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Strong nanoscale light-matter interaction is often accompanied by ultra-confined photonic modes and large momentum polaritons existing far beyond the light cone. A direct probe of such phenomena is difficult due to the momentum mismatch of…

A technique to measure the band gap of dielectric materials with high refractive index by means of energy electron loss spectroscopy (EELS) is presented. The technique relies on the use of a circular (Bessel) aperture and suppresses…

Electron tomography is a technique used in both materials science and structural biology to image features well below optical resolution limit. In this work, we present a new algorithm for reconstructing the three-dimensional(3D)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-12 David Ren , Michael Chen , Laura Waller , Colin Ophus

In previous work a different and powerful, analytical, technique was used to get data, such as the absolute atom concentration (AAC), specimen thickness etc., from public domain boron nitride EELS spectrum collected under a collection…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-24 Noureddine Hadji

We propose algorithms based on an optimisation method for inverse multislice ptychography in, e.g. electron microscopy. The multislice method is widely used to model the interaction between relativistic electrons and thick specimens. Since…

A new tool providing material contrast control in scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is demonstrated. The approach is based on deep-UV illumination during SEM imaging and delivers a novel material based contrast as well as higher resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-04-07 Gediminas Seniutinas , Armandas Balcytis , Saulius Juodkazis

This paper proposes new methods for analyzing dynamic images registered by multichannel, highly sensitive detectors with low spatial but high temporal resolution. The principal characteristic of the approach is the absence of factorization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 S. A. Sharakin , R. E. Saraev

Precession Electron Diffraction (PED) offers a number of advantages for crystal structure analysis and solving unknown structures using electron diffraction. The current article uses many-beam simulations of PED intensities, in combination…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-22 W. Sinkler , L. D. Marks

Electromagnetic waves possessing orbital angular momentum (OAM) are powerful tools for applications in optical communications, new quantum technologies and optical tweezers. Recently, they have attracted growing interest since they can be…

The acquisition of a hyperspectral image is nowadays a standard technique used in the scanning transmission electron microscope. It relates the spatial position of the electron probe to the spectral data associated with it. In the case of…

X-ray linear dichroism has been pivotal for probing electronic anisotropies, but its inherent limited spatial resolution precludes atomic-scale investigations of orbital polarization. Here we introduce a versatile electron linear dichroism…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-25 Roger Guzman , Ján Rusz , Ang Li , Juan Carlos Idrobo , Wu Zhou , Jaume Gazquez

Spectro-microscopy is an experimental technique which can be used to observe spatial variations in chemical state and changes in chemical state over time or under experimental conditions. As a result it has broad applications across areas…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Maike Meier , Lorenzo Lazzarino , Boris Shustin , Hussam Al Daas , Paul Quinn

Electron cryo-tomography (cryo-ET) enables 3D imaging of complex, radiation-sensitive structures with molecular detail. However, image contrast from the interference of scattered electrons is nonlinear with atomic density and multiple…

Feynman once asked physicists to build better electron microscopes to be able to watch biology at work. While electron microscopes can now provide atomic resolution, electron beam induced specimen damage precludes high resolution imaging of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-16 Thomas Juffmann , Stewart A. Koppell , Brannon B. Klopfer , Colin Ophus , Robert Glaeser , Mark A. Kasevich

Spectroscopic photoemission microscopy is a well-established method to investigate the electronic structure of surfaces. In modern photoemission microscopes the electron optics allows imaging of the image plane, momentum plane, or…

Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and Cathodoluminescence (CL) play a pivotal role in many of the cutting edge experiments in plasmonics. EELS and CL experiments are usually supported by numerical simulations, which, whilst accurate,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Matthias Kraft , Yu Luo , J. B. Pendry

An efficient computational approach for imaging binary-type physical properties suitable for various models in biomedical applications is developed and validated. The proposed methodology includes gradient-based multiscale optimization with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Maria M. F. M. Chun , Briana L. Edwards , Vladislav Bukshtynov

Electron matter interactions in electron microscopy produce both elastic and inelastic scattering, forming the basis for imaging and spectroscopy. However, the integration of electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) with 4D-STEM and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-22 Yu Lei , Peng Wang

Size effects are ubiquitous in the structural, mechanical, and physical properties of materials, making it highly desirable to study the intrinsic properties of thick objects through high-resolution structural analysis in transmission…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-26 Wenfeng Yang , Haozhi Sha , Jizhe Cui , Rong Yu

While multislice electron ptychography can provide thermal-vibration limited resolution and 3D information, it relies on the proper selection of many intertwined experimental and computational parameters. Here, we outline a theoretical…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-28 Colin Gilgenbach , Xi Chen , James M. LeBeau