Publications

eBEAM publications since the start of the project

2024

A. P. Synanidis, P. A. D. Gonçalves, C. Ropers, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Quantum effects in the interaction of low-energy electrons with light“, Sci. Adv. 10, eadp4096 (2024).

S. Bachu, F. Habis, B. Huet, S. Y. Woo, L. Miao, D. R. Hickey, G. Kim, N. Trainor, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. Jariwala, J. M. Redwing, Y. Wang, M. Kociak, L. H. G. Tizei, and N. Alem, “Quantum Confined Luminescence in Two dimensions“, arXiv preprint, arXiv:2406.10315 (2024).

Y. Wu, A. Konečná, S. H. Cho, D. J. Milliron, J. A. Hachtel, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Singular and Nonsingular Transitions in the Infrared Plasmons of Nearly Touching Nanocube Dimers“, ACS Nano 18, 15130-15138 (2024).

V. Di Giulio, E. Akerboom, A. Polman, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Toward Optimum Coupling between Free Electrons and Confined Optical Modes“, ACS Nano 18, 14255-14275 (2024).

E. Akerboom, V. Di Giulio, N. J. Schilder, F. J. García de Abajo, and A. Polman, “Free Electron–Plasmon Coupling Strength and Near-Field Retrieval through Electron Energy-Dependent Cathodoluminescence Spectroscopy“, ACS Nano 18, 13560-13567 (2024).

M. Black, M. Asadi, P. Darman, F. Schillmöller, S. Darbari, and N. Talebi, “Long-range self-hybridized exciton polaritons in two-dimensional Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites“, arXiv preprint, arXiv:2405.02950 (2024).

Y. Abdi, M. Taleb, S. Hajibaba, M. Moayedi, and N. Talebi, “Two-dimensional borophene: In-plane hyperbolic polaritons in the visible spectral range“, arXiv preprint, arXiv:2404.13609 (2024).

N. Pryds, N. Lamba, B. Beltrán-Pitarch, T. Yu, M. Dawod, A. Berner, B. Guralnik, A. Orekhov, N. Gauquelin, Y. Amouyal, J. Verbeeck, O. Hansen, and D. Petersen, “Thermal diffusivity microscope – zooming-in on anisotropic heat transport“, Research Square preprint (2024).

J.-W. Henke, H. Jeng, and C. Ropers, “Quantum eraser experiments for the demonstration of entanglement between swift electrons and light“, arXiv preprint, arXiv:2404.11368 (2024).

N. Bonnet, J. Baaboura, F. Castioni, S. Y. Woo, C. H. Ho, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, L. H. G. Tizei, and T. Coenen, “Cathodoluminescence emission and electron energy loss absorption from a 2D transition metal dichalcogenide in van der Waals heterostructures“, Nanotechnology (2024).

S. Ebel, and N. Talebi, “Structured free-space optical fields for transverse and longitudinal control of electron matter waves“, arXiv preprint, arXiv:2404.04187 (2024).

M. Bézard, I. Si Hadj Mohand, L. Ruggierio, A. Le Roux, Y. Auad, P. Baroux, L. H. G. Tizei, X. Checoury, and M. Kociak, “High-Efficiency Coupling of Free Electrons to Sub-λ3 Modal Volume, High-Q Photonic Cavities“, ACS Nano 18, 10417-10426 (2024).

T. P. Rasmussen, Á. Rodríguez Echarri, J. D. Cox, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Generation of entangled waveguided photon pairs by free electrons“, Sci. Adv. 10, eadn6312 (2024).

S. Y. Woo, F. Shao, A. Arora, R. Schneider, N. Wu, A. J. Mayne, C. H. Ho, M. Och, C. Mattevi, A. Reserbat-Plantey, Á. Moreno, H. H. Sheinfux, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. M. de Vasconcellos, F. H. L. Koppens, Z. Niu, O. Stéphan, M. Kociak, F. J. García de Abajo, R. Bratschitsch, A. Konečná, and L. H. G. Tizei, “Engineering 2D material exciton lineshape with graphene/h-BN encapsulation“, Nano Lett. 24, 3678-3685 (2024).

