This review discusses how low-energy valence excitations created by swift electrons can
render information on the optical response of structured materials with unmatched spatial …

Investigating the interaction of electron beams with materials and light has been a field of
research for more than a century. The field was advanced theoretically by the rise of …

Within the last 30 years, electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) has become a standard
analytical technique used in the transmission electron microscope to extract chemical and …

The exact solution of Maxwell's equations in the presence of arbitrarily shaped dielectrics is
expressed in terms of surface-integral equations evaluated at the interfaces. The …

Electron loss and electron-induced photon-emission probabilities are calculated near
arbitrarily shaped dielectrics described by frequency-dependent response functions. The …

Elastic and inelastic scattering in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) are important
research subjects. For a long time, I have wished to systematically summarize various …

An analytical expression for the energy loss suffered by a fast electron passing near a
homogeneous dielectric sphere is derived within a fully relativistic approach. The sphere is …

In many materials systems, electron beam effects may substantially alter and destroy the
structure of interest during observation. This is often true for the surface structures of catalytic …

The ability to examine the vibrational spectra of liquids with nanometer spatial resolution will
greatly expand the potential to study liquids and liquid interfaces. In fact, the fundamental …

Plasmon oscillation is a collective excitation of electrons in a valence band of a solid
material. The motion and polarization of valence electrons under the impact of a fast moving …