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Organization: University of Canterbury

Location: Christchurch, New Zealand

Field: Plant Ecophysiology

Requirements:

The successful candidate will have a PhD in physics or a related discipline and experimental experience in several of: superconductivity; switching / memory devices; lithography or other device fabrication techniques; cluster deposition techniques; electrical characterisation of nanoelectronic devices; electron microscopy; percolation theory; computer simulations; data analysis..

Abstract:

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a three year fixed term post doctoral fellowship working on both fundamental properties and applications of nanoscale electronic devices in New Zealand

Description:

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a three year fixed term post doctoral fellowship working on both fundamental properties and applications of nanoscale electronic devices in New Zealand. The successful applicant will undertake research into superconductivity and switching (memory) behaviour in films of nanoparticles (or clusters). The main research goals are to understand issues such as how tunnelling in a percolating system leads to novel switching behavior (similar to memristor behaviour) and, in very similar samples, how insulating states form from superconducting nanoparticles The project has been funded by the Marsden Fund, New Zealands premier fundamental science funding agency, and the successful applicant will work closely with members of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, a national Centre of Research Excellence.

Deadline: 13-02-2011

Contacts:

Link: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/hr/job_vacancies.shtml

Email: simon.brown@canterbury.ac.nz

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