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[招聘信息] PhD Division of Surface and Interface Science – Uppsala

PhD Division of Surface and Interface Science – Uppsala

at the Department of Physics and Materials Science. The position will be available earliest by June 2009.

In 1959, Richard P. Feynman stated that there is “plenty of room at the bottom”. By this he meant that there are plenty of new exciting phenomena to be found if we were to gain control of matter down to the atomic level. Two decades later came the scanning tunneling microscope, an invention that gave Binnig and Rohrer the Nobel Prize in 1986. With scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) it is possible to image and manipulate individual atoms. This tool has truly opened up our eyes to the “nano-world”. Atomically controlled preparations are greatly facilitated by the use of single crystal surfaces under ultra-high vacuum (UHV) conditions. The single crystal surface offers a well-ordered array of atoms and UHV minimizes the risk for contamination during the time needed for preparation and characterization. This kind of approach is commonly denoted surface science, and its usefulness was underscored in 2007 when the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Gerhard Ertl.

At the Division of Surface and Interface Science we study metal oxides. Of particular interest is titanium dioxide (TiO2), which is one of the most useful materials in the world. We focus on energy related applications, such as solar cells, batteries and splitting of water into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. As PhD student you will work with surface science techniques, predominantly STM, to study nanodimensional forms of TiO2. The work entails preparation of particles and films with atomic level control and subsequent imaging using STM. The microscopic characterization will be followed by spectroscopic characterization, mainly at the Swedish synchrotron radiation facility MAX-lab in Lund.

The project offers training in modern microscopy and spectroscopy in surface and interface physics for fundamental materials science at the Ångström laboratory and at the national synchrotron radiation facility, the MAX laboratory in Lund.

A suitable background for you upon admission is an undergraduate degree/Masters degree in physics, engineering physics or physical chemistry.

The department is striving to achieve a more equal gender balance and female candidates are particularly invited to apply.

For more information on this position please contact:  Anders Sandell e-mail anders.sandell@fysik.uu.se or Hans Siegbahn e-mail hans.siegbahn@fysik.uu.se.

Union representatives are Anders Grundström, SACO-rådet, tel: +46 18-471 5380, Carin Söderhäll, TCO/ST, tel: +46 18-471 1996 and Stefan Djurström, SEKO, tel: +46 18-471 3315.

The application should contain a letter where the applicant describes his/herself, merits and research interests, CV, copies of academic grades, exam work or related documents, other relevant publications and letters of recommendation.

Please submit your application no later than May 25, 2009 to: Registrator, UFV-PA 2009/638, Uppsala University, Box 256, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden, fax:+46 18 471 2000 or e-mail: registrator@uu.se. If the application is submitted by fax or e-mail, the originals should follow within one week after the application deadline.

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