Peter Kraus is the group leader of the “High-harmonic generation and EUV science” team at ARCNL, and associate professor of physics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since July 2024, Peter has also been part of the ARCNL management team as head of the metrology department. Peter’s research interests lie in developing extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and highly nonlinear light sources from gas and solid-state high-harmonic generation, and apply them for ultrafast spectroscopy and nanoscale metrology experiments with relevance to nanolithography.
Prior to joining ARCNL/VU in 2018 as group leader/assistant professor, Peter Kraus worked at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) on the development of new experimental techniques for investigating attosecond phenomena in solid-state materials. Peter obtained his PhD at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) in 2015. Here, he developed and advanced the techniques of high harmonic-spectroscopy for investigations of electronic and nuclear structure and dynamics of molecular systems.
Research Description
Our group focuses on the studies and development of coherent EUV/soft-X-ray sources based on the high-harmonic generation process with femtosecond/attosecond time and nanometer spatial resolution for spectroscopy, imaging, and metrology applications. The group is also actively exploring the potential of deactivation of high-harmonics for super-resolution microscopy.
Teaching
List of courses/teaching responsibilities, preferably with links to course guide (this is for students to be able to easily connect a PI whose work they find interesting to potentially coursework)
Science and Technology for Nanolithography
Fysica: electriciteit en magnetisme voor MNW | Studiegids
Inleiding MNW en mentoraat | Studiegids
Electricity and Magnetism for SBI Fysica: electriciteit en magnetisme | Studiegids
