10 February 2012
Random isn't always random. PhD candidate Feng Liu of the EUV Lab group in DIFFER showed that the polarization of light is changed but not completely randomized after travelling through an optical fiber, as...
30 January 2012
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Jos Oomens of the FOM Institute Rijnhuizen a prestigious Vici grant. Oomens heads the Molecular Dynamics group at FOM-Rijnhuizen and is...
19 January 2012
On Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 January, over 1800 physicists gathered for the biggest physics conference in the Netherlands: Physics@FOM 2012 in Veldhoven. The annual conference is the place to see...
21 December 2011 Ir. Gert Witvoet has developed smart control strategies for the so-called sawtooth instability, an always present 'hiccup' in the hot plasma of a nuclear fusion reactor. The frequency of the...
13 December 2011
Dr. Toine van den Bogaard successfully defended his PhD thesis on 13 December at Twente University. As a PhD-student at the Rijnhuizen Nanolayer Surface and Interface Physics department he investigated...
28 October 2011
In future fusion reactors, erosion and re-deposition of wall materials by the hot fusion plasma is a big concern. Scientists at FOM Rijnhuizen have studied in detail how erosion and re-deposition of carbon...
24 October 2011
Dr Anouk Rijs of the Molecular Dynamics group at FOM Rijnhuizen will be appointed as Joliot-Curie Fellow at the Dutch Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen starting 1 January 2012. This Fellowship gives talented and...
13 October 2011
On Wednesday 12 October Bart Hennen of the Tokamak Physics Group successfully defended his PhD thesis Feedback control for magnetic island suppression in tokamaks at Eindhoven University of...
