Atomic resolution phase contrast imaging and in-line holography using variable voltage and dose rate

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 982-994

  Barton, Bastian ^a   Jiang, Bin ^b   Song, ChengYu ^a   Specht, Petra ^c   Calderon, Hector ^d   Kisielowski, Christian ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^c Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

aberration corrected TEM; exit wave reconstruction; focal series; high resolution TEM; in line electron holography; lattice phonons; low dose TEM; low voltage TEM; monochromator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864837009     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927612001213     Document Type: Article

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