ULTRAFAST ALL-OPTICAL SPATIO-TEMPORAL ELECTRON MODULATORS: OPENING NEW FRONTIERS IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

Project Information

SMART-electron

Grant agreement ID: 964591

DOI

10.3030/964591

Project closed

EC signature date 21 December 2020

Start date 1 May 2021

End date 30 April 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Total cost

€ 3 042 910,00

EU contribution

€ 3 042 910,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA
Italy

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (8)

Report on fabrication process and electron phase characterization.

Report on fabrication process and electron phase characterization

Report on the direct camera and microwave cavity performance.
Report on the implementation of the Quantum-CL method.
Report on the implementation of the RHI method.
Dissemination and Communication Plan

The Dissemination and Communication Plan part will be done by QEDDissemination activities will also include the annual conferences M12 M24 M36 and M48

Report on modelling and design.

Report on modelling and design

Report on the implementation of the EPSI method.
Report on the characterization of the CL detection holder

Data sets, microdata, etc (7)

First experimental data on Quantum-CL of GaAs quantum dots.
First experimental data on imaging structural-magnetic states in TMOs

First experimental data on imaging structural-magnetic states in TMOs.

First experimental data on spatio-temporal imaging of nanoparticles in cells.
Implementation of the RHI method on a test sample

Implementation of the RHI method on a test sample.

First experimental data on imaging Berry plasmons in TMDCs
First experimental data of the ESPI method applied to test nanostructures.
First experimental data on electrochemical reactions in a model Lithium battery

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (4)

Graphic assets for Dissemination and Communication activities (second release)

Continuous update of social media activity (including images and short video testimonials by scientists). Project website update. Specific updates of the project brochures or flyers, posters, tote bags, and conference programmes.

Graphic assets for Dissemination and Communication activities (first release)

Graphic assets include the designs of all the printed materials used for dissemination and communication project brochure or flyer project poster A2 or larger project vinyl banner for stands project tote bag project conference programmes template for project Powerpoint presentations project social network profile graphics including design of project favicons and related graphic design guidelinesSetting up of social media activity including images and short video testimonials by scientists

Project logo and webpage (update at M12)

Project logo and webpage update at M12

Graphic assets for Dissemination and Communication activities (third release)

Continuous update of social media activity (including images and short video testimonials by scientists). Project website update. Specific updates of the project brochures or flyers, posters, tote bags, and conference programmes.

Open Research Data Pilot (3)

Data Management Plan (second update)

Data Management Plan (second update).

Data Management Plan (first update)

Data Management Plan (first update).

Data Management Plan (updates at M24, M36)

Data Management Plan updates at M24 M36

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (40)

Superradiant Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

Author(s): Ron Ruimy, Alexey Gorlach, Gefen Baranes, and Ido Kaminer
Published in: Nano Letters, 2023, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03396

Highly Reversible Ti/Sn Oxide Nanocomposite Electrodesfor Lithium Ion Batteries Obtained by Oxidation ofTi3Al(1-x)SnxC2Phases

Author(s): Irene Ostroman, Chiara Ferrara, Stefano Marchionna, Antonio Gentile, Nicholas Vallana,Denis Sheptyakov, Roberto Lorenzi, and Riccardo Ruffo
Published in: Small Methods, 2023, ISSN 2366-9608
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202300503

Free-electron Ramsey-type interferometry for enhanced amplitude and phase imaging of nearfields

Author(s): Tomer Bucher, Ron Ruimy, Shai Tsesses, Raphael Dahan, Guy Bartal, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 9, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi5729

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

Charge Dynamics Electron Microscopy: Nanoscale Imaging of Femtosecond Plasma Dynamics

Author(s): Ivan Madan; Eduardo J. C. Dias; Simone Gargiulo; Francesco Barantani; Michael Yannai; Gabriele Berruto; Thomas LaGrange; Luca Piazza; Tom T. A. Lummen; Raphael Dahan; Ido Kaminer; Giovanni Maria Vanacore; F. Javier García de Abajo; Fabrizio Carbone
Published in: ACS Nano, 2023, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c10482

Generation and control of localized terahertz fields in photoemitted electron plasmas

Author(s): Eduardo J. C. Dias; Ivan Madan; Simone Gargiulo; Francesco Barantani; Michael Yannai; Giovanni Maria Vanacore; Ido Kaminer; Fabrizio Carbone; F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: Nanoscale Advances, 2023, ISSN 2516-0230
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3na00168g

Double-superradiant cathodoluminescence

Author(s): Alexey Gorlach, Ori Reinhardt, Andrea Pizzi, Ron Ruimy, Gefen Baranes, Nicholas Rivera, Ido Kaminer
Published in: Physical Review A, Issue 109, 2024, ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.109.023722

Singular and Nonsingular Transitions in the Infrared Plasmons of Nearly Touching Nanocube Dimers

Author(s): Yina Wu, Andrea Konečná, Shin Hum Cho, Delia J. Milliron, Jordan A. Hachtel, F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 15130-15138, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c02644

