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Robert, H.L.* ; Diederichs, B. ; Muller-Caspary, K.*

Contribution of multiple plasmon scattering in low-angle electron diffraction investigated by energy-filtered atomically resolved 4D-STEM.

Appl. Phys. Lett. 121:213502 (2022)
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We report the influence of multiple plasmon losses on the dynamical diffraction of high-energy electrons, in a scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) study. Using an experimental setup enabling energy-filtered momentum-resolved STEM, it is shown that the successive excitation of up to five plasmons within the imaged material results in a subsequent and significant redistribution of low-angle intensity in diffraction space. An empirical approach, based on the convolution with a Lorentzian kernel, is shown to reliably model this redistribution in dependence of the energy-loss. Our study demonstrates that both the significant impact of inelastic scattering in low-angle diffraction at elevated specimen thickness and a rather straightforward model can be applied to mimic multiple plasmon scattering, which otherwise is currently not within reach for multislice simulations due to computational complexity.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
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ISSN (print) / ISBN 0003-6951
e-ISSN 1077-3118
Quellenangaben Volume: 121, Issue: 21, Pages: , Article Number: 213502 Supplement: ,
Publisher American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Non-patent literature Publications
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI)
Helmholtz AI - FZJ (HAI - FZJ)
Grants Helmholtz Association
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft