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Adjustment of a STEM instrument by use of shadow images

Cowley, 1979

Document ID
13109182542918214351
Author
Cowley J
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Ultramicroscopy

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The shadow image formed in a scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) instrument when no objective aperture is used may provide a convenient means for the alignment of the instrument column, for the correction of astigmatism, for focussing and for …
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