Albert Polman

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Netherlands Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Netherlands Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Netherlands Leader Award
• 2017 - OSA Fellows Albert  Polman FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Netherlands “for novel fundamental insights in the behavior of light at the nanoscale, leading to improved light management strategies in solar cells and the development of deep-subwavelength cathodoluminescence microscopy” (Engineering and Science Research)
• 2014 - Innovation in Materials Characterization Award, Materials Research Society For the development, application and commercialization of Angle-Resolved Cathodoluminescence Imaging Spectroscopy (ARCIS) as a new tool for optical imaging at the nanoscale, with applications in nanophotonics and materials science in general.
• 2010 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
• 2009 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Best Publications

• Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices

  Harry A. Atwater;Albert Polman

  7895
  Citations

• Photovoltaic materials: Present efficiencies and future challenges

  Albert Polman;Mark Knight;Erik C. Garnett;Bruno Ehrler

  2135
  Citations

• Plasmonic solar cells

  Kylie Catchpole;Albert Polman

  1983
  Citations

• Erbium implanted thin film photonic materials

  A. Polman

  1524
  Citations

• Plasmon slot waveguides: Towards chip-scale propagation with subwavelength-scale localization

  J. A. Dionne;L. A. Sweatlock;H. A. Atwater;A. Polman

  1418
  Citations

• Photonic design principles for ultrahigh-efficiency photovoltaics

  Albert Polman;Harry A. Atwater

  1089
  Citations

• Design principles for particle plasmon enhanced solar cells

  K. R. Catchpole;A. Polman

  1076
  Citations

• Broadband omnidirectional antireflection coating based on subwavelength surface Mie resonators

  P. Spinelli;M.A. Verschuuren;A. Polman

  1008
  Citations

• Light trapping in ultrathin plasmonic solar cells.

  Vivian E. Ferry;Marc A. Verschuuren;Hongbo B. T. Li;Ewold Verhagen

  806
  Citations

• Tunable light trapping for solar cells using localized surface plasmons

  Fiona Beck;A Polman;K. R Catchpole

  688
  Citations

• Nanophotonics: shrinking light-based technology.

  A. Femius Koenderink;Andrea Alù;Andrea Alù;Albert Polman

  659
  Citations

• Transparent Conducting Silver Nanowire Networks

  Jorik van de Groep;Pierpaolo Spinelli;Albert Polman

  651
  Citations

• Planar metal plasmon waveguides: frequency-dependent dispersion, propagation, localization, and loss beyond the free electron model

  J. A. Dionne;L. A. Sweatlock;H. A. Atwater;A. Polman

  581
  Citations

• Experimental realization of an epsilon-near-zero metamaterial at visible wavelengths

  Ruben Maas;James Parsons;Nader Engheta;Albert Polman

  576
  Citations

• Defect‐related versus excitonic visible light emission from ion beam synthesized Si nanocrystals in SiO2

  K. S. Min;K. V. Shcheglov;C. M. Yang;Harry A. Atwater

  544
  Citations

• Evolution of light-induced vapor generation at a liquid-immersed metallic nanoparticle

  Zheyu Fang;Yu-Rong Zhen;Oara Neumann;Albert Polman

  520
  Citations

• Room‐temperature electroluminescence from Er‐doped crystalline Si

  G. Franzò;F. Priolo;S. Coffa;A. Polman

  498
  Citations

• Plasmonic light trapping in thin-film Si solar cells

  P Spinelli;V E Ferry;J van de Groep;M van Lare

  466
  Citations

• Rare-earth doped polymers for planar optical amplifiers

  L.H. Slooff;A. van Blaaderen;A. Polman;G.A. Hebbink

  454
  Citations

• Designing dielectric resonators on substrates: Combining magnetic and electric resonances

  J. van de Groep;A. Polman

  436
  Citations

• Plasmonic Solar Cells

  Albert Polman

  27
  Citations