The candidate should have a university knowledge of physics, mathematics and programming. The candidate should have a critical thinking and be motivated to learn how things work.
Latest advances in laser and nanophotonics technology show that a new grade of electronic devices might come. Such devices would operate thousand or million times faster than contemporary computers. By exciting charge carriers in the metal-semiconductor-metal interface using ultrafast laser pulses it is possible to create current pulses with duration of femtoseconds and their direction can be controlled by the shape of electric field of laser pulses. Such current pulses could become the basic operating principle of the next generation petahertz electronics.
At Wigner Research Center we offer a thesis topic studying this effect. The degree candidate would get familiar with ultrafast strong-field lasers and with fundamental techniques related to them. The candidate will develop a model of the current generation in the dielectric samples under the influence of strong laser fields. This way, the candidate will receive training in development of computer models and data processing.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160523131939.htm
https://wigner.hu/hu/hogyan-teheto-vezetove-az-uveg-avagy-ultragyors-optoelektronika-wigner-kutatokozpontban