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Postdoctoral Appointee - Hybrid Superconducting Sensor Integration and Detector R&D

Employer
Argonne National Laboratory
Location
Lemont, Illinois (US)
Salary
N/A
Posting live until
21 Jun 2022

Job Details

The Medium Energy Physics (MEP) group at Argonne’s Physics Division is seeking a postdoctoral appointee to work on R&D of low-temperature electronics for superconducting nanowire particle detectors. The MEP group has strong experience in a wide range of detector systems and participates in detector R&D and experiments at multiple DOE facilities which include the Electron-Ion collider at Brookhaven National Lab or CLAS12 and SoLID at Jefferson Lab.

The successful candidate will work in the MEP group, in close collaboration with Argonne’s Material Science Division and Fermilab’s ASIC group, to work on monolithic integration of low-temperature semiconducting electronics with superconducting particle detectors and logic. The candidate’s work will be part of a broad multi-disciplinary effort with participation from MIT, NASA JPL and NIST. This work presents an opportunity to participate in development of novel detector systems enabling next generation high-impact science at future nuclear physics experiments.

The successful candidate will also have the possibility to gain hands-on experience in detector design, detector simulation and modern data-processing techniques, and have a competitive minimum salary of $69,250 per annual.

Position Requirements

  • Ph.D. in Materials Science, Physics, Electronic Engineering, or related field within the last 3 years
  • Experience in material characterization of superconductors (resistivity measurements, magnetometry, optical characterization, etc.).
  • Prior experience in clean room work and micro-fabrication techniques (electron beam and optical lithography, wet and dry etching techniques) and thin film deposition (magnetron sputtering, PVD, CVD).
  • Experience with superconducting devices, preferably nanowire single-photon detectors or superconducting logic.

Additional desirable experience:

  • Hands-on experience with cryogenic systems (operation of cryostats, thermometry, vacuum systems, etc.).
  • Knowledge of particle detectors and data acquisition systems, including front-end readout electronics.

Company

Argonne is a multidisciplinary science and engineering research center, where talented scientists and engineers work together to answer the biggest questions facing humanity, from how to obtain affordable clean energy to protecting ourselves and our environment. Ever since we were born out of the University of Chicago’s work on the Manhattan Project in the 1940s, our goal has been to make an impact — from the atomic to the human to the global scale.

The laboratory works in concert with universities, industry, and other national laboratories on questions and experiments too large for any one institution to do by itself. Through collaborations here and around the world, we strive to discover new ways to develop energy innovations through science, create novel materials molecule-by-molecule, and gain a deeper understanding of our planet, our climate, and the cosmos.

Surrounded by the highest concentration of top-tier research organizations in the world, Argonne leverages its Chicago-area location to lead discovery and to power innovation in a wide range of core scientific capabilities, from high-energy physics and materials science to biology and advanced computer science.

Company info
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Telephone
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Location
9700 S Cass Ave.
Lemont
Illinois
60439
US

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