2025 DEVCOM ARL Summer Student Experience: Exploring the Design and Initial Fabrication and Characterization of a Graphene/MoS2 Based Power Amplifier Job at DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD

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  • DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
  • Adelphi, MD

Job Description

Description

Research Project

Focusing on critical electric field and electron mobility enabled/exhibited by the graphene/MoS2 heterostructure, explore the possibility of those new characteristics suitable for individual, or ubiquitous applications in DC, RF, and pulsed operations. Perform an initial trial of fabrication of a device, and other related topics and methodologies will also be possible to explore.

Advisor Name: Charles Rong

Advisor Email: [email protected] 

Advisor Name: Madan Dubey

Advisor Email: [email protected] 

About Photonics, Electronics, & Quantum Sciences (PE&QS) 

Materials (and related manufacturing methods) and devices intended for achieving photonic, electronic, and quantum-based effects. 

About the ARL-RAP Summer Student Experience (SSE)

The DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Research Associateship Program (RAP)  Summer Student Experience ( SSE )is an educational program that allows undergraduate through PhD students and recent bachelor’s and master's degree graduates to participate in a paid research experience at a Department of Defense laboratory over the summer break.  Participants are paired with scientists and engineers at ARL who are helping to shape and execute the Army's program for meeting the challenge of developing technologies that will support Army forces future operational needs.  As a participant in the ARL-RAP SSE, you will be part of high priority research efforts that are broadly supported by 11 research competencies .  While ARL has identified several specific research topics, the opportunity for general research may also exist under each competency. 

About DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Research Associateship Program (RAP)

The  Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) is designed to significantly increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Army. Scientists and Engineers at the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) help shape and execute the Army's program for meeting the challenge of developing technologies that will support Army forces in meeting future operational needs by pursuing scientific research and technological developments in diverse fields such as: applied mathematics, atmospheric characterization, simulation and human modeling, digital/optical signal processing, nanotechnology, material science and technology, multifunctional technology, combustion processes, propulsion and flight physics, communication and networking, and computational and information sciences. 

About Army Research Directorate (ARD)

ARL’s Army Research Directorate (ARD) focuses on exploiting concept development, discovery, technology development, and transition of the most promising disruptive science and technology to deliver to the Army fundamentally advantageous science-based capabilities through ARL's 11 research competencies. This intramural research directorate also manages the laboratory’s essential research programs, which are flagship research efforts focused on delivering defined outcomes.

Location(s) of Appointment

  • Adelphi Laboratory Center, Maryland (ALC)

Tentative Summer Program Dates: May 12, 2025 - August 29, 2025.  If selected, you will coordinate your exact participation dates with your Research Advisor.

For questions about the Summer Student Experience Program, please email  [email protected] .

Qualifications

Preferred Technical Skills 

Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, and all disciplines of Engineering

Eligibility Requirements

  • Citizenship: LPR or U.S. Citizen
  • Degree: High School Diploma/GED, Associate's Degree, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, or Doctoral Degree received within the last 12 months or currently pursuing.
  • Overall GPA: 2.50
  • Academic Level(s): Associate’s Degree (Journeyman Fellow), Bachelor’s Degree (Journeyman Fellow), Master’s Degree (Journeyman Fellow), or Doctoral Degree (Postdoctoral Fellow).
  • Discipline(s):
    • Chemistry and Materials Sciences (4 )
    • Engineering (27 )
    • Physics (1 )
  • Age: Must be 18 years old by 5/1/2025

How to Apply

Application Deadline:  March 14, 2025 

Applications must be submitted in Zintellect . 

A complete application includes: 

  1. Resume listing your relevant coursework and lab experience as well as all papers, presentations, or publications you may have authored or co-authored. Include any reprints or abstracts if they are available.
  2. Transcripts verifying current enrollment in an undergraduate or graduate program at an accredited university or technical institute.  Original student copies are acceptable. 
  3. Statement of Interest describing your scientific research experience including lab experience and relevant academic coursework. State how this experience intersects with your personal and professional goals.  
  4. Three References  formal reference forms are not required for the Summer Student Experience, but names and contact information for references must be provided.  During the review process, ARL Selecting Officials may contact references.

Job Tags

Summer work, Summer holiday,

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