About the project
SMART-electron aims at developing an innovative technological platform for designing, realizing and operating all-optical rapidly-programmable phase masks for electrons. SMART-electron will introduce a new paradigm where properly synthesized ultrafast electromagnetic fields will be used for engineering the phase space of a free-electron wave function.
This will allow us to achieve unprecedented space/time/energy/momentum shaping of electron matter waves, thus surpassing conventional passive monolithic schemes and revolutionizing the way materials are investigated in electron microscopy.
Smart
Electron
2023 International Event
4-8 September 2023
Quantum Control of Electrons for
Advanced Microscopies and
Spectroscopies
Edificio 26, Politecnico di Milano
Via Camillo Golgi 20
20133 Milan, Italy
Who we are
The SMART-electron Consortium comprises some of the top players in the world of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and nano-photonics:
The Consortium has been tailor-made in order to reach project goals as quickly and effectively as possible, but also to attain maximum impact in the scientific world and in society at large. The wide cross-section of skills and geographical spread in the Consortium ensure that all requirements of responsiveness and adaptive change, diversity and inclusion, openness and transparency, anticipation and reflection are satisfied.
What we do
SMART-electron aims at developing an innovative technological platform for designing, realizing and operating all-optical rapidly-programmable phase masks for electrons. SMART-electron will introduce a new paradigm where properly synthesized ultrafast electromagnetic fields will be used for engineering the phase space of a free-electron wave function.
This will allow us to achieve unprecedented space/time/energy/momentum shaping of electron matter waves, thus surpassing conventional passive monolithic schemes and revolutionizing the way materials are investigated in electron microscopy.