M. Liebtrau, and A. Polman, “Angular Dispersion of Free-Electron-Light Coupling in an Optical Fiber-Integrated Metagrating“, ACS Photonics 11, 1125-1136 (2024).

J. H. Gaida, H. Lourenço-Martins, M. Sivis, T. Rittmann, A. Feist, F. J. García de Abajo, and C. Ropers, “Attosecond electron microscopy by free-electron homodyne detection“, Nat. Phys. 18, 509-515 (2024).

C. I. Velasco, V. Di Giulio, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Radiative loss of coherence in free electrons: a long-range quantum phenomenon“, Light Sci. Appl. 13, 31 (2024).

Y. Yang, J. Henke, A. S. Raja, F. J. Kappert, G. Huang, G. Arend, Z. Qiu, A. Feist, R. N. Wang, A. Tusnin, A. Tikan, C. Ropers, and T. J. Kippenberg, “Free-electron interaction with nonlinear optical states in microresonators“, Science 383, 168173 (2024).

F. Chahshouri, M. Taleb, M. Black, M. Mensing, and N. Talebi, “Cathodoluminescence of quantized energy states at AlGaN/GaN interface“, arXiv preprint, arXiv:2401.05748 (2024).

A. Polman, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Electrons catch light pulses on the fly“, Science 383, 148-149 (2024).

Y. Auad, J. Baaboura, J.-D. Blazit, M. Tencé, O. Stéphan, M. Kociak, and L. H. G. Tizei, “Time calibration studies for the Timepix3 hybrid pixel detector in electron microscopy“, Ultramicroscopy 257, 113889 (2024).

2023

C-P. Yu, F. Vega Ibañez, and A. Béché. J. Verbeeck, “Quantum wavefront shaping with a 48-element programmable phase plate for electrons“, SciPost Phys. 15, 223 (2023).

R. Lingstädt, F. Davoodi, K. Elibol, M. Taleb, H. Kwon, P. Fischer, N. Talebi, and P. A. van Aken, “Electron beam induced circularly polarized light emission of chiral gold nanohelices“, ACS Nano 17, 25496-25506 (2023).

F. Davoodi, and N. Talebi, “Unidirectional Wave Propagation in a Topological Plasmonic Ring Resonator via a Symmetry-Broken Excitation Scheme“, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 6, 20823-20830 (2023).

F. Davoodi, and N. Talebi, “Numerical investigation of sequential phase-locked optical gating of free electrons“, Sci. Rep. 13, 18949 (2023).

J. H. Gaida, H. Lourenço-Martins, S. V. Yalunin, A. Feist, M. Sivis, T. Hohage, F. J. García de Abajo, and C. Ropers, “Lorentz microscopy of optical fields“, Nat. Commun. 14, 6545 (2023).

F. Chahshouri, and N. Talebi, “Sequential phase-locked optical gating of free electrons“, arXiv preprint, arXiv:2308.15310 (2023).

Y. Auad, E. J. C. Dias, M. Tencé, J. D. Blazit, X. Li, L. F. Zagonel, O. Stéphan, L. H. G. Tizei, F. J. García de Abajo, and M. Kociak, “μeV electron spectromicroscopy using free-space light“, Nat. Commun. 14, 4442 (2023).

S. Ebel, and N. Talebi, “Inelastic electron scattering at a single-beam structured light wave“, Commun. Phys. 6, 179 (2023).

P. A. D. Gonçalves, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Multi-plasmon effects and plasmon satellites in photoemission from nanostructures“, Nanoscale 15, 11852-11859 (2023).

C. I. Velasco, V. Di Giulio, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Quantum decoherence of free electrons and interaction with distant objects“, arXiv preprint, arXiv:2306.11595 (2023).

F. J. García de Abajo, and C. Ropers, “Spatiotemporal electron beam focusing through parallel interactions with shaped optical fields“, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 246901 (2023).

E. Vlasov, A. Skorikov, A. Sánchez-Iglesias, L. M. Liz-Marzán, J. Verbeeck, and S. Bals, “Secondary electron induced current in scanning transmission electron microscopy: an alternative way to visualize the morphology of nanoparticles“, ACS Materials Lett. 5, 1916-1921 (2023).

