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PhD student

Employer
Global Academy Jobs
Location
Poland
Closing date
Oct 13, 2017

Job Details

Scientific discipline: photonics, nanostructures, material science, chemistry

Number of job offers: 4

Remuneration/stipend amount/month: ~4000-4200 PLN/month of stipend

Position starts on: 1st November, 2017

Maximum period of contract/stipend agreement: 36 months (with a possible extension if the Project is considered successful by referees and an extension is funded)

Institution: Laboratory of Materials Technology

Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw

Project leader: dr hab. Dorota A. Pawlak, prof. UW

Project title: Novel photonic materials concepts, crystal growth, and beyond-the-state-of-the-art optical characterization at the crossroad
Project description: Within the TEAM programme we will combine (i) crystal growth methods with (ii) novel photonic materials concepts, and with (iii) beyond-the-state-of-the-art optical and physicochemical characterization techniques at the micron/nanoscale available at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw. At the crossroads of these fields we will work on the development of: (i) new technologies for manufacturing of novel materials with special electromagnetic properties as metamaterials/plasmonic materials (new eutectic–based materials, new matrix–nanoparticles composites, materials with plasmon-exciton interaction, active microresonators with plasmon enhanced luminescence); (ii) understanding of underlying optical/physical processes responsible for the new observed electromagnetic phenomena; and (iii) utilization of the developed materials for various applications (photonics, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, and medicine).

Key responsibilities include:
1.Preparing novel nanoplasmonic and other materials with special optical/electromagnetic properties
2.Optical properties measurements (s-SNOM, microRaman, microluminescence, life-time and others)
3.Characterization of materials
4.Studying literature
5.Analyzing the results
6.Writing manuscripts

We offer:

Work in team of energetic scientists, access to modern labs and participation in novel research programme, access to new world class characterization equipment: scattering-type Scanning Near-field Microscope (s-SNOM) for nanospectroscopy and nanoimaging in near-field, Time-resolved Confocal Fluorescence Microscope for photoluminescence life-time measurements, Raman microscope for identification of Raman scattering/fluorescence at microscale with TERS/TEFS modules, WGM/SPR spectrometer for exciting of surface plasmon resonances possibility to cooperate with world class researchers. [1, 2, 3]

For more details about the position please see our previous works [4, 5, 6, 7], a movie demonstrating volumetric nanoplasmonic material made by us [8], and our facebook site [9]

  • [1] P. Alonso-González, …, R. Hillenbrand, Science 2014, 344, 1369.
  • [2] A. Woessner,..., R. Hillenbrand, Nature Mater. 2015, 14, 4.
  • [3] V. K. Valev, J. J. Baumberg, C. Sibilia, T. Verbiest, Adv. Mater. 2013, 25.
  • [4] M. Gajc et al., NanoParticle Direct Doping: Novel method for manufacturing three-dimensional bulk plasmonic nanocomposites, Adv. Funct. Mat. 2013, 23, 3443.
  • [5] K. Sadecka et al., When Eutectics Meet Plasmonics: Nanoplasmonic, Volumetric, Self-Organized, Silver-Based Eutectic, Adv. Opt. Mat. 2015, 3, 381.
  • [6] K. Korzeb, Compendium of natural hyperbolic materials, Opt. Express 2015, 23, 25406.
  • [7] D. A. Pawlak, How far are we from making metamaterials by self-organization? The microstructure of highly anisotropic particles with an SRR-like geometry, Adv. Funct. Mat, 2010, 20, 1116.
  • [8] https://www.facebook.com/fmlaboratory/videos/608375495898423/
  • [9] https://www.facebook.com/fmlaboratory/
     

Please submit the following documents to: dorota.anna.pawlak@gmail.com

Application deadline: 13th October, 2017

Required documents:

1.An application letter
2.Curriculum Vitae
3.A scanned copy of University diploma including marks
4.Record of achievements (papers, presentations etc)
5. A reference letter*

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