Mirjam Leunissen and Femius Koenderink, heads of respectively the Supramolecular Interactions and Resonant Nanophotonics group, are among this year’s 10 excellent scientists, elected to become new members of the Young Academy...read more »

How quickly is a photon emitted? Researchers at AMOLF, the FOM institute, have built a new microscope that can measure and even control how fast a molecule emits a photon (a particle of light) depending on where the molecule is...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 »

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...

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.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 »

Observing the interaction of neutral atoms or molecules in space and time is extremely difficult, since such interactions only occur on ultra small length scales (0.1 nm), and ultra fast time scales. A team of researchers at the...read more »