Atomic Layer Deposition Process Engineer

Atomic Layer Deposition Process Engineer

Are you an ALD process expert with the ambition and ability to bring innovative technology to industrial manufacturing scale in a start-up setting, then we would like to get in contact with you.

Starting at Perovion Technologies you will immediately contribute to the core R&D team of the company. Simultaneously you’ll have the opportunity to learn a great deal from and with experienced researchers at TNO, with whom you’ll intensively collaborate. The Solar Research group of TNO in Eindhoven consists of a diverse and international team of about 50 professionals.

Your role will be to move the technology from lab to fab. You’ll be using excellent technical facilities, ranging from research tooling to sheet-to-sheet and roll-to-roll processing equipment, including pilot production lines. With your team members you’ll be constantly pushing the barriers, balancing energy efficiency of the devices, their reliability, safety and lifetime and the scalability in production, resulting in a competitive cost price.

Naturally this is based on a circular product design, eliminating the waste of materials at end-of-life. This entails new solar cell design for single junction and multi-junction all-perovskite solar devices, new process and equipment development, reliability and lifetime testing, prototyping, field testing, development of advanced characterization and performance models.

Our ambition is to boost the energy transition by delivering sustainable, reliable and highly efficient solar technologies which can be integrated everywhere.

Large area deposition techniques are needed to make perovskite solar cells an industrially relevant technology. As an expert on roll-to-roll spatial ALD, you will be responsible for the roll-to-roll spatial ALD depositions. You are familiar with ALD processes in functional devices such as solar cells and working with complex equipment in a clean environment.

You understand how process parameters are correlated to material properties and how these determine the device performance. With these you support the team. You are familiar with the complexity of scaling laboratory processes and process tools to a reliable, high throughput, industrial process line.

You will be involved in defining the next generation process equipment. You follow the state-of-the-art of perovskite solar cells as well as the latest developments in the deposition technology via scientific literature, conferences, patents and your own network. Next to manufacturing the solar cells you’ll be closely involved in characterizing them and investigating their durability in accelerated lifetime tests.

You will work in a highly dynamic, interdependent team, organising your own project, giving it direction, and delivering results. Together with your team members you work on one common goal, to move perovskite solar cells to the forefront of next generation photovoltaics, made here. You will work in a very diverse, international team with knowledge and know-how from a wide range of backgrounds.

Building our company requires more than developing technology, it requires imagination, boldness, perseverance and real team effort. You will spend a significant amount of your time in the labs; next to that you’ll collaborate with colleagues and business partners such as material and equipment suppliers and back-end manufacturing partners at various locations. The position is located on the High Tech Campus hotspot in Eindhoven, where you’ll have every chance of inspiring contacts with other labs and companies.

Your drive is making impact. You bring strong expertise in ALD technology, preferably in combination with roll-to-roll processing, and solar cells and their applications. You enjoy working in a multidisciplinary R&D team, collaborating with scientists and engineers to translate innovative concepts into scalable industrial processes. You like the exciting and demanding atmosphere of a start-up company and you’re eager to actively contribute to the success of the team and its mission. In addition, you:

• Hold a degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, or a related field.
• Have at least 3 years of experience in process development within an R&D environment.
• Possess a strong hands-on background and relevant experience with scalable deposition processes.
• Are comfortable working with complex process equipment and planning advanced experiments.
• Be eager to identify process-property relations and understand how these changes may impact the solar cell performance and the yield of the production process.
• Have mature skills in planning your work and reporting on the progress.
• Are a collaborative team player who enjoys contributing to shared goals in an international industrial environment.
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset.