From 2-D to 3-D to 4-D electron microscopy: An outline of the essence and promise of unconventional crystallography and spectroscopy

Crystallography Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 81-103

  Thomas, John Meurig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

catalysts; electron microscopy; W.L. Bragg; zeolites

Indexed keywords

D ELECTRONS; DIRECT IMAGING; ELECTRON CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FEMTOSECONDS; INDIRECT CONTACT; INTER-GROWTHS; LAYERED SOLIDS; LINE DEFECTS; MICROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; NEUTRON-BASED; STRUCTURAL ELUCIDATION; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; TIME DOMAIN; UNIT CELLS; W.L. BRAGG;

CATALYSTS; DEFECTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; MINERALOGY; SCREW DISLOCATIONS; SILICATE MINERALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ZEOLITES;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79954476476     PISSN: 0889311X     EISSN: 14763508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0889311X.2010.535207     Document Type: Article

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