Towards Fully Printable Complementary Electronics on Flexible Substrates

Fully-funded 3-year PhD studentship available from October 2012

Towards Fully Printable Complementary Electronics on Flexible Substrates

Supervisor: Dr. Martyn McLachlan

Duration: 36 months

Applications are invited for a PhD studentship investigating new electronic materials and device applications. The project is funded by KAUST and based in the in the Department of Materials at the central London Campus of Imperial College although the successful candidates will spend time at the sponsor for research exchanges.

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is an international, graduate-level research university. Research at KAUST focuses on areas that are important to the future of Saudi Arabia, the region and the world and takes place in world-class facilities serving students, researchers and faculty in disciplines such as energy and environment, water desalination, industrial biotechnology, and scientific computing.

The project is focused on addressing key challenges related to oxide electronics including i) reducing the processing temperature of i high-performance oxide-based active layers, ii) developing solution processable p-type oxides, iii) developing low-cost, large-area deposition techniques for these novel materials, iv) correlating processing methodologies with performance in a range of near future device applications.

We are seeking candidates with a minimum 2:1 (or equivalent) first degree in Materials Science, Chemistry or Applied Physics.

You will work within a team of dynamic PhD Students and Research Associates, in newly refurbished laboratories on the South Kensington Campus. You will also have extensive interaction with several academic collaborators from Imperial College as well as project partners. You will have access to the state-of-the-art facilities within the department and at the Centre for Plastic Electronics.

The project will be supervised by Dr Martyn McLachlan and informal enquiries should be sent to Dr. Martyn McLachlan [Email Address Removed]

For questions regarding the admissions process, please contact Fiona Thomson [Email Address Removed]

Formal applications can be completed online: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/materials/research/phdopportunities while information about the Department can be found at http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/materials.

Applications will be considered from now onwards.

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