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Infomatter symposium: taking advantage of information in a system
On Thursday, May 22nd, AMOLF organized the Infomatter Symposium to discuss exciting developments in information processing — ranging from biochemical to mechanical and optical systems. What these systems share is that they do not rely on conventional computers. This is a significant advantage, given that the energy cost of computing is rising much faster than that of energy production.
OTP project Femius Koenderink receives funding
AMOLF group leader and UvA professor Femius Koenderink has received funding from the NWO Domain Applied and Engineering Sciences for the OTP project entitled ‘Integrated nanophotonic and extreme-ultraviolet access to semiconductor metrology’ (NANOXUV). Koenderink is thrilled to start his research project together with Peter Kraus (ARCNL) and industrial partner ASML. NWO has assigned 1 million euro to the NANOXUV project.
Extreme-ultraviolet light manipulation to unleash unprecedented capabilities
Short-wavelength light sources beyond the color that the human eye can perceive have tremendous application potential, but controlling them is notoriously difficult. First author Sylvianne Roscam Abbing (ARCNL, in a collaboration with AMOLF) is the first one to demonstrate control over extreme-ultraviolet light pulses using nanostructures. This opens the door towards both new ways of generating light, and also sensing nanostructures. The research team, consisting of members of the Resonant Nanophotonics group (PI: Femius Koenderink, AMOLF) and led by the High-harmonic Generation and EUV Science group (PI: Peter Kraus, ARCNL) published their findings in Physical Review Letters 128, 223902 (2022).
Femius Koenderink elected 2022 Optica Fellow
The Optica (formerly OSA) Board of Directors has elected Femius Koenderink to the 2022 Fellows Class. He is one of the 106 members to be honored this year. Koenderink was elected ‘for fundamental contributions to subwavelength resonant nanophotonics to control scattering, emission, and amplification of light at the nanometer scale’. Koenderink leads the Resonant Nanophotonics group at AMOLF and is head of the Nanophotonics department.
Cum Laude for Hugo Doeleman
On January 18th Hugo Doeleman defended his PhD thesis ‘Hybrid resonators for light trapping and emission control’ at the University of Amsterdam.
Physicists catch light in the eye of the storm
Stillness rules the eye of a hurricane; without a hurricane no eye, and without an eye no hurricane. In a similar manner, physicists of research institute AMOLF, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Texas at Austin, have captured light in the eye of an optical vortex. “The light could move in any direction but does not do so,” says researcher Hugo Doeleman. The research will be published on June 4th in the top journal Nature Photonics.
Femius Koenderink wins 2018 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award Lectureship
Femius Koenderink (head of the AMOLF Center for Nanophotonics) is the winner of the 2018 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award Lectureship. This lectureship honors the contributions to the photonics research field of a researcher that is in the first 5 to 10 years of his or her career.
Perspective by Femius Koenderink most read in ACS Photonics in 2017
On January 2nd, ACS Photonics announced on Twitter that “Single-photon nanoantennas” is their most read publication in 2017. AMOLF group leader Femius Koenderink is the author of this review article.