Fitting the momentum dependent loss function in EELS

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 212-218

  Bertoni, Giovanni ^a   Verbeeck, Jo ^b   Brosens, Fons ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Electron energy loss; Loss function; Model based; Plasmon width

Indexed keywords

DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; PLASMONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CHARACTERISTIC ANGLE; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS; ENERGY; LOSS FUNCTIONS; MODEL-BASED OPC; MOMENTUM-DEPENDENT; PLASMON SCATTERING; PLASMON WIDTH; THIN-FILMS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79951983789     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20894     Document Type: Article

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