Production of electron vortex beams carrying large orbital angular momentum using spiral zone plates

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 171-177

  Saitoh, Koh ^a   Hasegawa, Yuya ^a   Tanaka, Nobuo ^a   Uchida, Masaya ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

electron vortex; Fresnel zone plate; orbital angular momentum; STEM

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ELECTRONS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ELECTRON VORTEX; ELECTRON-BEAM; FIRST ORDER; FRESNEL ZONE PLATE; HIGH-ORDER; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; SPHERICAL WAVES; STEM; VORTEX BEAMS; ZONE PLATES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84862900879     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: 14779986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/dfs036     Document Type: Article

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