Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Graphene Based Organic Electronics

Information about the project
Organic electronic devices such as solar cells are an important category of next generation components. However, ITO, the material for transparent electrodes in organic electronics, consists of scarce indium. Graphene, a monolayer of carbon atoms, will be explored as the ITO substitute. Scalable graphene can be synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Nevertheless, graphene-based organic electronics has two major bottlenecks in terms of real application: 1. The heavy-metal-emitting graphene transfer and 2. The poor device process reliability. This project will try to address the problems.This Postdoc project is jointly hosted by the Departments of Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Chemical and Biological Engineering (KB), and Materials and Manufacturing Technology (MMT). The details of our research activities may be found at: http://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/mc2/research and www.chalmers.se/graphene Chalmers is leading the Graphene Flagship project in Europe; Chalmers is advanced in solar cell research (see Chalmers solar); Chalmers possesses the best material characterization tools in the world. 

Major responsibilities
The successful candidate should work on: 

i) CVD growth and electrochemical delamination of graphene;
ii) Transfer-free processing for flexible organic electronic devices and performance optimization; 
iii) Theoretical mechanism of the electrochemical delamination; 
iv) Material characterization for graphene and organics. The work you are performing is interdisciplinary by nature. Hence, you are closely collaborating with other mentors/researchers.

Your major responsibility as postdoc is to perform your own research. However, the position may also include some supervision of master's and/or PhD students. The position is meritorious for future research duties within academia as well as industry/the public sector.

Position summary
The position is a post-doc position (full-time employment) of 1 year with the possibility of 1 year extension.

Qualifications
We are looking for a self-motivated, independent and creative excellent young researcher. The successful candidate should have a PhD (generally not older than three years) in Chemistry, Physics, Solid-State Electronics or Material Science with strong past research experience preferably, but not necessarily, in organic electronics and electrochemistry. According to Chalmers rule, you must get your PhD degree within the past 3 years. You must be able to start the project no later than the spring of 2014. Experiences in nanoscale fabrication, semiconductor physics, material characterization and graphene science are all considered as a merit. The position requires sound verbal and written communication skills in English.

Application procedure
The application should be marked with Ref 20130406 and written in English. The application should be sent electronically via Chalmers webpage.

Application deadline: January 31, 2014

For questions, please contact:
Dr Jie Sun, Microtechnology and Nanoscience, jie.sun@chalmers.se 

Dr Ergang Wang, Chemical and Biological Engineering, ergang@chalmers.se

Dr Yu Cao, Materials and Manufacturing Technology, yu.cao@chalmers.se
 



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