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Thin Film Materials and Optical Coatings for Advanced Ultraviolet Instrumentation
Organization
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Reference Code
0223-NPP-MAR25-JPL-TechDev
How to Apply
All applications must be submitted in Zintellect. Please visit the NASA Postdoctoral Program website for application instructions and requirements : How to Apply | NASA Postdoctoral Program.
A complete application to the NASA Postdoctoral Program includes :
- Research proposal
- Three letters of recommendation
- Official doctoral transcript documents
Application Deadline
3 / 1 / 2025 6 : 00 : 59 PM Eastern Time Zone
Description
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.
Project Description :
Ultraviolet remote sensing instrumentation requires a wide variety of optical coatings in the design of a complete optical system, ranging from broadband reflective mirror coatings, to many-multilayer, all-dielectric structures for components like dichroic beamsplitters and narrowband filter coatings. Specialty UV coatings operating at wavelengths shorter than 200 nm are not widely available from commercial suppliers and generally require the use of humidity-sensitive materials like LiF, AlF3, and LaF3. This project will support ongoing research at JPL in new methods for the fabrication of these thin film coatings focused on the use of atomic layer deposition (ALD) and atomic layer etching (ALE). Such coatings may be deposited on optical components like mirrors and diffraction gratings, or integrated on advanced CCD / CMOS detector systems. Applicants with interest and expertise in thin film coatings and ALD / ALE techniques would support delivery of these components to sub-orbital and orbital space instrumentation and identify new directions for this research. Work would be performed at JPL's Microdevices Laboratory using existing and / or newly constructed vacuum deposition chambers. Possible activities include the development of new ALD and ALE processes, optical characterization of the resulting thin films, electro-optical characterization of detector systems, hardware modification of custom vacuum chambers, and software modification of control systems to support both deposition and characterization.
Location :
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, California
Field of Science : Technology Development
Advisors : John Joseph Hennessy
john.j.hennessy@jpl.nasa.gov
818) 354-4808
Eligibility Requirements
Applications with citizens from Designated Countries will not be accepted at this time, unless they are Legal Permanent Residents of the United States. A complete list of Designated Countries can be found at : Designated Countries.
Questions about this opportunity? Please email npp@orau.org.
Degree : Doctoral Degree.
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