Atomic electric fields revealed by a quantum mechanical approach to electron picodiffraction

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Müller, Knut ^a   Krause, Florian F ^a   Béché, Armand ^b   Schowalter, Marco ^a   Galioit, Vincent ^c   Löffler, Stefan ^d,e   Verbeeck, Johan ^b   Zweck, Josef ^c   Schattschneider, Peter ^d,e   Rosenauer, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e University Service Centre for Transmission Electron Microscopy   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM; GALLIUM NITRIDE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM TITANATE; TITANIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; INSTRUMENTATION; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DENSITY GRADIENT; DIODE LASER; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHONON; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THICKNESS; VIBRATION; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84923287617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6653     Document Type: Article

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