About

The Photonic Materials Group, led by Prof. Albert Polman, is a research group in the Center for Nanophotonics at AMOLF, a research laboratory of the Dutch Research Counsel NWO, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Cathodoluminescence microscopy

  • Cathodoluminescence holography
  • Photon-induced near-field electron microscopy
  • Picosecond CL pump-probe spectroscopy


Light management in photovoltaics 

  • Spectrum splitting in perovskite/Si tandem solar cells, colored PV
  • Metal nanowire selective contacts on Si solar cells
  • Light trapping in thin-film and tandem solar cells
  • Novel spectrum splitting, downconversion, LSC architectures


Optical metamaterials 

  • Analog computational optical metasurfaces
  • Passive radiative cooling metasurfaces
  • Switchable optical metasurfaces