Albert Polman, Date of Birth

    

Albert Polman

Dutch physicist

Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1961

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Albert Polman

  • Albert Polman (born 21 April 1961, Groningen) is a Dutch physicist and former director of the AMOLF research laboratory in Amsterdam. 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.

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