PhD Open Positions: Fall 2014
VPD Group PhD Open Position Themes: Fall 2014
1. Multifunctional Oxides: Nanopatterning & Advanced Microscopy
- Amorphous Transparent Conducting Oxides (a-TCOs) & Transparent Oxide Semiconductors (a-TOS)
- Local and medium-range “structure” of amorphous oxides, doping mechanisms, in-situ optical and transport
- Nanopatterning of a-TCOs and a-TOS; integration with “flexible” electronics
2. Unconventional Atomically-Layered 2-D Structures and Architecture
- Radial and vertical Heterostructures; 2-D + nano composites/assembly
- Magneto-Photo-Transport, correlated phenomena and gas-solid interactions
- Colloidal- and Self-Assembly of 2-D sheets
- Ex-situ & in-situ microscopy and analysis
3. Microscopy of Energy Materials: Batteries & Thermoelectrics
- Hierarchical microstructure tailoring
- Novel chalcogenides and multicomponent, dual nanostructuring
- Thermal and charge carrier transport
- In-situ defect and interfacial phenomena; and “structure-property” correlation
4. “Soft Microscopy”: SPM and Microscopy of Nano-Bio-Hybrids
- Cellular and molecular nano-bio-mechanics; diagnostics/therapy via nanomechanics
- Advanced scanned probe and electron microscopy
- Magnetic Nanostructures (MNS) as theranostic agents:
- Alzheimer’s and CNS cancers