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J. Phys. IV France
Volume 03, Numéro C7, Novembre 1993
The 3rd European Conference on Advanced Materials and ProcessesTroisiéme Conférence Européenne sur les Matériaux et les Procédés Avancés |
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Page(s) | C7-2093 - C7-2096 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/jp4:19937333 |
Troisiéme Conférence Européenne sur les Matériaux et les Procédés Avancés
J. Phys. IV France 03 (1993) C7-2093-C7-2096
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:19937333
EELS in the TEM : nanometer resolution without a nanoprobe
P. SCHATTSCHNEIDER1, C. TISCHLER2 and H. BANGERT21 Laboratoire de Mécanique, Sols, Structures et Matériaux, Ecole Centrale Paris, 92295 Châtenay-Malabry, France
2 Institut für Angewandte und Technische Physik der Technischen Universität Wien, 1040 Wien, Austria
Abstract
With many TEMs, the resolution of electron energy loss spectrometry (EELS) is limited to ~ 100 nm since a finer probe cannot be positioned and maintained accurately enough for the long dwell times necessary. The alternative TEM image mode (i. e. projecting the area of interest onto the spectrometer aperture) suffers from the energy dependent chromatic blurring, limiting the resolution also to several 100 nm. Due to inevitable misalignment of post specimen lenses (PSLs), electrons that have suffered a characteristic loss will hit the screen at a different position than the elastically scattered ones, even when the chromatic blurring is compensated by objective lens defocus. We describe a correction method for both the chromatic blurring and the chromatic image shift. It is shown by example that quantitative EELS analysis can be done on a scale of better than 10 nm with spots of arbitrary size in regular TEM image-mode.
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