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As a flagship research center in nanoscience and nanotechnology, our mission is to open and explore new frontiers of knowledge at the nanoscale and bring value to society in the form of new understanding, capabilities, and innovation, while inspiring and providing broad training to the next generations of researchers. Our values are Commitment, Collaboration and Transformation.
Our research lines focus on the newly discovered physical and chemical properties that arise from the behaviour of matter at the nanoscale. ICN2 has been awarded the Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence distinction for three consecutive periods (2014-2018, 2018-2022 and 2023-2026). ICN2 comprises 20 Research Groups, 7 Technical Development and Support Units and Facilities, and 2 Research Platforms, covering different areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Job Title: Postdoctoral Researcher
Department: Thermal Properties of Nanoscale Materials
Description of Group/Project:
The Thermal Properties of Nanoscale Materials (GTNaM) group at ICN2/UAB investigates nanoscale thermal phenomena, molecular glasses, and functional materials. This position is funded by GLASSPIKE, an ERC Advanced Grant developing vapor-deposited molecular glasses with programmable polarization for analog memory and spike-based computing. The researcher will work in a multidisciplinary environment combining thin-film growth, AFM/KPFM, electrical characterization, nanostructuration, and nanocalorimetry.
Main Tasks and responsibilities:
- Grow and optimize vapor-deposited molecular-glass thin films.
- Characterize spontaneous molecular orientation, polarization, and surface potential.
- Develop quantitative KPFM and FM-KPFM methods for highly polar molecular films.
- Investigate voltage-driven molecular polarization and depolarization.
- Generate and characterize programmable analog polarization states.
- Correlate KPFM with thermally stimulated depolarization and pseudopyroelectric measurements.
- Study interfacial imprinting, relaxation, and stability of programmed states.
- Investigate devitrification and local transformations; analyze results and prepare publications.
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