SIMDALEE2 is a research and training network dedicated to the investigation of low energy electrons near solid surfaces. SIMDALEE2- Sources, Interaction with Matter, Detection and Analysis of Low Energy Electrons is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) financed by the European Commission
(grant number 606988 under the FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN action of the EC).

The purpose of the SIMDALEE2 (Sources, Interaction with Matter, Detection and Analysis of Low Energy Electrons) network is to establish a world-class research training platform for the science and technology of nanoscale manipulation and analysis using low energy electrons. Apart from an effective and well-structured training programme, the network will pursue the following scientific goals:

1. Optimizing beam size by correlating contemporary field emission (FE) theory with high resolution holographic measurements of magnetic and electric fields of FE tips with different shapes, both with and without primary electron optics
2. Putting the understanding of the contrast mechanism of electron beam techniques on a sound footing by comparing physical models with novel benchmark spectra acquired using a coincidence technique
3. Improving detection as well as understanding of emitted energy-, angular-, and spin-dependent spectra. This issue will be addressed for the common case of detectors in a field-free environment, and for the special case when the emitted electrons encounter an electric field prior to detection
4. Electron beam modification of nanostructured surfaces
5. Progress in the aforementioned fields will lead to the development of an innovative prototypical methodology for nanoscale characterization with electron beams in the form of a compact desktop-type Near-Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (NFESEM).
6. Finally, the economic impact and feasibility of low energy electron beam methodology will be investigated within the project.

Accordingly, the fellows will develop and acquire experience on a comprehensive methodology beneficial for any industrial or academic laboratory employing or developing electron beam techniques for natural science studies, as well as for biology and engineering. Their participation in this interdisciplinary and intersectoral network will greatly further their career opportunities in S&T in Europe.

• Preamble
• Scanning tunneling microscopy in the field-emission regime: Formation of a two-dimensional electron cascade, Wolfgang S. M. Werner, Martin Oral, Tomas Radlika, Alessandra Bellissimo, Gabriele Bertolini, Hugo Cabrera,Jirı Zelinka, Ilona Müllerova, and Oguzhan Gürlü

• Thesis
• Low energy (1–100 eV) electron inelastic mean free path (IMFP) values determined from analysis of secondary electron yields (SEY) in the incident energy range of 0.1–10 keV Olga Yu. Ridzel, Vytautas Astašauskas, Wolfgang S.M. Werner

• Thesis
• Optical and electronic properties of amorphous silicon dioxide by single and double electron spectroscopy Vytautas Astašauskas, Alessandra Bellissimo, Pavel Kuksa, Christian Tomastik, Henryk Kalbe, Wolfgang S.M. Werner

• Analysis and detection of low-energy electrons in scanning electron T microscopes using a Bessel box electron energy analyser Ashish Suri, Andrew Pratt, Steve Tear, Christopher Walker, Cem Kincal, Umut Kamber, Oguzhan Gurlu, Mohamed El-Gomati

• Acquisition of the dopant contrast in semiconductors with slow electrons

• Scanning Field Emission Microscopy with Polarization Analysis (SFEMPA),G. Bertolini, L. De Pietro, Th. Bähler, H. Cabrera, O. Gürlü,b, D. Pescia, U. Ramsperger

• Low-energy electron microscopy of graphene outside UHV: electron-induced removal of PMMA residues used for graphene transfer, E. Materna Mikmeková, I. Müllerová, L. Frank, A. Paták, J. Polčák, S. Sluyterman, M. Lejeune, I. Konvalina

• Thesis ☛ DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3924096
• Secondary electron generation mechanisms in carbon allotropes at low impact electron energies,Alessandra Bellissimo, Gian Marco Pierantozzi, Alessandro Ruocco, Giovanni Stefani, Olga Yu. Ridzel, Vytautas Astašauskas, Wolfgang S.M. Werner, Mauro Taborelli

• Time-of-flight spectrometer for efficient coincidence detection of low-energy T electrons from surfaces with 2π solid angle, pair recognition and unlimited band path (2e2πCS), S. Voss, M. Tia, S. Schößler, A. Czasch, O. Jagutzki

• Field emission from a nanometric paraboloidal emitter,A. Chatziafratis, J.P. Xanthakis

• Thesis☛ DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3928733
• Measurement of charge density in nanoscale materials using off-axis electron holography,Fengshan Zheng, Jan Caron, Vadim Migunov, Marco Beleggi, Giulio Pozzi, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski
• Quantitative measurement of charge accumulation along a quasi-one-dimensional W5O14 nanowire during electron field emission,Fengshan Zheng, Giulio Pozzi, Vadim Migunov, Luka Pirker, Maja Remškar, Marco Beleggia and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

• Thesis
• Field emission properties of single crystalline W5O14 and W18O49 nanowiresm,Muhammad Saqib, Janez Jelenc, Luka Pirker, Srečo D. Škapin, Lorenzo De Pietro, Urs Ramsperger, Alexandr Knápec, Ilona Müllerová, Maja Remškar

• Modelling a capped carbon nanotube by linear-scaling density-functional theory, S.M. Masura, E.B. Linscott, C.J. Edgcombe

• Surface microscopy with low energy electrons: LEEM T Ernst Bauer
• Low-secondary electron emission yield under electron bombardment of T microstructured surfaces, looking for multipactor effect suppression, Isabel Montero, Leandro Olano, Lydya Aguilera, María E. Dávila, Ulrich Wochner, David Raboso, Petronilo Martín-Iglesias
• Electron optical characterization of a graphene coated nickel electron source, T Xiuyuan Shao, Wei Kean Ang, Anjam Khursheed
• Entanglement and entropy in electron–electron scattering P. Schattschneider, S. Löffler, H. Gollisch, R. Feder
• On the timescales of correlated electron dynamics, F.O. Schumann, J. Kirschner
• SEY and low-energy SEY of conductive surfaces, R. Cimino, M. Angelucci, L.A. Gonzalez, R. Larciprete
• Spectra of correlated many-electron systems: From a one- to a two-particle T description,Georg Rohringer
• Spin-orbit coupling in scattering of very low-energy spin-polarized electrons T from Co film by (e,2e) spectroscopy, J.F. Williamsa, O. Artamonov, M. Kostylev, S. Samarin

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