Semiconductors PhD Research Projects for European Students (exc UK)

NEXT GENERATION MINIATURIZED OPTICAL SOURCES

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Massimiliano Guasoni (supervisor), Cosimo Lacava (co-supervisor). Project description. This PhD project aims to open new frontiers in nanophotonics by designing and fabricating a new class of miniaturized optical sources. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Guasoni

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Shaping light at the nanoscale with dielectric nanoantennas

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Massimiliano Guasoni (supervisor), Cosimo Lacava (co-supervisor). Project description. In the last decade, nanophotonics has emerged as one of the most important research fields in optics. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Guasoni

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Multimode fibre lasers

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Massimiliano Guasoni, Lin Xu, David Richardson. Project description. Multimode optical fibres have recently emerged as a promising breakthrough technology to boost the data transmission speed of the Internet network to unprecedented levels. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Guasoni

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Hydrogen degradation in silicon solar cells and modules

UNSW Sydney School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE)

Hydrogen is everywhere and it is degrading our solar cells and modules! We need people to help us work out how and why. Please get in contact if you are interested in a PhD to help us solve this challenge using any or all of. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Ciesla, Prof ZH Hameiri

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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SiC Power MOSFETs for Modern Energy-Conversion Systems

Griffith University School of Engineering and Built Environment

SiC-based Schottky diodes and power MOSFETs are becoming the semiconductor devices of choice in modern energy-conversion systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Dimitrijev

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Rare-earth based photonic devices for quantum information processing

UNSW Sydney School of Physics

Preamble. The University of New South Wales and the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology seeks enthusiastic candidates for Master by Research and PhD positions in the field of rare-earth ions based experimental photonics for quantum information processing. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S. R. Rogge

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Advancing the frontier of plasma enabled semiconductor manufacturing: laser-spectroscopy measurements and simulations of non-equilibrium molecular plasmas

University of York School of Physics, Engineering and Technology

Semiconductor technologies are foundational to our experience of the modern world. without them computers, mobile phones and cutting-edge medical breakthroughs simply would not exist. . Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Dedrick, Dr E Wagenaars

Year round applications PhD Research Project Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding

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Nanobody-conjugated graphene based electromechanical biosensors

The University of Manchester Department of Materials

A nanobody corresponds to a fragment of an camelid antibody (VHH) containing a single monomeric antibody domain. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Vijayaraghavan

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Development of a wafer-scale graphene MEMS manufacturing process

The University of Manchester Department of Materials

Graphene is the ideal membrane material for micro/nano electromechanical systems (M/NEMS) due to its high stiffness and strength, high elasticity, high electrical and thermal conductivity and low areal mass. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Vijayaraghavan

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Developing next generation wet processing for Silicon Carbide power electronic devices

University of Warwick School of Engineering

Funding available for PhD studentship for Jan 2024 Start. Supervisor: Dr Vishal Shah Industrial Sponsor: RENA Technologies. Read more

Supervisor: Dr V Shah

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Nonlinear optical devices using wide bandgap semiconductor materials

University of Adelaide School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

High quality light sources in the visible and ultraviolet spectral region are highly desirable for applications such as exoplanet detection, atomic clocks… Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Boes

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Photoelectrochemical Generation of Green Hydrogen using Silicon Carbide

University of Warwick School of Engineering

Students must have a minimum Bachelors degree of 2.1 (UK) or international equivalent qualifications and a degree in experimental engineering/chemistry/physics. Read more

Supervisors: Dr V Shah, Dr K Brinkert

Year round applications PhD Research Project Awaiting Funding Decision/Possible External Funding

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