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An ellipsoidal mirror for focusing neutral atomic and molecular beams

This publication is the culmination of a European Commission-funded project that derives directly from my doctoral research and publications. It describes the use of an atom-optical mirror that I designed, had built and helped to characterise both optically and atom-optically. It is a first demonstration of aberration-corrected focusing of a thermal energy helium atom beam and a major step towards the construction of a novel matter-wave microscope, now a research goal for several international groups. The author list reflects merely the order of project partners in the EC contract and I am a corresponding author.