A (S)TEM gas cell holder with localized laser heating for in situ experiments

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 470-478

  Mehraeen, Shareghe ^a   McKeown, Joseph T ^b   Deshmukh, Pushkarraj V ^c   Evans, James E ^a,d   Abellan, Patricia ^d   Xu, Pinghong ^e   Reed, Bryan W ^b   Taheri, Mitra L ^f   Fischione, Paul E ^c   Browning, Nigel D ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c E A Fischione Instruments Inc   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e University of California Davis   (United States)

^f Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

aberration correction; environmental microscopy; in situ gas holder; in situ microscopy; laser heating; STEM

Indexed keywords

LEAD; LEAD OXIDE; NANOPARTICLE; OXIDE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; GAS; HEATING; LASER; METHODOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GASES; HEATING; LASERS; LEAD; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDES; TITANIUM;

EID: 84875466858     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927612014419     Document Type: Article

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