Atom-by-atom structural and chemical analysis by annular dark-field electron microscopy

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7288, 2010, Pages 571-574

  Krivanek, Ondrej L ^a   Chisholm, Matthew F ^b   Nicolosi, Valeria ^c   Pennycook, Timothy J ^b,d   Corbin, George J ^a   Dellby, Niklas ^a   Murfitt, Matthew F ^a   Own, Christopher S ^a   Szilagyi, Zoltan S ^a   Oxley, Mark P ^b,d   Pantelides, Sokrates T ^b,d   Pennycook, Stephen J ^b,d  

^a Nion Co Kirkland   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; CARBON; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

BORON; CARBON; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGING METHOD; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SCATTERING; WAVELENGTH;

ANNULAR DARK FIELD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BORON COMPOUNDS; CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON;

EID: 77950283360     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08879     Document Type: Article

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