Ultrafast Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Charge Dynamics in Semiconductors

Author(s): Michael Yannai; Raphael Dahan; Alexey Gorlach; Yuval Adiv; Kangpeng Wang; Ivan Madan; Simone Gargiulo; Francesco Barantani; Eduardo J. C. Dias; Giovanni Maria Vanacore; Nicholas Rivera; Fabrizio Carbone; F. Javier García de Abajo; Ido Kaminer
Published in: ACS Nano, 2023, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c10481

Symmetry and planar chirality measured with a log-polar transformation in a transmission electron microscope

Author(s): A.H. Tavabi, P. Rosi, R.B.G. Ravelli, A. Gijsbers, E. Rotunno, T. Guner, Y. Zhang, A. Roncaglia, L. Belsito, G. Pozzi, T. Denneulin, G.C. Gazzadi, M. Ghosh, R. Nijland, S. Frabboni, P.J. Peters, E. Karimi, P. Tiemeijer, R.E. Dunin-Borkowski, V. Grillo
Published in: Physical Review Applied, Issue 22, 2024, ISSN 2331-7019
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.22.014083

Free electrons can induce entanglement between photons

Author(s): Gefen Baranes, Ron Ruimy, Alexey Gorlach & Ido Kaminer
Published in: npj Quantum Information, 2022, ISSN 2056-6387
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41534-022-00540-4

Indirect Exciton–Phonon Dynamics in MoS2 Revealed by Ultrafast Electron Diffraction

Author(s): Jianbo Hu, Yang Xiang, Beatrice Matilde Ferrari, Emilio Scalise, Giovanni Maria Vanacore
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202206395

Fundamental quantum limits of magnetic nearfield measurements

Author(s): Chen Mechel, Jonathan Nemirovsky, Eliahu Cohen & Ido Kaminer
Published in: npj Quantum Information, 2023, ISSN 2056-6387
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41534-022-00674-5

Creation of Optical Cat and GKP States Using Shaped Free Electrons

Author(s): Raphael Dahan, Gefen Baranes, Alexey Gorlach, Ron Ruimy, Nicholas Rivera, and Ido Kaminer
Published in: Physical Review X, 2023, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.13.031001

Tunable photon-induced spatial modulation of free electrons

Author(s): Shai Tsesses, Raphael Dahan, Kangpeng Wang, Tomer Bucher, Kobi Cohen, Ori Reinhardt, Guy Bartal, Ido Kaminer
Published in: Nature Materials, 2023, ISSN 1476-1122
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01449-1

Theoretical and practical aspects of the design and production of synthetic holograms for transmission electron microscopy

Author(s): Paolo Rosi, Federico Venturi, Giacomo Medici, Claudia Menozzi, Gian Carlo Gazzadi, Enzo Rotunno, Stefano Frabboni, Roberto Balboni, Mohammadreza Rezaee, Amir H. Tavabi, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Ebrahim Karimi, and Vincenzo Grillo
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, 2021, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0067528

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, 2024, Page(s) 4667-4681, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2024-0326

The Missing Piece: The Structure of the Ti3C2Tx MXene and Its Behavior as Negative Electrode in Sodium Ion Batteries

Author(s): Chiara Ferrara, Antonio Gentile, Stefano Marchionna, Irene Quinzeni, Martina Fracchia, Paolo Ghigna, Simone Pollastri, Clemens Ritter, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, and Riccardo Ruffo
Published in: Nano Letters, 2021, ISSN 1530-6984
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c02809

Optical manipulation of matter waves

Author(s): KAMRAN AKBARI, VALERIO DI GIULIO, AND F. JAVIER GARCÍA DE ABAJO
Published in: Science Advances, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq2659

One-dimensional ghost imaging with an electron microscope: a route towards ghost imaging with inelastically scattered electrons

Author(s): Enzo Rotunno, Simone Gargiulo, Giovanni M. Vanacore, Chen Mechel, Amir H. Tavabi, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Stefano Frabboni, Tugrul Guner, Ebrahim Karimi, Ido Kaminer, and Vincenzo Grillo
Published in: ACS Photonics, 2023, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01925

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, Page(s) 11891-11899, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c14658

Free-electron interactions with photonic GKP states: Universal control and quantum error correction

Author(s): Gefen Baranes, Shiran Even-Haim, Ron Ruimy, Alexey Gorlach, Raphael Dahan, Asaf A. Diringer, Shay Hacohen-Gourgy, Ido Kaminer
Published in: Physical Review Research, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 2643-1564
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.5.043271

Compton scattering driven by intense quantum light

Author(s): M. Khalaf and I. Kaminer
Published in: Science Advances, 2023, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade0932

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

Complete Excitation of Discrete Quantum Systems by Single Free Electrons

Author(s): F. Javier García de Abajo, Eduardo J. C. Dias, and Valerio Di Giulio
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2022, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.093401

