Bruno Ehrler starts new research group on Hybrid Solar Cells
As of November 1st, Bruno Ehrler has been appointed as AMOLF group leader. Ehrler is the second group leader hired in the FOM Focus group “Light Management in New Photovoltaic …
New mechanism to convert light into electricity: the ‘plasmo-electric effect’
Researchers of the FOM Institute AMOLF and the California Institute of Technology have discovered a new method to generate electrical potentials using light. Using precisely sculpted metal nanocircuits they found …
Core-shell nanowire antennas boost absorption for solar cells
Researchers at the FOM Institute AMOLF have taken the first steps towards making a high performance solar cell by coating metal nanowire electrodes with an ultrathin shell of the absorbing …
Researchers discover that hairpins can make a polymer spaghetti fluid
Researchers from FOM Institute AMOLF and the German Forschungzentrum Jülich have discovered why polymers in a solution become fluid if the solution is stirred. They discovered that the polymer structure …
Kobus Kuipers appointed professor at Utrecht University
AMOLF group leader Kobus Kuipers has been appointed professor Nanophotonics at the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science in the department of Physics and Astronomy of the Utrecht University. Kuipers will …
Researchers from FOM institute AMOLF have discovered that metabolism, the process that converts molecules in a cell, proceeds irregularly. As metabolism is the motor that drives all biological activity in …
Martin van Hecke starts new research group on ‘Mechanical Metamaterials’
As of September 1, Martin van Hecke starts a new research group on Mechanical Metamaterials. These forms of matter derive their transnatural functionalities from their structure rather than composition --- …
Researchers from FOM institute AMOLF have directly observed the misfolding of a protein chain. Protein chains are thought to fold into the wrong structure sometimes, and thus cause neurodegenerative diseases.
Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics to Atwater and Polman
This year’s Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to AMOLF group leader Prof. Albert Polman and his colleague Prof. Harry A. Atwater from Caltech Pasadena, USA, for …
Researchers from FOM Institute AMOLF have discovered that infrared light strongly stimulates the transport of protons (H+ ions) in hydrogen fuel cells. Hydrogen fuel cells are an alternative, clean source of …
