Author : Nobuo Tanaka
Release : 2014-09-06
Genre : SCIENCE
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 902/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy of Nanomaterials by : Nobuo Tanaka
Download or read book Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy of Nanomaterials written by Nobuo Tanaka. This book was released on 2014-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basics, present status and future prospects of high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) are described in the form of a textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. This volume covers recent achievements in the field of STEM obtained with advanced technologies such as spherical aberration correction, monochromator, high-sensitivity electron energy loss spectroscopy and the software of image mapping. The future prospects chapter also deals with z-slice imaging and confocal STEM for 3D analysis of nanostructured materials. Contents: Introduction (N Tanaka); Historical Survey of the Development of STEM Instruments (N Tanaka); Basic Knowledge of STEM: Basics of STEM (N Tanaka and K Saitoh); Application of STEM to Nanomaterials and Biological Specimens (N Shibata, S D Findlay, Y Ikuhara and N Tanaka); Theories of STEM Imaging: Theory for HAADF-STEM and Its Image Simulation (K Watanabe); Theory for Annular Bright Field STEM Imaging (S D Findlay, N Shibata and Y Ikuhara); Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy in STEM and Its Imaging (K Kimoto); Density Functional Theory for ELNES in STEM-EELS (T Mizoguchi); Advanced Methods in STEM: Aberration Correction in STEM (H Sawada); Secondary Electron Microscopy in STEM (H Inada and Y Zhu); Scanning Confocal Electron Microscopy (K Mitsuishi and M Takeguchi); Electron Tomography in STEM (N Tanaka); Electron Holography and Lorentz Electron Microscopy in STEM (N Tanaka); Recent Topics and Future Prospects in STEM (N Tanaka). Readership: Graduate students and researchers in the field of nanomaterials and nanostructures. Key Features: Most advanced; befitting beginning graduate students; Very convenient for advanced researchers who would like to use STEM and have a comprehensive understanding of the theory of image contrast and application details; Spans from the basic theory to the applications of STEM
