We demonstrate the generation of Coulomb-correlated pair, triple and quadruple states free electrons by femtosecond photoemission from a nanoscale field emitter inside transmission electron microscope. Event-based spectroscopy allows spatial spectral characterization ensemble emitted each laser pulse. identify distinctive energy momentum correlations arising acceleration-enhanced interparticle ...

We report the first direct study on the oxidation of carbon nanotubes at the resolution of an aberration-corrected environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM), as we locate and identify changes in the same nanotubes as they undergo oxidation at increasing temperatures in situ in the ETEM. Contrary to earlier reports that CNT oxidation initiates at the end of the tube and proceeds alon...

Several strains of a streptomycete with unusual spore wall ornamentation were isolated from Iowa soils. They are further characterized by coiled chains of spores, gray aerial mycelium, melanin-like pigments, and the production of antibacterial and antifungal antibiotics. Spore wall ornamentations, as seen with the transmission electron microscope, do not correspond with any of the four generall...

Two powerful and complementary techniques for chemical characterisation of nanoscale systems are electron energy-loss spectroscopy in the scanning transmission electron microscope, and X-ray absorption spectroscopy in the scanning transmission X-ray microscope. A correlative approach to spectro-microscopy may not only bridge the gaps in spatial and spectral resolution which exist between the tw...

Some uses of the computer and computation in high-resolution transmission electron microscopy are reviewed. The theory of image calculation using Bloch wave and multislice methods with and without aberration correction is reviewed and some applications are discussed. The inverse problem of reconstructing the specimen structure from an experimentally measured electron microscope image is discuss...

A model for a new electron-vortex beam production method is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The technique calls on the controlled manipulation of the degrees of freedom of the lens aberrations to achieve a helical phase front. These degrees of freedom are accessible by using the corrector lenses of a transmission electron microscope. The vortex beam is produced through a particular al...

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 323 27 MARCH 2009 1641 COVER False-color, aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope image of a suspended single atomic layer of graphene. When an electron beam induces ejection of an atom from the edge of an intentionally made ~3-nm hole (black), the hole enlarges; the remaining edge carbon atoms rearrange from perfect hexagons into predicted metastabl...