Numerical simulations of interference effects in photon-assisted electron energy-loss spectroscopy

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Talebi, Nahid ^a   Sigle, Wilfried ^a   Vogelgesang, Ralf ^b   Van Aken, Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RESONANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RESPONSE; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS; EXCITATION INTENSITY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOEXCITATION; PHOTONS;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84878259646     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/5/053013     Document Type: Article

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