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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.

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Eleven bands from 10^-100 m to 10¹⁰⁰ m. Click one to filter. The hatched bands are the ones no apparatus reaches.

10^-100 m 10⁰ m 10¹⁰⁰ m

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Semiconductor Engineer

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

Device design and TCAD modelling against a specification, including process variation.

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

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^-3 m

Can derive or explain the current-voltage characteristic of a diode or a MOSFET from device physics. · Has simulated a circuit in SPICE and compared the result against a hand calculation. · Semiconductor physics: carriers, doping, band structure, junctions. · Can read a datasheet and identify the conditions a specification was measured under. + 5 more

Semiconductor Intern

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

One device characteristic derived, simulated, and compared against published measurements.

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

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^-3 m

Senior Nano Engineer

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

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

VLSI Intern

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

A small digital block written in RTL, simulated, and verified against a testbench you wrote.

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

Scale 10^-6 m to 10^-3 m

Browse by division

Each division states the scale it works at and the kind of work it does, at the top of its own page.

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics

Mathematical and theoretical work on the structure of spacetime, quantum foundations and the frameworks that attempt to describe physics below the Planck length. Entirely theory, mathematics and computation.

Particle, High-Energy & Nuclear Systems

Modelling and data analysis for particle, high-energy and nuclear physics: interaction models, Monte Carlo pipelines, detector data, and radiation effects in materials.

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

Quantum information, algorithms, device modelling, sensing and atomic simulation, in the band where quantum states are measured directly rather than inferred.

Molecular Engineering & Computational Chemistry

Quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics and molecular design: computing what a molecule does, and comparing the prediction with measurement wherever measurement exists.

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

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

Materials & Advanced Matter

Materials discovery and modelling across alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites, metamaterials, quantum and energy materials, and materials for extreme environments.

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

Device physics, microelectronics and VLSI, MEMS and NEMS, sensors and photonics, in the band where design, simulation and prototype meet.

Computer Science, AI & Scientific Computing

The cross-department division: research software, simulation platforms, HPC, AI for science, digital twins, data pipelines and the reproducibility every other division depends on.

Mathematics & Computational Foundations

The mathematical foundations the whole department stands on: numerical methods, convergence and stability, optimisation, probability, and the modelling support every other division draws on.

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

Computational mechanics, robotics, precision engineering and advanced manufacturing, and the multiscale modelling that carries a material property up into a system that has to work.

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

Structural engineering, smart infrastructure, advanced construction materials, infrastructure sensing and digital twins, and climate-resilient large-scale systems.

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

Nanobiotechnology, biomaterials, biosensors, computational biology and bioinformatics, tissue engineering, lab-on-chip and microfluidics, and the interfaces between biology and engineered surfaces.

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

Battery and energy-storage materials, hydrogen systems, solar materials, catalysis, carbon capture, water purification, environmental nanotechnology and climate systems modelling.

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

Aerospace and space systems engineering, extreme-environment materials, orbital and planetary systems modelling, space robotics and the architecture work behind long-horizon space research.

Astrophysics, Cosmology & Extreme-Scale Modelling

Computational astrophysics and cosmology: observational data analysis, gravitational and structure modelling, large-scale simulation, and the mathematics of models at and beyond the observable horizon.