Electron beams enhancing analytical microscopy

Project Information

EBEAM

Grant agreement ID: 101017720

DOI

10.3030/101017720

EC signature date 1 December 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Total cost

€ 5 045 530,00

EU contribution

€ 5 045 530,00

Coordinated by

STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN
Netherlands

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (7)

Report on charge-carrier dynamics mapped using coincidence EELS-CL microscopy
Report on nanoscale origin of emission in 2D materials
Report on characterization of high-Q resonant modes and nonlinear effects demonstrating ultrahigh energy resolution
Perspective article in high-level journal on novel EM modalities enabled by EBEAM
Report on first year progress
Cross-project collaboration plan in coordination with the ONEM project

Crossproject collaboration plan in coordination with the ONEM project

Report on interim results

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (8)

Logo, website, and social media accounts

Logo website and social media accounts

Second Workshop on Electron Beam Spectroscopy for Nanophotonics
Public lecture format for all partners
Pamphlets communicating work of EBEAM project
Second summer school on novel concepts in EM that are developed in the EBEAM project
First summer school on novel concepts in EM
First Workshop on Electron Beam Spectroscopy for Nanophotonics
Mobile device application

Other (1)

Kick-off meeting

Kickoff meeting

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (40)

Ultrafast phonon-mediated dephasing of color centers in hexagonal boron nitride probed by electron beams

Author(s): M. Taleb, P. H. Bittorf, M. Black, M. Hentschel, W. Sigle, B. Haas, C. Koch, P. A. van Aken, H. Giessen, N. Talebi
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57584-1

Improving the accuracy of temperature measurement on TEM samples using plasmon energy expansion thermometry (PEET): Addressing sample thickness effects

Author(s): Yi-Chieh Yang, Luca Serafini, Nicolas Gauquelin, Johan Verbeeck, Joerg R. Jinschek
Published in: Ultramicroscopy, Issue 270, 2025, Page(s) 114102, ISSN 0304-3991
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2025.114102

Free-Space Optical Modulation of Free Electrons in the Continuous-Wave Regime

Author(s): Cruz I. Velasco, F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 134, 2025, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.134.123804

Cathodoluminescence of polarization-induced energy states at AlGaN/GaN interface

Author(s): Fatemeh Chahshouri, Masoud Taleb, Maximilian Black, Michael Mensing, Nahid Talebi
Published in: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Issue 57, 2024, Page(s) 465104, ISSN 0022-3727
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ad6fad

Femtosecond and Attosecond Phase-Space Correlations in Few-Particle Photoelectron Pulses

Author(s): Rudolf Haindl, Valerio Di Giulio, Armin Feist, Claus Ropers
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 135, 2025, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/lylq-m63c

Substrate influence on transition metal dichalcogenide monolayer exciton absorption linewidth broadening

Author(s): Fuhui Shao, Steffi Y. Woo, Nianjheng Wu, Robert Schneider, Andrew J. Mayne, Steffen Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Ashish Arora, Benjamin J. Carey, Johann A. Preuß, Noémie Bonnet, Mauro Och, Cecilia Mattevi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zhichuan Niu, Rudolf Bratschitsch, Luiz H. G. Tizei
Published in: Physical Review Materials, Issue 6, 2022, Page(s) 074005, ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevmaterials.6.074005

Improving the low-dose performance of aberration correction in single sideband ptychography

Author(s): Songge Li, Nicolas Gauquelin, Hoelen L. Lalandec Robert, Arno Annys, Chuang Gao, Christoph Hofer, Timothy J. Pennycook, Jo Verbeeck
Published in: Ultramicroscopy, Issue 277, 2025, Page(s) 114225, ISSN 0304-3991
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2025.114225

Rydberg-Atom Manipulation through Strong Interaction with Free Electrons

Author(s): Adamantios P. Synanidis, P. A. D. Gonçalves, F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: ACS Nano, 2025, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c14658

Spontaneous and stimulated electron–photon interactions in nanoscale plasmonic near fields

Author(s): M. Liebtrau, M. Sivis, A. Feist, H. Lourenço-Martins, N. Pazos-Perez, R. A. Álvarez-Puebla, F. J. García de Abajo, A. Polman, and C. Ropers
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, 2021, ISSN 2095-5545
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-021-00511-y

Employing Cathodoluminescence for Nanothermometry and Thermal Transport Measurements in Semiconductor Nanowires

Author(s): Kelly W. Mauser; Magdalena Solà-Garcia; Matthias Liebtrau; Benjamin Damilano; Pierre-Marie Coulon; Stéphane Vézian; Philip A. Shields; Sophie Meuret; Albert Polman
Published in: ACS Nano, 2021, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c00850

Interaction of excitons with Cherenkov radiation in WSe2 beyond the non-recoil approximation

Author(s): F. Chahshouri, M. Taleb, F. K Diekmann, K. Rossnagel and N. Talebi
Published in: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2022, ISSN 0022-3727
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ac453a

