Recent developments in the microscopy of ceramics

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics

Volumn 132, Issue , 2004, Pages 167-246

  Rainforth, W Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; FREQUENCIES; HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

PHASE CONTRAST; SPATIAL FREQUENCIES; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; WAVE ABERRATIONS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 3142665407     PISSN: 10765670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-5670(04)32004-5     Document Type: Article

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