■Foreword

Super-resolution Live Imaging

Akihiko Nakano

■Feature Articles: Current Status of the Development of Ultrafast Electron Microscopes in Japan

Introduction

Koh Saitoh

Ultrafast Time-Resolution and the Beam Quality in Spin-Polarized Pulse-TEM

Makoto Kuwahara, Toru Ujihara, Hidefumi Asano, Koh Saitoh and Nobuo Tanaka

Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Using Relativistic-Energy Femtosecond Electron Pulses

Jinfeng Yang

Development of 500 kV Linac-TEM

Yukinori Nagatani, Yoshihiro Arai, Takumi Sannomiya, Tadao Shirai, Ryuzo Aihara, Giichi Iijima and Kuniaki Nagayama

Ultrafast Electron Diffraction and Deflectometry with Electron Sources Generated and Accelerated by Intense Femtosecond Lasers

Shuji Sakabe, Masaki Hashida, Shigeki Tokita, Shunsuke Inoue, Kensuke Teramoto and Kouta Watanabe

Time-Resolved Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction Utilizing Streak Method

Tadashi Abukawa

■Reviews

Modern SEM Gives Rich Information―Application of the State of the Art SEM to Steel Research―

Kaoru Sato

Single Particle Analysis of Biological Macromolecules and Its Recent Advances

Kaoru Mitsuoka

■Lectures

Atomistic Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures Revealed by CL Spectroscopy in TEM

Yutaka Ohno

Histological and Ultrastructural Findings on Bone Cells

Norio Amizuka, Hiromi Hongo, Kanako Tsuboi, Tomoka Hasegawa, Tomomaya Yamamoto and Mai Haraguchi

■Researches Today

Microstructural Analysis of a Negative Thermal Expansion Material ZrW₂O₈

Yukio Sato, Yasuhisa Yamamura and Yuichi Ikuhara

Electron 3D Crystallography of Thin Protein Crystals: Atomic Model with Charges

Koji Yonekura, Kazuyuki Kato, Mitsuo Ogasawara, Masahiro Tomita and Chikashi Toyoshima

Super Resolution Optical Imaging with Electron Beam Excitation

Yoshimasa Kawata, Yasunori Nawa and Wataru Inami

■From Microscopy: Editor’s Choice Articles

■Staff Commentary

Koh Saitoh