High-Sensitivity Far-IR Detectors
About the role
The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA’s missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology.
Responsibilities
We are seeking one or more postdoctoral researchers with hands-on experience in low-temperature superconducting devices and far-IR to millimeter-wave instrumentation to join our team developing the world’s most sensitive far-infrared detectors. The researcher(s) will make use of a dilution-cooled sub-100mK cryostat to characterize devices built in the JPL micro devices lab (MDL).
- Make use of a dilution-cooled sub-100mK cryostat to characterize devices built in the JPL micro devices lab (MDL)
- Pursue detector arrays in which each pixel provides background-limited performance in a dispersive spectrometer on a cryogenic space telescopes; that is a per-pixel noise equivalent power of 10^-19 W/sqrt(Hz) or lower
- Implement frequency-domain readout techniques developed by a range of US and international collaborators
- Collaborate on ongoing and proposed ground-based and balloon-borne instruments targeting the early Universe
Requirements
Research proposal
Three letters of recommendation
Official doctoral transcript documents
Qualifications
A Doctoral Degree
Skills
Hands-on experience in low-temperature superconducting devices and far-IR to millimeter-wave instrumentation
Benefits
Unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists engaging in ongoing NASA research projects
Pay
N/A
Schedule
N/A
Location
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
Field of Science
Astrophysics
Advisors
Matt Bradford, matt.bradford@jpl.nasa.gov, 818.726.8622
Contact
Mikeala