ARCNL alumnus Ester Abram conducted her PhD research on how high-intensity laser light can damage material surfaces, with an interest in semiconductor manufacturing processes. Now, she and her collaborators from …
Within one month, five ARCNL PhD students successfully defended their theses. Congratulations to Doctors Dion Engels, Karl Schubert, Fengling Zhang, Falco Bijloo and Nick Feldman! Dion Engels Dion Engels did …
Anchit Srivastava, postdoctoral researcher at ARCNL, has been awarded an ERC Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellowship for advancing the frontiers of optical metrology. The goal of his LOTUS project is …
On February 6, students from the Fysisch-Mathematische Faculteitsvereniging (FMF) at University of Groningen came to ARCNL to visit labs, talk to researchers and learn about opportunities for students to get …
On January 30, the University of Amsterdam Institute of Physics (UvA-IoP) hosted Viva Fysica 2026. The event showcases physics and astronomy research at Amsterdam Science Park for interested high school …
On January 28, ARCNL research group leader Emilia Olsson participated in the panel discussion on the role of deep tech in academia, as part of University of Amsterdam Faculty of Science’s Deep Tech Day. The …
During his MSc project, ARCNL PhD candidate Tijn Vernooij discovered that calcium sulfate, a widely used material, could be used in the form of thin nanocrystals to reduce friction between …
ARCNL researchers in the group of Peter Kraus have demonstrated a way to overcome the diffraction limit in optical microscopy, using laser techniques that shape light in both space and …
ARCNL had a strong and visible presence at NWO Physics, held on 20-21 January 2026 in Veldhoven. The annual conference brought together the Dutch physics community, and ARCNL research was …
The research teams of Lyuba Amitonova (ARCNL) and Femius Koenderink (AMOLF) investigated new optical detection strategies to efficiently measure perturbations at the nanometer scale. For their experiments they used metasurfaces, …