Increasing the Resolution of Transmission Electron Microscopy by Computational Ghost Imaging

Author(s): P. Rosi, L. Viani, E. Rotunno, S. Frabboni, A. H. Tavabi, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, A. Roncaglia, V. Grillo
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 133, 2025, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.133.123801

Spatiotemporal Electron Beam Focusing through Parallel Interactions with Shaped Optical Fields

Author(s): F. J. García de Abajo and C. Ropers,
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2023, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.246901

Imaging the ultrafast coherent control of a skyrmion crystal

Author(s): Phoebe Tengdin, Benoit Truc, Alexey Sapozhnik, Lingyao Kong, Nina del Ser, Simone Gargiulo, Ivan Madan, Thomas Schönenberger, Priya R. Baral, Ping Che, Arnaud Magrez, Dirk Grundler, Henrik M. Rønnow, Thomas Lagrange, Jiadong Zang, Achim Rosch, and Fabrizio Carbone
Published in: Physical Review X, 2022, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.12.041030

Single-Pixel Imaging in Space and Time with Optically-Modulated Free Electrons

Author(s): Andrea Konečná, Enzo Rotunno, Vincenzo Grillo, F. Javier García de Abajo, and Giovanni Maria Vanacore
Published in: ACS Photonics, 2023, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00047

Photoinduced Ultrafast Symmetry Switch in SnSe

Author(s): Yadong Han, Junhong Yu, Hang Zhang, Fang Xu, Kunlin Peng, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Liang Qiao, Oleg V. Misochko, Kazutaka G. Nakamura, Giovanni M. Vanacore, and Jianbo Hu
Published in: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2022, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03704

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 (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp4096

Coherently amplified ultrafast imaging using a free-electron interferometer

Author(s): Tomer Bucher, Harel Nahari, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Ron Ruimy, Arthur Niedermayr, Raphael Dahan, Qinghui Yan, Yuval Adiv, Michael Yannai, Jialin Chen, Yaniv Kurman, Sang Tae Park, Daniel J. Masiel, Eli Janzen, James H. Edgar, Fabrizio Carbone, Guy Bartal, Shai Tsesses, Frank H. L. Koppens, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer
Published in: Nature Photonics, Issue 18, 2024, Page(s) 809-815, ISSN 1749-4885
Publisher: Nature Pub. Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01451-w

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: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-023-01361-6

Lossless Monochromator in an Ultrafast Electron Microscope Using Near-Field THz Radiation

Author(s): Michael Yannai, Yuval Adiv, Raphael Dahan, Kangpeng Wang, Alexey Gorlach, Nicholas Rivera, Tal Fishman, Michael Krüger, and Ido Kaminer
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2023, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.145002

Ultrafast Transverse Modulation of Free Electrons by Interaction with Shaped Optical Fields

Author(s): Ivan Madan, Veronica Leccese, Adam Mazur, Francesco Barantani, Thomas LaGrange, Alexey Sapozhnik, Phoebe M. Tengdin, Simone Gargiulo, Enzo Rotunno, Jean-Christophe Olaya, Ido Kaminer, Vincenzo Grillo, F. Javier García de Abajo, Fabrizio Carbone, and Giovanni Maria Vanacore
Published in: ACS Photonics, 2022, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00850

Challenging Point Scanning across Electron Microscopy and Optical Imaging using Computational Imaging

Author(s): AKHIL KALLEPALLI, LORENZO VIANI, DAAN STELLINGA, ENZO ROTUNNO, RICHARD BOWMAN, GRAHAM M. GIBSON, MING-JIE SUN, PAOLO ROSI, STEFANO FRABBONI, ROBERTO BALBONI, ANDREA MIGLIORI, VINCENZO GRILLO, AND MILES J. PADGETT
Published in: Intelligent Computing, 2022, ISSN 2771-5892
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.34133/icomputing.0001

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 (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn6312

Optical-cavity mode squeezing by free electrons,

Author(s): V. Di Giulio and F. J. García de Abajo
Published in: Nanophotonics, 2023, ISSN 2192-8614
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0481

Near-real-time diagnosis of electron optical phase aberrations in scanning transmission electron microscopy using an artificial neural network

Author(s): Giovanni Bertoni, Enzo Rotunno, Daan Marsmans, Peter Tiemeijer, Amir H. Tavabi, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Vincenzo Grillo
Published in: Ultramicroscopy, 2023, ISSN 0304-3991
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2022.113663

Inelastic Scattering of Electron Beams by Nonreciprocal Nanotructures.

Author(s): Renwen Yu; Andrea Konečná; F. Javier García de Abajo; F. Javier García de Abajo
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2021, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.157404

Intellectual Property Rights

Patent (2)

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT OF CHARGED PARTICLES MICROSCOPY

Application/Publication number: 20 22050775
Date: 2022-07-19
Applicant(s): TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

ELECTRON SPECTROMETER CALIBRATION METHOD

Application/Publication number: 22 178523
Date: 2022-06-10
Applicant(s): ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE