# Albert Polman
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{{Short description|Dutch physicist (born 1961)}}
'''Albert Polman''' (born 21 April 1961, [Groningen](/source/Groningen_(city))) is a Dutch physicist and former director of the [AMOLF](/source/AMOLF) research laboratory in [Amsterdam](/source/Amsterdam).
Polman received his [master's degree](/source/master's_degree) in [physics](/source/physics) (1985) and his [Ph.D.](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) degree in materials science and engineering (1989) from the [University of Utrecht](/source/University_of_Utrecht). From 1989 to 1991 he was a post-doctoral staff researcher at [AT&T Bell Laboratories](/source/AT%26T_Bell_Laboratories) ([Murray Hill, New Jersey](/source/Murray_Hill%2C_New_Jersey)). Since 1991 he has been associated with [AMOLF](/source/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](/source/Caltech), where he was a research associate in the group of Prof. H.A. Atwater.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20120302095424/http://www.amolf.nl/people/amolf-person/chash/821b96cfb6/persons/1242373613.29516200/ Personal page on AMOLF website]. Accessed January 8, 2009.][[http://www.erbium.nl/resume_albert_polman.html Personal page on alternative AMOLF website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090515000348/http://www.erbium.nl/resume_albert_polman.html |date=2009-05-15 }}. Accessed January 8, 2009.]
Polman is one of the pioneers of the research field of [nanophotonics](/source/nanophotonics): the control, understanding, and application of [light](/source/light) at the [nanoscale](/source/Nanoscopic_scale). He is best known for inventing ''optical doping'', i.e., the incorporation and optical activation of optically active [ions](/source/ions) in [thin-film](/source/thin-film) materials by [ion implantation](/source/ion_implantation).[[http://www.erbium.nl/publications/pdfs/Optical_doping_of_waveguide_materials_by_MeV_erbium_ion_implantation_-_J_Appl_Phys_(1991).pdf PDF version of 1991 publication on Optical Doping] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724151933/http://www.erbium.nl/publications/pdfs/Optical_doping_of_waveguide_materials_by_MeV_erbium_ion_implantation_-_J_Appl_Phys_(1991).pdf |date=2011-07-24 }}. Accessed January 8, 2009.] Polman's research group at AMOLF specializes in fundamental studies at the interface between optical physics and [materials science](/source/materials_science).
In 2009, Albert Polman was appointed as a member of the [Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences](/source/Royal_Netherlands_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences).[[http://www.amolf.nl/news/news-archive/detailpage/back_to/news-archive/article/albert-polman-appointed-member-of-knaw//chash/be2abf604e/ News release on AMOLF website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716094059/http://www.amolf.nl/news/news-archive/detailpage/back_to/news-archive/article/albert-polman-appointed-member-of-knaw//chash/be2abf604e/ |date=2011-07-16 }}. Accessed January 8, 2009.][{{cite web |author= |url=https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/6727 |title=Albert Polman |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |date= |accessdate=30 July 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304192253/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/6727 |url-status=dead }}]
Polman's group invented angle-resolved [cathodoluminescence](/source/Cathodoluminescence_microscope) 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.[{{Cite news|url=https://amolf.nl/people/albert-polman|title=Albert Polman - AMOLF|newspaper=AMOLF|access-date=2017-02-02}}][{{Cite web|url=http://www.delmic.com/about|title=About us {{!}} DELMIC|last=BV|first=DELMIC|website=www.delmic.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-02}}]
==Selected publications==
* {{cite journal | last=Polman | first=A. | title=Applied Physics: Plasmonics Applied | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=322 | issue=5903 | date=2008-11-07 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.1163959 | pages=868–869| pmid=18988831 | s2cid=206515430 |url=http://www.erbium.nl/publications/pdfs/Plasmonics%20Applied%20-%20Science%20(2008).pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724152002/http://www.erbium.nl/publications/pdfs/Plasmonics%20Applied%20-%20Science%20(2008).pdf|archive-date=2011-07-24|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite journal | last1=Catchpole | first1=K. R. | last2=Polman | first2=A. | title=Design principles for particle plasmon enhanced solar cells | journal=Applied Physics Letters | publisher=AIP Publishing | volume=93 | issue=19 | date=2008-11-10 | issn=0003-6951 | doi=10.1063/1.3021072 | page=191113| bibcode=2008ApPhL..93s1113C | hdl=1885/16425 | hdl-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | last1=de Waele | first1=René | last2=Koenderink | first2=A. Femius | last3=Polman | first3=Albert | title=Tunable Nanoscale Localization of Energy on Plasmon Particle Arrays | journal=Nano Letters | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=7 | issue=7 | year=2007 | issn=1530-6984 | doi=10.1021/nl070807q | pages=2004–2008| bibcode=2007NanoL...7.2004D }} also featured in Nature 447, July 2007.
* {{cite journal | last1=Verhagen | first1=Ewold | last2=Kuipers | first2=Laurens | last3=Polman | first3=Albert | title=Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Effects with a Tapered Plasmonic Waveguide | journal=Nano Letters | publisher=American Chemical Society (ACS) | volume=7 | issue=2 | year=2007 | issn=1530-6984 | doi=10.1021/nl062440f | pages=334–337| pmid=17297997 | bibcode=2007NanoL...7..334V }}
* {{cite journal | last1=Polman | first1=A. | last2=Min | first2=B. | last3=Kalkman | first3=J. | last4=Kippenberg | first4=T. J. | last5=Vahala | first5=K. J. | title=Ultralow-threshold erbium-implanted toroidal microlaser on silicon | journal=Applied Physics Letters | publisher=AIP Publishing | volume=84 | issue=7 | date=2004-02-16 | issn=0003-6951 | doi=10.1063/1.1646748 | pages=1037–1039| bibcode=2004ApPhL..84.1037P | url=https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:POLapl04 | url-access=subscription }}
* {{cite journal | last1=Snoeks | first1=E. | last2=Lagendijk | first2=A. | last3=Polman | first3=A. | title=Measuring and Modifying the Spontaneous Emission Rate of Erbium near an Interface | journal=Physical Review Letters | publisher=American Physical Society (APS) | volume=74 | issue=13 | date=1995-03-27 | issn=0031-9007 | doi=10.1103/physrevlett.74.2459 | pages=2459–2462| pmid=10057933 | bibcode=1995PhRvL..74.2459S | url=https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/2843801/1428_14065y.pdf }}
* {{cite journal | last1=Franzò | first1=G. | last2=Priolo | first2=F. | last3=Coffa | first3=S. | last4=Polman | first4=A. | last5=Carnera | first5=A. | title=Room‐temperature electroluminescence from Er‐doped crystalline Si | journal=Applied Physics Letters | publisher=AIP Publishing | volume=64 | issue=17 | date=1994-04-25 | issn=0003-6951 | doi=10.1063/1.111655 | pages=2235–2237| bibcode=1994ApPhL..64.2235F }}
== References ==
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==See also==
* [Daan Frenkel](/source/Daan_Frenkel)
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