A tunable path-separated electron interferometer with an amplitude-dividing grating beamsplitter

Fehmi S. Yasin; Ken Harada; Daisuke Shindo; Hiroyuki Shinada; Benjamin J. McMorran; Toshiaki Tanigaki

doi:10.1063/1.5051380

A tunable path-separated electron interferometer with an amplitude-dividing grating beamsplitter

Fehmi S. Yasin, Ken Harada, Daisuke Shindo, Hiroyuki Shinada, Benjamin J. McMorran, Toshiaki Tanigaki

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We demonstrate a tunable path-separated electron interferometer using a single amplitude-dividing beamsplitter to prepare multiple spatially isolated, coherent electron probe beams. We place four electrostatic bi-prisms in the optical column of a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) to achieve path separations of up to 25 μm, the largest demonstrated within amplitude-division electron interferometers while maintaining fringe visibility of the directly observed interference fringes at the detector. We characterize the fringe visibility of this setup over a range of path separations and perform STEM holography to reconstruct the full object wave of a fabricated Si ramp test phase object. We report a quantitative object-wave measurement in this configuration and confirm with an independent off-axis electron holography measurement. This experimental design can potentially be applied to high-resolution phase imaging and fundamental physics experiments, such as an exploration of the electron wave packet coherence length and the Aharonov-Bohm effect.

Original language	English
Article number	233102
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	113
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5051380
Publication status	Published - 2018 Dec 3

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