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LMPV wins Team Science Award
LMPV group leaders with from left to right: Bruno Ehrler, Albert Polman, Esther Alarcon Llado, Erik Garnett, Wiebke Albrecht. Photo by Liesbeth Dingemans The team of…
A lead test based on solar cell technology
AMOLF researchers have used the special properties of perovskite semiconductors to develop a simple spray test to demonstrate the presence of lead. Perovskite is a material suitable for use in…
Kristina Ganzinger connected to Oncode Institute as Junior Investigator
AMOLF group leader Kristina Ganzinger has been selected by the Oncode Institute to join as Junior Investigator. The institute selected 10 junior investigators out of 72 applicants. The researchers were…
Ewold Verhagen elected as Optica Fellow
Photo: Ivar Pel Optica (formerly OSA) has elected AMOLF group leader Ewold Verhagen as Fellow. Optica elected Verhagen for “outstanding contributions to nanophotonics and optomechanics, and…
Albert Polman appointed as Fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Photo: Jan Willem Steenmeijer After being officially launched on May 22, the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE) today announced that AMOLF group leader Albert Polman has…
Hot crystals through laser light
Timelapse images and SEM image of the nucleation and growth of a single CaCO3 crystal using NIR laser light, the red dashed circle indicates the focal…
Algorithm now available to exactly compute information rate
The AMOLF researchers developed a new numerical technique that enables the exact computation of the information transmission rate for any stochastic system. The technique works by…
Bacteria opt for the best price-to-quality ratio to predict the future
Predicting the future can be a matter of life or death. Just think, every time you cross the street, you predict whether this is possible without being run over. Experiments…