Dr D Scanlon
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Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)
About the Project
The UCL Centre for Doctoral Training in Molecular Modelling and Materials Science is offering a fully funded studentship to a highly motivated candidate to start in September 2018. The studentship will cover tuition fees at UK/EU rate plus a maintenance stipend ££18277 (tax free) for four years.
The project will be in collaboration with Diamond Light Source Ltd, the UK’s national Synchrotron. The student will carry out his/her doctoral research jointly at UCL and at Diamond.
Transparent Conducting Oxides (TCOs) have become ubiquitous in our everyday lives, and are commonly used as transparent electrodes in devices such as solar cells, flat panel displays and light emitting diodes, and as coatings in energy efficient low-emissivity windows. As you read this on your phone/tablet/laptop you are looking at a TCO! This project is focussed on using a combination of density functional theory (DFT) and synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy to study novel dopants in TCOs, in an effort to find systems that show improved performance over the current industry standard. Prospective students will join the Scanlon Materials Theory Group at UCL, where we have 10 years of experience of using DFT to understand defect processes in TCOs, and the student will be part of a multi-group project to experimentally and computationally study these system, in collaboration with a large industry partner. Successful candidates will split their time between UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus and Diamond Light Source, at the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. This represents a unique opportunity to be trained in state of the art calculations, in addition to learning about ground breaking x-ray spectroscopy.
Interested candidates should contact Dr David Scanlon ([Email Address Removed]) with a degree transcript and a motivation letter expressing interest in this project. Informal inquiries are encouraged.
Applications will be accepted until 30 June 2018 but the position will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate has been identified.
Funding Notes
The applicants should have, or be expecting to achieve, a first or upper second class Honours degree or equivalent in physics, chemistry or related subject.
Due to funding restrictions, this studentship is only open to applicants from the UK and EU, who have been resident in the UK for at least 3 years preceding their start on the programme or have indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
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