For well over two decades, we have been supporting the world-leading manufacturers of semiconductor equipment around the world with our knowledge of material and optics’ lifetime, aiming at understanding the effects of extreme environments on materials and their subsequent interactions with the further system at the nanoscale. Experimental work is performed in our Van Leeuwenhoek Laboratory, which houses a wide range of state of the art facilities: in-house built ultraclean vacuum equipment, EUV exposure facilities – such as the EUV Beamline facility (EBL2), XPS surface analysis systems, plasma exposure setups, equipment for nanoparticle detection and much more. One of our main goals is to support our partners worldwide and enable the continuing development of EUV lithography for high-volume manufacturing.

The setup EBL2 is the defining setup of TNO with respect to EUV material-interaction research. Designed, built and funded by TNO it gives unique-in-the-world opportunities for EUV lithography research. The EBL2 is our department’s largest facility (and one of the largest in TNO) and plays a dominant role in up to 40% of the projects we run in the department.

Functie-eisen

Prepare, execute and report on the practical aspects of experiments being run on the setup EBL2 Take ownership of and execute on maintenance items (preventive, reactive) of the setup EBL2 as part of the EBL2 team

Take ownership of and execute on technical improvement activities related to the setup EBL2 as part of the EBL2 team

This position offers the opportunity to grow into a more strongly focused experimental science role.

Competenties

You have higher vocational training, e.g. a Bachelor’s degree (Dutch: HBO) and a further background in experimental research in a R&D or academic setting, specifically in any or all of the following areas: vacuum, high-energy aspects, nanotechnology, optics, material characterization

You are communicative, check in regularly with colleagues, able to work as part of a team/project

You are organized and quality oriented, and able to work independently in this manner You speak good English (additional good Dutch is a nice to have) You enjoy having practical/technical work, this is not a desk job!

You are able to deal effectively with problems, issues and a fast pace changing environment Further skills we are hoping to add to the team are; some experience with software scripting in python, customer intimacy. If you have any of these, we will consider it a plus.

We expect

We will train our new colleague on the particulars of the setup EBL2. Since this training can take up to 6 months, we expect you to commit to at least 2 years at the setup EBL2 full time. Within that timeframe we will tune the focus of the work at the EBL2 setup to your personal ambitions and the business needs.

The EBL2 team

We are an enthusiastic group of researchers, focused on working with the setup EBL2. Currently the team consists of 5 operators (1 full-time, the others all ~50% part-time), 1 scientist, 1 setup owner (~50% part-time) and 1 team lead (~30% part-time). This vacancy is an expansion of the team.

The EBL2 team is embedded within the Research Group Semicon Equipment Lifetime.

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