Focused ion beam preparation techniques dedicated for the fabrication of TEM lamellae of fibre-reinforced composites

Journal of Electron Microscopy

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-49

  Mucha, Herbert ^a   Kato, Takeharu ^b   Arai, Shigeo ^c   Saka, Hiroyasu ^d   Kuroda, Kotaro ^d   Wielage, Bernhard ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JAPAN FINE CERAMICS CENTER   (Japan)

^c Center for Integrated Research in Science and Engineering   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon C C; Composites; FIB; Fibre; TEM

Indexed keywords

CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES; CARBON FIBERS; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FILM PREPARATION; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

CARBON CARBON MATRIX COMPOSITE; CARBON CARBONS; CARBON MATRIX COMPOSITES; FIB; FIBER/MATRIX INTERFACE; FIBRE-REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FOCUSED IONS BEAMS; PREPARATION TECHNIQUE; SINGLE FIBER; THIN FILM PREPARATION;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 19044390176     PISSN: 00220744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/dfh102     Document Type: Article

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