Main Mission

The group is dedicated to the development of leading-edge electron microscopy techniques including hardware, theory, simulation and application.

Topics include

• Instrument development & improvement
• Performance characterization and resolution assessment
• High-precision aberration measurement and aberration monitoring
• Numerical procedures for the quantification of electron microscopy images
• Simulation of electron scattering and solution of the inverse scattering problem
• Simulation of HRTEM/HRSTEM imaging & development of phase-retrieval methods
• Model-based reconstruction of magnetization from electron optical phase images
• Theory and characterization of electron detectors

Group members

• Andreas Thust (permanent staff, FZJ)
• Markus Lentzen (permanent staff, FZJ)
• Juri Barthel (permanent staff, FZJ)
• Jan Caron (Postdoc)

Clarification of terms:

electron optics: the theory of electron propagation in electro-magnetic fields.

And: IAU abbreviation for the constellation Andromeda.

Method: born around 815 in Salonika, died 6 April 885 in Moravia, Byzantine friar, lawyer, first archbishop of Moravia and Pannonia, one of the six patrons of Europe.

development: the active placement of chess pieces, particularly during the opening of a game of chess.