S. Y. Woo, A. Zobelli, R. Schneider, A. Arora, J. A. Preuß, B. J. Carey, S. M. de Vasconcellos, M. Palummo, R. Bratschitsch, and L. H. G. Tizei, “Excitonic absorption signatures of twisted bilayer by electron energy-loss spectroscopy“, Phys. Rev. B 107, 155429 (2023).

A. C. Y. Liu, T. J. Davis, T. Coenen, S. Hari, L. M. Voortman, Z. Xu, G. Yuan, P. M. Ballard, A. M. Funston, and J. Etheridge, “Modulation of Cathodoluminescence by Surface Plasmons in Silver Nanowires“, Small 19, 2207747 (2023).

M. Taleb, M. Samadi, F. Davoodi, M. Black, J. Buhl, H. Lüder, M. Gerken, and N. Talebi, “Spin–orbit interactions in plasmonic crystals probed by site-selective cathodoluminescence spectroscopy“, Nanophotonics 12, 1877-1889 (2023).

N. Talebi, E. Fakhrzadeh, and M. Shahabadi, “Cherenkov Radiation in a Bianisotropic Medium with Magnetoelectric Effect“, Optica (2023).

M. Taleb, M. Hentschel, K. Rossnagel, H. Giessen, and N. Talebi, “Phase-locked photon–electron interaction without a laser“, Nat. Phys. 19, 869-876 (2023).

F. Chahshouri, and N. Talebi, “Tailoring near-field-mediated photon electron interactions with light polarization“, New J. Phys. 25, 013033 (2023).

2022

S. Börm, F. Davoodi, R. Köhl, and N. Talebi, “Topological photonics by breaking the degeneracy of line node singularities in semimetal-like photonic crystals“, Opt. Express 30, 42649-42662 (2022).

K. Akbari, V. Di Giulio, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Optical manipulation of matter waves“, Sci. Adv. 8, eabq2659 (2022).

V. Di Giulio, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Optical-cavity mode squeezing by free electrons“, Nanophotonics 11, 4659-4670 (2022).

N. Varkentina, Y. Auad, S. Y. Woo, A. Zobelli, L. Bocher, J.-D. Blazit, X. Li, M. Tencé, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, O. Stéphan, M. Kociak, and L. H. G. Tizei, “Cathodoluminescence excitation spectroscopy: Nanoscale imaging of excitation pathways“, Sci. Adv. 8, eabq4947 (2022).

F. J. García de Abajo, E. J. C. Dias, and V. Di Giulio, “Complete excitation of discrete quantum systems by single free electrons“, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 093401 (2022).

C. Gao, C. Hofer, D. Jannis, A. Béché, J. Verbeeck, and T. J. Pennycook, “Overcoming contrast reversals in focused probe ptychography of thick materials: An optimal pipeline for efficiently determining local atomic structure in materials science“, Appl. Phys. Lett. 121, 081906 (2022).

M. Taleb, M. Samadi, F. Davoodi, M. Black, J. Buhl, H. Lüder, M. Gerken, and N. Talebi, “Spin-orbit interactions in noncentrosymmetric plasmonic crystals probed by site-selective cathodoluminescence spectroscopy“, arXiv preprint, arXiv:2208.09238 (2022).

A. Feist, G. Huang, G. Arend, Y. Yang, J.-W. Henke, A.S. Raja, F.J. Kappert, R.N. Wang, H. Lourenço-Martins, Z. Qiu, J. Liu, O. Kfir, T.J. Kippenberg, and C. Ropers, “Cavity-mediated electron-photon pairs“, Science 377, 777-780 (2022).

F. Shao, S. Y. Woo, N. Wu, R. Schneider, A. J. Mayne, S. M. de Vasconcellos, A. Arora, B. J. Carey, J. A. Preuß, N. Bonnet, M. Och, C. Mattevi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Z. Niu, R. Bratschitsch, and L. H. G. Tizei, “Substrate influence on transition metal dichalcogenide monolayer exciton absorption linewidth broadening“, Phys. Rev. Materials 6, 074005 (2022).

