Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics merges two long-running serials Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy. This series features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image science and digital image processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, electron microscopy, and the computing methods used in all these domains. This monograph summarizes the authors' knowledge and experience acquired over many years in their work on computational charged particle optics. Its main message is that even in this era of powerful computers with a multitude of general-purpose and problem-oriented programs, asymptotic analysis based on perturbation theory remains one of the most effective tools to penetrate deeply into the essence of the problem in question.

1. Integral equations method in electrostatics2. Surface charge singularities near irregular surface points3. Geometry perturbations4. Some aspects of magnetic field simulation5. Aberration approach and the tau-variation technique6. Space charge in charged particle bunches7. General properties of emission-imaging systems8. Static and time-analyzing image tubes with axial symmetry9. Spatial and temporal focusing of photoelectron bunches in time-dependent electric fields