This review discusses how low-energy valence excitations created by swift electrons can
render information on the optical response of structured materials with unmatched spatial …

Owing to its excellent electrical, mechanical, thermal and optical properties, graphene has
attracted great interests since it was successfully exfoliated in 2004. Its two dimensional …

Within the last 30 years, electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) has become a standard
analytical technique used in the transmission electron microscope to extract chemical and …

This review covers the electronic, optical and electrochemical properties along with
electronic behaviors of boron (B) and nitrogen (N) substituted Single Wall Carbon …

Plasmon spectroscopy of the thinnest possible membrane, a single layer of carbon atoms:
graphene, has been carried out in conjunction with ab initio calculations of the low loss …

Glassy carbon is a technologically important material widely used in products such as
electrodes and high-temperature crucibles. However, the properties which make glassy …

Light–matter interaction at the atomic scale rules fundamental phenomena such as
photoemission and lasing while enabling basic everyday technologies, including …

The discovery and understanding of nanoscale phenomena and the assembly of
nanostructures into different devices are among the most promising fields of material …

Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) performed in transmission electron microscopes
is shown to directly render the photonic local density of states (LDOS) with unprecedented …

Metallic nanostructures have received great attention due to their ability to generate surface
plasmon resonances, which are collective oscillations of conduction electrons of a material …