Theory of free electron vortices

Ultramicroscopy

Volumn 111, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1461-1468

  Schattschneider, P ^a   Verbeeck, J ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Angular momentum; Coherence; TEM; Vortex beams

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; DINGER EQUATION; ELECTRON VORTEX; FREE ELECTRON; PARAXIAL PROPAGATION; PARTIAL COHERENCE; VORTEX BEAMS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

VORTEX FLOW;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ELECTRON; MAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; THEORY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 80052921828     PISSN: 03043991     EISSN: 18792723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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