Non-Diffractive Electron Bessel Beams for Scanning Electron Microscopy in Transmission Mode Using Direct Phase Masks

15. Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy for Nanostructure Characterization

Generation and application of bessel beams in electron microscopy.

We report a systematic treatment of the holographic generation of electron Bessel beams, with a view to applications in electron microscopy. We describe in detail the theory underlying hologram patterning, as well as the actual electron-optical configuration used experimentally. We show that by optimizing our nanofabrication recipe, electron Bessel beams can be generated with relative efficienc...

Direct observations of atomic diffusion by scanning transmission electron microscopy.

The feasibility of using a high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscope to study the diffusion of heavy atoms on thin film substrates of low atomic number has been investigated. We have shown that it is possible to visualize the diffusion of individual uranium atoms adsorbed to thin carbon film substrates and that the observed motion of the atoms does not appear to be induced by th...

First Demonstration of Phase Contrast Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Biological molecules are composed of light elements and can be considered as phase objects for the electron waves. Therefore, images of their unstained specimens show low contrast in transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Phase contrast TEM (P-TEM) is one of the powerful techniques to enhance image contrast of the phase objects [1]. In P-TEM, the phase plate (PP) is placed at a back focal plan...