The NIMS Atom Probe Laboratory is affiliated to The Doctoral Program in Frontier Science at the Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, the University of Tsukuba. Graduate students addmitted to the Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Tsukuba can study in this laboratory for a Master of Engineering degree or a Doctor of Engineering degree. For more information on addmission to the graduate school, visit the home page of the Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tsukuba.
If you wish to join our group as a post doctoral fellow, apply to the JSPS Fellowship. This fellowship will grant you round trip tickets and the living allowance to let you stay in our institute as long as 24 months. Various fringe benefits will be offered to the recipients of the fellowship.
We are keen to accept motivated young scientists who are interested in microstructure-property relationships of metallic materials. Current research projects are mainly concerned with the microstructure- property relationships of nanocrystalline and nanocomposite metallic materials, amorphous alloys, aluminum alloys, steels and magnetic thin films as well as magnetic nanogranular materials. Major techniques that we employ for the microstructural characterizations are three-dimentional atom probe and transmission electron microscopy. In addition, various experimental materials are produeced in our laboratory, including nanocomposite magnet materials, rapidly solidified alloys, amorphous alloy, age-hardening aluminum alloys and magnetic thin films.
We are currently looking for the applicants for the next application deadline of September 1, 2001. In case a fellowship is awarded, the successful applicant must start here sometime between April 1 to September 30, 2002. Successful applicants should have a strong background in physical metallurgy and phase transformations of alloys, or reserch experience on magnetic properties and microstructures. Experience in transmission electron microscopy is desirable.