A. Karnieli, D. Roitman, M. Liebtrau, S. Tsesses, N. Van Nielen, I. Kaminer, A. Arie, and A. Polman, “Cylindrical metalens for generation and focusing of free-electron radiation“, Nano Lett. 22, 5641-5650 (2022).

F. Davoodi, M. Taleb, F. K. Diekmann, T. Coenen, K. Rossnagel, and N. Talebi, “Tailoring the band structure of plexcitonic crystals by strong coupling“, ACS Photonics 9, 2473-2482 (2022).

Y. Auad, M. Walls, J.-D. Blazit, O. Stéphan, L. H. G. Tizei, M. Kociak, F. De la Peña, and M. Tencé, “Event-based hyperspectral EELS: towards nanosecond temporal resolution“, Ultramicroscopy 239, 113539 (2022).

T. Simona, X. Lib, J. Martina, D. Khlopina, O. Stéphanb, M. Kociakb, and D. Gérarda, “Aluminum Cayley trees as scalable, broadband, multiresonant optical antennas“, PNAS 119, e2116833119 (2022).

F. Chahshouri, M. Taleb, F. K. Diekmann, K. Rossnagel, and N. Talebi, “Interaction of excitons with Cherenkov radiation in WSe2 beyond the non-recoil approximation“, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 55, 145101 (2022).

N. Talebi, “A fast push to photon pairs“, Nat. Phys. 18, 11-12 (2022).

M. Taleb, F. Davoodi, F. K. Diekmann, K. Rossnagel, and N. Talebi, “Charting the Exciton–Polariton Landscape of WSe2 Thin Flakes by Cathodoluminescence Spectroscopy“, Advanced Photonics Research 3, 2100124 (2022).

D. Jannis, C. Hofer, C. Gao, X. Xie, A. Béché, T. J. Pennycook, and J. Verbeeck, “Event driven 4D STEM acquisition with a Timepix3 detector: Microsecond dwell time and faster scans for high precision and low dose applications“, Ultramicroscopy 233, 113423 (2022).

2021

J.-W. Henke, A. S. Raja, A. Feist, G. Huang, G. Arend, Y. Yang, F. J. Kappert, R. N. Wang, M. Möller, J. Pan, J. Liu, O. Kfir, C. Ropers, and T. J. Kippenberg, “Integrated photonics enables continuous-beam electron phase modulation“, Nature 600, 653658 (2021).

Y. Auad, C. Hamon, M. Tencé, H. Lourenço-Martins, V. Mkhitaryan, O. Stéphan, F. J. García de Abajo, L. H. G. Tizei, and M. Kociak, “Unveiling the coupling of single metallic nanoparticles to whispering-gallery microcavities“, Nano Lett. 22, 319-327 (2021).

N. Bonnet, H. Y. Lee, F. Shao, S. Y. Woo, J. D. Blazit, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Zobelli, O. Stéphan, M. Kociak, S. Gradečak, and L. H. G. Tizei, “Nanoscale Modification of WS2 Trion Emission by Its Local Electromagnetic Environment“, Nano Lett. 21, 10178-10185 (2021).

M. Solà-Garcia, K. W. Mauser, N. van Nielen, T. Coenen, S. Meuret, and A. Polman, “Pump-probe cathodoluminescence microscopy“, arXiv preprint, arXiv:2112.03034 (2021).

R. Yu, A. Konečná, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Inelastic Scattering of Electron Beams by Nonreciprocal Nanostructures“, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157404 (2021).

P. H. Bittorf, F. Davoodi, M. Taleb, and N. Talebi, “Mapping optical Bloch modes of a plasmonic square lattice in real and reciprocal spaces using cathodoluminescence spectroscopy“, Opt. Express 29, 34328-34340 (2021).

D. Jannis, K. Müller-Caspary, A. Béché, and J. Verbeeck, “Coincidence detection of EELS and EDX spectral events in the electron microscope“, Apl. Sci. 11, 9058 (2021).

