Electron-beam spectroscopy for nanophotonics

A Polman, M Kociak, FJ García de Abajo - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Progress in electron-beam spectroscopies has recently enabled the study of optical
excitations with combined space, energy and time resolution in the nanometre …

Optical excitations with electron beams: Challenges and opportunities

FJ Garcia de Abajo, V Di Giulio - ACS photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Free electron beams such as those employed in electron microscopes have evolved into
powerful tools to investigate photonic nanostructures with an unrivaled combination of …

Free-electron–light interactions in nanophotonics

C Roques-Carmes, SE Kooi, Y Yang, N Rivera… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
When impinging on optical structures or passing in their vicinity, free electrons can
spontaneously emit electromagnetic radiation, a phenomenon generally known as …

Cathodoluminescence excitation spectroscopy: Nanoscale imaging of excitation pathways

N Varkentina, Y Auad, SY Woo, A Zobelli, L Bocher… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Following optical excitations' life span from creation to decay into photons is crucial in
understanding materials photophysics. Macroscopically, this is studied using optical …

Surface recombinations in III-nitride micro-LEDs probed by photon-correlation cathodoluminescence

S Finot, C Le Maoult, E Gheeraert, D Vaufrey… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
III-Nitride micro-LEDs are promising building blocks for the next generation of high
performance microdisplays. To reach a high pixel density, it is desired to achieve micro …

Spatial electron-photon entanglement

E Kazakevich, H Aharon, O Kfir - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Free electron beams and their quantum coupling with photons are attracting a rising interest
due to the basic questions they address and the innovative technology these particles are …

Cathodoluminescence nanoscopy: state of the art and beyond

Z Dang, Y Chen, Z Fang - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cathodoluminescence (CL) nanoscopy is proven to be a powerful tool to explore nanoscale
optical properties, whereby free electron beams achieve a spatial resolution far beyond the …

Complementary cathodoluminescence lifetime imaging configurations in a scanning electron microscope

S Meuret, MS Garcia, T Coenen, E Kieft, H Zeijlemaker… - Ultramicroscopy, 2019 - Elsevier
Cathodoluminescence (CL) spectroscopy provides a powerful way to characterize optical
properties of materials with deep-subwavelength spatial resolution. While CL imaging to …

Excitation lifetime extracted from electron–photon (EELS-CL) nanosecond-scale temporal coincidences

N Varkentina, Y Auad, SY Woo, F Castioni… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Electron–photon temporal correlations in electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and
cathodoluminescence (CL) spectroscopies have recently been used to measure the relative …

A study of GaN nucleation and coalescence in the initial growth stages on nanoscale patterned sapphire substrates via MOCVD

Y Chen, Z Chen, J Li, Y Chen, C Li, J Zhan, T Yu… - …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
GaN growth on cone-shaped nanoscale patterned sapphire substrates (NPSS) in the initial
stages was investigated via a series of growth interruptions. The thickness of the nucleation …