Highly efficient electron vortex beams generated by nanofabricated phase holograms

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Grillo, Vincenzo ^a,b   Carlo Gazzadi, Gian ^a   Karimi, Ebrahim ^a,c   Mafakheri, Erfan ^d   Boyd, Robert W ^c   Frabboni, Stefano ^a,d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b IMEM CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; ION BEAMS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE SHIFT; SILICON NITRIDE; VORTEX FLOW;

ELECTRON VORTEX; ELECTRON WAVE FUNCTIONS; NANO-SCALE IMAGING; PHASE HOLOGRAMS; PROFILE DESIGNS; SILICON NITRIDE MEMBRANE;

HOLOGRAMS;

EID: 84907642001     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4863564     Document Type: Article

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