both an MSc in Chemistry in 2021 and a PhD in Materials Chemistry in 2025.

My research interests are in inorganic materials chemistry with a focus on atomic layer deposition (ALD). I have been working on understanding, on a fundamental atomic level, the surface chemistry governing the deposition of metastable ternary nitride thin layers of materials by time-resolved chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and or ALD, for protective hard coating applications ()

Currently, I鈥檓 collaborating with Swedish industry in the manufacture of semiconductor components and other projects around deposition and etching of different materials. I鈥檓 also responsible for equipment in research labs, guiding and assisting doctoral students and thesis workers.

Publications

2026

Prosper Simbarashe Mushore, Pamburayi Mpofu, Kenichiro Mizohata, Kostas Sarakinos, Nathan O'brien, Henrik Pedersen (2026) Materials Advances (Article in journal)
Pamburayi Mpofu, Peggy Bagherzadeh Tabrizi, Houyem Hafdi, Premrudee Promdet, Jonas Lauridsen, Oscar Alm, Tommy Larsson, Rosemary Jones, Esko Kokkonen, Joachim Schnadt, Henrik Pedersen (2026) Chemistry of Materials (Article in journal)

2025

Pamburayi Mpofu, Tommy Larsson, Oscar Alm, Jonas Lauridsen, Kenichiro Mizohata, Ben F. Spencer, Hans Högberg, Kostas Sarakinos, Henrik Pedersen (2025) Surface & Coatings Technology, Vol. 518, Article 132898 (Article in journal)
Pamburayi Mpofu (2025)
Pamburayi Mpofu, Pentti Niiranen, Oscar Alm, Jonas Lauridsen, Tommy Larsson, Henrik Pedersen (2025) Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. A. Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, Vol. 43, Article 032405 (Article in journal)