Phase reconstruction in annular bright-field scanning transmission electron microscopy

Microscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 69-76

  Ishida, Takafumi ^a,b   Kawasaki, Tadahiro ^a,b,c   Tanji, Takayoshi ^a,b   Kodama, Tetsuji ^d   Matsutani, Takaomi ^e   Ogai, Keiko ^f   Ikuta, Takashi ^g  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Furo cho   (Japan)

^c JAPAN FINE CERAMICS CENTER   (Japan)

^d MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f APCO Ltd   (Japan)

^g OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annular aperture; Annular array of detectors; Figure eight shaped Fourier filter; Phase reconstruction

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ANNULAR APERTURES; ANNULAR ARRAY; ANNULAR ARRAY OF DETECTOR; BRIGHT-FIELDS; ELECTRON WAVE; FIGURE-EIGHT-SHAPED FOURIER FILTER; FOURIER FILTERS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PHASE RECONSTRUCTION; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84941951798     PISSN: 20505698     EISSN: 20505701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmicro/dfu098     Document Type: Article

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