Postdoctoral Associate or Research Associate

Job Summary

The proposed work is within the Faint Photonics group in the Applied Physics Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, CO, USA. Primary duties consist of analyzing and improving the performance of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) specifically at mid-infrared wavelengths, and developing arrays of such detectors for single-photon mid-infrared spectroscopy.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and fabricate new SNSPD architectures to achieve high efficiency in the 2-10 µm (mid-infrared) wavelength band.
• Test SNSPD devices using cryogenic systems and contribute to maintenance and operation of those systems.
• Contribute to international collaboration with groups in Germany and Denmark.
• Develop optical testing setups for measuring system detection efficiency at mid-infrared wavelengths.
• Publish results in peer-reviewed journals.
• Present results at conferences.