Silicon Austria Labs (SAL)

Your future responsibilities As part of the European Chips Act, Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) is driving innovation in quantum and semiconductor technologies through its Quantum Pilot Lines. Join our interdisciplinary teams at the interface of design and fabrication and enjoy Villach’s exceptional quality of life in the heart of the Austrian Alps. Be part of something....

YOUR FUTURE RESPONSIBILITIES We are seeking a motivated individual to join a research project in collaboration with an established industrial partner. This exciting opportunity focuses on exploring the potential of Brillouin-active photonic integrated circuits. As a Junior Scientist, you will engage in a range of activities involving the design, fabrication, and testing of photonic integrated circuits....

Your future responsibilities The PhD topic focuses on developing and investigating joint communication and sensing tasks in TeraHertz (THz) frequency band beyond current communication standards. Optical synthesis and detection of THz waves based on the photo-mixing of tunable continuous wave lasers is well-established in measurement technology, in particular, for high-resolution spectroscopy. However, photonic THz technologies....

Your future responsibilities The goal of this PhD is to further the potential of model-based formal verification of black-box systems by combining model-learning techniques with formal methods. This tight integration of formal methods into the learning process will help in producing high-quality models automatically, and steering the learning process towards areas that are of interest....

Your future responsibilities In the face of multiple ecological crisis, lawmakers are increasingly regulating markets, to bring the economy back into planetary boundaries. Electronics are impacted or even directly addressed by many of these regulations due to their increasing energy consumption, toxic substances emitted during their production or washed out from e-waste landfills, and scarcity....

Your future responsibilities The Research Unit “Architectures & Topologies” of the SAL Power Electronics Division focuses on new topologies for various inverters, the utilisation of newest switching devices and modules as well as the optimisation of passive technologies in power converters. For the InnoTract project, we are looking for new colleagues to join the project....

Your future responsibilities Meta-lenses and diffractive optics have been considered as the future of optics as they enable more functionality than our current refractive optics technology. Several challenges still need to be met, such as efficient algorithms for inverse designs, dispersion for broadband application, and scalable fabrication methods to reach the consumer markets. This thesis....

Your future responsibilities Mid-infrared photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are a novel type of functional optoelectronic devices for spectroscopy, that combine multiple elements such as lasers, detectors, waveguides, modulators and/or filters on one single chip.  In this PhD thesis the next generation of such functional mid-infrared PICs will be developed. A special focus is put on the passive components, i.e. waveguides and modulators, as....

Your future responsibilities The magnetoelectric (ME) effect is the property that a material’s magnetic polarization can be influenced by an external electric field (converse ME) or that the electric polarization can be influenced by an external magnetic field (direct ME). More recently, the ME effect has obtained significant interest due to its potential applications in advanced technologies such as sensors, tuneable filters and inductors, spintronics, energy-efficient memory devices, energy-harvesting for wearables and IoT and even logic devices thanks....

Your future responsibilities Microsystems based on piezoelectric transduction are an important class of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Upon other material properties, a high crystalline quality of the involved thin films incl. electrodes and piezoelectrics is essential for a proper device performance. This project investigates the use of plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) to develop seed and....

Your future responsibilities The main goal of the project is to investigate the influence of plasma discharge parameters in inductively coupled conditions on etch performance and quality of  LiNbO3 based PIC structures.  Simulation and modeling methods will be implemented to simulate the plasma process and to predict the etch trends and results. In addition, this....

Your future responsibilities Spin centers in wideband gap semiconductors such as diamonds and silicon carbides are offering ideal platforms for realization of quantum sensors given their strong optical transitions and long quantum coherence lifetimes.  In diamond, the nitrogen vacancy centers (NV-) are particulary prominent due to their exceptional coherence, high brightness and large spin contrast.....

Your future responsibilities The PhD student will research methods to quantify, support and improve the trustworthiness of 6G communications, with a focus on mission-critical applications in dynamic industrial environments with communication requirements such as ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC). By ensuring trustworthy communication in 6G networks, research will cover frameworks for assessing and improving network resilience....

Your future responsibilities The use of accurate sensing information about the environment is expected to play a key role in pushing the limits of future communication networks such as 6G to the next level, be it in terms of throughput, latency, or link robustness. One promising idea is the concept of Integrated Sensing and Communication....