Are you a Master’s graduate looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Explore the range of funded PhD programs available at the AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Apply online now and kickstart your doctoral journey!
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nanophotonics and quantum physics with electrons and light
Summary of PhD Program:
In a parallel project, we use high-power laser pulses to induce very strong optical near fields that change the energy spectrum of the electrons in the SEM. This interaction dresses the electrons into a quantum superposition state which creates a way to tailor the spatial and temporal distribution of electron wavepackets at will. The CL microscope is then operated as a quantum instrument with well-prepared initial electron states that may be entangled with materials excitations. This enables studies of optical excitations at attosecond time resolution.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cathodoluminescence tomography for semiconductor device inspection and analysis
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, we will investigate the potential use of CL spectroscopy in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) as a tool for semiconductor metrology. We will collect angle-, polarization-, and time-resolved CL spectra on complex nanostructures composed of metal, semiconductor, and dielectrics, and aim to derive characteristic materials properties and feature sizes in 3D from the collected data sets. The project ranges from studies of simple model systems to complex structures like nanosheet transistors that are relevant for semiconductor manufacturing and uses tomographic techniques in combination with inverse design and machine learning tools.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in The stochastic thermodynamics of nanomechanical computers
Summary of PhD Program:
The energy consumption of computers is a significant scientific and societal problem: Information technology is already responsible for more CO2 emissions than the airline industry. At the fundamental level, the energy cost of a computation is dictated by the laws of thermodynamics: computations must evolve in time in a pre-defined direction – we want our codes to run from the beginning to the end and not in reverse! However, in equilibrium, processes are equally likely to run forward than backward. Establishing an arrow of time (a preferential direction of evolution) requires consuming free energy.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Metasurfaces for energy-efficient wave-based computing
Summary of PhD Program:
Metasurfaces are ultra-flat and compact nanophotonic elements that are pursued worldwide to replace conventional bulky optical elements like mirrors, lenses, and prisms. Going beyond simple optics replacements, metasurfaces can also perform data processing on optical signals, with particular relevance to image processing like edge detection, feature recognition, or operations that resolve wavelength or polarization information.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Stable Perovskite Solar Cells by Controlling Ion Migration
Summary of PhD Program:
The stability of perovskite solar cells is limited because within the materials we can see the migration of charged atoms, ions. These ions can move through the solar cell and thereby reduce the electrical current extracted from sunlight. In this project you will investigate how the ions reduce the current, and how their ion motion can be reduced. You will test the following hypotheses for the loss in solar cell efficiency: (1) mobile ions cause an interfacial barrier to charge extraction; (2) mobile ions deplete the charge carrier density in the charge transport layers, leading to slow charge extraction; and (3) mobile ions reduce charge transport through the perovskite bulk.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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