Albert Polman
Albert Polman (born April 21, 1961 in Groningen ) is a Dutch physicist.
Polman studied physics at the University of Utrecht with a bachelor's degree in 1981, a master's degree in 1985 and a doctorate in 1989 (dissertation: Beam-induced phase transitions in silicon ), completed at the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam. He was a post-doctoral student at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill until 1991 . From 1991 he was project manager at AMOLF and from 1996 group leader with a permanent position. From 1999 to 2004 he was department head there and from 2006 to 2013 director. From 1996 to 2011 he was also Professor of Nanophotonics at the University of Utrecht. He is program leader of the focus group Light Management in new photovoltaic materials of the Dutch research organization NWO and professor for photonic materials for photovoltaics at the University of Amsterdam .
In 2003/04 he was on sabbatical at Caltech and in 2017/18 at the University of New South Wales .
He is a pioneer in nanophotonics and deals with nanostructured metamaterials with specially tailored optical properties and novel photovoltaic architectures. He is considered to be the inventor of optical doping, the insertion of optically active ions into thin films by ion implantation. With his group he invented angle-resolved cathodoluminescence imaging (ARCIS), which achieves a resolution of up to 10 nanometers and which he markets with the company Delmic, which he co-founded.
In 2014 he received the Julius Springer Prize for applied physics with Harry Atwater for pioneering work in plasmonics and nanophotonics with application to highly efficient solar cells . In 2010 and 2016 he received an ERC Advanced Grant and in 2012 the ENI Renewable and Non-Conventional Energy Prize. He is one of the most highly cited scientists. In 2016 he became a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and he is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. In 2014 he received the MRS Materials Innovation and Characterization Award for ARCIS.
He is married to a musicologist and sings in a chamber choir.
Fonts (selection)
- with G. Franzó, F. Priolo, S. Coffa, A. Carnera: Room-temperature electroluminescence from Er-doped crystalline Si, Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 64, 1994, p. 2235
- with E. Snoeks, A. Lagendijk: Measuring and modifying the spontaneous emission rate of erbium near an interface, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 74, 1995, p. 2459
- with B. Min, J. Kalkman, TJ Kippenberg, KJ Vahala: Ultra-low threshold erbium-implanted toroidal microlaser on silicon, Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 84, 2004, p. 1037
- with H. Atwater, JA Dionne, LA Sweatlock: Plasmon slot waveguides: Towards chip-scale propagation with subwavelength-scale localization, Phys. Rev. B, Volume 73, 2006, p. 035407
- with E. Verhagen, L. Kuipers: Enhanced non-linear optical effects with a tapered plasmonic waveguide, Nano Lett., Volume 7, 2007, p. 334
- with R. de Waele, AF Konederink: Tunable nanoscale localization of energy on plasmon particle arrays, Nano Lett., Volume 7, 2007, p. 2004
- Plasmonics Applied, Science, Volume 322, 2008, p. 868
- with KR Catchpole: Design principles for particle plasmon enhanced solar cells, Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 93, 2008, p. 191113
- with M. Kuttge, H. Lezec, EJR Vesseur, AF Koenderink, HA Atwater, FJ Garcia de Abajo: Local density of states, spectrum, and far-field interference of surface plasmon polaritons probed by cathodoluminescence, Physical Review B, Volume 79, 2009, p. 113405
- with Harry Atwater: Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices, Nature Materials, Volume 9, 2010, p. 205
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Polman, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groningen |