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We are in the process of building the first ultrafast transmission electron microscope in Austria. This unique microscope is intended for fundamental quantum research. The beam-corrected and time-resolved JEOL NeoARM 200F will be installed in December 2025.
The project is supported by Quantum Austria - FFG and the Austrian Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF) ‘Next Generation EU’.

Basic research into photons, neutrons, atoms and molecules has ushered in an era of experimental quantum physics in Austria. Today, governments and large companies around the world have pledged to invest billions of euros in quantum science and technology, with a focus on quantum computing, communication, simulation, sensing and metrology, benefiting an astonishing range of sciences and industries.  
Most of these efforts have focussed on systems that are well isolated from their environment in order to preserve the coherent nature of the interactions. In a solid or liquid, coherence is usually only preserved over very short time scales (fs to ns) and length scales (nm to µm). While these scales are accessible individually with ultrafast laser spectroscopy or electron microscopy, the combination of these two methods has so far remained inaccessible to researchers in Austria. As part of this infrastructure funding programme, we want to close this gap and provide the Austrian quantum research community with an ultrafast transmission electron microscope.