Surface Chemist for reactive plasma – surface interactions 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.

Surface Chemist for reactive plasma – surface interactions Job Description

Introduction
ASML is a leadingmanufacturer of lithography equipment. In the latest systems, light, plasma andmaterials interact at surfaces. Optimizing processes requires a profoundunderstanding of surface chemistry, plasma-material interactions and of photoninduced processes. Since ASML works at cutting edge technology, a lot ofphenomena are very unique and have a first-of-a-kind character.  

Job Mission
To strengthen the chemistry competence, ASML Research  is looking for a Surface Chemist or Surface Scientist, who can add value to the understanding ofreactive plasma-surface interactions.

Job Description
You will work in a multidisciplinary team with Chemists,Physicists, Electrical and Mechanical engineers.  You have a profound understanding of thereactions and processes occurring at and below surfaces exposed to a plasma.Based on high-level problem descriptions you can define hypotheses onunderlying mechanisms and relevant experimental tests. Subsequently you areable to perform these tests and translate the results into kinetic equations,models, and design rules to improve product performance. Next to this, the job involvesexperiments in a laboratory with UHV equipment and low-pressure discharges.

Surface Chemist for reactive plasma – surface interactions Job Requirements

Education
(Technical) University PhD in Chemistry, Heterogeneous catalysis with experience in experimental approaches,  Surface science with a focus on molecularinteractions. Relevant 2-5 years of experience is appreciated.

Experience

• Knowledge of reactiveprocesses on surfaces and with materials at low pressures involving gas phasespecies, including radicals and ions.  
• (Basic) knowledge of plasma physics. 
• Familiarity with concepts of heterogeniccatalysis like adsorption processes, Langmuir-Hinshelwood, Eley- Redealmechanisms, lattice structures of adsorbates, surface and sub-surface diffusion.
• Understanding of the thermomechanicalstability of thin films on materials against external stress factors such astemperature, chemical reactions etc.
• Experience with chemical modeling, i.e. with DFT and/or MD would give you a head-start.
• Experience with surface analysis methods (XPS, Raman, IR, AFM,).

• Open to learning techniques outside of the above mentioned fields in the future.
• Combining both an interest and capability in modeling of surface processes, whilst also being experimentally capable.
• Autonomous while driving to success in a highly skilled team of experts towards a common goal.
• Pragmatic attitude with an analytical view.

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Keywords:Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Surface Chemistry, PlasmaPhysics , Material science, Heterogenic Catalysis, DFT

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