Free electron beams such as those employed in electron microscopes have evolved into
powerful tools to investigate photonic nanostructures with an unrivaled combination of …

Electron microscopy and diffraction with ultrashort pulsed electron beams are capable of
imaging transient phenomena with the combined ultrafast temporal and atomic-scale spatial …

Interfacing electrons and light enables ultrafast electron microscopy and quantum control of
electrons, as well as new optical elements for high-sensitivity imaging. Here, we …

We exploit free-space interactions between electron beams and tailored light fields to imprint
on-demand phase profiles on the electron wave functions. Through rigorous semiclassical …

In this work we propose a method for probing the chirality of nanoscale electromagnetic near
fields utilizing the properties of a coherent superposition of free-electron vortex states in …

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of vitrified biological macromolecules (cryo-EM) is
limited by the weak phase contrast signal that is available from such samples. Using a …

Although defocus can be used to generate partial phase contrast in transmission electron
microscope images, cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can be further improved by the …

The coherent interaction between free electrons and optical fields can produce free-electron
compression and push the temporal resolution of ultrafast electron microscopy to the …

We identify thermal magnetic field fluctuations, caused by thermal electron motion (“Johnson
noise”) in electrically conductive materials, as a potential resolution limit in transmission …

We describe an approach to optically trapping small, chemically stable molecules at
cryogenic temperatures by buffer-gas loading a deep optical dipole trap. The∼ 10 K trap …