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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?
Fred Bijkerk completed his PhD at the VU University Amsterdam. He has led the Nanolayer Surface and Interface Physics group at the former FOM Insitute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen. In 2012 he started the industrial focus group XUV-Optics at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology (University of Twente). The group uses fundamental research for hightech applications.
Transcript:
Transcript:
'I'm Fred Bijkerk, a materials scientist. Especially that needed to develop and understand XUV optics. This makes exciting new applications possible.
This is what my technical people call the most beautiful lab in the Netherlands. Maybe even in Europe and the world. We are very proud to show the usage and equipment we've installed in this focus group. They're all components that show knowledge of thin films, and can unravel them to an atomic level. We can use this to develop such systems from scratch.
We are at the XUV optics group in Twente. We work on light that can no longer easily be made visible
from UV to soft X-rays. It's not visible but there are exciting applications. For that we develop the optical elements. One application springs to mind and that is photo-lithography.
in Holland and Germany we have industry far advanced with making chips, and equipment to make them. They're now interested in optics for the XUV field. They call it XUV lithography. That application is very much in the
picture now.
To work with industry you need to speak the language. And you have to understand what people on the shopfloor are doing, and how their queries can translate to research. You have to sell your knowledge. And don't get put off by critical remarks at the start. We started selling in 1994 at SARS. There was varying interest. Some staff at Zeiss wanted to start using it the next day. Others wanted to take it easy. They wanted questions answered before they dared start. In the end became a technique as a candidate for the mass production of integrated circuits.'
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?
Fred Bijkerk completed his PhD at the VU University Amsterdam. He has led the Nanolayer Surface and Interface Physics group at the former FOM Insitute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen. In 2012 he started the industrial focus group XUV-Optics at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology (University of Twente). The group uses fundamental research for hightech applications.
Transcript:
Transcript:
'I'm Fred Bijkerk, a materials scientist. Especially that needed to develop and understand XUV optics. This makes exciting new applications possible.
This is what my technical people call the most beautiful lab in the Netherlands. Maybe even in Europe and the world. We are very proud to show the usage and equipment we've installed in this focus group. They're all components that show knowledge of thin films, and can unravel them to an atomic level. We can use this to develop such systems from scratch.
We are at the XUV optics group in Twente. We work on light that can no longer easily be made visible
from UV to soft X-rays. It's not visible but there are exciting applications. For that we develop the optical elements. One application springs to mind and that is photo-lithography.
in Holland and Germany we have industry far advanced with making chips, and equipment to make them. They're now interested in optics for the XUV field. They call it XUV lithography. That application is very much in the
picture now.
To work with industry you need to speak the language. And you have to understand what people on the shopfloor are doing, and how their queries can translate to research. You have to sell your knowledge. And don't get put off by critical remarks at the start. We started selling in 1994 at SARS. There was varying interest. Some staff at Zeiss wanted to start using it the next day. Others wanted to take it easy. They wanted questions answered before they dared start. In the end became a technique as a candidate for the mass production of integrated circuits.'
