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Near-Field-Mediated Photon–Electron Interactions

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Swift electrons can undergo inelastic interactions with single electrons as well as collective electron excitations within the sample, such as plasmon and phonon polaritons , as a result of which they lose energy (Garcia de Abajo in Rev. Mod. Phys. 82:209–275, 2010 [1]). Within the classical formalism, EEL spectra are theoretically rationalized by a simple but intuitive interpretation that has a direct correspondence with first principles, demanding that all inelastic signals are collected (Ritchie and Howie, in Philos. Mag. A 58:753–767, 1988 [2].

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    Nahid Talebi

  2. Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Nahid Talebi

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Talebi, N. (2019). Electron-Light Interactions. In: Near-Field-Mediated Photon–Electron Interactions. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 228. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33816-9_3

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