Lenses for electron microscopy and microanalysis: Shadowgraph method of determining focal properties and aberration coefficients

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 34-49

  Rempfer, Gertrude F ^a   Fyfield, Margaret S ^a   Griffith, O Hayes ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatic aberration; Dehydration reaction; Deuterium substitution; Electrostatic lenses; Imaging; Methanol clusters; Microanalysis; Spherical aberration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032386260     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927698980035     Document Type: Article

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