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Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials

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  • © 2002

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  • Designed to meet the needs of materials scientists, including students, teachers and researchers
  • Can be used as both an introductory and advanced level graduate text
  • Chapters are sorted according to difficulty and grouped for use in quarter and semester courses
  • Problems for the student are appended to each chapter
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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We are delighted by the publication of this second edition by Springer-Verlag, now in its second printing. The first edition took over twelve years to com­ plete, but its favorable acceptance and quick sales prompted us to prepare the second edition in about two years. The new edition features many re-writings of explanations to improve clarity, ranging from substantial re-structuring to subtle re-wording. Explanations of modern techniques such as Z-contrast imaging have been updated, and errors in text and figures have been cor­ rected over the course of several critical re-readings. The on-line solutions manual has been updated too. The first edition arrived at a time of great international excitement in nanostructured materials and devices, and this excitement continues to grow. The second edition, with new examples and re-writing, shows better how nanostructures offer new opportunities for transmission electron microscopy and diffractometry of materials. Nevertheless, the topics and structure of the first edition remain intact. The aims and scope of the book remain the same, as do our teaching suggestions. We thank our physics editors Drs. Claus Ascheron and Angela Lahee, and our production editor Petra Treiber of Springer-Verlag for their help with both editions. Finally, we thank the National Science Foundation for support of our research efforts in microscopy and diffraction.

Reviews

"I can warmly recommend this book, which is attractively priced, as an excellent addition for any materials scientist or physicist who wants a good overview of current diffraction and imaging techniques."
(John Hutchison in Journal of Microscopy)
"I can recommend it as a valuable resource for anyone involved in a higher-level course on materials characterization."
(Ray Egerton in Micron)
"A wonderful book. A rare combination of depth, practical advice, and problems for every aspect of modern XRD, TEM, and EELS. No materials lab should be without it now that TEM/STEM has become such a crucial tool for nanoscience."
(John C. H. Spence, Arizona State University)
"I give a lecture course here on Advanced Electron Microscopy and will certainly be recommending this book for my course. It is a superb book."
(Colin Humphries, Cambridge University)
"This text offers the most complete pedagogical treatment of scattering theory available in a single source for graduate instruction in contemporary materials characterization. Its integration of photons and electrons, beam lines and electron microscopes, theory and practice, assists students with diverse scientific and technical backgrounds to understand the essence of diffraction, spectrometry and imaging. Highly recommended."
(Ronald Gronsky, University of California, Berkeley)

From the reviews of the second edition:

"Transmission Electron Microscopy and Diffractometry of Materials has only been out since 2001 … but so well has it sold that B. Fultz and J. Howe have already produced a revised edition, the revisions ‘ranging from substantial re-structuring to subtle rewording’. … I must insist that this text represents an enormous amount of work, it is densely filled, well-illustrated and carefully organized. It should be on a shelf in all electron microscopy laboratories … ." (Ultramicroscopy, Vol. 99, 2004)

"Thebook by Fultz and Howe, now in its second edition, is part of a programme of advanced texts covering topics of current and emerging interest in physics. … Each chapter is accompanied by several problems suitable for a written examination. The contents are very comprehensive … . My impression is that the book will serve as a useful reference work, as well as a core textbook for graduate students." (Professor L. M. Brown, Contemporary Physics, Vol. 44 (6), 2003)

"The main objective of the present book is teaching. … Each chapter concludes with a number of problems to be solved by students. Furthermore the appendix contains valuable information in the form of tables and graphs, and also practical hints for daily laboratory work, which might be useful for accreditation procedures. The book can be highly recommended … ." (W. Oesterle, Werkstoffe und Korrosion, Issue 9, 2003)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

    Brent Fultz

  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

    James M. Howe

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