Electrons with a twist. In the first episode of It’s Not My Field, a Scientific Britain podcast, we interviewed Jo Verbeeck, a researcher from the EMAT (Electron Microscopy for Materials Science) group of the University of Antwerp. In Scotland to present his work in a school seminar at the University of Glasgow, Jo told us about some of the many applications of electrons—one of the basic constituents of matter—in materials science and how twisted electron beams can be produced in a laboratory.
