Advanced Nonlinear Electronics

ORAU; Adelphi (MD); On-site; USD 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Army Research Laboratory seeks a student for the ARL Research Associateship Program to investigate nonlinear behaviors in quantum and van der Waals materials, advancing electronic warfare capabilities. The role includes design, fabrication, and benchmarking of broadband spectral properties as device geometry and stimuli vary.

The work emphasizes nonlinear, inductive, and spin-based responses, Berry curvature dipole effects, and symmetry breaking to assess high-frequency performance for

Qualifications

• Citizenship: LPR or U.S. Citizen.
• Degree: Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral.
• Academic levels: Journeyman Fellow or Postdoctoral Fellow.
• Discipline(s): STEM fields listed.

Responsibilities

• Investigate nonlinear behaviors in quantum and Van der Waals materials.
• Design, fabricate, and benchmark broadband spectral properties as device geometry and stimuli vary.
• Explore Berry curvature dipole, noncentrosymmetry, and symmetry breaking to assess high-frequency performance.

Education

Associate's Degree

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Doctoral Degree

Job description

Organization

DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory

Reference Code

ARL-PEQS-400061-F1

Description

The student will investigate nonlinear behaviors in quantum and Van der Waals materials to build advanced electronics capabilities for the Army. Potential tasks include design, fabrication, and benchmarking broadband spectral properties as a function of device geometry, electromagnetic stimuli, temperature, and other environmental factors to quantify performance metrics relevant to electronic warfare and defense priorities. Nonlinear, inductive, and/or spin-based responses will be targeted as potential leap-ahead areas of development for novel material systems. The role of the Berry curvature dipole, noncentrosymmetry, inversion symmetry breaking, and intrinsic vs extrinsic effects on the harmonic composition and rectification of observed signals will be highlighted as topics of interest in expanding the operational relevance of these effects to higher frequency.

ARL Advisor

Owen Vail

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About Army Research Directorate (ARD)

ARL’s Army Research Directorate (ARD) focuses on exploiting concept development, discovery, technology development, and transition of the most promising disruptive science and technology to deliver to the Army fundamentally advantageous science-based capabilities through laboratory’s 11 research competencies. This intramural research directorate also manages the laboratory’s essential research programs, which are flagship research efforts focused on delivering defined outcomes.

About Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP)

The Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) is designed to significantly increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Army. Scientists and Engineers at the CCDC Army Research Laboratory (ARL) help shape and execute the Army's program for meeting the challenge of developing technologies that will support Army forces in meeting future operational needs by pursuing scientific research and technological developments in diverse fields such as: applied mathematics, atmospheric characterization, simulation and human modeling, digital/optical signal processing, nanotechnology, material science and technology, multifunctional technology, combustion processes, propulsion and flight physics, communication and networking, and computational and information sciences.

About Photonics, Electronics, & Quantum Sciences (PE&QS)

Materials (and related manufacturing methods) and devices intended for achieving photonic, electronic, and quantum-based effects.

Questions about this opportunity?

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Point of Contact

ARL-RAP

Eligibility Requirements

• Citizenship: LPR or U.S. Citizen
• Degree: Associate's Degree, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, or Doctoral Degree.
• Academic Level(s): Associate’s Degree (Journeyman Fellow), Bachelor’s Degree (Journeyman Fellow), Master’s Degree (Journeyman Fellow), or Doctoral Degree (Postdoctoral Fellow).
• Discipline(s):

• Chemistry and Materials Sciences
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Bio-inorganic Chemistry
  • Bio-organic Chemistry
  • Biophysical Chemistry
  • Chemistry (General)
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Materials Sciences
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Theoretical Chemistry

• Communications and Graphics Design (2 )

• Computer, Information, and Data Sciences (17 )

• Earth and Geosciences (21 )

• Engineering (29 )

• Environmental and Marine Sciences (14 )

• Life Health and Medical Sciences (51 )

• Mathematics and Statistics (11 )

• Physics (16 )

• Science & Engineering-related (2 )

• Social and Behavioral Sciences (29 )