Quantitative SEM/EDS, Step 1: What Constitutes a Sufficiently Flat Specimen?

D.E. Newbury; N.W. Ritchie

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Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2013 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, August 4 – August 8, 2013.

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