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1 position for 2 years, starting in February 2012
The ability to investigate and manage very fast phenomena has a deep impact on today's life, with applications ranging from information and communication to energy production and delivery.
The relevant phenomena in organic (as well as inorganic) electronics cover a very wide range of timescales, strictly related with the size of the systems involved according to the thumb's rule: the smaller the system, the faster its time evolution. Today's electronics already reach THz frequencies, i.e. ps cycle periods, while investigation of the ultrafast phenomena has reached nowadays the femtosecond and even attosecond timescale. The physical length scales of these ultrafast phenomena range from tens down to few nanometers, requiring a corresponding resolution during the investigation and eventually the production of the devices.
Investigation capabilities down to the attosecond timescale and to the atomic size are available through pump-probe techniques, based on the infrared to the ultraviolet pulsed lasers, and electron as well as scanning probe microscopies, respectively. However, due to the diffraction limit of traditional optical microscopes, the time and space resolution are usually available only separately, allowing time resolved – ensemble averaged measurements or time averaged imaging.
Research
You will be based at the Center for Nano Science and Technology (CNST) of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), which is operating in strict collaboration with the Physics department of Politecnico di Milano, and has one main objective in the development of organic electronics.
Your project goal will be the development of a single time resolved imaging and spectroscopic tool, working at the same time with ultrafast and nanoscopic capabilities, to be applied mainly to the study of organic and inorganic electronics.
Ultrafast imaging has a well-recognized pioneer in the A. H. Zewail, who developed ultrafast transmission electron microscopy at Caltech in the last few years (after being rewarded with the Chemistry Nobel prize in 2000), while ultrafast scanning probe microscopy is being developed by several groups and is in a feasibility stage. Organic electronics devices are already appearing on the consumer market with the first OLED screens, while a huge development is foreseen from plastic and graphene applications, with new devices as well as improvements of the traditional Si electronics. From a general point of view, both fields of ultrafast imaging and organic electronics have the potential for an explosive and rewarding development in the next years, with the first being still in its infancy and very open for innovation and creativity.
The project will bring together a world recognized excellence in ultrafast laser sources with assessed skills in electron and scanning probe microscopies.
Prerequisites
The ideal candidate has recently obtained a Ph.D. in either engineering, physics or related disciplines. Hands-on laboratory experience on either ultrafast pulsed lasers, optical, electron and scanning probe microscopes is very beneficial. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, enthusiastic, is fluent in English and possesses good interpersonal skills.
Salary
Starting from 30,000 Euro on annual basis plus benefits.
Application
Please send your CV and motivation letter, clearly stating how you could contribute to the success of the project, to: Dr. Alberto Tagliaferri,
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