EEL spectroscopic tomography: Towards a new dimension in nanomaterials analysis

Ultramicroscopy

Volumn 122, Issue , 2012, Pages 12-18

  Yedra, Lluís ^a,b   Eljarrat, Alberto ^a   Arenal, Raúl ^c,d   Pellicer, Eva ^e   Cabo, Moisés ^e   López Ortega, Alberto ^f   Estrader, Marta ^f   Sort, Jordi ^e   Baró, Maria Dolors ^e   Estradé, Sònia ^a,b   Peiró, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d FUNDACIÓN ARAID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

Author keywords

Core loss; EELS; ICA; MVA; PCA; STEM; Tomography

Indexed keywords

3D STRUCTURE; ABERRATION-CORRECTED; ACQUISITION TIME; CHEMICAL DIMENSION; CHEMICAL INFORMATION; CORE-LOSS; DATA TREATMENT; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY FILTERING; LOW VOLTAGES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MVA; NEW DIMENSIONS; PCA; SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD; SPECTROSCOPIC SIGNALS; SPECTRUM IMAGES; STEM; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D) SHAPES; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COBALT; IRON; NANOMATERIAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DARK FIELD MICROSCOPE; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY FILTERED TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOISE REDUCTION; POROSITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; ANALYTIC METHOD; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPIC TOMOGRAPHY; FILTRATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84865964620     PISSN: 03043991     EISSN: 18792723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2012.07.020     Document Type: Article

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