Efficient diffractive phase optics for electrons

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2014, Pages

  R Harvey, Tyler ^a   S Pierce, Jordan ^a   K Agrawal, Amit ^b,c   Ercius, Peter ^d   Linck, Martin ^e   McMorran, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b Syracuse University   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CEOS Corrected Electron Optical Systems GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

diffraction grating; electron microscopy; electron optics; electron vortex; scanning transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON OPTICS; ELECTRONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PHASE STRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL DETECTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VORTEX FLOW;

BINARY TRANSMISSION; COMPLEX GRATINGS; DETECTABLE SIGNAL; DIFFRACTED BEAMS; ELECTRON VORTEX; FABRICATION METHOD; PHASE DISLOCATION; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 84907646241     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/9/093039     Document Type: Article

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