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Scholarship / Bourses

20 IRENA Scholarships at the Abu Dhabi based MASDAR Institute of Science and Technology

The application process for IRENA Scholarship for the academic year 2012-2013 has opened on 1 November 2011 and will close on 31 May 2012 In an effort to promote talented academics, and with the generous support of the Government of the United Arab Emirates, up to 20 IRENA scholarships are offered annually at the Abu Dhabi […]

PhD Scholarship: Electronic properties of materials for OSC (Germany)

PHD LOCATION: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen – Germany STARTING DATE: 1st September 2012 Application deadline: April 15th, 2012 DESCRIPTION The electronic structure of new organic materials and their interfaces play a major role for the understanding and the improvement of OSCs. Possible interface reactions and electronic interface parameters, which are of vital importance for charge transport across […]

PhD Scholarships: Organic bulk heterojunction solar cells for charge carrier transport and recombination measurement (Austria)

PHD LOCATION: Johannes Kepler University, Linz – Austria STARTING DATE: 1st September 2012 Deadline for Application: April 15th, 2012 DESCRIPTION New polymers based on fullerenes are expected to play a role in the development of highly stable, large-scale OSCs. In ESTABLIS, the PhD Fellow will have the aim of characterising and testing pristine and aged OSCs and related […]

PhD Scholarships: Synthesis of polymers and copolymers for application in organic solar cell (United Kingdom)

PhD Location: Aston University, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry department Starting Date: 1st September 2012 Deadline for application: April 15th, 2012 DESCRIPTION The Fellow will be synthesising novel copolymers for use in OSCs using highly skilled laboratory techniques. Subsequently, the fellow will use microscopy and spectroscopic techniques to construct the phase diagram for such materials. The successful candidate […]

PhD Scholarships on the Photochemical behaviour of new organic materials for OSCs (France)

Location: Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand – France STARTING DATE: 1st September 2012 Deadline for application: April 15th, 2012 DESCRIPTION Polymers exhibit low resistances to sunlight, temperature, oxygen and water. New polymers with increased stabilities are expected to play a key role in the development of highly stable, large-scale OSCs. One of the prime causes of short […]

Bourses de Doctorat à l’Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (France)

PhD Title:  Development of photostable nanocomposites barrier layer STARTING DATE: 1st Sept. 2012 .  Deadline for application: April 15th, 2012 DESCRIPTION OSCs exhibit low resistances to sunlight, temperature, oxygen and water. Therefore, device encapsulation is pivotal to develop low cost, highly stable, large-scale OSCs. Various routes exist to achieve the barrier levels for OSCs. One is the […]

PhD Scholarships: Synthesis and Modelling of Polyfullerene at the University of Pau (France)

PhD location : IPREM – University of Pau – France Starting date : September 1st, 2012 Deadline for Application: April 15th, 2012 Description: New polymers based on fullerenes are expected to play a role in the development of highly stable, large-scale OSCs. The PhD Fellow will have the aim of developing new fullerene-based materials for […]

PhD Scholarships in Electrochemical Nanofluidics (Netherlands)

The group Nanoionics at the University of Twente is a recently founded, internationally oriented group conducting fundamental research on electrostatics and electron transfer in liquid, and simultaneously exploring new concepts for fluidic technologies based on this new understanding. This multidisciplinary research combines elements of soft matter physics, biophysics, electrochemistry and nanoscience. We are part of […]

PhD Scholarships in Forensic Face Recognition (Netherlands)

The project Forensic Face Recognition, which is funded by NWO (the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), is a collaboration between: •the chair of Signals and Systems (SAS), in the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) of the University of Twente, •the Korteweg-de Vries Institute of the University of Amsterdam, •and the Netherlands […]

Phd Scholarships in Continuous Flow Separation of Biomolecules (Netherlands)

The BIOS, Lab-on-a-Chip group is part of the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, located at the University of Twente (The Netherlands) and is considered as a pioneering group in the field of microfluidics. The group offers a multidisciplinary research environment as well as an active social life. More information can be found on our group and […]

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