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Karl K. Berggren. Abedzadeh, Navid Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2018-05-23T15:05:22Z 2018-05-23T15:05:22Z 2018 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115627 1036987048 Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. "February 2018." Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-70). Periodic atomic structures in thin crystals and artificially fabricated periodic structures in transmission gratings have long been used to coherently split electrons by means of electron diffraction for applications such as interferometry, holography and imaging. Due to their reliance on transmission through matter, however, these methods are prone to electron scattering and absorption and are therefore lossy to some extent. This loss becomes a major issue for quantum electron microscopy (QEM), an interaction-free measurement scheme with electrons as probe particles. QEM relies on single electrons completing many round trips inside an electron resonant cavity, splitting and re-coupling during each round trip, effectively multiplying the probability of loss by the number of round trips. Thus, in one of the designs for QEM, the use of reflective diffraction gratings as lossless electron beam splitters is proposed. In this thesis, diffractive electron mirrors were fabricated by integrating one-dimensional diffraction gratings with tetrode electron mirrors. Optical interference lithography was used to fabricated silicon diffraction gratings with pitches varying from 200 nm to 500 nm. Furthermore, a proof-of-principle experiment to demonstrate their function as electron mirrors inside a scanning electron microscope was developed. It was demonstrated that the constructed tetrode electron mirrors satisfied the requirements of QEM for electron energies up to 3 keV. Finally, in a similar experiment, the fabricated diffractive electron mirrors were tested to demonstrate their function as lossless beam splitters. Preliminary results point to the evidence for electron diffraction, suggesting that diffractive electron mirrors could be used as as lossless electron beam splitters for QEM and other applications. by Navid Abedzadeh. S.M. 70 pages eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 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