Effects of foil thickness on measurement of grain boundary segregation with FEG-TEM/EDS in austenitic stainless steels

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 193-200

  Nakata, Kiyotomo ^a   Okada, Osamu ^a   Ueki, Yasumitsu ^a   Kamino, Takeo ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Austenitic stainless Steels; EDS analysis; EELS; FEG TEM; Foil thickness; Segregation

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INELASTIC SCATTERING; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SPECTROMETERS;

EDS ANALYSIS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; FEG-TEM; FOIL THICKNESS; GRAIN BOUNDARY SEGREGATION; GRAIN-BOUNDARIES; MEASUREMENTS OF; SEGREGATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEM-EDS;

AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 0031751133     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jmicro.a023580     Document Type: Article

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