AMOLF-researchers designed a new material with a negative index of refraction, in which light waves run backwards. The researchers unraveled the behavior of light in materials that look like 'sandwiches' of very thin stacked...read more »

A European collaboration of scientists has succeeded in controlling the ultrafast precession of electron spins in antiferromagnets, which has heretofore been inaccessible. read more »

Two AMOLF researchers received a Vidi grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Femius Koenderink, who has been a group leader at AMOLF since 2008, will use his Vidi to considerably expand his...

For his outstanding role in his research field, AMOLF group leader Kobus Kuipers has been elected as Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). OSA members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics may be...read more »

A team of AMOLF scientists, together with LioniX BV, has developed a sensor that can make the magnetic field of light visible. The magnetic field itself is very difficult to detect because it has almost no interaction with...read more »

From 21-25 June, the Fourth International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP4) was held in Amsterdam, organized by AMOLF and chaired by AMOLF group leader Kobus Kuipers.read more »

Researchers at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) made light waves propagate along extremely small wires. Their experiments show how a ‘funnel’ made of gold helps to compress a light beam to make it fit...read more »