Radiation damage to organic and inorganic specimens in the TEM

RF Egerton - Micron, 2019 - Elsevier
Symptoms of radiation damage are reviewed, followed by a brief description of the three
main damage mechanisms: knock-on displacement (predominant in electrically conducting …

Radiolysis‐Driven Evolution of Gold Nanostructures–Model Verification by Scale Bridging In Situ Liquid‐Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy and X‐Ray …

B Fritsch, TS Zech, MP Bruns, A Körner… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Utilizing ionizing radiation for in situ studies in liquid media enables unique insights into
nanostructure formation dynamics. As radiolysis interferes with observations, kinetic …

Phase plates in the transmission electron microscope: operating principles and applications

M Malac, S Hettler, M Hayashida, E Kano… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we review the current state of phase plate imaging in a transmission electron
microscope. We focus especially on the hole-free phase plate design, also referred to as the …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of secondary electrons on radiolysis as observed by in liquid TEM: The role of window material and electrical bias

LA Bultema, R Bücker, EC Schulz, F Tellkamp… - Ultramicroscopy, 2022 - Elsevier
The effect of window material on electron beam induced phenomena in liquid phase
electron microscopy (LPEM) is an interesting yet under-explored subject. We have studied …

Ohmic Contact to Two-Dimensional Nanofabricated Silicon Structures with a Two-Probe Scanning Tunneling Microscope

J Onoda, A Khademi, RA Wolkow, J Pitters - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
We used multiprobe scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to fabricate and electrically
characterize nanostructures on Si surfaces. We overcame resistive contacts by using field …

Production of secondary electrons and photons and energy absorption mechanisms in amorphous carbon irradiated by photons in the energy range of 0.03 to 17.4 …

AG Kochur, AP Chaynikov, VA Yavna - Journal of Electron Spectroscopy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Energy absorption mechanisms in amorphous carbon under irradiation by 0.03–17.4 keV
photons is studied by Monte Carlo simulation with accounting for the cascade decays of …

[HTML][HTML] Electron-beam-induced charging of an Al2O3 nanotip studied using off-axis electron holography

F Zheng, M Beleggia, V Migunov, G Pozzi… - Ultramicroscopy, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrostatic charging of specimens during electron, photon or ion irradiation is a
complicated and poorly understood phenomenon, which can affect the acquisition and …

Investigation of hole-free phase plate performance in transmission electron microscopy under different operation conditions by experiments and simulations

R Pretzsch, M Dries, S Hettler, M Spiecker… - Advanced Structural and …, 2019 - Springer
Hole-free phase plates (HFPPs), also known as Volta phase plates, were already
demonstrated to be well suited for in-focus transmission electron microscopy imaging of …

Comparative image simulations for phase-plate transmission electron microscopy

S Hettler, R Arenal - Ultramicroscopy, 2021 - Elsevier
Numerous physical phase plates (PP) for phase-contrast enhancement in transmission
electron microscopy (TEM) have been proposed and studied with the hole-free or Volta PP …

Toward the quantitative the interpretation of hole-free phase plate images in a transmission electron microscope.

K Harada, M Malac, M Hayashida, K Niitsu, K Shimada… - Ultramicroscopy, 2020 - Elsevier
We present progress toward the quantitative interpretation of phase contrast images
obtained using a hole-free phase plate (HFPP) in a transmission electron microscope (TEM) …