UTEM & LUMiNaD

This is the first Ultrafast-TEM in Italy, where a femtosecond laser is coupled to a Transmission Electron Microscope to provide simultaneous high temporal (fs) and high spatial (< nm’s) resolutions. Because of the versatility of our cross-scale approach, which combines real-space (imaging) and reciprocal-space (diffraction) with high temporal resolution, the UTEM at LUMiNaD provides the unique capability of observing many fundamental phenomena, such as: i) the ultrafast dynamics of low-dimensional materials, ii) electronic/structural correlations under non-equilibrium conditions, iii) real-time evolution of nano-chemical and biophysical systems, iv) light-induced coherent modulation of a free-electron wavefunction, and v) the electron/light/matter quantum interaction at sub-wavelength scales.