Vibrational spectroscopy in the electron microscope

Nature

Volumn 514, Issue 7521, 2014, Pages 209-212

  Krivanek, Ondrej L ^a,b   Lovejoy, Tracy C ^a   Dellby, Niklas ^a   Aoki, Toshihiro ^b   Carpenter, R W ^b   Rez, Peter ^b   Soignard, Emmanuel ^b   Zhu, Jiangtao ^b,f   Batson, Philip E ^c   Lagos, Maureen J ^c   Egerton, Ray F ^d   Crozier, Peter A ^e  

^a Nion Co Kirkland   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e Arizona State University   (United States)

^f Headway Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; NANOMATERIAL;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HYDROGEN; INFRARED RADIATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROBE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROSCOPY; TUNNELING; VIBRATION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; ENERGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXCITATION; HYDROGEN BOND; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIBRATION; VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; METHODOLOGY; PHONON; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ELECTRONS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN BONDING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; PHONONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VIBRATION;

EID: 84908341082     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13870     Document Type: Article

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