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The Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), in the frame of the project ‘SOLAR-NANO: Nanostructured plasmonic reflectors for efficient thin film solar cells’, which is financed by the “Bilateral Cooperation Greece-Germany in Research and Technology 2013-2015” of Greece's General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), is seeking for two (2) post-doctoral researchers.

Project title: Photon management in thin film solar cells

The project concerns analysis of light harvesting in nanostructured thin film solar cells with the help of surface plasmon polaritons. The study will start with solar cells with randomly textured metallic back reflectors; later other nanostructured surfaces will be tested as back reflectors, and the role of surface plasmon polaritons in the efficiency of the solar cells for various solar cell configurations will be thoroughly investigated.

Qualifications

• PhD in relevant field
  • Scientific Publications

Place: IESL-FORT, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Start Date: 01/01/2015

Project Duration: 10 months

Cost: 20625 euro per person

Application Submission

Interested candidates who meet the aforementioned requirements are kindly asked to submit their applications, no later than 29^th of November 2014 by email to (hr@iesl.forth.gr), with cc to the Scientific Coordinator, Prof. Maria Kafesaki (kafesaki@iesl.forth.gr).

In order to be considered, the application must include:

• Application Form (please download file from the position announcement webpage) mentioning the announcement code
• Brief  CV
• Scanned copies of academic titles

Any application received after the deadline will not be considered for the selection

Contact

For information and questions regarding the application and selection procedure, candidates are asked to contact (hr@iesl.forth.gr), tel. +30 2810-391301

For information and questions about the advertised position and the research activity of the group or the institute, candidates are asked to contact the Scientific Coordinator, Prof. Maria Kafesaki  (kafesaki@iesl.forth.gr), tel. +30 2810-391547

Selection Procedure

Applications that are received on time are going to be reviewed by the scientific committee. The committee will select the candidacies that best match the position and project requirements, based on the score that they will get according to the criteria table as shown on the Appendix in the end of the present announcement. If necessary, certain candidates will be invited to a personal interview with the committee on a specific date and time that will be announced.

The successful candidates will be personally notified and will be asked to present the required documents in original form within six (6) working days after the results announcement on the web and the time period for appeals. In the case that the presented documents don’t match those submitted, the candidates will be dismissed from the procedure.

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