Name Albert Polman | Education Utrecht University | |
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UNSW SPREE 201712-14 Albert Polman - Light management in New Photovoltaic Materials
Albert Polman (born 21 April 1961, Groningen) is a Dutch physicist and director of the FOM-AMOLF research laboratory in Amsterdam.
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- UNSW SPREE 201712 14 Albert Polman Light management in New Photovoltaic Materials
- 2014 mrs innovation in materials characterization award interview with albert polman
- Selected publications
- References
Polman received his master's degree in physics (1985) and his Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering (1989) from the University of Utrecht. From 1989 to 1991 he was a post-doctoral staff researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, New Jersey). Since 1991 he has been associated with AMOLF, first as a group leader, since 1999 also as a department head. In 2005 he initiated the Center for Nanophotonics at AMOLF; in 2006 he was appointed as director of AMOLF. Polman was one of the initiators of the Amsterdam nanoCenter, a regional facility for nanofabrication founded in 2003. From March 2003 to February 2004 he was on sabbatical leave at Caltech, where he was a research associate in the group of Prof. H.A. Atwater.
Polman is one of the pioneers of the research field of nanophotonics: the control, understanding, and application of light at the nanoscale. He is best known for inventing optical doping, i.e., the incorporation and optical activation of optically active ions in thin-film materials by ion implantation. Polman's research group at AMOLF specializes in fundamental studies at the interface between optical physics and materials science.
In 2009, Albert Polman was appointed as a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.
Polman's group invented angle-resolved cathodoluminescence imaging spectroscopy, a super-resolution method that can create images with a resolution of up to 10 nanometers. As of 2011, this technology has become commercially available.