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Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Nanomaterials, nanostructures, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, sensing and metrology, across the band where structures are fabricated, imaged and characterised routinely.

Applied engineering Established science 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m 15 open

What this work is, and what it is not

This band is real, fabricated and measured every day, and it is also the band most often oversold. A nanomaterial that performs in a characterisation run has not been manufactured at scale, and a device concept that simulates well has not been built. Work from this division states plainly which of the three it is: modelled, made once, or made repeatably.

Established science. Rests on settled physics and engineering. The work applies it; it is not what is under test here.

Scale bands are a research classification, not a claim of experimental reach. Most of this span cannot be probed by any apparatus that exists: nothing below about 10^-19 m has been measured directly, and anything at 10^26 m or beyond is inferred from observation rather than engineered. Every opportunity states the kind of work it actually is.

Where this division sits

Scale range 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

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Nano (10^-9 to 10^-6)
Molecules, nanostructures, two-dimensional materials and quantum dots. Fabricated, imaged and characterised routinely.

Charter

This division designs nanoscale systems, models the materials they are made of, develops device concepts, and analyses characterisation data. Fabrication and characterisation are carried out with accredited partner facilities; this division does not claim to own a cleanroom.

Domains

NanomaterialsNanostructuresNanofabricationNanoelectronicsNanophotonicsNanosensorsNanometrologyNanobiotechnologyNanoenergyNano coatingsTwo-dimensional materialsCarbon nanotechnologyQuantum dotsNanowires

Disciplines

Nano engineering Materials science Physics Chemistry Semiconductors

Works with

Divisions this one collaborates with routinely.

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15 open opportunities

Grouped by career rung. Every posting states its own classification, its scale range and what it expects you to have already done.

Level 1 7

Nano Engineering Intern

One nanoscale design question modelled and written up with its fabrication tolerances.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Sensor Intern

A sensing mechanism modelled to its noise floor, with the limit of detection derived rather than asserted.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nanoelectronics Intern

A nanoscale device modelled electrically, with the contact and interface effects included rather than idealised away.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nanofabrication Intern

A fabrication route documented step by step, with its yield-limiting step identified.

Experimental Active experimental research L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nanomaterials Intern

Analysing characterisation data for a nanomaterial and stating what the data does and does not establish.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nanophotonics Intern

An optical nanostructure simulated and its spectral response compared against an analytic limit.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nanotechnology Research Intern

A literature-grounded review of one nanomaterial class, separating what has been made repeatably from what has been made once.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Level 3 4

Nano Device Engineer

Devices built from nanoscale structures, characterised against the specification they were designed to.

Prototype Active experimental research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nano Engineer

Nanoscale designs taken from a target to something a partner facility could attempt.

Applied engineering Established science L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Nanofabrication Engineer

Process development with partner facilities, and the yield data that says whether a route is real.

Prototype Active experimental research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 7 more

Nanomaterials Engineer

The materials themselves: what they are, how they are made, and whether the second batch matches the first.

Experimental Active experimental research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Level 4 1

Nano Systems Engineer

How a nanoscale component behaves once it is part of something a person can hold.

Applied engineering Established science L4 · Specialist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Level 5 1

Senior Nano Engineer

Several nanoscale programmes at once, and the maturity claims made about all of them.

Applied engineering Established science L5 · Senior Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Level 6 1

Nano Engineering Lead

What this division designs, who designs it, and the rule that maturity is stated in every claim.

Applied engineering Established science L6 · Lead Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Level 7 1

Principal Nano Engineer

The division's technical direction and the hardest problems between design and repeatable fabrication.

Applied engineering Established science L7 · Principal Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-6 m

Can explain why a property changes when a material is made small, in terms of surface-to-volume ratio or quantum confinement. · Has interpreted characterisation data — microscopy, diffraction or spectroscopy — and can state what the technique cannot tell you. · Materials science to the level of relating structure to a measurable property. · Can carry out and document a calculation or an analysis in Python that somebody else can rerun. + 4 more

Other divisions in this department

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics Particle, High-Energy & Nuclear Systems Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems Molecular Engineering & Computational Chemistry Materials & Advanced Matter Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems Computer Science, AI & Scientific Computing Mathematics & Computational Foundations Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems Energy, Environment & Climate Materials Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering Astrophysics, Cosmology & Extreme-Scale Modelling