Post-doctoral Research Associate on UltrAlGaN

The salary range if appointed as a Research Associate is Grade 7 £38,448 - £46,970 per annum (SP041-048), Successful candidates who have not yet received their PhD will be employed on University Grade 5 SP038 (£35,302 per annum) as Research Assistants. Upon being awarded their PhD, their salary will be upgraded to Grade 7 041 as Research Associates.

Post-doctoral Research Associate - MOVPE Growth of Nitride Materials for Power Electronics

We are seeking a talented and creative postdoctoral researcher to work in the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride, performing growth of nitride materials and devices for applications in power electronics and characterising the resulting materials. The Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride is part of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge and also leads the nitride activity within the EPSRC National Epitaxy Facility.

This post is available under the UltrAlGaN Programme Grant (EPSRC) in collaboration with the University of Bristol and other partners. The broad objective of the Programme is the development of high-performance AlGaN solid-state circuit breakers (SSCBs). In this context, the successful candidate will contribute to research on the growth of aluminium and nitrogen-polar AlGaN, the growth of graded AlGaN layers, the regrowth of AlGaN, growth on bulk AlN substrates, and the realisation of doping in AlGaN, in particular polarisation doping. The project team also includes the capability for growth by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), and the successful candidate will exhibit enthusiasm for collaboration across the two growth technologies to achieve optimised materials. The role may also present the opportunity for basic device fabrication to facilitate epitaxy characterisation, and hence experience of device fabrication is desirable.

Responsibilities: - Manage research activities, generate high-quality data, and develop scientific techniques. - Contribute intellectually to the direction of the nitride research within the Centre. - Present data locally at lab meetings and seminars, and more widely at international scientific conferences. - Draft scientific manuscripts with support from Prof Oliver and contribute to the day-to-day supervision of Masters or PhD students.

Fixed-term: The funds for the post are available for 24 months in the first instance.