Development of electron holography and its applications to fundamental problems in physics

Abstract

We can now utilize the wave properties of electrons to conduct fundamental experiments on quantum mechanics because of the development of brighter electron beams as well as the ability directly to image the quantum world by utilizing the phase information of electrons. In this paper, we describe new possibilities that have been generated by electron-phase microscopy using electron microscopes equipped with coherent yet bright electron beams. ©2008 The Japan Society of Applied Physics.