Dose-limited spectroscopic imaging of soft materials by low-loss EELS in the scanning transmission electron microscope

Micron

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 734-740

  Yakovlev, Sergey ^a   Libera, Matthew ^a  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CURVE FITTING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MICROSCOPES; MIXING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOMAPPING; PHOTORESISTS; POLYMERS; SCANNING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; SEPARATION; SPIN POLARIZATION;

(MAPPED) LEAST SQUARES; (N-1) CRITERION; BASIC PRINCIPLES; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; DATA COLLECTIONS; DATA-SETS; ELECTRON DOSE; ELECTRON ENERGY-LOSS SPECTROSCOPY (EELS); ELSEVIER (CO); FITTING ALGORITHMS; HETERO INTERFACES; INORGANIC MATERIALS; LIMITED RESOLUTION; LOW LOSSES; NANO PHASE SEPARATION; NANO SCALING; NANOSCALE MORPHOLOGIES; OBJECTIVE LENSES; QUANTITATIVE MAPPING; REAL-SPACE; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (STEM); SCATTERING CROSS-SECTIONS; SOFT MATERIALS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION (SR); SPATIAL RESOLUTION.; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SPECTRAL FINGERPRINTING; SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; SPECTRUM IMAGING; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; STRUCTURAL DAMAGES; SUB 10 NM;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; SPECTROSCOPY, ELECTRON ENERGY-LOSS;

EID: 48049090266     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2007.10.019     Document Type: Article

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