Research project

MINEON MINiaturized Electron Optics for Nano-controlled beams (DFM.AD006.238)

Thematic area

Physical sciences and technologies of matter

Project area

Infrastrutture di ricerca , strumentazione avanzata e nuove metodologie sperimentali e di calcolo (DFM.AD006)

Structure responsible for the research project

Institute of nanoscience (NANO)

Other structures collaborating in the research project

Project manager

VINCENZO GRILLO
Phone number: 0000000
Email: vincenzo.grillo@nano.cnr.it

Abstract

Electron microscopy allows scientists to measure and image material properties down to the very atomic scale, bringing to fruition Feynman's visionary idea that saw in the electron microscope the main instrument for nanoscience. However, its development has been restricted for many years to improving spatial and energetic resolution, through the adoption of bulky sets of magnetic lenses and multipoles. This approach has begun to feel limiting - since cross-fertilisation with light optics has shown the many possibilities hidden in the newly-acquired capacity to perform electron beam shaping. The entailed MEMS technology is of further future commercial interest because it enables many other possible types of beam shaping devices, which could address aberration correction, better material-free Zernike phase plates, multipole analysis of fields in a sample, computational ghost imaging. At the end of this project: - a series of working prototypes of the device and a pilot application for its more effective exploitation will be available - the market potential of the device will have been assessed - its existence will have been disseminated and advertised within the target communities -

Goals

Electron microscopy allows scientists to measure and image material properties down to the very atomic scale, bringing to fruition Feynman's visionary idea that saw in the electron microscope the main instrument for nanoscience. However, its development has been restricted for many years to improving spatial and energetic resolution, through the adoption of bulky sets of magnetic lenses and multipoles. This approach has begun to feel limiting - since cross-fertilisation with light optics has shown the many possibilities hidden in the newly-acquired capacity to perform electron beam shaping. The entailed MEMS technology is of further future commercial interest because it enables many other possible types of beam shaping devices, which could address aberration correction, better material-free Zernike phase plates, multipole analysis of fields in a sample, computational ghost imaging. At the end of this project: - a series of working prototypes of the device and a pilot application for its more effective exploitation will be available - the market potential of the device will have been assessed - its existence will have been disseminated and advertised within the target communities -

Start date of activity

01/06/2021

Keywords

Nanoelectromechanics, Condensed matter, beam interactions, Nanomagnetism

Last update: 07/11/2024