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Extreme-ultraviolet light manipulation by a nanostructured solid
Short-wavelength light sources beyond the color that the human eye can perceive have tremendous application potential, but controlling them is notoriously di...
Femius Koenderink elected OSA 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. K...
AMOLF researchers unravel how nano-antennas enhance chemical reactions
The chemical industry consumes a lot of energy, not only to initiate reactions but also to separate products from by-products. In a promising emerging field ...
Isabelle Palstra defends her PhD
On september 27, Isabelle Palstra successfully defended her PhD work on ‘An investigation towards single-emitter hybrid photonic devices’. Congratulations Is...
Congratulations Ruslan Röhrich
On Dec. 11, Ruslan Röhrich successfully defended his thesis Unconventional Metrology: Merging Nanophotonics with Computational Imaging. Ruslan is the first P...
Thesis defense Annemarie Berkhout
On November 13, Annemarie Berkhout received her PhD degree at the University of Amsterdam for her thesis “Planar hybrid plasmonic-photonic resonators: an int...
Physics Thesis Prize for Hugo Doeleman
Doeleman wrote the best physics thesis of 2019: “Hybrid Resonators for Light Trapping and Emission Control”. The jury of the NWO Physics Thesis Prize were fu...
Polarization vortex at a bound state in the continuum
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 AM...