Postdoc Photoacoustic Nanoscale Imaging

**Postdoc Photoacoustic Nanoscale Imaging**:
**_Imaging nanoscale material properties with ultrafast laser-induced photoacoustics_**

**Job description**:
While optical microscopy is an important diagnostic tool in science and technology, not all materials are transparent for light. Ultrafast-laser-induced ultrasound provides a way of ‘looking’ inside such opaque media. In this approach, absorption of a femtosecond-duration laser pulse at the surface of an object leads to the generation of acoustic phonons, high-frequency sound pulses that can propagate into the object. By optically detecting the reflected waves that return to the surface, the 3D structure of non-transparent objects can be reconstructed with sub-micrometer resolution.

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**Requirements**:

- Experience with ultrafast lasers, electronic synchronization systems, photoacoustics, optical detection systems and imaging are required.
- Good communication skills (verbal and written) in English are required
- Excellent analytical skills and critical thinking are expected
- Affinity with semiconductor metrology is considered advantageous

**TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)**:
Challenge. Change. Impact

**Faculty Applied Sciences**:
With more than 1,100 employees, including 150 pioneering principal investigators, as well as a population of about 3,600 passionate students, the Faculty of Applied Sciences is an inspiring scientific ecosystem. Focusing on key enabling technologies, such as quantum
- and nanotechnology, photonics, biotechnology, synthetic biology and materials for energy storage and conversion, our faculty aims to provide solutions to important problems of the 21st century. To that end, we educate innovative students in broad Bachelor's and specialist Master's programmes with a strong research component. Our scientists conduct ground-breaking fundamental and applied research in the fields of Life and Health Science & Technology, Nanoscience, Chemical Engineering, Radiation Science & Technology, and Engineering Physics. We are also training the next generation of high school teachers.

**Application procedure**
- CV
- Motivational letter

**Please note**:

- A pre-employment screening can be part of the selection procedure.
- A knowledge security check will be part of the selection procedure (for details page 45: national knowledge security guidelines).
- Please do not contact us for unsolicited services.
- Faculty/Department: Faculty of Applied Sciences
- Salary range: €3345 - €5278
- Hours per week: 36-40
- FTE: 1
- Submission is possible until: 15 Jan 2025
- ID job: 1665