Research Associate / Senior Research Associate

Job title:

Analysis Affiliate / Senior Analysis Affiliate

Firm

College of Bristol

Job description

The functionFunctions are invited for the function of Postdoctoral Researcher on the UKRI Innovation and Information Centre (IKC) Remodeling Internet Zero with Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductor Gadget Know-how (REWIRE) to offer main contributions to electrical characterization of huge and ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor supplies and gadgets, together with GaN, Gallium Oxide, SiC and diamond, key enabling supplies for energy and RF electronics.At REWIRE, our purpose is to speed up the UK’s ambition for internet zero by reworking the subsequent technology of excessive voltage digital gadgets utilizing huge/ultra-wide bandgap compound semiconductors. Led by Bristol (Educational Director: Professor Kuball) with companions Cambridge and Warwick Universities, REWIRE will develop high-voltage energy semiconductor gadgets, important constructing blocks for ultra-high voltage (UHV) net-zero enabling all-electric automobiles, charging infrastructure, renewable vitality and their Excessive Voltage Direct Present (HVDC) grid connections.Professor Kuball, Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Rising Applied sciences, is Director of REWIRE and of the Centre for Gadget Thermography and Reliability (CDTR), a world-leading analysis centre specializing in reworking {the electrical} efficiency, thermal administration and reliability of novel energy and RF digital gadgets, circuits and packaging. This place additionally advantages from the CDTR main the EPSRC programme grant ULTRAlGaN on creating vertical stable state circuit breakers utilizing excessive composition AlGaN supplies and the Chair in Rising Applied sciences awarded to Professor Kuball by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) in 2020, and varied US funded programmes the CDTR is partnered in.What’s going to you be doing?You’ll conduct analysis within the electrical characterization and testing of huge and ultra-wide bandgap supplies and gadgets and develop gadget TCAD fashions for gadget design and to enhance experiments.You’ll have entry to intensive electrical characterization laboratories, together with superior strategies such because the evaluation of epitaxial buffer stacks utilizing amongst different approaches, the substrate backbiasing approach Bristol pioneered, and normal strategies resembling DIVA, CV, DLTS and many others, additionally complementary amenities like thermal, electroluminescence, electrical area imaging, to transmission electron microscopy amenities. You’ll work with state-of-the artwork supplies and gadgets from quite a few collaborators, additionally Gallium Oxide supplies and gadgets grown by way of MOCVD within the CDTR and fabricated into gadgets in-house.You’ll work with exterior stakeholders, particularly trade, in addition to educational companions inside REWIRE and can have interaction with senior administration of REWIRE, to hunt additional industrial or different funding alternatives, together with writing/co-writing of proposals.You must apply ifCandidates ought to have postgraduate (PhD) expertise in physics, supplies science or engineering, with publication document. The place requires intensive experience in superior electrical characterization of huge and ultrawide bandgap supplies and/or gadgets, constructing {of electrical} experimentation and TCAD. A willingness to work along with, and co-supervise, PhD college students of the CDTR will likely be vital.For casual queries please contact Professor M. Kuball: , tel +44(0)117 928 8734.Further dataContract sort: Open ended (Fastened funding till 3/4 2026)Work sample: 35 hours / Full timeWage: £37,099 – £41,732 (Grade I) £41,732 – £46,974 (Grade J)This advert will shut at 23:59 GMT on Wednesday fifteenth Might 2024.£37,099 to £46,974 every year (Grade I/J)

Anticipated wage

£37099 – 46974 per yr

Location

Bristol Space

Job date

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 05:31:38 GMT

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