Tunable Electron Beam Pulser for Picoseconds Stroboscopic Microscopy in Transmission Electron Microscopes

Published

August 26, 2019

Author(s)

June W. Lau, Michael B. Katz

Abstract

For two decades, time-resolved transmission electron microscopes (TEM) have relied on pulsed-laser photoemission to generate electron bunches to explore sub-microsecond to sub- picosecond dynamics. Despite the vast successes of photoemission time-resolved TEMs, laser- based systems are inherently complex, thus tend not to be turn-key. In this paper, we report on the successful retro t of a commercial 200KeV TEM, without an external laser, capable of producing continuously tunable pulsed electron beams with repetition rates from 0.1GHz up to 12GHz and a tunable bunch length from the repetition frequency down to 10 pico-seconds. This innovation enables temporal access into previously inaccessible regimes: i.e., high rep- etition rate stroboscopic experiments. Combination of a pair of RF-driven traveling wave stripline elements, quadruple magnets, and a variable beam aperture enables operation of the instrument in (1) continuous waveform (CW) mode as though the instrument was never unmodi ed, (2) stroboscopic (pump-probe) mode, and (3) pulsed beam mode for dose rate sensitive materials. To assess the e ect of a pulsed beam on image quality, we examined Au nanoparticles using brightfi eld, high-resolution TEM imaging and selected area diffraction in both continuous and pulsed-beam mode.

Citation

Applied Physics Letters

Volume

207

Pub Type

Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2019.112829

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Keywords

TEM, UEM, stroboscopic, pulser, ultrafast

Citation

Lau, J. and Katz, M. (2019), Tunable Electron Beam Pulser for Picoseconds Stroboscopic Microscopy in Transmission Electron Microscopes, Applied Physics Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2019.112829 (Accessed April 23, 2024)