On the application of energy-filtering TEM in materials science: III. Precipitates in steel

Micron

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-72

  Warbichler, Peter ^a   Hofer, Ferdinand ^a   Hofer, Peter ^a   Letofsky, Ernst ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Elemental mapping; Energy filtering TEM; Ferritic martensitic 10 Cr steel; Imaging of precipitates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032007473     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-4328(97)00054-1     Document Type: Article

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