Plasma cleaning and its applications for electron microscopy

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 126-135

  Isabell, Thomas C ^a   Fischione, Paul E ^a   O'Keefe, Catherine ^b   Guruz, Murat U ^c   Dravid, Vinayak P ^c  

^a Fischione Research   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron energy loss spectrometry (EELS); Energy dispersive X ray spectrometry (EDS); Inductive plasma; Plasma cleaning; Specimen preparation

Indexed keywords

ANGUILLIFORMES;

EID: 0033407882     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927699000094     Document Type: Article

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