13 PhD Positions, Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik, Germany (2016)

Leibniz ScienceCampus GraFOx unites activities in crystal growth, epitaxy, theory, and fundamental physical investigations. We bring together our passion, expertise and research facilities to explore and create oxide systems for new generations of electronic devices.

Starting 23rd of May, we search 13 PhD students for research work at the Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (PDI), the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Technische Universität Berlin, and the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin. All announced PhD projects are located within the field of physics. We are searching for highly motivated young researchers with a Master in Physics or a closely related field.

Outstanding applicants will be invited for recruitment during the GraFOx kick-off meeting in Berlin that will take place in the first half of July.

Description
Oxides are among the materials with the widest span of physical properties. They can be insulators, metallic semiconductors, conductors and superconductors, magnetic materials, ferro-/antiferro- and other dielectrics. Thereby, oxides are a materials class with high potential for novel electronic devices and energy applications. Our ScienceCampus will initially focus on the emerging class of sesquioxides (In2O3, Ga2O3 and Al2O3) and their alloys, while the more complex and versatile class of perovskites, e.g. SrTiO3, LaAlO3, BaSnO3 will increasingly be addressed in due course.

The Leibniz ScienceCampus GraFOx seizes the unique chance to fuse excellent individual activities and competences on oxides in five partner institutions based in Berlin.

The ScienceCampus model promotes cooperation on an equal footing between Leibniz institutions and universities in the form of thematically-focused, complementary regional partnerships. The networks aim to strengthen the scientific environment for the relevant themes by conducting strategic research, encouraging interdisciplinarity in their topics, projects and methods, and ultimately enhancing the visibility of the respective location.

Altogether, we announce 13 PhD positions in four different clusters (C) that comprise the structural design and physical properties (C1), surfaces, adsorbates and surface related properties (C2), fundamentals of growth (C3), and the atomic defects, doping, and defect engineering (C4).

Research Fields
Physics

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