The PhD student will carry out work within a project with strong experimental focus. Electrical, thermoelectrical, and optical characterization techniques will be used in the research to investigate the properties of semiconductor nanowire material and nanowire devices, such as doping levels, carrier mobility, light emission/absorption, nanowire-dielectric/metal interface properties. During the PhD studies, the student will develop and use advanced clean-room processing techniques, based on lithography, deposition, and etching-processes, and adopt these to nanowire devices and device structures. The PhD studies contain a course part and a scientific project. The PhD student will be expected to carry out several months of internship in a company or major research facility. Active participation in outreach activities and teaching at the undergraduate level might also be a part of the job.

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One research topic will be to develop and characterize various nanowire-contact interfaces, such as transparent contacts, aimed at electrical and electro-optical studies. The project will be in close collaboration with theory and materials science within PhD4Energy and nmC@LU. The research at the division of Solid State Physics is focused on different aspects of semiconductor physics, ranging from materials science via quantum physics to different applications. The division is at the center of the major interdisciplinary research environment within nanoscience and nanotechnology at Lund University – the Nanometer Structure Consortium at Lund University (nmC@LU). Lund Nano Lab is a central key facility for fabrication of material and devices on the nanoscale. The division is also heavily involved in the undergraduate education, especially within the “Engineering Nanoscience” program. During 2014 – 2018, the Nanometer Structure Consortium will host the EU project ”Nanoscale Materials for Energy: Fundamentals, Safety and Applications (PhD4Energy)”, a FP7 Marie Curie Innovative Doctoral Program that will train in total 12 early-stage researchers (PhD students). The scientific focus is the material science, growth and application of semiconductor nanowires for photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes and thermoelectrics, safety investigations of nanoparticles, and energy conversion at the molecular scale. The project requires advanced materials science, nanocharacterization, interdisciplinary methods, and close collaboration between theory and experiment. All PhD students within PhD4Energy will perform an internship at a Swedish or international company or at a major research facility as part of their training. For more information see: www.nano.lth.se.

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