Research Fellow, Electronics Research Engineer

Job Description

A full-time applied research and engineering position is available within Associate Professor Jeroen Anton Van Kan’s multidisciplinary team to develop a Proton Microscope with 3D resolution down to ~10 nm. The goal of this project is a commercial prototype with unique capabilities for the characterisation of nanoscale semiconductor devices manufactured at current or future generation process nodesA full-time applied research and engineering position is available within Associate Professor Jeroen Anton Van Kan’s multidisciplinary team to develop a Proton Microscope with 3D resolution down to ~10 nm. The goal of this project is a commercial prototype with unique capabilities for the characterisation of nanoscale semiconductor devices manufactured at current or future generation process nodes.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing electronic hardware and software interface for performing low level (≤fA) current measurement and data acquisition (DAQ). This includes the design and evaluation of op-amp analog circuits, drafting and updating PCB designs and electronic schematics (in EAGLE or its equivalent).

Qualifications

Minimum Job Requirements

• A Bachelor/Masters/PhD degree in a relevant major, such as Physics/Electrical and Computer Engineering/Mechanical Engineering.

Other Relevant Characteristics

Candidates with any of the following characteristics will also be highly desired:

• A multidisciplinary background with excellent practical experimental and engineering skills.
• Experience or working knowledge in any of the following aspects: FPGA based control, Direct Digital Synthesizer, high voltage (kV) electronics, and low-noise instrumentation.
• Experience in software development for graphical user interface to perform instrumentation control (LabVIEW, C/C++).
• Experience with Electron beam or Ion beam microscopy, and/or Electron Beam or Ion Beam Induced Charge or Current measurement techniques (EBIC, EBAC or IBIC).
• Familiarity with state-of-the-art simulation platforms such as TCAD, MATLAB/Simulink, PSIM and PLECS for semiconductor device characterisation.
• Familiarity with charged particle optics, and ray tracing simulation (e.g. SIMION, COMSOL, Particle Tracer).
• CAD mechanical design and assembly (e.g. SOLIDWORKS).

General skills

• Able to thrive in a dynamic, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary research team.
• Able to work independently by conducting experiments alone or in teams when required.
• Able to develop requirement specifications and maintain technical documentation.
• Strong verbal and written technical communication skills in English for multidisciplinary collaboration in a hybrid physical/virtual work environment (i.e. face to face and via collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams).

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More Information

Location: Kent Ridge Campus
Organization: Faculty of Science
Department : Physics
Job requisition ID : 13454