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Home Search Collections Journals About Contact us My IOPscience Nanoscale focused ion beam from laser-cooled lithium atoms This article has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text article. 2011 New J. Phys. 13 103035 (/1367-2630/13/10/103035) View the table of contents for this issue, or go to the journal homepage for more Download details: IP Address: 6 The article was downloaded on 17/12/2011 at 04:11 Please note that terms and conditions apply. New Journal of Phys ics T h e o p e n – a c c e s s j o u r n a l f o r p h y s i c s Nanoscale focused ion beam from laser-cooled lithium atoms 1 1 2 1,3 B Knuffman , A V Steele , J Orloff and J J McClelland 1 Center for Nanoscale Sciences and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA 2 FEI Company, Hillsboro, OR 97124, USA E-mail: jabez.mcclelland@ New Journal of Physics 13 (2011) 103035 (9pp) Received 18 August 2011 Published 26 October 2011 Online at / doi:10.1088/1367-2630/13/10/103035 Abstract. We demonstrate a new type of nanoscale focused ion beam (FIB) based on photoionizing laser-cooled atoms held at millikelvin temperatures in a magneto-optical trap (MOT). This new source expands the range of available ionic species and accessible ion beam energies for FIBs, enhancing their role as one of the most important tools for nanoscale characterization and fabrication. We show examples of microscopy with lithium io