A. Konečná, J. H. Edgar, J. A. Hachtel, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Revealing nanoscale confinement effects on hyperbolic phonon polaritons with an electron beam“, Small 17, 2103404 (2021).

S. Meuret, L. H. G. Tizei, F. Houdellier, S. Weber, Y. Auad, M. Tencé, H.-C. Chang, M. Kociak, and A. Arbouet, “Time-resolved cathodoluminescence in an ultrafast transmission electron microscope“, Appl. Phys. Lett. 119, 062106 (2021).

N. Talebi, and I. Březinová, “Exchange-mediated mutual correlations and dephasing in free-electrons and light interactions“, New J. Phys. 23, 063066 (2021).

K. Mauser, M. Solà-Garcia, M. Liebtrau, B. Damilano, P.-M. Coulon, S. Vézian, P. A. Shields, S. Meuret, and A. Polman, “Employing cathodoluminescence for nanothermometry and thermal transport measurements in semiconductor nanowires“, ACS Nano 15, 11385-11395 (2021).

F. Davoodi, and N. Talebi, “Plasmon–Exciton Interactions in Nanometer-Thick Gold-WSe2 Multilayer Structures: Implications for Photodetectors, Sensors, and Light-Emitting Devices“, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 4, 6067-6074 (2021).

A. Konečná, F. Iyikanat, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Theory of atomic-scale vibrational mapping and isotope identification with electron beams“, ACS Nano 15, 9890-9899 (2021).

O. Kfir, V. Di Giulio, F. J. García de Abajo, and C. Ropers, “Optical coherence transfer mediated by free electrons“, Sci. Adv. 7, eabf6380 (2021).

M. Liebtrau, M. Sivis, A. Feist, H. Lourenço-Martins, N. Pazos-Pérez, R. A. Alvarez-Puebla, F. J. García de Abajo, A. Polman, and C. Ropers, “Spontaneous and stimulated electron–photon interactions in nanoscale plasmonic near fields“, Light Sci. Appl. 10, 82 (2021).

X. Li, G. Haberfehlner, U. Hohenester, O. Stéphan, G. Kothleitner, and M. Kociak, “Three-dimensional vectorial imaging of surface phonon polaritons“, Science 371, 1364-1367 (2021).

F. J. García de Abajo, and V. Di Giulio, “Optical excitations with electron beams: Challenges and opportunities“, ACS Photonics 8, 945-974 (2021).

F. J. García de Abajo, and A. Konečná, “Optical modulation of electron beams in free space“, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123901 (2021).

V. Di Giulio, O. Kfir, C. Ropers, and F. J. García de Abajo, “Modulation of cathodoluminescence emission by interference with external light“, ACS nano 15, 7290-7304 (2021).

S. V. Yalunin, A. Feist, and C. Ropers, “Tailored high-contrast attosecond electron pulses for coherent excitation and scattering“, Phys. Rev. Res. 3, L032036 (2021).

H. Lourenço-Martins, D. Gérard, and M. Kociak, “Optical polarization analogue in free electron beams“, Nat. Phys. 17, 598-603 (2021).

V. Mkhitaryan, K. March, E. N. Tseng, X. Li, L. Scarabelli, L. M. Liz-Marzán, S.-Y. Chen, L. H. G. Tizei, O. Stéphan, J.-M. Song, M. Kociak, F. J. García de Abajo, and A. Gloter, “Can copper nanostructures sustain high-quality plasmons?“, Nano Lett. 21, 2444-2452 (2021).

M. Solà-Garcia, K. W. Mauser, M. Liebtrau, T. Coenen, S. Christiansen, S. Meuret, and A. Polman, “Photon statistics of incoherent cathodoluminescence with continuous and pulsed electron beams“, ACS Photonics 8, 916-925 (2021).

X. Jiang, M. Taleb, F. Diekmann, K. Rossnagel, and N. Talebi, “Strong Interaction of Cherenkov Radiation with Excitons in WSe2 Crystals“, arXiv preprint, arXiv:2101.11516 (2021).

The eBEAM team has a long history of collaboration and has published the following joint papers before the start of the eBEAM program.

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