Linking TEM analytical spectroscopies for an assumptionless compositional analysis

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 678-686

  Kothleitner, Gerald ^a   Grogger, Werner ^a   Dienstleder, Martina ^a   Hofer, Ferdinand ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

absorption; chemical shifts; EELS analysis; EELS cross sections; elemental quantification; X ray analysis; factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903699904     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927614000130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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