Focused ion beam technique and transmission electron microscope studies of microdiamonds from the Saxonian Erzgebirge, Germany

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 210, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 399-410

  Dobrzhinetskaya, Larissa F ^a   Green, Harry W ^a,b   Weschler, Matthew ^c   Darus, Mark ^c   Wang, Young Chung ^c   Massonne, Hans Joachim ^d   Stöckhert, Bernhard ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

COH fluid; Focused ion beam; Microdiamond

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DIAMOND; INCLUSION; ION; MICROSTRUCTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ERZGEBIRGE; GERMANY; SAXONY;

EID: 0037523400     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00170-5     Document Type: Article

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