Removing the effects of elastic and thermal scattering from electron energy-loss spectroscopic data

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 18, 2012, Pages

  Lugg, N R ^a   Haruta, M ^b   Neish, M J ^a   Findlay, S D ^c   Mizoguchi, T ^d   Kimoto, K ^b   Allen, L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER; DIFFUSE SCATTERING; EELS SPECTRA; ELEMENTAL MAPS; FINE-STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTRAL DATA; SPECTROSCOPIC DATA;

CALCULATIONS; DATA VISUALIZATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84868658777     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4765657     Document Type: Article

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