Electron tomography at 2.4-ångström resolution

Nature

Volumn 483, Issue 7390, 2012, Pages 444-447

  Scott, M C ^a   Chen, Chien Chun ^a   Mecklenburg, Matthew ^a   Zhu, Chun ^a   Xu, Rui ^a   Ercius, Peter ^b   Dahmen, Ulrich ^b   Regan, B C ^a   Miao, Jianwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 84863351073     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10934     Document Type: Article

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