Randstad NLNanotechnology Hub & Visitor Guide

The scientists at ARCNL conduct exciting fundamental physics at the highest possible level with a relevance to key technologies in nanolithography. They wish to contribute to the production of ever smarter and smaller electronics, while at the same time pushing the boundaries of our fundamental insight into the workings of nature.

AMOLF is one of five research institutes of the Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM). The current research at AMOLF focuses on three areas: Life science inspired physics, nanophysics and femtosecond dynamics of matter

The Casimir Research School is a graduate school for interdisciplinary physics with a strong emphasis on the various nanosciences.

The department focuses on the functioning of single cells in all their complexity down to the molecular level. Understanding the mechanisms operating inside a cell is very useful for practical applications in, for example, improved health care, molecularly targeted medicine, and development of new energy sources. The department of Bionanoscience is part of the university's successful Kavli Institute of Nanoscience.

The Else Kooi Laboratory and its staff aim to provide micro fabrication capabilities that facilitate excellence in (sub)micro-fabrication oriented Research & Science, enable customers to test out concepts that may lead to business successes (up to and including small scale production) and build a bridge between Academics and Industrial Innovation.

The Nanobiology programme of TU Delft and Erasmus MC builds on extensive existing bottom up research collaborations and cooperative mission organizations like Medical Delta. The molecular building blocks of living organisms are the focus and current advances in the nanotechnology toolkit enable the precise visualization, study and control of these biological molecules. Developments in biomedicine, such as studies on human genome variation and the control of stem cells, increasingly require analysis and quantitative description at the fundamental level.

The department studies quantum phenomena in a wide variety of nanometer scale devices and materials, exploring new physics and novel applications of quantum effects. The department consists of a number of active scientists working on both experimental and theoretical aspects of Quantum Nanoscience.

QuTech is the quantum technology institute of the Delft University of Technology and TNO, developing the hardware and software for quantum computers and a quantum internet, with extensive nanofabrication of qubit devices.

The Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology consists of six research groups and a nanofabrication cleanroom facility.

The Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory has 6 research groups that deal with Atomic and Molecular Conductors, Interface Physics, Magnetic and Superconducting Materials, Quantum Physics of Nanostructured Materials, Quantum Physics and Applications at Ultra Low Temperatures, Granular & Disordered Media, and Physics of Surfaces and Materials.

For many years, the group's research theme has been the resonant interaction of electromagnetic waves, or photons, with condensed matter, consisting in most cases of organic molecules. Photons can be simply absorbed by matter, they can flip spins in a magnetic field in Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR), or excite the electron cloud in optical absorption experiments. However, many of the effects they look at are more complex, nonlinear. They study, for example, the effect of two frequencies on spin echoes in EPR, the emission of light at wavelengths different from that of the excitation laser (fluorescence), and the effect of spin resonance on this emission (optically detected magnetic resonance, ODMR), or phenomena involving two or more photons, such as spectral hole-burning.

The Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science at Utrecht University studies the synthesis, characterization and modeling of nanomaterials, with a central theme of nanomaterials for sustainable energy conversion and storage.

Avantium is a leading technology company specialized in advanced high-throughput R&D for applications in the energy, chemicals and pharmaceutical industries.

Develops dynamic single-molecule analysis instruments, including the C-Trap optical tweezers with correlated fluorescence and STED nanoscopy and the AFS acoustic force spectroscopy platform, for studying molecular interactions in real time.

Builds fiber-top sensing systems based on micro-electro-mechanical structures fabricated on the end face of an optical fiber, together with nanoindentation instruments for measuring the mechanical properties of cells, tissues and biomaterials.

Offers nanofiltration systems.

DELMIC products are focused on high performance, user friendly, integrated, solutions. The company has two product lines: The SECOM platform for correlative fluorescence and electron microscopy, primarily used in the life sciences. The SPARC system for high-performance cathodoluminescence detection, primarily used in nanophotonics.

The company has engineered a range of in situ TEM solutions for heating, biasing, gas & liquid.

Designs and nanofabricates superconducting quantum processors (QPUs), supplied as off-the-shelf products and foundry services for building quantum computers.

Develops and manufactures superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) and complete cryogenic detection systems for quantum optics, photonics and other photon-starved applications.

The company makes machinery for 'on location' and 'on demand' nanoparticle production.

Produces a pure silicon lithium-ion battery anode with a nanoporous structure, deposited by plasma, that raises cell energy density while lowering its carbon footprint.

MyLife Technologies are developing and commercializing a platform technology based on nanoporous MicroNeedle Arrays (npMNAs), integrated into a patch for drug delivery through the skin.

Develops organ-on-a-chip tissue and disease models built in the OrganoPlate, a microfluidic platform that supports perfused three-dimensional cell culture in a standard microtiter plate format.

Designs ultra-low-power neuromorphic processors that use analog spiking neural networks to process sensor data at the edge, spun out of the Delft University of Technology.

Develops high-throughput scanning probe and atomic force microscopy systems that deliver non-destructive 3D nanometer-scale metrology for semiconductor manufacturing process control.