Postdoctoral Fellow; PREP

General Description

PREP Research Associate

CHIPS Funded Project

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Professional Research Experience Program (PREP). NIST recognizes that its research staff may want to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest and, therefore, requires those institutions to be recipients of a PREP award. The PREP program involves staff from a wide range of backgrounds conducting scientific research across various fields.

Individuals in this position will perform technical work supporting the collaboration's scientific research.

Research

Title:

Thermoreflectance Thermal Property Measurements (U.S. Citizens Preferred)

The work will entail:
The Materials Measurement Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking qualified persons (U.S. Citizens Preferred) to validate and improve thermoreflectance optical pump‑probe thermal‑property measurement methods, develop and refine instrumentation, optimize protocols, and provide thermal property data for thin‑film and multilayer materials that can improve the performance, reliability, and thermal management in microelectronics packages and wide bandgap power electronics.

The researcher will work closely with NIST experts in optics, thermal metrology, scientific instrument design, and uncertainty analysis.

Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Designing, building, operating, and/or refining pump‑probe instrumentation
• Operating and developing physics‑based analysis software
• Measuring thermal property data for internal and external collaborators and stakeholders
• Depositing and characterizing thin films in the NIST Nano Fab
• Presenting results at internal and/or external meetings as required
• Writing and publishing results

This opportunity is to be an associate researcher in the Materials Measurement Science Division for a term of 1 year, with options to renew. Associate researchers are NOT Federal Employees, but they work aside NIST researchers and with NIST's world‑class instrumentation. Relocation expenses will not be provided. U.S. Citizens hired into associate positions may have the opportunity to seek longer‑term Federal Employment.

• Ph.D. in physics, optics, materials science/engineering, or other related field
• Experience in designing, building, and operating thermoreflectance‑based measurement instrumentation
• Experience in thermal metrology, thermal analysis, and optics
• Experience in thin‑film deposition and thin‑film characterization
• Experience with data modeling and programming (MATLAB required)
• Expertise in semiconductor manufacturing processes and device failure analysis
• Experience working in clean rooms
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently
• Strong oral and written communication skills

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The referenced salary range represents the minimum and maximum salaries for this position and is based on Johns Hopkins University's good faith belief at the time of posting. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. The actual compensation offered to the selected candidate may vary and will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, work experience, internal equity, market conditions, education/training and other factors, as reasonably determined by the University.

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