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I think that scientists in industry are usually desirable for their skill set rather than knowledge in their specific field of study. I bet that you would be able to find industry work in your general field, but, as you say, probably not in the specific subfield that you've studied so far (this is obviously somewhat unsatisfying for people who have dedicated years of their lives to studying something). Out of curiosity, what are you working on?

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Simulation of CMOS-Transistors by a semi-classical approach. A self-consistent deterministic solver for the Poisson equation, Schrodinger equation and Boltzmann equation including small signal analysis and noise characterization of the device.

Basically you want to gauge the crude models of circuit designers. But nanoscale transistors are hard to accurately understand. In particular, there's currently no good way to get predictive small signal parameters and noise characteristics of devices at such a scale.

So here I am, doing some of the first decent simulations for transistors at current technology nodes.

Definitely not something a startup is looking for :)

My focus is on biotech :) but what about Thermofisher working on their Ion Torrent platform (although this isn't a startup). They use ISFETs for DNA sequencing. Also there is Oxford Nanopore Technologies which sequence DNA by measuring changes in current as DNA passes through a nanopore. ONT is a startup :)

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