Cathodoluminescence excitation spectroscopy: Nanoscale imaging of excitation pathways

Author(s): NADEZDA VARKENTINA, YVES AUAD, STEFFI Y. WOO, ALBERTO ZOBELLI, LAURA BOCHER, JEAN-DENIS BLAZIT, XIAOYAN LI, MARCEL TENCÉ, KENJI WATANABE, TAKASHI TANIGUCHI, ODILE STÉPHAN, MATHIEU KOCIAK , AND LUIZ H. G. TIZEI
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 8, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq4947

Cylindrical Metalens for Generation and Focusing of Free-Electron Radiation

Author(s): Aviv Karnieli, Dolev Roitman, Matthias Liebtrau, Shai Tsesses, Nika Van Nielen, Ido Kaminer, Ady Arie, Albert Polman
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 22, 2023, Page(s) 5641-5650, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04556

Removing constraints of 4D-STEM with a framework for event-driven acquisition and processing

Author(s): Arno Annys, Hoelen L. Lalandec Robert, Saleh Gholam, Joke Hadermann, Jo Verbeeck
Published in: Ultramicroscopy, Issue 277, 2025, Page(s) 114206, ISSN 0304-3991
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2025.114206

Cavity-mediated electron-photon pairs

Author(s): Armin Feist, Guanhao Huang, Germaine Arend, Yujia Yang, Jan-Wilke Henke, Arslan Sajid Raja, F. Jasmin Kappert, Rui Ning Wang, Hugo Lourenço-Martins, Zheru Qiu, Junqiu Liu, Ofer Kfir, Tobias J. Kippenberg, and Claus Ropers
Published in: Science, 2022, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abo5037

Advancing ultrafast (S)TEM with the combination of an RF cavity and an electrostatic beam blanker

Author(s): Gabriele Bongiovanni, Mark M. J. van Rijt, Ondřej Sháněl, Erik R. Kieft
Published in: Structural Dynamics, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2329-7778
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/4.0000782

Radiative loss of coherence in free electrons: a long-range quantum phenomenon

Author(s): Cruz I. Velasco, Valerio Di Giulio, F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-023-01361-6

Cathodoluminescence emission and electron energy loss absorption from a 2D transition metal dichalcogenide in van der Waals heterostructures

Author(s): Noémie Bonnet, Jassem Baaboura, Florian Castioni, Steffi Y Woo, Ching-Hwa Ho, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Luiz H G Tizei, Toon Coenen
Published in: Nanotechnology, Issue 35, 2024, Page(s) 405702, ISSN 0957-4484
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ad3d62

Photon Statistics of Incoherent Cathodoluminescence with Continuous and Pulsed Electron Beams

Author(s): Magdalena Solà-Garcia, Kelly W. Mauser, Matthias Liebtrau, Toon Coenen, Silke Christiansen, Sophie Meuret and Albert Polman
Published in: ACS Photonics, 2021, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c01939

Generation of entangled waveguided photon pairs by free electrons

Author(s): Theis P. Rasmussen, Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri, Joel D. Cox, F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn6312

Integrated photonics enables continuous-beam electron phase modulation

Author(s): Jan-Wilke Henke, Arslan Sajid Raja, Armin Feist, Guanhao Huang, Germaine Arend, Yujia Yang, F. Jasmin Kappert, Rui Ning Wang, Marcel Möller, Jiahe Pan, Junqiu Liu, Ofer Kfir, Claus Ropers and Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: Nature, 2021, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04197-5

Benchmarking analytical electron ptychography methods for the low-dose imaging of beam-sensitive materials

Author(s): Hoelen L. Lalandec Robert, Max Leo Leidl, Knut Müller-Caspary, Jo Verbeeck
Published in: The European Physical Journal Applied Physics, Issue 100, 2025, Page(s) 20, ISSN 1286-0042
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/epjap/2025018

2D Borophene: In‐Plane Hyperbolic Polaritons in the Visible Spectral Range

Author(s): Yaser Abdi, Masoud Taleb, Maximilian Black, Soheil Hajibaba, Mohsen Moayedi, Nahid Talebi
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, Issue 35, 2025, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202513016

Quantum Confined Luminescence in Two Dimensions

Author(s): Saiphaneendra Bachu, Fatimah Habis, Benjamin Huet, Steffi Y. Woo, Leixin Miao, Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey, Gwangwoo Kim, Nicholas Trainor, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Deep Jariwala, Joan M. Redwing, Yuanxi Wang, Mathieu Kociak, Luiz H. G. Tizei, Nasim Alem
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 12, 2025, Page(s) 364-374, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01739

Engineering 2D Material Exciton Line Shape with Graphene/<i>h</i>-BN Encapsulation

