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Letter to the Editor: Image Formation in the High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2004

Michael A. O'Keefe
Michael A. O'Keefe
Affiliation:
Materials Sciences Division, LBNL 2-200, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, maok@LBL.gov
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A recent article in these pages compares STEM images with an image obtained with the One-Ångstrom Microscope (OÅM) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Although the experimental work is of excellent quality, Diebold et al. (2003) offer an incorrect explanation of the image formation process in the high-resolution transmission electron microscope. It is important that this misinterpretation be corrected before it comes to be accepted as factual by other scientists who are not expert in the field of high-resolution transmission electron microscopy.

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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 397 - 399
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© 2004 Microscopy Society of America

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