Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter

07/09 Niek Lopes Cardozo appointed new Chair of the FOM Board of Governors

2009/18

The FOM Board of Governors has appointed Professor N.J. (Niek) Lopes Cardozo as the new Chairman of the Board of Governors and of the Executive Board of FOM. In addition, the Governing Board of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has appointed Lopes Cardozo as member and Chair of the Subfield of Physics. Read more

28/10 FOM and Nuon jointly pursue breakthrough technologies for future solar cells

The FOM Foundation and energy company Nuon are combining forces in a joint research programme into new conversion principles, structures and materials for future solar cells. Read more

01/08 Intriguing structures of gold nanoparticles

2008/15

Scientists from Germany, Canada and The Netherlands have studied tiny gold nanoparticles, so-called clusters, and found them to have fascinating arrangements of their constituent atoms. Read more

24/06 TU Delft researchers discover new type of molecule: semi-artificial

In conjunction with Australian, American and Belgian colleagues, researchers of the TU Delft and the FOM foundation have observed a new type of molecule. Read more

26/05 Researchers demonstrate 'avalanche effect' in solar cells

Figure 1. 'Avalanche effect' in nanocrystal

Researchers at TU Delft and the FOM Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter have found irrefutable proof that the so-called avalanche effect by electrons occurs in specific, very small semiconducting crystals. Read more

21/04 FOM and BASF develop magnetic materials to save energy

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This is a joint PRESS RELEASE from BASF and FOM

The Dutch foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) and BASF - The chemical company start a joint research programme on magnetocaloric materials. Read more

01/04 Silicon with superdeep nanopores excludes light

2008/08

Researchers from the MESA⁺ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam and ASML have developed a new method for producing nanopores in silicon. Thanks to this approach they have succeeded in making nanopores with a record depth. Read more

05/03 Atom chip makes thermodynamics quantum gas measurable

2008/05

A team of researchers from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the Dutch Foundation of Fundamental Research on Matter and the University of Queensland, Australia, has succeeded in comparing temperature and density of a one-dimensional quantum gas to an exact theory that was developed back in 1969 by Nobel Laureate C.N. Yang and his brother, C.P. Yang. Read more

30/01 Nobel prize laureat Steven Chu on climate change and energy

Figuur 1. Nobel prize laureat Steven Chu

Chu adressed a pack of physicists on climate change and energy during the annual Physics@FOM Veldhoven 2008 on 22 January. Read more

29/01 Photon splitting as a means for better efficiency of solar cells

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Figure 2. The members of the research group

Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and the Foundation FOM have succeeded in splitting high energy photons in multiple photons with lower energies. Read more

Press releases 2008