Author(s): Steffi Y. Woo, Fuhui Shao, Ashish Arora, Robert Schneider, Nianjheng Wu, Andrew J. Mayne, Ching-Hwa Ho, Mauro Och, Cecilia Mattevi, Antoine Reserbat-Plantey, Álvaro Moreno, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Steffen Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Frank H. L. Koppens, Zhichuan Niu, Odile Stéphan, Mathieu Kociak, F. Javier García de Abajo, Rudolf Bratschitsch, Andrea Konečná,
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 24, 2024, Page(s) 3678-3685, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c05063

Angular Dispersion of Free-Electron-Light Coupling in an Optical Fiber-Integrated Metagrating

Author(s): Matthias Liebtrau, Albert Polman
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 1125-1136, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c01574

"Excitonic absorption signatures of twisted bilayer <mml:math xmlns:mml=""http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML""><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant=""normal"">WSe</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math> by electron energy-loss spectroscopy"

Author(s): Steffi Y. Woo, Alberto Zobelli, Robert Schneider, Ashish Arora, Johann A. Preuß, Benjamin J. Carey, Steffen Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Maurizia Palummo, Rudolf Bratschitsch, Luiz H. G. Tizei
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 107, 2023, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.107.155429

Quantum effects in the interaction of low-energy electrons with light

Author(s): Adamantios P. Synanidis, P. A. D. Gonçalves, Claus Ropers, F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 10, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp4096

Free Electron–Plasmon Coupling Strength and Near-Field Retrieval through Electron Energy-Dependent Cathodoluminescence Spectroscopy

Author(s): Evelijn Akerboom, Valerio Di Giulio, Nick J. Schilder, F. Javier García de Abajo, Albert Polman
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 13560-13567, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c12972

Free-electron interaction with nonlinear optical states in microresonators

Author(s): Yujia Yang, Jan-Wilke Henke, Arslan S. Raja, F. Jasmin Kappert, Guanhao Huang, Germaine Arend, Zheru Qiu, Armin Feist, Rui Ning Wang, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alexey Tikan, Claus Ropers, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Published in: Science, Issue 383, 2024, Page(s) 168-173, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.adk2489

Nanosecond Nanothermometry in an Electron Microscope

Author(s): Florian Castioni, Yves Auad, Jean-Denis Blazit, Xiaoyan Li, Steffi Y. Woo, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ching-Hwa Ho, Odile Stéphan, Mathieu Kociak, Luiz H. G. Tizei
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 25, 2025, Page(s) 1601-1608, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c05692

Nano-optics of transition metal dichalcogenides and their van der Waals heterostructures with electron spectroscopies

Author(s): Steffi Y Woo, Luiz H G Tizei
Published in: 2D Materials, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 012001, ISSN 2053-1583
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/ad97c8

Multi-plasmon effects and plasmon satellites in photoemission from nanostructures

Author(s): P. A. D. Gonçalves and F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: Nanoscale, 2023, ISSN 2040-3372
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3nr01223a

Investigating the convergence properties of iterative ptychography for atomic-resolution low-dose imaging

Author(s): Tamazouzt Chennit, Songge Li, Hoelen L. Lalandec Robert, Christoph Hofer, Nadine J. Schrenker, Liberato Manna, Sara Bals, Timothy J. Pennycook, Jo Verbeeck
Published in: Ultramicroscopy, Issue 278, 2026, Page(s) 114245, ISSN 0304-3991
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2025.114245

Tunable quantum light by modulated free electrons

Author(s): Valerio Di Giulio, Rudolf Haindl, Claus Ropers
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 1865-1878, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2025-0040

Quantum sensing and metrology with free electrons

Author(s): Cruz I. Velasco, F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 17, 2026, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67585-9

Tailoring near-field-mediated photon electron interactions with light polarization

Author(s): Fatemeh Chahshouri, Nahid Talebi
Published in: New Journal of Physics, 2023, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/acb4b7

Roadmap for Quantum Nanophotonics with Free Electrons

Author(s): F. Javier García de Abajo, Albert Polman, Cruz I. Velasco, Mathieu Kociak, Luiz H. G. Tizei, Odile Stéphan, Sophie Meuret, Takumi Sannomiya, Keiichirou Akiba, Yves Auad, Armin Feist, Claus Ropers, Peter Baum, John H. Gaida, Murat Sivis, Hugo Lourenço-Martins, Luca Serafini, Johan Verbeeck, Andrea Konečná, Nahid Talebi, Beatrice Matilde Ferrari, Cameron J. R. Duncan, Maria Giulia Bravi, Irene
Published in: ACS Photonics, 2025, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5c00585

Toward Optimum Coupling between Free Electrons and Confined Optical Modes

Author(s): Valerio Di Giulio, Evelijn Akerboom, Albert Polman, F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 14255-14275, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c12977

Electrons herald non-classical light

Author(s): Germaine Arend, Guanhao Huang, Armin Feist, Yujia Yang, Jan-Wilke Henke, Zheru Qiu, Hao Jeng, Arslan Sajid Raja, Rudolf Haindl, Rui Ning Wang, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Claus Ropers
Published in: Nature Physics, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) 1855-1862, ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03033-1