Open PhD projects with GRC-Fellow Stuart Parkin
The Graduate School of Excellence Materials Science in Mainz (Mainz, Germany) and the Gutenberg Research College (GRC) of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), invites suitable candidates to apply for two positions in our
International PhD program
Applicants must hold an outstanding Masters degree (or equivalent) in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Mathematics or related fields (visit requirements for details). It is not necessary to hold the degree at the point of application. However, the degree must have been awarded prior to the start of the thesis.
Thesis projects will be supervised by GRC-fellow Prof. Stuart Parkin from IBM Almaden Research Center (San José, CA, USA) and will be co-supervised by Prof. Claudia Felser (JGU), Prof. H.J. Elmers (JGU) or Prof. Hillebrands (Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern). The projects are expected to last approx. 3 years and part of the projects (~2 years) will be carried out at the IBM Almaden Research Center.
Candidates should be fluent in written and spoken English. German is not required. The selection of suitable candidates for personal interviews in Mainz is based on the academic qualification, motivation, suitability to the program and two independent and confidential letters of recommendation using our MAINZ referee form (download of the PDF-form from the online application interface after registration).
Please register via this link and upload all required documents before the deadline! The closing date for applications is August 31, 2011 at 11:59 p.m. (GMT+1).
OPEN PROJECTS
Project A: Novel High Temperature Superconducting Materials
Search for novel high temperature superconducting materials formed by atomic layer engineering of thin film oxide heterostructures. The films will be prepared using a novel thin film deposition system at IBM Almaden equipped with 4 deposition chambers designed specifically for oxide molecular beam epitaxy, pulsed layer deposition, and reactive magnetron and ion beam sputter deposition. The films will be characterized using various magneto-transport, optical, scanning probe microscopy and x-ray characterization techniques at IBM Almaden and electron spectroscopy techniques at the University of Mainz.
Project B: Spintronic Materials and Nano-Devices
Spintronic materials and nano-devices, specifically focusing on materials and devices, whose properties are influenced by the spin polarized currents and voltages generated by the development of thermal gradients in the nano-devices. These thermally induced spin currents will be used to manipulate the magnetization of magnetic domain walls in nanowires and magnetic moments in tunnel junction devices at IBM Almaden and spin waves in nano-structured devices at the University of Kaiserslautern.
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