Although their properties have been studied in many experiments, the precise radiation mechanism of plasmonic nanorods and ridges has remained unknown. AMOLF researchers now have solved this problem, by using an in-home developed...read more »

One of the three Shell Master Thesis Prizes has been awarded to Jorik van de Groep. He received this prize of € 2,000 for his master thesis Light trapping in thin silicon waveguides by plasmon-mediated mode coupling.read more »

Take a picture with your smart phone and have its Fourier transform calculated, and vice versa. A new App, developed by AMOLF director Albert Polman, his PhD student Ernst Jan Vesseur and INFI Inc. is now available on-line. read more »

Prof. Wim Sinke, senior scientist at ECN and former group leader at AMOLF, was awarded the European Becquerel Prize for Outstanding Merits in Photovoltaics during the 26th EU PVSEC conference on September 5, 2011. He received...read more »

An extremely small antenna can control light at the nanoscale. Researchers from FOM Institute AMOLF have demonstrated this in practice for the first time. They even developed a new measurement technique for this purpose. This...read more »

AMOLF director and group leader Albert Polman has received a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant of 2.3 million euro.read more »

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 »