3 papers
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Probing the Polarization of Low-Energy Excitations in 2D Materials from Atomic Crystals to Nanophotonic Arrays using Momentum-Resolved Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
Andrew W. Rossi, Marc R. Bourgeois, Caleb Walton +1
Spectroscopies utilizing free electron beams as probes offer detailed information on the reciprocal-space excitations of 2D materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalco…
cond-mat.mes-hall2023
Inelastic scattering of transversely structured free electrons from nanophotonic targets: Theory and computation
Austin G. Nixon, Matthieu Chalifour, Marc R. Bourgeois +2
Recent advancements in abilities to create and manipulate the electron's transverse wave function within the transmission electron microscope (TEM) and scanning TEM (STEM) have ena…
cond-mat.mes-hall2023
Optical Polarization Analogs in Inelastic Free Electron Scattering
Marc R. Bourgeois, Austin G. Nixon, Matthieu Chalifour +1
Advances in the ability to manipulate free electron phase profiles within the electron microscope have spurred development of quantum-mechanical descriptions of electron energy los…