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Fig. Vni-3. (a) Atomic force microscope (AFM) and (b) transmission electron microscope (TEM) images of lead selenide particles grown under arachidic acid monolayers. (Pi Ref. 57.)...

As noted earlier, most electron diffraction studies are perfonned in a mode of operation of a transmission electron microscope. The electrons are emitted themiionically from a hot cathode and accelerated by the electric field of a conventional electron gun. Because of the very strong interactions between electrons and matter, significant diffracted intensities can also be observed from the molecules of a gas. Again, the source of electrons is a conventional electron gun. 

The history of EM (for an overview see table Bl.17,1) can be interpreted as the development of two concepts the electron beam either illuminates a large area of tire sample ( flood-beam illumination , as in the typical transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging using a spread-out beam) or just one point, i.e. focused to the smallest spot possible, which is then scaimed across the sample (scaiming transmission electron microscopy (STEM) or scaiming electron microscopy (SEM)). In both situations the electron beam is considered as a matter wave interacting with the sample and microscopy simply studies the interaction of the scattered electrons. 

Crewe A V, Wall J and Welter L M 1968 A high resolution scanning transmission electron microscope J. Appl. Phys. 39 5861-8... 

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To illustrate the effect of radial release interactions on the structure/ property relationships in shock-loaded materials, experiments were conducted on copper shock loaded using several shock-recovery designs that yielded differences in es but all having been subjected to a 10 GPa, 1 fis pulse duration, shock process [13]. Compression specimens were sectioned from these soft recovery samples to measure the reload yield behavior, and examined in the transmission electron microscope (TEM) to study the substructure evolution. The substructure and yield strength of the bulk shock-loaded copper samples were found to depend on the amount of e, in the shock-recovered sample at a constant peak pressure and pulse duration. In Fig. 6.8 the quasi-static reload yield strength of the 10 GPa shock-loaded copper is observed to increase with increasing residual sample strain. 

Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy in the Transmission Electron Microscope (EELS)... 

For the purpose of a detailed materials characterization, the optical microscope has been supplanted by two more potent instruments the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) and the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Because of its reasonable cost and the wide range of information that it provides in a timely manner, the SEM often replaces the optical microscope as the preferred starting tool for materials studies. 

Historically, EELS is one of the oldest spectroscopic techniques based ancillary to the transmission electron microscope. In the early 1940s the principle of atomic level excitation for light element detection capability was demonstrated by using EELS to measure C, N, and O. Unfortunately, at that time the instruments were limited by detection capabilities (film) and extremely poor vacuum levels, which caused severe contamination of the specimens. Twenty-five years later the experimental technique was revived with the advent of modern instrumentation. The basis for quantification and its development as an analytical tool followed in the mid 1970s. Recent reviews can be found in the works by Joy, Maher and Silcox " Colliex and the excellent books by Raether and Egerton. ... 

Figure 1 Signals generated when the focussed electron beam interacts with a thin specimen in a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM).

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In electron-optical instruments, e.g. the scanning electron microscope (SEM), the electron-probe microanalyzer (EPMA), and the transmission electron microscope there is always a wealth of signals, caused by the interaction between the primary electrons and the target, which can be used for materials characterization via imaging, diffraction, and chemical analysis. The different interaction processes for an electron-transparent crystalline specimen inside a TEM are sketched in Eig. 2.31. 

This kind of estimation of the relative concentration is the most widely used method for quantitative EELS analysis. It is advantageous because the dependence on the primary electron current, Iq, is cancelled out this is not easily determined in a transmission electron microscope under suitable analytical conditions. Eurthermore, in comparison with other methods, e. g. Auger electron spectroscopy and energy-disper-... 

Transmission electron microscopes (TEM) with their variants (scanning transmission microscopes, analytical microscopes, high-resolution microscopes, high-voltage microscopes) are now crucial tools in the study of materials crystal defects of all kinds, radiation damage, ofif-stoichiometric compounds, features of atomic order, polyphase microstructures, stages in phase transformations, orientation relationships between phases, recrystallisation, local textures, compositions of phases... there is no end to the features that are today studied by TEM. Newbury and Williams (2000) have surveyed the place of the electron microscope as the materials characterisation tool of the millennium . 

Key Words—Carbon nanotubes, vapor-grown carbon fibers, high-resolution transmission electron microscope, graphite structure, nanotube growth mechanism, toroidal network. 

Fig. 6. Transmission electron microscope (TEM) image of MWCNT with the open end. The cap of the tube was removed using the purification process,...

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