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@INPROCEEDINGS{Remez:827184,
author = {Remez, Roei and Tsur, Yuval and Lu, Peng-Han and Tavabi,
Amir H. and Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal and Arie, Ady},
title = {{G}eneration of super-oscillatory electron beams beyond the
diffraction limit},
address = {Weinheim, Germany},
publisher = {Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH $\&$ Co. KGaA},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-01382},
pages = {731 - 732},
year = {2016},
comment = {European Microscopy Congress 2016: Proceedings},
booktitle = {European Microscopy Congress 2016:
Proceedings},
abstract = {In 1873, Ernst Abbe discovered that the imaging resolution
of conventional lenses is fundamentally limited by
diffraction, which, since then, has been overcome using a
variety of different approaches in optical microscopy. In
electron microscopy, thanks to remarkable developments in
aberration corrected electron optics, the resolution of
transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) and scanning TEMs
(STEMs) has reached the sub-Ångström regime. However, it
is still limited by instrumental stability, residual
higher-order aberrations and the diffraction limit of the
electron-optical system. Recently, a concept termed
super-oscillation, which is analogous to the idea of
super-directive antennas in the microwave community [1], was
proposed [2, 3] and applied in light optics for far field
imaging of sub-wavelength, barely-resolved objects beyond
the diffraction limit [4]. A super-oscillating function is a
band-limited function that is able to oscillate faster
locally than its highest Fourier component and thereby
produce an arbitrarily small spot in the far field.Here, we
demonstrate experimentally for the first time a
super-oscillatory electron beam whose characteristic probe
size is much smaller than the Abbe diffraction limit. Figure
1(a) shows scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of a
conventional grating mask (left) and a super-oscillation
off-axis hologram (right) that have the same outer diameters
(10 µm). The masks were fabricated by focused ion beam
milling 200-nm-thick SiN membranes coated with 150 nm Au.
The masks were inserted into the C2 aperture plane of a
probe-corrected FEI Titan 80-300 (S)TEM. Owing to the probe
aberration corrector and relatively small numerical aperture
(convergence semi-angle), diffraction-limited spots could be
easily obtained from the conventional grating (Fig. 1,
left), while a super-oscillatory electron probe, which was
generated at the first diffraction order (Fig. 1, right),
produced a much smaller hot-spot in the center. The size of
the super oscillation hot-spot is approximately one third of
that of the diffraction-limited spot. It could theoretically
be decreased further, even below the de-Broglie wavelength
of the electrons, by varying the ratio between the inner and
outer radii.Further applications of such super-oscillatory
electron wave functions, e.g. enhanced STEM imaging, will be
presented.},
month = {Aug},
date = {2016-08-28},
organization = {16th European Microscopy Congress (EMC
2016), Lyon (France), 28 Aug 2016 - 2
Sep 2016},
cin = {PGI-5 / ER-C-1},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)PGI-5-20110106 / I:(DE-Juel1)ER-C-1-20170209},
pnm = {143 - Controlling Configuration-Based Phenomena (POF3-143)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-143},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)8 / PUB:(DE-HGF)7},
doi = {10.1002/9783527808465.EMC2016.6221},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/827184},
}