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In the FOM Annual Report 2014 physicists tell us about their research into light.
You can read the interviews here (in Dutch):
http://www.fom.nl/live/overfom/jaarverslagen/artikel.pag?objectnumber=292431&referpagina=14197
Who?
Aneta Stodolna graduated from the Gdańsk University of Technology (Poland) and completed her PhD at FOM institute AMOLF. The Physics World magazine considered her PhD research to be one of the ten most important breakthroughs in 2013. Stodolna was the first to make an image of an electron inside a hydrogen atom. Since November 2014, she works as a postdoctoral researcher at the new Advanced Research Center ARCNL.
Transcript:
'My name is Aneta Stodolna. I am an experimental physicist. I use light to generate a different light to make microchips. I always found lasers very intriguing. They are quite complicated machines. However they also require a lot of precision, in what I'm doing. There's a reward working with lasers because you order everything precisely, and then you get really great light out of it. You can control it and change it. With this light you can do really exciting science.
At this moment we're in a new laboratory for our brand-new institute called ARCNL, Advanced Research Centre for NanoLithography. I am a post-doc in a group called Extreme Ultraviolet Light Generation and Imaging. As you can see, we've just moved in. This laboratory is officially open since November 2014. So we are at the stage of building and ordering much equipment. And at the moment I'm sitting on a box in which there is a microscope.
What we are planning to do in my group is to build a state-of-the-art laser system, which we will use to generate extreme ultraviolet light from tin atoms. So at the moment, this already exists in industry. However there is a lot of room for improvement. We want to make this extreme ultraviolet light generation as efficient as possible. We want to do it in a controlled way.
The advantage is we are doing something for society, so as a physicist who did fundamental research.. I never liked people asking "How can we apply this research? How can society benefit from it?" I never had an answer to that question. But now working at ARCNL, I have an answer, saying: "We are doing research for nanolithography. Everyone has a mobile phone or computer, so is benefiting from our research."'
In the FOM Annual Report 2014 physicists tell us about their research into light.
You can read the interviews here (in Dutch):
http://www.fom.nl/live/overfom/jaarverslagen/artikel.pag?objectnumber=292431&referpagina=14197
Who?
Aneta Stodolna graduated from the Gdańsk University of Technology (Poland) and completed her PhD at FOM institute AMOLF. The Physics World magazine considered her PhD research to be one of the ten most important breakthroughs in 2013. Stodolna was the first to make an image of an electron inside a hydrogen atom. Since November 2014, she works as a postdoctoral researcher at the new Advanced Research Center ARCNL.
Transcript:
'My name is Aneta Stodolna. I am an experimental physicist. I use light to generate a different light to make microchips. I always found lasers very intriguing. They are quite complicated machines. However they also require a lot of precision, in what I'm doing. There's a reward working with lasers because you order everything precisely, and then you get really great light out of it. You can control it and change it. With this light you can do really exciting science.
At this moment we're in a new laboratory for our brand-new institute called ARCNL, Advanced Research Centre for NanoLithography. I am a post-doc in a group called Extreme Ultraviolet Light Generation and Imaging. As you can see, we've just moved in. This laboratory is officially open since November 2014. So we are at the stage of building and ordering much equipment. And at the moment I'm sitting on a box in which there is a microscope.
What we are planning to do in my group is to build a state-of-the-art laser system, which we will use to generate extreme ultraviolet light from tin atoms. So at the moment, this already exists in industry. However there is a lot of room for improvement. We want to make this extreme ultraviolet light generation as efficient as possible. We want to do it in a controlled way.
The advantage is we are doing something for society, so as a physicist who did fundamental research.. I never liked people asking "How can we apply this research? How can society benefit from it?" I never had an answer to that question. But now working at ARCNL, I have an answer, saying: "We are doing research for nanolithography. Everyone has a mobile phone or computer, so is benefiting from our research."'
