Electron Matter Interactions in Transmission Electron Microscopy

This course will present the fundamentals of electron-matter interactions, as occuring in the energy range available in modern transmission electron microscopes, namely 60-300 keV electrons. Diffraction and high-resolution image formation as well as electron energy-loss spectrometry will be covered.

Week 1: Introduction (CH)

Week 2: Elastic scattering by atoms and crystals. Bloch wave theory. (DA)

Week 3. Elastic scattering: kinematical and dynamical diffraction. (DA)

Week 4: Bloch wave theory, phonon scattering. (DA)

Week 5: Phase contrast imaging, electron holography. (TL)

Week 6: Phase contrast, Lorentz TEM. (TL)

Week 7: Phase contrast, high-resolution imaging and simulation theory. (TL)

Week 8: Simulation software for imaging and diffraction. (TL and DA)

Week 9: Inelastic scattering, introduction; geometry, accessible information. (CH)

Week 10: Inelastic scattering: core loss spectroscopy, experiments and theoretical simulations. (CH)

Week 11: Inelastic scattering: circular dichroism in the TEM; low loss EELS. (CH)

Week 12: Theoretical calculations for low loss EELS, angular-resolved low losses. (CH)

Week 13: EELS: plasmonic and nano-optics. (DA)

Week 14: Vibrational EELS (DA) and PINEM (TL)