• Material properties particularly suited to be measured with helium scattering: selected examples from 2D materials, van der Waals heterostructures, glassy materials, catalytic substrates, topological insulators and superconducting radio frequency materials 

      Holst, Bodil; Alexandrowicz, Gil; Avidor, Nadav; Benedek, Giorgio; Bracco, Gianangelo; Ernst, Wolfgang E.; Farias, Daniel; Jardine, Andrew P.; Lefmann, Kim; Manson, Joseph R.; Marquardt, Roberto; Artés, Salvador Miret; Sibener, Steven J.; Wells, Justin W; Tamtögl, Anton; Allison, William (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Helium Atom Scattering (HAS) and Helium Spin-Echo scattering (HeSE), together helium scattering, are well established, but non-commercial surface science techniques. They are characterised by the beam inertness and very ...
    • Particle–wave discrimination in Poisson spot experiments 

      Reisinger, Thomas; Bracco, Gianangelo; Holst, Bodil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)
      Matter–wave interferometry has been used extensively over the last few years to demonstrate the quantum-mechanical wave nature of increasingly larger and more massive particles. We have recently suggested the use of the ...
    • Poisson’s spot with molecules 

      Reisinger, Thomas; Patel, Amil A.; Reingruber, Herbert; Fladischer, Katrin; Ernst, Wolfgang E.; Bracco, Gianangelo; Smith, Henry I.; Holst, Bodil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009)
      In the Poisson-spot experiment, waves emanating from a source are blocked by a circular obstacle. Due to their positive on-axis interference an image of the source the Poisson spot is observed within the geometrical shadow ...
    • True-to-size surface mapping with neutral helium atoms 

      Lambrick, Sam; Salvador Palau, Adria; Hansen, Poul Erik; Bracco, Gianangelo; Ellis, John; Jardine, Andrew P.; Holst, Bodil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Three-dimensional mapping of microscopic surface structures is important in many applications of technology and research, including areas as diverse as microfluidics, MEMS, and geoscience. However, on the nanoscale, using ...
    • Velocity distributions in microskimmer supersonic expansion helium beams: High precision measurements and modeling 

      Eder, Sabrina Daniela; Palau, Adria Salvador; Kaltenbacher, Thomas; Bracco, Gianangelo; Holst, Bodil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      Supersonic molecular beams are used in many applications ranging from spectroscopy and matter wave optics to surface science. The experimental setup typically includes a conically shaped, collimating aperture, the skimmer. ...