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2-years postdoctoral position (1-year reconducible) offered at the Foton Institute in Rennes, France. Immediate start is possible with competitive salary at the European level commensurate with qualification, ability, and experience.
The theory group at the Foton Institute has developed since 2010 a world-class expertise in understanding the physics of perovskite materials as well as modeling and simulating their optoelectronic properties. This work, done in tight collaboration with experimental laboratories in Europe and the US, has yielded multiple publications in high-impact journals such as Nature and Science.
Perovskite semiconductors have become paramount for photovoltaic applications and optoloelectronics more generally, especially in the form of multilayer stackings. The 2-years postdoctoral position (1-year reconducible) is fully funded by the M-Eranet European project PHANTASTIC “PHysics- and dAta-driven multiscale modelling desigN of layered lead halide perovskiTe mAterials for Stable phoTovoltaICs”. PHANTASTIC aims at a predictive materials and device engineering approach of mixed lead halide perovskite solar cells. The Foton Institute – INSA Rennes is in charge of a simulation task within the project. This task will focus on the modeling of multilayered perovskites by semi-empirical tight-binding hamiltonians supported by density functional theory calculations, with potential use beyond solar cells to exciton-lattice pump-probe dynamics [1] and single-photon emission [2].
[1] Zhang, H., Li, W., Essman, J. et al. Ultrafast relaxation of lattice distortion in two-dimensional perovskites. Nat. Phys. (2023)
[2] Tamarat, P., Hou, L., Trebbia, JB. et al. The dark exciton ground state promotes photon-pair emission in individual perovskite nanocrystals. Nat Commun 11, 6001 (2020).
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