Stroboscopic ultrafast imaging using RF strip-lines in a commercial transmission electron microscope

Reisbick, Spencer A.; Han, Myung-Geun; Liu, Chuhang; Zhao, Yubin; Montgomery, Eric; Jing, Chunguang; Gokhale, Vikrant J.; Gorman, Jason J.; Lau, June W.; Zhu, Yimei

doi:10.1016/j.ultramic.2022.113497

Title: Stroboscopic ultrafast imaging using RF strip-lines in a commercial transmission electron microscope

Journal Article · 16 February 2022 · Ultramicroscopy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2022.113497 · OSTI ID:1845830

^[1]; Han, Myung-Geun ^[2]; Liu, Chuhang ^[3]; Zhao, Yubin ^[4];

^[4]; Jing, Chunguang ^[4]; Gokhale, Vikrant J. ^[5];

^[5];

^[5]; Zhu, Yimei ^[2]

Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Euclid Techlabs LLC
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
Euclid Techlabs LLC, Bolingbrook, IL (United States)
National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)

The development of ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM), specifically stroboscopic imaging, has brought the study of structural dynamics to a new level by overcoming the spatial limitations of ultrafast spectroscopy and the temporal restrictions of traditional TEM simultaneously. Combining the concepts governing both techniques has enabled direct visualization of dynamics with spatiotemporal resolutions in the picosecond-nanometer regime. Here, in this study, we push the limits of imaging using a pulsed electron beam via RF induced transverse deflection based on the newly developed 200 keV frequency-tunable strip-line pulser. We demonstrate 0.2 nm spatial resolution at high magnifications and elucidation of Lorentz imaging using the phase-microscopy method. We also present beam coherence measurements and expand our study using the breathing modes of a silicon interdigitated comb under RF excitation which achieves improved temporal synchronization between the electron pulse-train and electric field. A new RF holder has also been developed with impedance matching to the RF signal to minimize transmission power loss to samples and its performance is compared with a conventional sample holder.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Euclid Techlabs LLC, Bolingbrook, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; SC0013121

OSTI ID:: 1845830

Report Number(s):: BNL-223710-2022-JAAM

Journal Information:: Ultramicroscopy, Journal Name: Ultramicroscopy Vol. 235; ISSN 0304-3991

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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