Internship: Simulate and design a Charge Amplifier for a 2D PSD Job in Veldhoven, Netherlands

ASML is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of chip-making equipment.

Our vision is to enable affordable microelectronics that improve the quality of life. To achieve this, our mission is to invent, develop, manufacture and service advanced technology for high-tech lithography, metrology and software solutions for the semiconductor industry.

ASML's guiding principle is continuing Moore's Law towards ever smaller, cheaper, more powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors. This results in increasingly powerful and capable electronics that enable the world to progress within a multitude of fields, including healthcare, technology, communications, energy, mobility, and entertainment.

Working at ASML
We provide the world’s top chipmakers everything they need to create better performing, cheaper semiconductor chips. Simply put: we are an industry leader supporting industry leaders.

As such, you’ll be encouraged to bring your best ideas and act on them. You’ll have the freedom, trust, and support in your field to experiment and solve complex challenges. Things are rarely dull when you’re constantly breaking new ground.

But despite our fast-paced environment at the forefront of tech, we take your work-life balance and wellbeing seriously. A business is only as good as its employees.

So join us, and you’ll be a part of a global collaboration. One that promotes creativity, the inclusion of highly diverse teams, and an exciting and dynamic work environment. Join us, and you’ll be a part of progress.

Internship: Simulate and design a Charge Amplifier for a 2D PSD Job Description

Introduction
This is an apprentice or graduation internship for a master's student who is studying electronics and is eager to learn how to systematically analyze problems and how to combine the application of Matlab, LTSpice and/or Python to simulate a sensor and an amplifier.
Job Mission
For the measurement of the two-dimensional position of a light spot one can apply Position Sensitive Devices (PSDs). ASML requires, for certain specific applications, customized versions that are operated with pulsed light having non-standard characteristics.  A research project involves the design of a charge amplifier as interface between the new, customized PSD and an AD converter. The goal is to be able to measure the performance of the new sensor in a test environment.
Job Description
Your assignment will be to:

• Create an LTspice simulation model of the PSD that accurately models the nonlinear dynamic transfer from a position-dependent light spot with a spatially distributed intensity, to the short-circuit terminal currents;
• Design a charge amplifier that accurately converts the charge generated by the PSD into the voltage required by the ADC;
• Design a PSD emulator device (optional);
• Verify the performance of the complete system with LTspice;
• Build the amplifier and the PSD emulator and measure its performance.  

Internship: Simulate and design a Charge Amplifier for a 2D PSD Job Requirements

You are a master’s student studying electronics. You are  eager to learn how to systematically analyze problems and how to combine the application of Matlab, LTSpice and/or Python to simulate the sensor and the amplifier. Apart from doing theoretical analysie and performing simulations you are able to design an optimal circuit.

This is an apprentice or graduation assignment with a minimum duration of 5 months. The start date is as soon as possible.

Please keep in mind that we can only consider students (who are enrolled at a school during the whole internship period) for our internships and graduation assignments. 




 

Internship: Simulate and design a Charge Amplifier for a 2D PSD Application Information

What ASML offers
Your internship will be in one of the leading Dutch corporations, gaining valuable experience in a highly dynamic environment. You will receive a monthly internship allowance of 500 euro (maximum), plus a possible housing or travel allowance. In addition, you’ll get expert, practical guidance and the chance to work in and experience a dynamic, innovative team environment.

ASML: Be part of progress
We make machines that make chips – the hearts of the devices that keep us informed, entertained and safe; that improve our quality of life and help to tackle the world’s toughest problems.
We build some of the most amazing machines that you will ever see, and the software to run them. Never satisfied, we measure our performance in units that begin with pico or nano.
We believe we can always do better. We believe the winning idea can come from anyone. We love what we do – not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard. 

Students: Getting ready for real-world R&D
Pushing technology further is teamwork, and our R&D team is more than 5,500 people strong, with major sites on three continents. Dozens of diverse, interdisciplinary teams work in parallel to meet a challenging development schedule. 
In such an environment, your colleagues may be sitting next door, or they could be thousands of kilometers away in a different country, or even working for a different company.
An internship at ASML is your opportunity to get to know this world of industrial-strength R&D and get a feel for that excites you most. Will you design a part of the machine, or make sure it gets built to the tightest possible specifications? Will you write software that drives the system to its best performance, or work side-by-side with the engineers of our customers in a fab, optimizing a system to the requirements of the customer?

How will you be part of progress?
 

Internship: Simulate and design a Charge Amplifier for a 2D PSD Summary

Apply