New techniques for the analysis of fine-scaled clustering phenomena within Atom Probe Tomography (APT) data

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 448-463

  Stephenson, Leigh T ^a   Moody, Michael P ^a   Liddicoat, Peter V ^a   Ringer, Simon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atom probe tomography; Cluster algorithms; Data analysis; Data mining; Nearest neighbors; Solute clustering

Indexed keywords

EID: 36248950234     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927607070900     Document Type: Conference Paper

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