Nanoplasmonic Photodetector: Design & Fabrication

Postgraduate Studentships; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Funding for PhD

Access to cleanroom & lab facilities

Job summary

Postgraduate Studentships invites applications for a PhD project titled Nanoplasmonic Semiconductor Light Detector — Device Design, Fabrication & Optimisation. The project seeks to create a photodetector using a nanoplasmonic-semiconductor composite, offering extended spectral sensitivity and ultrabroad bandwidth for fast photonic sensing.

You will optimise porosity, particle size, and plasmonic resonance, integrate contacts and low-noise readout electronics, and translate the process into a

Qualifications

• Physics/engineering background suitable for detector development.
• Interest in nanoplasmonics and photodetectors essential.
• Willingness to engage in experimental fabrication and modelling.

Responsibilities

• Design the detector stack: optical entrance window, absorber layer, carrier collection, readout.
• Pattern contacts and develop low-noise electronics.
• Characterise spectral response and temporal dynamics; map detector figures of merit.

Skills

Physics background

Detector/plasmonics interest

Education

PhD candidacy in Physics/EE/Materials

Tools

SEM/TEM

Optical spectroscopy

FPGA-based acquisition

Python

Job description

Postgraduate Studentships invites applications for a PhD project titled Nanoplasmonic Semiconductor Light Detector — Device Design, Fabrication & Optimisation. The project seeks to create a photodetector using a nanoplasmonic-semiconductor composite, offering extended spectral sensitivity and ultrabroad bandwidth for fast photonic sensing.

You will optimise porosity, particle size, and plasmonic resonance, integrate contacts and low-noise readout electronics, and translate the process into a