NTU Singapore: Transport Spectroscopy at milliKelvin Temperatures

Accepting applications until position is filled

We are seeking a highly qualified Research Fellow to explore topological superconductivity in van-der-Waals materials, heterostructures, and devices. The Research Fellow will be part of a collaborative effort across NTU and A*Star for the scalable design of novel materials and heterostructures, and to explore their potential for applications in topological quantum devices.

The successful candidate will work with FLEET Associate Investigator Asst. Bent Weber at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The hire is part of a recent major grant award for the realization of topological quantum devices in van-der-Waals heterostructures, with funding available over the next five years. Materials and devices will be characterised in a unique combination of complementary local probe and transport spectroscopies, down to milliKelvin temperatures and in strong magnetic fields.

Please see the Position Description for the full scope of this opportunity.

We are looking for:

  • A Ph.D. degree in Physics or related disciplines
  • Experience in running and maintaining dilution cryostats for transport spectroscopy of mesoscopic devices. Experience in modifying cryostat wiring and filtering, including GHz frequency wiring is strongly desired
    • Expertise in nanofabrication of mesoscopic quantum devices (including electron beam lithography)

APPLY NOW: Interested applicants, please submit the full CV, with the names and contacts (including email addresses) of 3 character referees, all relevant academic certificates and transcripts and email to Asst./Prof Bent Weber. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Asst/Prof Weber has nearly 15 years of experience in scanning probe microscopy, local probe spectroscopy, and electron transport spectroscopies of material systems relevant to quantum technologies. He obtained his PhD from the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology at The University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, where he developed a scanning probe based fabrication scheme for atomically small silicon quantum bits. He later worked as an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow at the Centre for Atomically Thin Materials (MCATM), Monash University, and remains an Associate Investigator within the ARC Centre for Future Low Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET).

Weber recently moved to Nanyang Technological University as a Nanyang Assistant Professor (NAP) and Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellow to establishing state-of-the-art local probe and transport spectroscopy facilities for the study of quantum materials for their application in future topological and quantum information devices. Weber’s laboratories include capability for UHV low-temperature (4.5K) scanning probe microscopy, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), as well as a dilution cryostat for transport spectroscopy at milliKelvin temperatures. A custom-designed vibration-isolation laboratory is currently being constructed that will host a commercial milliKelvin scanning tunnelling microscope (mK-STM) with vector magnetic field.