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Localization of high-energy electron scattering from atomic vibrations

Materials Science 2015-06-18 v1

Abstract

Electrons with kinetic energies of the order 100 keV are capable of exciting atomic vibrational states from a distance of microns. Despite such a large interaction distance, our detailed calculations show that the scattering physics permits a high-energy electron beam to locate vibrational excitations with atomic-scale spatial resolution. Pursuits to realize this capability experimentally could potentially benefit numerous fields across the physical sciences.

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@article{arxiv.1401.6305,
  title  = {Localization of high-energy electron scattering from atomic vibrations},
  author = {Christian Dwyer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.6305},
  year   = {2015}
}
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