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| Peter Kraus: three interconnected projects |
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| Over the past few months, group leader Peter Kraus saw three considerable grant proposals awarded that enable him to consolidate research projects for two different applications: the semiconductor industry and strongly correlated materials. |
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| Wim van der Zande |
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| Although initially appointed as interim director, the ARCNL Governing Board has decided to convert Wim van der Zande’s appointment into a permanent position. He will continue in this position until his retirement. To ensure management continuance, the Governing Board will start a timely hiring process to find a successor. |
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PhD defenses full steam ahead |
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| The past 6 months 6 PhD students defended their thesis at VU and UvA university. Three of them were scheduled on October 6th, and of course this special occasion was celebrated afterwards with friends and family members in the ARCNL canteen. |
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| Highlight |
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| ARCNL researchers Thomas van den Hooven and Paul Planken have found a way to enhance acoustic-wave-induced diffraction changes from a sample similar to those used for wafer alignment in nanolithography. |
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| ERC Starting Grants |
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ARCNL group leaders Roland Bliem and Bart Weber each received an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Each group leader receives 1,5 million euro to carry out the research plans.
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| ARCNL's 10th anniversary |
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| The coming year promises to be a special one for ARCNL with festivities surrounding ARCNL’s 10th anniversary. What started in 2014 with Joost Frenken as first employee in an empty building has now grown into a full-fledged research institute with about 100 employees, of which 65 researchers. At the moment plans are being made to celebrate with all those that have been part of the journey this past decade. |
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| Veni for John Sheil |
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| After starting as ARCNL group leader in 2021, John Sheil has recently received a VENI grant from NWO. This will allow him to further develop his theoretical research to enable more sustainable EUV sources for nanolithography over the next three years. In addition to the grant, Sheil also got full tenure at the Vrije Universiteit. |
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| Open Day |
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| Together with other institutes at Amsterdam Science Park, ARCNL opened its doors to the public on October 7th. The Open Day attracted many visitors, ranging from families with kids to individual visitors that were eager to learn more about the nanolithography process. This year Oscar Versolato gave a popular lecture about ‘smartphones, chips and atoms’. |
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| Arie den Boef: ASML Corporate Fellow |
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| At the ASML Technology conference, ARCNL group leader and VU professor Arie den Boef has been awarded with the title of ASML Corporate Fellow. Only one other person currently working for ASML holds this title, which shows the great appreciation of his work for the company. |
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Upcoming PhD defenses 2023 |
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Tiago Pinto: 'Interactions between ultrashort pulses and laser-produced tin plasmas' at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (supervisor: S. Witte), 27 November 2023.
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| Highly Charged Ions Conference |
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2 - 6 September 2024 |
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Egmond aan Zee |
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| The biennial international HCI (Highly Charged Ions) conference series will come to the Netherlands for its 21st edition. Central to the conference series are the physics of highly charged ions. 
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Science Park 106
1098 XG Amsterdam
The Netherlands |
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| ARCNL is a public-private partnership between NWO, the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the University of Groningen and semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML, and managed by the Netherlands Foundation of Scientific Research Institutes (NWO-I). ARCNL’s mission is to focus on fundamental physics and chemistry in the context of technologies for (nano)lithography, primarily for the semiconductor industry. |
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