Herman Batelaan

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Herman Batelaan studied physics at Leiden University and obtained his Ph.D. at Utrecht University, both in the Netherlands. He is a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is a fellow of the American Physical Society for “outstanding contributions to electron matter optics, in particular the measurements of the Kapitza-Dirac effect and elucidation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect.”


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Shining Light on Electron Microscopy

A new method that uses laser light to both generate and shape electron beams could improve the resolution of electron microscopy. Read More »