A piezoelectric goniometer inside a transmission electron microscope goniometer

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 827-833

  Guan, Wei ^a   Lockwood, Aiden ^a   Inkson, Beverley J ^a   Möbus, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

electron tomography; in situ TEM; nanomanipulation; piezo drive

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054964346     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S143192761100050X     Document Type: Article

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