Energy-Filtered High-Resolution Electron Microscopy for Quantitative Solid State Structure Determination

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Wang, Z. L. (Zhong Lin)
Van Heerden, D.
Josell, D.
Shapiro, A. J.
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Energy-filtered (or selected) electron imaging is one of the future directions of highresolution electron microscopy (HREM). In this paper, the characteristics and applications of energy-selected electron imaging at high-resolution for structure determinations are illustrated. It is shown that image contrast can be dramatically improved with the use of an energy filter. High-resolution chemical-sensitive imaging using ionization-loss electrons is demonstrated in studies of Ni/Ti and Al/Ti multilayer thin films. It is also shown that the spatial resolution of energy-selected ionization edge electron images is dominated by the signal-to-noise ratio. Experimental parameters which may be selected to improve the signal-to-noise ratio are discussed.
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1997
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