Onboarding

Welcome to the Photonic Materials Group!

Introduction	Photonic materials	Department	AMOLF	Our laboratories
Technical support	Facilities support	Admin support	Work organisation	Safety
Working hours	Conferences	Graduate school	Group projects	Key publications

Introduction to Amolf

• Welcome and checklist for your introduction tour through the institute
• AMOLF organization chart and photo overview of the group leaders
• History of Amolf (in Dutch)

The Photonic Materials Group

• Here are photos of all group members.
• Our group website: browse through it to get an overview
• The history and evolution of our photovoltaics program and our cathodoluminescence program.
• Polman group Wiki and all AMOLF group Wiki’s: information on sample fabrication recipes, software codes, instruments, etc. shared between all AMOLF groups

Our department

• LMPV– Sustainable energy materials department: 5 collaborating research groups. Group leaders: Bruno Ehrler, Esther Alarcon Llado, Erik Garnett, Wiebke Albrecht, Albert Polman.
• Bi-weekly LMPV Colloquium: Thursdays 9.00-10.30 hr. Everyone in LMPV presents about once a year, see the schedule of speakers. Starts January 16. Presentation instructions are here.
• Bi-weekly LMPV + Nanophotonics Poster Session: Thursdays 9.00-10.30 hr., see the session schedule: LMPV groups + the groups of Ewold Verhagen, Femius Koenderink and Said Rodriguez. Everyone in our group presents a poster 2-3 times a year, see our group schedule. Starts January 9. Poster presentation instructions are here.
• LMPV Quarterly Meetings with a half-day program of talks, an excursion, etc.. The next one is on January 13 (talks at AMOLF); the following one is an excursion to Energyra later in the Spring.
• Annual LMPV Spring dinner. The next one is on Tuesday, April 1 at Bruno’s place.
• Annual LMPV welcome barbecue for master students: in the first week of September.
• LMPV summer school, in Chambéry, in the French Alps, June 22-27.

AMOLF

• Bi-weekly colloquium, Mondays 11.00-12.00 hr.: short colloquium by an AMOLF PhD/PD, main colloquium by an external speaker. Announced by e-maiI.
• Bi-weekly Thursday announcements of the director, Thursdays 10.45-11.00 hr.. Announced by e-mail. The announcements are also posted online.
• Monthly drinks are organized by the PV, in addition to Easter lunch, a summer barbecue in June, a PV outing, and a Christmas lunch festival in December.

Our group’s laboratories

• E0.13 Witec optical microscope, integrating sphere, angle-resolved scattering, new SEM-CL system
• E0.14a “Quanta-light” SEM-CL: photo-emission SEM-CL system with high-power fs laser
• E0.07 (nanolab SEM room): “Big-Quanta”: SEM-CL system
• E0.07 (nanolab SEM room): Helios FIB-SEM-CL system (Nanolab user facility)

AMOLF technical support groups

• Mechanical Design: design of new parts for your instruments.
• Precision Manufacturing: fabrication of parts for your instruments, adjustments, etc.
• Software Engineering: software for data collection and analysis, user interface, etc.
• Electronics Engineering: special electronics for running experiments, etc.
• AMOLF NanoLab Amsterdam: cleanroom, including big-Quanta SEM-CL and FIB/SEM-CL.

AMOLF facility support groups

• Facilities Service: arranges your desk and office.
• ICT: arranges your computer, email, network, data storage.
• Library Services: journal access, arranging publication formalities (copyright, fees), data management advice.
• Purchase / Stockroom: get small items that are in stock, order all other items online using this procedure.
• Reception: receiving your guests, arranges meeting room bookings.

AMOLF administration support groups

• Finance: declare your costs of small items and domestic travel on the UBW website, declare the costs of conference trips (see below).
• Human Resources (HR): see the YouForce website for your employee benefits, selling/buying holidays etc.
• Secretarial Office: Floortje is our secretary, other secretaries are available for you too.
• Program office: Tom coordinates our program user meetings (Perform, Catlight, OTP).

Work organisation and your well-being

• Staff Association (PV): organizes many fun events every year.
• Works Council (OR): forms the connection between Amolf personnel and management.
• Inclusion and Diversity Team: we aim to create a diverse and inclusive work environment.
• Your buddy: to be discussed with you and then assigned as you wish.
• Confidential advisor: anything you like to discuss confidentially.

Safety – courses to take

• Health & Safety (Arbo): working safely is always your first priority.
• General instructions for working at AMOLF: safety, health, sustainability and more.
• Three online trainings for which you will get an invitation. Afterwards you are asked to sign a form acknowledging to will follow the rules.
  • Chemical safety – sign a form
  • Laser safety – detailed laser instructions – sign a form
  • Nanolab cleanroom use – sign a form
• X-ray safety protocol for SEMs – please read.

Working hours and policy

• See AMOLF-HR regulation: a working day counts 8,5 hours including lunch, and starts within the timeframe 8:00 – 9:30 hr.
• See AMOLF-HR regulation: our group follows the “working from home occasionally” policy.
• Everyone is free to take vacation whenever they like. Check you holiday balance at YouForce.

AMOLF graduate school – your activities in the first year (for PhDs only)

• AMOLF PhD training program – general outline.
• AMOLF point system for PhD training: follow courses, attend conferences, supervise students, do outreach, etc,. to collect 30 points within 4 years.
• Register for the NWO-course Take charge of your PhD project (you will get an invitation from NWO).
• Annual progress and evaluation meeting with your group leader.
• Prospectus talk at the LMPV colloquium after the first year.
• Here is the overall timeline of planning and evaluation meetings during the PhD trajectory.

Conference visits

• Check the annual Calendar for nanophotonics and photovoltaics conferences, workshops, and schools.
• Check the abstract deadlines well in advance!
• Before the conference – register your conference trip in UBW (also to guarantee travel insurance).
• After the conference – make your travel declaration in UBW: we covers your costs of travel, registration fee, hotel and meals.

Our group’s collaborative research programs

Click here for an overview of the projects in our group, and who is working on what project.

Key publications

Biography of CL papers from our group. The most relevant papers to read first are indicated.
Bibliography of key papers in the EBEAM research field on ultrafast and quantum electron-light-matter interactions. We will discuss which ones to read.
Bibliography of PV papers from our group.

Enjoy the start of your project!