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Energy-Filtered Electron Holography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Rodney A. Herring*
Affiliation:
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC Canada

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When electrons pass through a material, they can pass through without losing energy such as elastically scattered electrons or they can lose or gain energy by inelastically scattering with the material's electrons. The elastically scattered electrons have been used in the simulations of lattice images, which are used to help determine the atomic structure of materials. Inelastically scattered electrons were ignored in the simulations because it was believed that they did not have the required coherence to interfere with themselves and they contributed only to the background intensity. Recently though, a great deal of interest has been generated in knowing whether the inelastically scattered electrons can also contribute to the lattice images in order to help explain the Stobbs factor [1], where the contrast in the lattice images is often three or more times less than the theory predicts. The Stobbs factor makes it difficult, if not impossible, to establish quantitative values to high-resolution lattice images.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2005

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