Applications of Electron Tomography

Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering

Volumn 9780199213245, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Midgley, Paul A ^a   Weyland, Matthew ^b   Stegmann, Heiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Innovation Center Dresden   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electron tomography; Heterogeneious catalyst; Materials research; Nanotubes; Polymers; Semiconducto nanostructures; Semiconductor industry

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTUBES; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; TOMOGRAPHY; YARN;

ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; HETEROGENEOUS CATALYST; MATERIALS RESEARCH; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84922760894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199213245.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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