QUANTUM-ENHANCED FREE-ELECTRON SPECTROMICROSCOPY

Project Information

QUEFES

Grant agreement ID: 101141220

DOI

10.3030/101141220

EC signature date 28 May 2024

Start date 1 June 2024

End date 31 May 2029

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 497 225,00

EU contribution

€ 2 497 225,00

Coordinated by

FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES
Spain

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (17)

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 (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.134.123804

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, Issue 19, 2025, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACSNANO.4C14658

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: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-67585-9

Dielectric Sphere Oligomers as Optical Nanoantenna for Circularly Polarized Light

Author(s): Shintaro Ogura, Hidemasa Negoro, Izzah Machfuudzoh, Zac Thollar, Tatsuki Hinamoto, F. Javier García de Abajo, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Minoru Fujii, Takumi Sannomiya
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACSPHOTONICS.4C00761

Few-atom-thick silver films for enhanced nanoscale nonlinear optics

Author(s): Philipp K. Jenke, Saad Abdullah, Andrew P. Weber, Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri, Fadil Iyikanat, Vahagn Mkhitaryan, Frederik Schiller, J. Enrique Ortega, Philip Walther, F. Javier García de Abajo, Lee A. Rozema
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 17, 2026, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-026-74804-4

Free‐electron coupling to surface polaritons mediated by small scatterers

Author(s): Leila Prelat, Eduardo J. C. Dias, F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: Nanophotonics, Issue 13, 2026, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1515/NANOPH-2024-0326

Active steering of cathodoluminescence through a generalized Smith–Purcell effect

Author(s): Eduardo J. C. Dias, A. Rodríguez Echarri, Theis P. Rasmussen, F. Javier García de Abajo, Joel D. Cox
Published in: Light: Science & Applications, Issue 15, 2026, ISSN 2047-7538
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41377-026-02280-Y

Angle-Resolved Cathodoluminescence Interferometry of Plasmonic and Dielectric Scatterers

Author(s): Evelijn Akerboom, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Minoru Fujii, F. Javier García de Abajo, Albert Polman
Published in: Nano Letters, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.NANOLETT.5C02952

Mid-Infrared Sensing and Ultrafast Photoresponse in Silicon-Based Plasmonic Detectors

Author(s): Mauro David, Alicja Dabrowska, Masiar Sistani, Zehao Song, Francesco Maraspini, Yina Wu, Matthaeus Wenk, Andreas Fuchsberger, Lilian Vogl, Peter Schweizer, Rolf Szedlak, Benedikt Schwarz, Walter Michael Weber, Gottfried Strasser, F. Javier García de Abajo, Juraj Darmo, Bernhard Lendl, Alois Lugstein
Published in: ACS Photonics, Issue 13, 2026, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACSPHOTONICS.5C02857

Spectrometer-Free Electron Spectromicroscopy

Author(s): F. Javier García de Abajo, Cruz I. Velasco
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 19, 2025, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACSNANO.5C12286

Ultrafast momentum-resolved visualization of the interplay between phonon-mediated scattering and plasmons in graphite

Author(s): Francesco Barantani, Rémi Claude, Fadil Iyikanat, Ivan Madan, Alexey A. Sapozhnik, Michele Puppin, Bruce Weaver, Thomas LaGrange, F. Javier García de Abajo, Fabrizio Carbone
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/SCIADV.ADU1001

Electrically Driven Plasmon-Polaritonic Bistability in Dirac Electron Tunneling Transistors

Author(s): Shuai Zhang, Yang Xu, Junhe Zhang, Dihao Sun, Yinan Dong, Matthew Fu, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Cory Dean, Monica Allen, Jeffery Allen, F. Javier García de Abajo, Antti J. Moilanen, Lukas Novotny, D. N. Basov
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 136, 2026, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/7XLM-S3S5

Plasmonic biosensor enabled by resonant quantum tunnelling

Author(s): Jihye Lee, Yina Wu, Ivan Sinev, Mikhail Masharin, Sotirios Papadopoulos, Eduardo J. C. Dias, Lujun Wang, Ming Lun Tseng, Seunghwan Moon, Jong-Souk Yeo, Lukas Novotny, F. Javier García de Abajo, Hatice Altug
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 19, 2025, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41566-025-01708-Y

Wave-mixing cathodoluminescence microscopy of low-frequency excitations

Author(s): Leila Prelat, Eduardo J. C. Dias, F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-67288-1

Free-electron decoherence: Theory and applications

Author(s): Cruz I. Velasco, Valerio Di Giulio, F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 113, 2026, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/F35F-L1L1

Relativistic electron energy-loss spectroscopy in cylindrical waveguides and holes

Author(s): Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri, Wenhua Zhao, Kurt Busch, F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 111, 2025, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVB.111.205436

Nonreciprocal plasmons in one-dimensional carbon nanostructures

Author(s): Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri, F. Javier García de Abajo, Joel D. Cox
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 17, 2026, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-67872-5