| City: Ottawa
Organizational Unit: Security and Disruptive Technologies
Classification: RO
Tenure: Term
Duration: 2 Years
Language Requirements: English
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The Program
The NRC’s Postdoctoral Fellowship program offers PDFs access to unique world-class facilities and the opportunity to work alongside multi-disciplinary teams of expert researchers and technicians on projects of critical importance to Canada. PDFs will carry out research on innovative research projects, with opportunities for career development (publications and/or industry interaction).
PDFs will be offered appointments to the staff of the National Research Council on a term basis and will be offered salaries and benefits currently available to Research Officers. Salaries commensurate with experience are taxable and subject to other deductions. As a guide, the current annual PDF recruiting rate is $73,133. In addition PDFs will be allocated a travel fund to support their work.
Project Title
Linking Van der Waals physics with strong-field photonics Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials and heterostructures exhibit the most intriguing phenomena of the “quantum era”, and are already revolutionizing electronics, energy storage and functional materials. Although most of the science uncovered thus far relies on static transport measurements and linear optical probes, laser-driven high-field nonlinearities have recently been discovered through measurements of attosecond-fast currents and transport, and through the emission of high-order visible and ultraviolet harmonics of the driving laser frequency. The understanding of the underlying interaction is at its infancy: the role of laser-driven electron’s and hole’s trajectories that are the staple of strong-field, or “attosecond”, science has been largely neglected. Such trajectories are instrumental to unravel attosecond nonlinearities and to film molecular reactions.
Your Challenge
The successful candidate’s research aims at bringing the trajectory representation front and center thus adding a new dynamical dimension to van der Waals physics. The acquired knowledge will allow, among other things, all-optical quantum imaging of the materials’ properties, such as band structures and Berry curvature (the heart of topological physics, Nobel Prize 2016), and the development of dynamical capabilities for 2D electronics. |
