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  • Tiny thermometers: measuring heat flow dissipating via nanoparticles

    How do materials behave when heated with light at the scale of billionths of a meter? Researchers at AMOLF and Kobe University have developed a method to watch this process …

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  • Cathodoluminescence research advances measurements of light matter interactions

    Researchers in the Photonic Materials group have published their latest findings using cathodoluminescence techniques to measure free electrons moving along a metal surface. The paper ‘Angle-resolved cathodoluminescence interferometry of plasmonic …

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  • AMOLF, CWI, and DIFFER launch HELIOS project with NWO-I funding

    An AMOLF collaboration with CWI and DIFFER has received funding from NWO-I to launch a joint project: HELIOS: AI-guided materials discovery facility for solar energy materials. On Friday, May 23rd, …

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  • AMOLF and Delft University of Technology join forces to develop revolutionary microscopy technology

    A joint research project between AMOLF, Delft University of Technology, Delmic and Technolution has received funding from the National Growth Fund program ‘NXTGEN Hightech.’ This project, which aims to push …

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  • Albert Polman appointed as Fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE)

    After being officially launched on May 22, the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE) today announced that AMOLF group leader Albert Polman has been appointed as Fellow. With the appointment of …

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  • Efficiency of silicon-based multijunction solar cells breaks 36% barrier

    A team of researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISE, Freiburg) and AMOLF (Amsterdam) have fabricated a multijunction solar cell with an efficiency of 36.1%, the highest …

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  • Rubicon for Andrea Cordaro

    Former AMOLF Phd student Andrea Cordaro receives an NWO Rubicon grant to start his research project ‘Mathematics at the speed of light’ at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of …

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  • SHINE consortium receives NWO funding to combine the best of two worlds

    A consortium consisting of AMOLF and other academic partners in the Netherlands receives funding from the NWO Research Infrastructure (RI) call for the project ‘Shining light on atomic-scale processes’ (SHINE).

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  • Mathematics at the speed of light

    Researchers at AMOLF, University of Pennsylvania, and City University of New York (CUNY) created a nanostructured surface capable of solving equations using light. This discovery opens exciting new opportunities in …

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  • Albert Polman receives ERC Advanced Research Grant

    AMOLF program leader Albert Polman receives an Advanced Research Grant of 2.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC). He will use the ERC Advanced Grant to develop a …

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