Element-selective imaging of atomic columns in a crystal using STEM and EELS

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7170, 2007, Pages 702-704

  Kimoto, Koji ^a   Asaka, Toru ^a   Nagai, Takuro ^a   Saito, Mitsuhiro ^a   Matsui, Yoshio ^a   Ishizuka, Kazuo ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Higashimatsuyama   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANTHANUM; MANGANESE; OXYGEN; STRONTIUM;

CRYSTAL; IMAGING METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 36749072617     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06352     Document Type: Article

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