NSERC Undergraduate Summer Position -- Martin Group

We are interested in having a NSERC Undergraduate summer student work on our quantum electronics/atom chip project in the Summer or Fall of 2013.

Shown to the right is an atom chip fabricated by O. Cherry and J. Carter using the RF MEMS and alpha-SiDIC facilities in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Waterloo. This chip is the centre-piece of a state-of-the-art project recently initiated by our group.

Atom chips trap very cold (laser cooled) gas-phase atoms using inhomogeneous magnetic fields generated by micron-sized wires. They are an exciting merger of microelectronics with gas-phase atomic physics, that promises new devices -- many of which exploit the quantum nature of matter in new ways (including, but not limited to quantum computing and communication). The long term goals of this project are the development of new devices and sophisticated surface microscopies using Rydberg atoms obtained by laser excitation of microtrapped atoms.

Both theoretical and experimental projects are available, depending on student interest and aptitute. Emphasis will be placed on completion of a complete project (theory, design, fabrication, experimentation), including documentation of the results by the end of the summer. Contact me for more details.

For some of our group's recent publications, please see here.

For the eligibility rules and application procedures, please see our Department's USRA NSERC site (applications are typically processed in January).