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On-Line Aberration Measurement and Correction in STEM
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 July 2020
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Aberration correction in electron microscopy is a subject with a 60 year history dating back to the fundamental work of Scherzer. There have been several partial successes, such as Deltrap's spherical aberration (Cs) corrector which nulled Cs over 30 years ago. However, the practical goal of attaining better resolution than the best uncorrected microscope operating at the same voltage remains to be fulfilled. Combining well-known electron-optical principles with stable electronics, versatile computer control, and software able to diagnose and correct aberrations on-line is at last bringing this goal within reach.
We are building a quadrupole-octupole Cs corrector with automated aberration diagnosis for a VG HB5 dedicated scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). A STEM with no spherical aberration will produce a smaller probe size with a given beam current than an uncorrected STEM, and a larger beam current in a given size probe.
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- Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 3 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '97, Microscopy Society of America 55th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 31st Annual Meeting, Histochemical Society 48th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, August 10-14, 1997 , August 1997 , pp. 1171 - 1172
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- Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997
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