Quantitative energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis of electron beam-sensitive alloyed nanoparticles

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 166-175

  Braidy, Nadi ^a   Jakubek, Zygmunt J ^b   Simard, Benoit ^b   Botton, Gianluigi A ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytical TEM; Electron beam damage; Energy dispersive X ray spectrometry; Gold; Nanoparticles; Silver

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549115689     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927608080094     Document Type: Article

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