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The objective of the FOM "Physics for Technology" program is to create new options for future technologies bysupporting excellent applied physics research directed at gainingsufficient control of physical processes in order to use these for thebenefit of society.
The program stimulates Dutch academic physics research with a strategic/technological relevance by providing relatively long-term and large grants. Typically, the grants are € 0.5 to 1.5 million and the projects run for six to eight years, because it is the experience in this field that typical projects of one PhDstudent and/or a few years postdoc are too small and too short in time to have the desired impact. Research projects granted within the framework of this program must potentially have an innovating impulse to the field, and must significantly contribute to the (knowledge)infrastructure in the Netherlands. The research should therefore have a programmatic character and fit into the long-term plans of the groups involved.
Dissemination to other fields of science, to industry, or to society of the knowledge and technology acquired during the course of the projects is actively pursued. Collaboration between(para-)academic research groups, in one or more institutions ordisciplines, is acclaimed.
The TU/e Physics Department has been quite successfull within the "Physics for Technology" program. More information on some of the projects within the program granted to TU/e groups can be obtained by clicking on the links to the left of this page.