Chapter 3 Carbon Nanotube Electron Sources for Electron Microscopes

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics

Volumn 156, Issue , 2009, Pages 203-233

  de Jonge, Niels ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 67649610936     PISSN: 10765670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-5670(08)01403-1     Document Type: Article

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