(JG-4) PhD Postgraduate Opportunity - Nanoelectronics Job in Cork City, Ireland

Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork is one of Europe's leading research centres, specialising in ICT hardware research, with ca 420 staff, students and academic & industrial visiting researchers. Tyndall undertakes internationally-leading research into information and communications technology.

Tyndall uses its facilities and expertise to support industry and academia nationally and provides large numbers of highly qualified graduate students, key to the development of Ireland’s national economy. Tyndall has over 200 industry partnerships and customers worldwide. Several start up companies in Ireland have been based on technology originating at Tyndall. The Institute’s researchers include 125 PhD and 10 Masters students, and 38 nationalities are represented within the institute at all levels, with its research published in 200 peer reviewed publications last year.

(JG-4) PhD Postgraduate Opportunity - Nanoelectronics Job Description

Postgraduate Studies at the Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork
 
The Tyndall National Institute’s Postgraduate Research is Ireland’s largest dedicated ICT Research Centre - The Gateway to a Brighter Career!
 
Tyndall is Ireland’s leading research institute in information and communication technologies.   We’ve been hosting graduate students since 1981 with more than 380 alumni who have moved on to become international leaders in industry and academia. We host and supervise PhD and Masters students undertaking degrees in our research focus area of photonics, microsystems, nano-electronics, and theory, modelling and design, as well as in fundamental science. Graduate students have access to world leading researchers and to the extensive research infrastructure in Tyndall including: several advanced facilities for producing devices and systems including CMOS, compound semiconductor and Microsystems fabs, and a leading range of characterisation, analytical and test laboratories. Tyndall collaborates with a large number of global leaders from both industry and academia and is a key partner in European Union research initiatives.  A new PhD programme, PhD Engineering Science, introduced in Oct. 2011, provides technical and scientific training related to a candidate’s research topic, but also provides additional options by providing training in topics such as innovation, commercialisation, project management and technical writing. Key to Tyndall’s approach in graduate education is a truly interdisciplinary environment, with physicists, chemists, electronic engineers and life scientists working together across a range of scientific and engineering challenges with a philosophy of research with impact.

This PhD project will be performed in close collaboration with researchers in ETH Zurich and Synopsys Switzerland LLC to determine the electronic structure for novel channel materials and to represent the calculations in a form suitable for advanced transistor design. Plane wave calculations will be used to compute band structure data for III-V compounds for various strains; the choice of plane wave calculations is motivated in that they advantage of systematic convergence with basis set. To develop a sliding-scale coupling of transport from first-principles up to drift-diffusion models, the plane wave DFT calculations will be used to generate approximations relying on localised basis sets (numerical atomic orbitals) to facilitate development of DFT and tight binding (TB) electronic structure descriptions as required for transport models. For nanowire transistors, an electronic structure treatment needs to include surface effects arising due to the bonding between the channel and oxide layers. The same approach of using ab-initio DFT calculation as the target function for fitting TB parameters will be pursued to develop modified parameter sets to describe interface electronic structures.
 
Responsibilities
The successful applicant will be primarily responsible for developing the atomic orbital version of the density functional calculations and to liaise with the ETH Zurich and Synopsys teams on the development of tight binding parameters and to develop the semiconductor/oxide interface models.
The successful candidate for this position will have a good undergraduate degree in physics, electronic engineering, applied mathematics ,chemistry or materials science. Informal enquiries concerning this position can be made to Prof. Jim Greer (email: [email protected], webpage: http://www.tyndall.ie/users/jimgreer).
 
 

(JG-4) PhD Postgraduate Opportunity - Nanoelectronics Job Requirements

 
Applications are invited from students who have, or expect to gain, a first or second class honours degree in a relevant discipline, or equivalent.
 
Strong background in physics, electronics and programming skills.

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