A PhD position is opened at the Institut des Matériaux et de Microélectronique de Provence (IM2NP), Marseille, France. The candidate will take part of a research project, APODISE. The aim of this project is to develop “Autonomous Portable Digital Secure Elements”.
APODISE is founded by the House of Innovation and Technology (HIT) in the Aix-Marseille excellence initiative (A*Midex) involving researchers of two laboratories in Aix-Marseille University and Gemalto, one of the international industrial leaders in smart cards provider.
The PhD research project will focus on the study, by Electron Microscopy (EM) and Atom Probe Tomography (APT), of the structure and the chemistry at the atomic scale of materials developed for Energy Harvesting application. 

Background
Indeed, secure elements as for instance smart cards require a greater portability, contactless uses, increased autonomy and significant extension of the life cycles.
The teams involved in this project will work on different steps of the fabrication as energy harvesting, protection against the environment and reliability of the components along the time. One of the main goals will be to harvest the surrounding energy to obtain completely autonomous cards. Different energy harvesting solutions will be developed in function of the nature of the energy (light, heat, movement or electromagnetic waves - especially radio-frequencies).

Research Objectives:
The aim of the PhD candidate will be to establish the relationship between macroscopic properties of the materials and their chemistry and structure at the atomic scale. This is of crucial importance for a better understanding of phenomena and so, for the development of new materials.

The study, from the micron scale down to the atomic one, will be possible thanks to a combination of different equipments at the cutting edge of technology: a Variable Pressure High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscope equipped with different analysis techniques (EDS, WDS, EBSD …), a Cs-corrected Transmission Electron Microscope (HREM, STEM-HAADF, EDS, …) and an Tomographic Atom Probe.

The candidate will have to work in close collaboration between several teams of the Lab as well as the industrial partner. 

Financial support: from A*Midex during 36 months

Location: The candidate will work in the research group µTEN (leader: Professor Ahmed Charaï) which is part of the Institut des Matériaux et de Microelectronique de Provence (IM2NP) in Marseille (France)

Links:
IM2NP: http://www.im2np.fr/
CP2M: http://www.cp2m.u-3mrs.fr/home.htm
CIMPACA: http://www.pole-scs.org/
HIT : http://amidex.univ-amu.fr/fr/hit/

How to apply: Applicants are required to provide:
• academic CV;
• official full list of courses and marks from your university;
• cover letter outlining your suitability for the study and experience to date,
• contact details of two suitable referees.

A PhD position is opened at the Institut des Matériaux et de Microélectronique de Provence (IM2NP), Marseille, France. The candidate will take part of a research project, APODISE. The aim of this project is to develop “Autonomous Portable Digital Secure Elements”.

APODISE is founded by the House of Innovation and Technology (HIT) in the Aix-Marseille excellence initiative (A*Midex) involving researchers of two laboratories in Aix-Marseille University and Gemalto, one of the international industrial leaders in smart cards provider.

The PhD research project will focus on the study, by Electron Microscopy (EM) and Atom Probe Tomography (APT), of the structure and the chemistry at the atomic scale of materials developed for Energy Harvesting application.

 

Background

Indeed, secure elements as for instance smart cards require a greater portability, contactless uses, increased autonomy and significant extension of the life cycles.

The teams involved in this project will work on different steps of the fabrication as energy harvesting, protection against the environment and reliability of the components along the time. One of the main goals will be to harvest the surrounding energy to obtain completely autonomous cards. Different energy harvesting solutions will be developed in function of the nature of the energy (light, heat, movement or electromagnetic waves - especially radio-frequencies).

 

Research Objectives:

The aim of the PhD candidate will be to establish the relationship between macroscopic properties of the materials and their chemistry and structure at the atomic scale. This is of crucial importance for a better understanding of phenomena and so, for the development of new materials.

 

The study, from the micron scale down to the atomic one, will be possible thanks to a combination of different equipments at the cutting edge of technology: a Variable Pressure High Resolution Scanning Electron Microscope equipped with different analysis techniques (EDS, WDS, EBSD …), a Cs-corrected Transmission Electron Microscope (HREM, STEM-HAADF, EDS, …) and an Tomographic Atom Probe.

 

The candidate will have to work in close collaboration between several teams of the Lab as well as the industrial partner. 

Requirements

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Contact

Identity
Claude Alfonso, Maître de Conférences
Address
Aix*Marseille Université - IM2NP
Faculté des Sciences de St Jérôme, Service 261
13397 Marseille cedex 20
France
Phone
+33 (0)4 91 28 85 65
eMail
claude.alfonso@univ-amu.fr
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