PhD Studentship: Terahertz Integrated Spectrometer - University of Southhampton
Fully-funded PhD studentship
Due to funding restrictions, the studentship is only available to UK and EU candidates only and should be taken up on September 2008 or January 2009. Successful applicants are expected to engage in research and also to assist in the School’s teaching program.
We are seeking a physicist/engineer/mathematician/material scientist with interests in semiconductor laser physics and Terahertz spectroscopy to carry out a PhD research project. The successful candidate will develop a miniature integrated time domain Terahertz spectrometer. The project is to develop the traditional costly time domain terahertz spectrometer into a modern compact device based on ultrafast modern semiconductor lasers, plasmon waveguides and microfluidics. The integrated THz spectrometer is expected to take the space of a laptop computer and will be used in medical and homeland security applications (cancer detection, drug detection, potein analysis). The project is rich in theory and modeling but also in practical lab work.
Knowledge in the following areas would be advantageous (but can be obtained on the job): lasers, semiconductor physics, optics lab, cleanroom fabrication.
We offer an international atmosphere in a lively, interdisciplinary research environment with links between the Terahertz group and the Surface emitting semiconductor Lasers group in University of Southampton and the Semiconductor Physics group (Cavendish Lab) in Cambridge. The position should be taken up as soon as possible. Potential candidates should contact Dr. Vasilis Apostolopoulos (v.apostolopoulos@soton.ac.uk).
Application forms can be requested and returned to Ms Kim Lange (ksl@phys.soton.ac.uk).