Energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy: An overview

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 59, Issue 10-11, 2004, Pages 1529-1534

  Verbeeck, J ^a   Van Dyck, D ^a   Van Tendeloo, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chemical imaging; EELS; EFTEM; Spectroscopy; TEM

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; DEFECTS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

CHEMICAL IMAGING; EFTEM; NANOSCALE MATERIALS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 5444268131     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2004.03.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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