Visualizing and identifying single atoms using electron energy-loss spectroscopy with low accelerating voltage

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 415-418

  Suenaga, Kazu ^a   Sato, Yuta ^a   Liu, Zheng ^a   Kataura, Hiromichi ^a   Okazaki, Toshiya ^a   Kimoto, Koji ^b   Sawada, Hidetaka ^c   Sasaki, Takeo ^c   Omoto, Kazuya ^c   Tomita, Takeshi ^c   Kaneyama, Toshikatsu ^c   Kondo, Yukihito ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c JEOL LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; LANTHANIDE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY;

ELECTRICITY; FULLERENES; LANTHANOID SERIES ELEMENTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; SPECTROSCOPY, ELECTRON ENERGY-LOSS;

EID: 69249198557     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.282     Document Type: Article

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