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DIFFER's social media channels have new names (and addresses) as a consequence of the institute's transition to the NWO organisation. On January 1st 2017, our parent organisation FOM was incorporated into NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. The DIFFER institute is directly part of NWO now. The transition is part of a governance and organisation change at NWO.

After the successful delivery of Magnum-PSI's new superconducting magnet in October 2016, DIFFER's main research facility to study Plasma Surface Interactions is now being commissioned for its first experimental campaign in its new location.

In the NaSTOR project, İlker Doğan is cooperating with the company Exergy Storage to develop a cost-competitive sodium-sulfur battery for residential storage of energy from own solar panels or wind turbines.

By controlling the interplay between light and matter at a nanoscale, researchers from the Dutch Institute of Fundamental Energy Research, Eindhoven University of Technology and Universidad Autonoma of Madrid (Spain) have created a laser which is small and sturdy enough to fit onto a computer chip.

Door nauwgezette controle over licht en materie op de nanoschaal hebben internationale onderzoekers een laser ontworpen die werkt op de nanoschaal. Het ontwerp is klein en robuust genoeg om uiteindelijk op een computerchip te passen. Dat is een veelbelovende stap richting razendsnel transporteren en bewerken van data in de vorm van licht in plaats van met langzame elektrische stroom.