On October 4th Igor Milov received a Rubicon Grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). With this grant Milov will investigate phase transitions in nanoparticles and thin films induced by …
Two ARCNL publications were recently highlighted by the editors of the two journals: The Editorial Board of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) selected the publication UV and VUV-induced fragmentation of …
ARCNL researchers use plasmonic resonance to amplify tiny changes in reflection To extract information from very subtle changes in a signal, researchers either have to measure over a long period, …
On April 6th Vanessa Verrina successfully defended her thesis ‘Laser-induced ultrasound for the detection of buried micro- and nano-structures’ at the University of Amsterdam. Verrina did her doctoral research in …
Researchers at ARCNL have found a way to detect nanostructures buried under many layers of opaque material, using very high frequency sound waves induced by light. Their findings are promising …
In June two PhD students of ARCNL successfully defended their theses at the University of Amsterdam. Because of the Covid-19 measures their PhD defenses were held online through ZOOM. On …
Over the years, the focus of the research group of Paul Planken has shifted so much that its original name EUV Targets group no longer reflects the scientific focus of …
ARCNL group leaders Paul Planken (also full professor at the Institute of Physics at the University of Amsterdam) and Stefan Witte (also associate professor at the department of physics at …
On January 9, 2017, Andrea Peña received the Hendrik Casimir Prize 2016 for best Master student. The Casimir Research School yearly awards these prizes to the best MSc students in …
On November 10, 2016, the Optical Society (OSA) has elected Paul Planken (ARCNL/UvA) as Fellow. The Board of Directors of OSA elected Planken “for his pioneering contributions to terahertz time-domain …
