BSc - MSc theses

Students

UT / SAXION

Year

Title thesis

Tutor/supervisor






Max Brutel de la Riviere

UT B-AT

2023

Atomic Scale Roughening and Smoothing of Metal Surfaces by Low Energy Ions: The effects of Nitride Formation

Dr. M. Sturm / Dr. P. Phadke






Devin Groot

UT-B-AP

2024

Quadrupole mass spectrometry for trace levels of HIO contamination detection

Dr. I. Makhotkin / I. Gaffarov

Allard Kuipers

UT B-AP

2024

Deposition and analysis of piezoelectric thin films

Dr. M. Bayraktar / Dr. P. Lucke

Max Christenhusz

UT B-AP

2024

Studying the re-ionisation function of W and using this to measure W/Si and possible other interfaces of W on light materials with LEIS

Dr. M. Sturm / A. Valpreda

Fleur Voortman

UT B-AP

2024

Simulations of alloy phase diagrams using CALPHAD

Dr. W.T.E. van den Beld / M. Homsma

Thomas van den Berg

UT B-AP

2023

Low energy ion beam smoothening of B4C in short-period W/B4C multilayers

Dr. A. Yakshin / D. IJpes

Meo van Duijnen Montijn

UT B-AP

2022

Stability of transition metal carbide/oxycarbide thin films in hydrogen radical environments

Dr. W.T.E. van den Beld / Abdul Rehman

Mark Klein

UT B-AP

2022

Ion beam treatment with neon in 2.5 nm W/B4C multilayers

Dr. A. Yakshin / D. IJpes

Niek Lokhorst

UT B-AP

2021

Measuring the effect of reionisation and scattering on the second atomic layer on the shape of LEIS surface peaks

Dr. M. Sturm / Dr. A. Zameshin

Stefan Vries

UT B-AP

2020

Thin film PZT actuator with three-dimensional actuation capabilities

Dr. M. Bayraktar

Joran van den Berg

UT B-AP

2019

Frequency dependence of the piezoelectric coefficient (d33) and hysteresis in lead zirconate titanate (PZT) columnar films

Dr. R. Nematollahi

Laurens Hendrikx

UT B-AP

2018

Flying circus EUV Spectrometry

Dr. M. Bayraktar / Dr. H.M.J. Bastiaens

Bas Haartsen

UT B-AP

2017

Summer project: study of thin film growth models

Dr. I. Makhotkin

Cedric Hendrikx

UT B-AP

2016

Characterization of barriers in multilayer thermal kinetics using Laser reflectometer

Dr. I. Makhotkin / Dr. R.W.E. van de Kruijs

Bas Stadhouder

UT B-AP

2015

Understanding the multilayer thermal kinetics using Laser reflectometer

Dr. I. Makhotkin / Dr. C.J. Lee

Joris de la Rie

UT B-AP

2015

Implementation of nonlinear optimization algorithms in X-Ray studies

Dr. I. Makhotkin / Dr. R.W.E. van de Kruijs

Koen Ledeboer

UT B-AP

2015

Understanding the multilayer thermal kinetics using Laser reflectometer

Dr. I. Makhotkin / Dr. C.J. Lee

Michel van den Hoek

UT B-AP

2015

Detecting hydrogen with Low-Energy Ion Scattering

Dr. M. Sturm






Meo van Duijnen Montijn

UT M-AP

2024

Enabling quantitative XRF analysis on our Empyrean setups

Dr. I. Makhotkin / Dr. A. Tiwari / T. Terentev

Niek Lokhorst

UT M-AP / M-AM

2022

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Markov Chain analysis for hybrid X-ray metrology

Dr. I. Makhotkin / Dr. A. Tiwari

Martijn Homsma

UT M-AP

2021

Changes in oxidation between metal and entropy alloy thin films

Dr. W.T.E. van den Beld

Stefan Vries

UT M-AP

2021

Internship report: Thin film PZT actuator with three-dimensional actuation capabilities

Dr. M. Bayraktar

Cedric Hendrikx

UT M-AP /  M-AM

2020

Segregation in buried interface thin film systems using X-Ray standing wave analysis

Dr. R.W.E. van de Kruijs / Dr. A. Zameshin

Joris de la Rie

UT M-AP

2018

Simulation of EUV and X-Ray Scattering on 3D grating-like structures using many-beam dynamical diffraction theory

Dr. I. Makhotkin / Dr. R.W.E. van de Kruijs






Maurice Geut

SAXION chemistry

2023

Understanding oxidation in the vacuum tube furnace 

Dr. W.T.E. van den Beld / M. Homsma

Luke Wenneker

SAXION chemistry

2021

Study of the reduction process of ultra-thin metal oxide films by low energy hydrogen ions

Dr. R. Pushkarev

Tobias Breg

SAXION AP

2021

Understanding the tolerance corridors of hybrid X-ray analysis

Dr. I. Makhotkin

Aron Uneputty

SAXION Chemistry

2021

Characterization of oxide formation by Low Energy Oxygen Ion implantation in transition metals

Dr. P. Phadke

Rens Keppels

SAXION Chemistry

2020

Defining the parameters for the structural control of hafnium oxide 

Dr. C.R. Stilhano Vilas Boas / Dr.ir. J.M. Sturm

Frank Mensink

Saxion Chemistry

2020

Study on the effect of atomic hydrogen on ZrSix thin films

Dr. W.T.E. van den Beld

Alexander Bakhuis

SAXION Chemistry

2020

Distinguishing hydrogenation and defect formation in multilayer graphene upon hydrogen plasma exposure

Dr. W.T.E. van den Beld

Harm van der Velde

SAXION Chemistry

2020

Identification of mixed species hydrogen beam

Dr. W.T.E. van den Beld

Hans Oude Groote Beverborg

SAXION Chemistry

2019

Chemical resistivity of multi-layered graphene in hydrogen plasma environments

Dr. W.T.E. van den Beld