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With this imaging system it is possible to study virtually all metals and alloys, many semiconductors and some ceramic materials. The image contrast from alloys and two-phase materials is difficult to predict quantitatively, as the effects of variations in chemistry on local field ion emission characteristics are not fully understood. However, in general, more refractory phases image more brightly in the FIM. Information regarding the structure of solid solutions, ordered alloys, and precipitates in alloys has been obtained by FIM. 

As the beam travels down the column, a number of electromagnetic lenses are used to guide the beam to the sample [44], The condenser lenses are part of the illumination system and are used to deliver electrons from the electron gun crossover to the sample. The condenser lenses determine the beam current reaching the sample. The objective, or final, lens determines the final spot size of the beam. A set of scanning coils are also present in the instrument column to scan the beam in a raster pattern over an area of the sample. At each point, data is collected and the points are combined to form the image. More detail on the data collection is given in the image formation section. 

The cold flow visualization shows the effects of active air forcing and liquid-fuel pulsations. Higher air flow rates, three times higher than those used in the combustion studies, were used for flow visualization. At the higher flow rates, the structures would be imaged more distinctly. The images captured show the... 

The BMW Company (which encourages an image more sporty than that of the rival Mercedes cars of Daimler-Benz) is also active in fuel cell-driven cars. However, their plans involve the use of liquid hydrogen, providing a range of 1000 km. 

After stent PTA, metallic artifacts hinder evaluation of restenosis due to metallic artifacts with all MRA sequences. Even with detailed knowledge of artifacts, a reliable assessment is possible only in few cases. The severity of artifacts is mainly dependent on stent material (Fig. 5.17) where steel stents disturb imaging more than those from nitinol (Cavagna et al. 2001 Teng et al. 2004). 

This result holds only for homomorphisms the obvious set map Gm - Ga, for instance, is injective but does not have closed image. More interestingly, the use of schemes is crucial, and the corresponding statement for algebraic matrix groups is false in characteristic p. Suppose indeed that k — k. The map F(g) = gp is a homomorphism G -> Ga and an isomorphism... 

The plates used were sli tly wedge-shaped in order to make the different reflection images more easily separable. The unevermesses on the optical flat surfaces were smaller than 400 A which is probably the limit obtainable. The area of the plates mainly used was 4 cm, their density at 15 C was = 2 556, their refractive index = 1 5209. Later on glass plates with area 1 cm, d 2 55, = 1 515 and quartz plates d s = 2 66 na (ord.)... 

Figure 2.19 Pseudo-five fold diffraction pattern of a decagonal phase (65 C from the ten-fold axes Cu - K

Quoting John Reffner, Microscopy and spectroscopy are two of the oldest techniques used in the study of nature and combined, their value is greater than the sum of the two. With this proposal I heartily agree. Indeed, array detection makes imaging more convenient and further enhances the contribution of IMS. Moreover, an acceleration of its use is expected to continue throughout the twenty-first century. Come on in, the water is fine ... 

Front cover image Aurora borealis. Photo Courtesy of George Lepp/Tony Stone Images More detail on auroral displays can be found in Campbell, Earth Magnetism, Complimentary Science Series, 2001... 

FIGURE 8-12b Complete 3-D vector field volume, from a pipe channel flow, showing the measured vectors along the sides (24.5x24.5x60 mm3) of the measurement volume, based on cross-correlation of particle images. More than 400,000 3-D velocity vectors have been extracted The mean velocity of 0.8 m/s has been subtracted (Barnhart and Adrian 1994). (Reprinted by permission of Optical Society of America.)... 

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