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Research Fellow - Mixed-Signal Analog IC Design for Optical Sensing

Employer
Global Academy Jobs
Location
Portugal
Closing date
Mar 4, 2019

Job Details

Job details

Duty Station: Braga, Portugal

Career Stage: Up to 3 years after PhD

Closing Date for applications: March 4th 2019, 23:00 (Lisbon Time)

Job description 

The International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory - INL (http://www.inl.int), was founded under an international legal framework to perform interdisciplinary research and to deploy and articulate nanotechnology for the benefit of society. INL aims to become the world-wide hub for nanotechnology addressing society's grand challenges in Aging & Wellbeing and Mobility & Urban Living and developing a Safe & Secure Society.

This call is related to the Scientific Research and Technological Development Projects identified hereunder, which are cofunded by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and National Funds through the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

Project specifications

Project specifications: INL participates in the following Scientific Research: Nanodevices/System Engineering

Name of the project: Optical monitoring of environmental emissions of ammonia by an integrated and autonomous membrane-based fluorescence platform

Reference number: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-031559

Scientific Area: Electrical and Electronics Engineer, Optics and Physics.

Description: The main goal is to develop a new family of low-cost and integrated sensors for the environmental monitoring of ammonia in an autonomous fashion. The baseline of this application is the sensor, a micro spectrophotometer that consists in a miniaturized optical device (including light source, photodetector, optical filters and control electronics) able to measure the fluorescence. The micro photospectrometer will include in a single CMOS die the photodetectors, the analog front-end and the signal processing. Optical filters will be monolithically integrated and fabricated with such CMOS device and later packaged (assembled) with light sources. All components of sensor will have to be developed, assembled and tested in controlled conditions. Finally, system integration of micro photospectrometer with process control and communications will be developed to have a network of sensors deployed at an animal production facility for a field test.

 Responsibilities

Description of the functions and key primary responsibilities:

The successful candidate will work in the System Engineering Group in the Department of Nanoelectronics. She/he will be assigned the following working plan:

  • Design and fabrication of a mixed-signal CMOS opto-electronic IC for a micro photospectrometer capable of measuring the fluorescence of an ammonia gas sensor (membrane).

 

This is a collaborative project with participants from multiple disciplines, mainly, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Electronics and Electrical Engineering. Various research groups are also involved at INL (Nanodevices, System Engineering and Microfabrication).

Requirements

Specific Eligibility Conditions:

  • Candidates must meet the following conditions, as they are required by the nature of the duties the candidate will be required to perform:
  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Physics or other related field;
  • CMOS analog and mixed-signal IC/System design with experience in analog front-end design (photodetector readout circuit with TIA amplifiers, filters and ADC);
  • Design and implementation of CMOS photodetectors;
  • Analog mixed-signal modeling;
  • Low power design experience with supply below 1.8V and process nodes below 0.18µm;
  • EDA tools experience (mainly Cadence but also Synopsys and Mentor Graphics) with experience in SPICE simulation (H-SPICE, SPECTRE or ELDO);
  • The applicant should have strong enthusiasm for work and excellent communication skills in English.

 

Financial Benefits

INL offers an attractive financial package appropriate to an international research organization composed by a gross monthly Remuneration of 2600.00€ paid in 12 installments. Due to INL special legal status as intergovernmental organization, financial benefits are exempt for national income tax. Apart from the salary, INL may offer, depending on the personal situation, additional allowances and benefits for families and non-residents. The financial benefits already include the-amount equivalent to the level 38 of the single remuneration table (TRU) as set out in Implementing Decree no. 11-A/2017, of December 29.

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