Tenure track position as Assistant Professor in Physics: Sustainable Semiconductors
We are looking for early-career academics conducting research in the priority area of sustainability and the environment, specialising in sustainable semiconductors. The successful candidate will participate in the compulsory Mistra leadership programme. The position also includes a start-up package with funds to cover a doctoral studentship and other costs. The successful candidate will be expected to apply for external research funding.
Our research environment involves several strong centres and infrastructures with a shared vision to be one of Europe’s leading environments within semiconductor research. The interdisciplinary strategic research area NanoLund includes, for example, groups with internationally leading expertise in the synthesis, processing and characterization of III-V and III-Nitride materials. This includes access to a full range of equipment for semiconductor nanofabrication at Lund Nano Lab, a central key facility for fabrication of materials and devices on the nanoscale. The environment also hosts the Swedish Chips Competence Center as well as a recently started Pilot Line focused on wide band gap semiconductors funded by the European Chips Act.
The position is located at the Division of Solid State Physics within the Physics Department. Together with NanoLund, of which we are a central part, we have the ambition to create an interdisciplinary and internationally visible research effort in circular and sustainable semiconductor electronics. The new position as Assistant Professor in Physics with Specialization in Sustainable Semiconductors, with funding from the Mistra Environmental Research Leaders program, is an important step towards realizing this vision.
The subject area of the position is broadly defined within circular and sustainable semiconductors, covering for instance novel semiconductor manufacturing methods with drastically reduced environmental footprint, the consideration of material recycling already at the design stage, and novel device designs and concepts to enhance component lifetime and lower energy consumption.
Examples of research topics include, but are not limited to:
- Increase circularity and material recycling in fabrication of devices based on III-V and metal oxide semiconductors, one example being laser slicing to re-use substrates and reduce the use of the scarce element gallium in fabrication of GaN and Ga2O3 devices.
- Synthesis of new circular and sustainable semiconductor materials, use of earth-abundant materials, and hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductor materials. This could include highly innovative processes such as DNA-templated or protein-based synthesis, which essentially replaces highly advanced and resource demanding technology by wet-lab based bioprocesses.
- Enhance the lifetime and reduce the energy consumption of semiconductor components. This includes on-chip energy harvesting, heat management, and cooling to reduce thermal degradation, as well as technologies for computation with reduced energy consumption, such as low-dissipation wiring based on two-dimensional-, topological-, or superconductor-semiconductor materials, neuromorphic hardware, photonic chips, and other beyond-CMOS technologies.
Lund University and the city of Lund offer a highly international environment, family friendly employment conditions and an excellent standard of living in Northern Europe, close to the city of Copenhagen.
The position, which is part of the Mistra Environmental Research Leaders program, will open for applications in early September and close in late October.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Dan Hessman (Dan [dot] Hessman [at] ftf [dot] lth [dot] se (Dan[dot]Hessman[at]ftf[dot]lth[dot]se)), Head of the Division of Solid State Physics.