Soft X-Ray Imaging and Spectromicroscopy

Handbook of Nanoscopy

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 745-791

  Hitchcock, Adam P ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Full field photoelectron microscopy; Full field transmission x ray microscopy; Linear and magnetic dichroism; PEEM; Scanning photoelectron microscopy; Scanning transmission x ray microscopy; Scanning yield techniques; Soft x ray imaging; Spectromicroscopy; SPEM; STXM; TXM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872193261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527641864.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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