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Postdoc Position: DFT on Ceramic Interface Struc ... (No replies)

dsrolovitz

5 years ago

dsrolovitz 5 years ago

Professors Robert Carpick and David Srolovitz are seeking a postdoctoral fellow in the area of first principles modeling of interfaces, interfacial adhesion, and electrical conductance in metal oxides. The postdoc position, based at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is part of a multi-year, multi-institutional research effort on NanoElectromechanical Systems (NEMS). The project involves close collaboration between computational materials scientists (DFT and MD) and experimentalists (materials scientists, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers).

 

The Postdoctoral Fellow position focuses on DFT-based calculations of surface and interface properties in a wide-range of electrically conductive (semimetallic, semiconducting, point-defect mediated,…) metal-oxides (e.g., RuO_2, TiO_x, Ta_2O_x). This includes establishing DFT-based workflows for systematic screening of conductive metal-oxide structure and properties in order to develop effective heuristics for material selection (low adhesion, large conductance,…). The main tools are expected to be Quantum Espresso and VASP, as well as Boltzmann transport, Kubo-Greenwood and/or non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) approaches. Based at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA), the Postdoctoral Fellow will work with collaborators at Carnegie Mellon University and in Hong Kong.  

 

We anticipate that this postdoctoral position will be for at least 2 years (renewable annually). The successful applicant (recent PhD with or without prior postdoctoral study) should have experience in density functional theory-based approaches and transport methods in ceramics, metals and/or semiconductors, be fluent in spoken and written English, and be able to work independently and collaboratively. 

 

This position is available immediately.

 

To apply, please send an email to [email protected] including your (1) Curriculum Vitae (CV)/résumé, (2) list of publications, (3) contact details of at least two references, and (4) a description of your qualifications and previous research fields/experience.