Solar cells, integrated with a thin layer of metallic nanoparticles, can absorb sunlight much more strongly than conventional solar cells. As a result, solar cells can be made thinner, and thus cheaper, while still efficiently...

On December 18, the Dutch cabinet has decided to award a budget of 125 million euro to the technology program 'Towards a sustainable open innovation ecosystem'. AMOLF has contributed 13 projects proposals to this program, to a...

AMOLF researchers, together with colleagues at Twente University, have demonstrated that an electrically-driven source of light in the form of surface plasmon polaritons could be built inside silicon computer chips. These devices...

A team of AMOLF scientists at the Center for Nanophotonics has for the first time demonstrated energy transfer between nano-electromagnets, mediated by the magnetic field of light.

Together with researchers of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), AMOLF researcher Albert Polman of the Photonic Materials Group has attempted to build a silicon laser. The desired outcome, the laser application of...

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.

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...

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has appointed AMOLF-director Albert Polman as member of the Academy.

AMOLF researchers Ernst Jan Vesseur and Ewold Verhagen were both rewarded with a poster prize at the NanoMeta conference (the 2nd European Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials) in Seefeld, Austria.The awards were...

In November the FOM Executive Board has granted two major FOM programs that will be managed from AMOLF.

In 2006 verwierf AMOLF een 'NWO-Groot' subsidie voor de aanschaf van een Focused Ion Beam (FIB) systeem. Met dit systeem kan met behulp van een 30 keV Ga ionenbundel, die wordt gefocusseerd tot een spot met een diameter van 7 nm,...