PhD Studentship - Direct E-beam Writing of Nanostructures

Positions available: 1

This 3.5 year PhD is fully funded; the successful candidate will receive an annual tax free stipend (depending on circumstance) set at the UKRI rate (£19,237 for 2024/25) and tuirion fees will be paid. We expect the stipend to increase each year. Home students are eligible.

A fully funded (bench fees and stipend) 36 month studentship is available with Professor David J. Lewis in the Department of Materials for ambitious and talented inorganic materials chemist as part of a wider £1.7M EPSRC project, working with teams in Dept of Materials (Boland) in the Departments of Chemistry (Winpenny) at the University of Manchester. A team of three postdocs and a project manager will also support the work.

The successful applicant will work as part of a world leading team of physicists, chemists, engineers and materials scientists which has been assembled to demonstrate a sustainable high-resolution route to nanofabrication by introducing direct write ion beam lithography as an additive manufacturing route to nanoscale semiconductors. The successful candidates will produce bespoke inorganic molecules that act as molecular precursors for the solid state materials to be written at the nanoscale. The outcomes will be multiple breakthroughs in manufacturing that will enable large scale manufacturing of semiconductor devices at resolutions < 5 nm leading to a step change in the performance and fundamental understanding of the materials targeted. This manufacturing route will accelerate academic research and make smaller semiconductor companies in the UK competitive with larger companies globally.

Applicants must have a strong interest in inorganic or materials chemistry or a related discipline, with some familiarity with synthesis and characterisation of inorganic molecules and/or solid state materials. Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Prof David J. Lewis (Email: david.lewis-4@manchester.ac.uk).

Applicants should have or expect to achieve at least class 2:1 honours degree in chemistry or materials science.

To apply, please contact Dr Lewis - david.lewis-4@manchester.ac.uk. Please include details of your current level of study, academic background and any relevant experience and include a paragraph about your motivation to study this PhD project.

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