The Contact Dynamics group at ARCNL was featured at the 9th European Conference on Tribology (ECOTRIB 2025), held in the iconic main building at ETH Zürich. ARCNL postdoctoral researcher Dr.
In the world of surface topography, the roughness of a surface has long been characterized by a single number. But scientists around the world, including Bart Weber and Cyrian Leriche …
A group of physics bachelor students spent two weeks in group leader Bart Weber’s lab at ARCNL, to do a research project as part of their studies at the University …
ARCNL postdoctoral researcher Dr. Tunç Çiftçi gave an oral presentation at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, held this year in Anaheim, California. His talk on how electric fields …
Surfaces can start slipping more easily when pressed harder - a surprising discovery by researchers at the University of Amsterdam and ARCNL. Their work reveals how microscopic contact points behave …
Zhouping Lyu, ‘High-resolution Imaging Through a Multimode Fiber: From Raster-scanning to Compressive Sensing’ On December 11th, Zhouping defended her thesis at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Zhouping did her doctoral research in …
In July 2024, the Contact Dynamics Group proudly represented the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL) at the prestigious Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Tribology. Recognized globally as one of …
Prof. Tevis Jacobs and two researchers from his group, Felix Cassin and Arushi Pradhan, visited the Contact Dynamics group at ARCNL at the Amsterdam Science Park. The lab of Tevis …
Contact Dynamics said goodbye to Chen for finishing his postdoc project and welcomed Dennis Kang for his Ph.D. study in the group outing at Levant Restaurant with Turkish cuisine.
One of the most critical challenges in high-end chip production is friction and wear. Two ARCNL research groups focus on understanding these processes: the Materials Theory and Modelling group and …
