Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography

‘Cutting-edge research in physics and materials science to advance nanolithography, strengthening the research system in nanolithography technology, and accelerating the transition from fundamental discovery to implementation in the semiconductor industry.’

ARCNL and ASML renew collaboration at yearly Strategy Day
- June 20, 2025
Last Thursday, researchers and leadership from ARCNL, ASML and university stakeholders congregated in Eindhoven to look back on the past year of collaborative innovation, and…
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Marcelo Ackermann appointed new director of ARCNL
- June 11, 2025
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Ackermann will start this November as the director of ARCNL, the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography in Amsterdam. He will succeed Dr.
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Experiments shed new light on the limits of laser-writing method
- May 19, 2025
Last year at ARCNL, Lorenzo Cruciani made a surprise discovery of a new method to directly write patterns of ruthenium with a laser. Now,…
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Why silicon surfaces slip more easily under pressure
- May 1, 2025
Surfaces can start slipping more easily when pressed harder – a surprising discovery by researchers at the University of Amsterdam and ARCNL. Their work reveals…
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- July 3, 2025
- at VU Amsterdam
- PhD Ceremony
- Tamar Cromwijk
Defense Tamar Cromwijk

I would like to invite you to attend the public defense of my PhD thesis entitled: “Advancing overlay metrology using…
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- September 4, 2025
- at ARCNL
- Hosted exclusive event
Event ‘ARCNL, pionier in publiek-private samenwerking’

More than ten years ago, ARCNL was established as the first Advanced Research Center in the Netherlands—a research…
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Interview

One year into partnership University of Groningen

How is it going and what to expect?

The University of Groningen joined the ARCNL public-private partnership as associate partner on January 1st, 2022. ARCNL group leader Ronnie Hoekstra and governing board member Caspar van der Wal reflect on the route towards this newly established partnership and on the challenges and advantages it offers.