{"id":425,"date":"2024-08-26T21:04:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourstudyplan.com\/jobs\/?post_type=job_listing&p=425"},"modified":"2024-09-26T00:34:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T00:34:50","slug":"pre-doctoral-researcher-on-correlative-ir-raman-nanospectroscopy-cotutelle","status":"expired","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/yourstudyplan.com\/jobs\/?post_type=job_listing&p=425","title":{"rendered":"Pre-doctoral Researcher on Correlative IR\/Raman Nanospectroscopy (Cotutelle)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nanoscience Cooperative Research Center, CIC nanoGUNE, located in Donostia \/ San Sebastian, Basque Country (Spain), is currently looking for a PRE DOCTORAL RESEARCHER<\/strong> to work on<\/p>\n

Correlative IR\/Raman Nanospectroscopy\u00a0between the Nanooptics Group (Basque Nanoscience Cooperative Research Center, San Sebasti\u00e1n) and the Molecular Spectroscopy Group (Institut des Sciences Mol\u00e9culaires, Bordeaux)<\/p>\n

Optical microscopy coupled to spectroscopic techniques allows structural and chemical information to be obtained with a spatial resolution limited by diffraction to a few hundreds of nanometres or a few microns. Such a resolution is insufficient to describe the nanoscale heterogeneity of nanomaterials and molecular mechanisms at their surface.<\/p>\n

To overcome this limit, IR and Raman nanospectroscopies have been separately developed for two decades. These techniques combine a scanning probe microscope (SPM), such as an atomic force microscope (AFM), and an optical spectrometer (either a FTIR or Raman spectrometer). Therefore, they gather the advantages of both parts, namely the high spatial resolution of SPM instruments and the high chemical and structural specificity of FTIR\/Raman ones. However, little studies have been carried out using both IR and Raman spectroscopies to investigate the same sample, and none of them have been performed in a colocalized fashion, i.e. using a single system allowing for IR and Raman nanospectroscopic measurements.<\/p>\n

The\u00a03-4 years PhD project\u00a0will focus in the instrumental development of correlative IR\/Raman nanospectroscopy to demonstrate the capability of this technique to obtain nanoscale co-localized IR\/Raman spectra on various samples including 2D materials as test samples. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The project will involve periods in both the Molecular Spectroscopy Group of the Institut des Sciences Mol\u00e9culaires (University of Bordeaux, Talence, France), under the supervision of\u00a0Dr. S\u00e9bastien Bonhommeau\u00a0(SB), and in the\u00a0Nanooptics group<\/a>\u00a0of the Nanoscience Research Center CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebasti\u00e1n, Basque Country, Spain), under the supervision of\u00a0Prof. Rainer Hillenbrand\u00a0(RH)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

SB is an expert in Raman nanospectroscopy, also called tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, especially for the study of biomolecules [1-4]. RH is a renowned expert in IR nanospectroscopy. His group pioneered the development of scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) and FTIR nanospectroscopy (nano-FTIR) [5,6]. His research did not only set the scientific and technological foundations of s-SNOM and nano-FTIR, but also demonstrated its enormous application potential in widely different fields of science and technology, such as for nanoscale conductivity mapping in devices, nanoscale chemical identification of organic and inorganic materials, bioimaging and mapping exotic light waves in 2D and quantum materials [7,8].<\/p>\n