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    An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of electrons as a source of illumination. They use electron optics that are analogous to the glass...
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    electron microscope (SEM) is a type of electron microscope that produces images of a sample by scanning the surface with a focused beam of electrons....
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    direct electron detector. Transmission electron microscopes are capable of imaging at a significantly higher resolution than light microscopes, owing...
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    of microscopes are the fluorescence microscope, electron microscope (both the transmission electron microscope and the scanning electron microscope) and...
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    A scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) is a type of transmission electron microscope (TEM). Pronunciation is [stɛm] or [ɛsti:i:ɛm]. As with...
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    A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is a type of microscope used for imaging surfaces at the atomic level. Its development in 1981 earned its inventors...
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    environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) is a scanning electron microscope (SEM) that allows for the option of collecting electron micrographs of specimens...
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    taken from a scanning electron microscope. Close-up Digital microscope Macro photography Microphotograph Microscopy USB microscope "Papers of Richard Hill...
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    keV and the incident electrons pass entirely through the material sample. Usually this occurs in a transmission electron microscope (TEM), although some...
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    panels, electron microscopes, radiation therapy, lasers, gaseous ionization detectors, and particle accelerators. Interactions involving electrons with other...
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    electron microscope. The primary advantages to the electron microscope based technique is its spatial resolution. In a scanning electron microscope,...
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    showing the directions of electrons, electron diffraction also plays a major role in the contrast of images in electron microscopes. This article provides...
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    mostly obsolete since the advent of electron microscopes Tip-enhanced Raman microscope, is a variant of optical microscope based on tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy...
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    materials. It works similarly to a scanning electron microscope: the sample is bombarded with an electron beam, emitting x-rays at wavelengths characteristic...
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    Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope. Ernst Ruska was born in Heidelberg, Germany...
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    A fluorescence microscope is an optical microscope that uses fluorescence instead of, or in addition to, scattering, reflection, and attenuation or absorption...
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    High-resolution transmission electron microscopy is an imaging mode of specialized transmission electron microscopes that allows for direct imaging of...
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  • to a phosphor to detect the electron-optical image. The aberration corrected microscope PEEM-3 employs a curved electron mirror to counter the lowest...
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    of the tip by approximately 2.7 eV. In electron microscopes, a field emission gun is used to produce an electron beam that is smaller in diameter, more...
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    5-15 micrometers thick) which are mounted on a glass microscope slide. For transmission electron microscopy (TEM), a diamond or glass knife mounted in...
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    Focused ion beam (category Electron microscopy)
    instrument that resembles a scanning electron microscope (SEM). However, while the SEM uses a focused beam of electrons to image the sample in the chamber...
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  • field emission include the construction of bright electron sources for high-resolution electron microscopes or the discharge of induced charges from spacecraft...
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    microscopy (STM) and near-field scanning optical microscope (SNOM/NSOM), STED microscopy (STED), and scanning electron microscopy and electrochemical AFM, EC-AFM)...
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  • Two common types are the scanning electron microscope (SEM) and the transmission electron microscope (TEM). Electron beams impinging on metal produce X-rays...
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  • small as 0.1 micrometres. While electron microscopes are still a form of compound microscope, their use of electron beams to illuminate objects varies...
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    crystallographic structure of materials. EBSD is carried out in a scanning electron microscope equipped with an EBSD detector comprising at least a phosphorescent...
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    unscattered beam. For large scattering angles in a scanning transmission electron microscope, this is sometimes called Z-contrast imaging because of the enhanced...
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    Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to use electron microscope there. There he met Hugh Huxley and Hanson with whom he shared data...
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  • alternating current generators, among others were the electrostatic-lens electron microscope, carrier-current communications on power lines, a form of phased...
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    Precession electron diffraction (PED) is a specialized method to collect electron diffraction patterns in a transmission electron microscope (TEM). By...
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