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Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Imaging and Analysis

  • Provides the first comprehensive treatment of the physics and applications of this mainstream technique for imaging and analysis at the atomic level
  • Presents applications of STEM in condensed matter physics, materials science, catalysis, and nanoscience
  • Suitable for graduate students learning microscopy, researchers wishing to utilize STEM, as well as for specialists in other areas of microscopy
  • Edited and written by leading researchers and practitioners
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. A Scan Through the History of STEM

    • Stephen J. Pennycook
    Pages 1-90
  3. The Principles of STEM Imaging

    • Peter D. Nellist
    Pages 91-115
  4. The Electron Ronchigram

    • Andrew R. Lupini
    Pages 117-161
  5. Spatially Resolved EELS: The Spectrum-Imaging Technique and Its Applications

    • Mathieu Kociak, Odile Stéphan, Michael G. Walls, Marcel Tencé, Christian Colliex
    Pages 163-205
  6. Energy Loss Near-Edge Structures

    • Guillaume Radtke, Gianluigi A. Botton
    Pages 207-245
  7. Simulation and Interpretation of Images

    • Leslie J. Allen, Scott D. Findlay, Mark P. Oxley
    Pages 247-289
  8. STEM Tomography

    • Paul A. Midgley, Matthew Weyland
    Pages 353-392
  9. Scanning Electron Nanodiffraction and Diffraction Imaging

    • Jian -Min Zuo, Jing Tao
    Pages 393-427
  10. Applications of Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy to Complex Oxide Materials

    • Maria Varela, Jaume Gazquez, Timothy J. Pennycook, Cesar Magen, Mark P. Oxley, Stephen J. Pennycook
    Pages 429-466
  11. Application to Ceramic Interfaces

    • Yuichi Ikuhara, Naoya Shibata
    Pages 467-521
  12. Application to Semiconductors

    • James M. LeBeau, Dmitri O. Klenov, Susanne Stemmer
    Pages 523-536
  13. Structure of Quasicrystals

    • Eiji Abe
    Pages 583-614
  14. Atomic-Resolution STEM at Low Primary Energies

    • Ondrej L. Krivanek, Matthew F. Chisholm, Niklas Dellby, Matthew F. Murfitt
    Pages 615-658
  15. Low-Loss EELS in the STEM

    • Nigel D. Browning, Ilke Arslan, Rolf Erni, Bryan W. Reed
    Pages 659-688
  16. Variable Temperature Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy

    • Robert F. Klie, Weronika Walkosz, Guang Yang, Yuan Zhao
    Pages 689-723
  17. Fluctuation Microscopy in the STEM

    • Paul M. Voyles, Stephanie Bogle, John R. Abelson
    Pages 725-756
  18. Back Matter

    Pages 757-762

About this book

Scanning transmission electron microscopy has become a mainstream technique for imaging and analysis at atomic resolution and sensitivity, and the authors of this book are widely credited with bringing the field to its present popularity. Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy(STEM): Imaging and Analysis will provide a comprehensive explanation of the theory and practice of STEM from introductory to advanced levels, covering the instrument, image formation and scattering theory, and definition and measurement of resolution for both imaging and analysis. The authors will present examples of the use of combined imaging and spectroscopy for solving materials problems in a variety of fields, including condensed matter physics, materials science, catalysis, biology, and nanoscience. Therefore this will be a comprehensive reference for those working in applied fields wishing to use the technique, for graduate students learning microscopy for the first time, and for specialists in other fields of microscopy.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“To describe in 18 chapters the current status in a wide field, a dazzling list of no less than 44 distinguished authors has been assembled.  Fortunately, the role of the editors has continued well beyond the point of producing their own chapters to ensure that these different contributions are reasonably well integrated with a useful index….The editors’ assertion that the experiment of focusing a beam of electrons down to an atomic scale and measuring its scattering has spectacular outcomes is most abundantly proved here.”

--Archie Howie, Microscopy and Microanalysis

“The book opens with a magnificent 90-page history of STEM by S.J. Pennycook, which traces the story of the instrument from von Ardenne’s microscope of the late 1930s to such very recent innovations as the confocal mode of operation. … Very readable, lavishly illustrated and extremely thorough, this will remain a key publication on the history of the STEM.” (Ultramicroscopy, Vol. 116, 2012)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA

    Stephen J. Pennycook

  • , Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Peter D. Nellist

About the editors

Stephen J. Pennycook obtained his B.A. degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge, England, in 1975, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the same institution in 1978. He then continued at the University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory in postdoctoral positions until moving to the ORNL Solid State Division in 1982, where he is now the leader of the Electron Microscopy Group. His main research interest is the study of materials through the technique of Z-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). This technique provides a directly interpretable image of materials at the atomic scale, in which higher atomic numbers (Z) show brighter. It overcomes the phase problem associated with conventional electron microscopy and diffraction techniques by establishing incoherent imaging conditions, the electron equivalent of incoherent imaging in the optical microscope first described by Lord Rayleigh in 1895. Currently, the Solid State Division's 300-kV STEM produces the world's smallest electron probe, just 1.3 angstroms in diameter. The development of the Z-contrast technique has earned Dr. Pennycook an R&D 100 Award, the Heinrich Award from the Microbeam Analysis Society, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Award for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Sciences, and the Materials Research Society Medal. Recently, his research has focused on grain boundaries in ceramics, which resulted in a DOE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Metallurgy and Ceramics, as well as applications to optoelectronic materials, catalysts, and nanoparticles. Dr Peter D. Nellist's research centres on the applications and development of high-resolution electron microscope techniques, in particular scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), including atomic resolution Z-contrast imaging, electron energy-loss spectroscopy and applications of spherical aberration correctors. His technique development work includes methods for the three-dimensional imaging and spectroscopy of materials, and methods to allow high resolution imaging and spectroscopy of radiation sensitive materials. The aim is to use microscopy data in a quantitative way to make measurements of the atomic and electronic structure of materials.

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eBook USD 189.00
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Hardcover Book USD 249.99
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