Principles and Practice of Variable Pressure / Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (Vp-Esem)

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-06540-2
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 466 g

Reihe: RMS - Royal Microscopical Society

Von ausführlichen Literaturhinweisen über die technischen Voraussetzungen der Rasterelektronentunnelmikroskopie geht der Text zur Beschreibung der Objektvorbereitung über. Die Kapitel im Hauptteil behandeln das Thema aus jeweils verschiedenen Fachgebieten: Physik, Materialwissenschaft, Biowissenschaften, industrielle Produktion von Lebensmitteln oder Kosmetika. Auch interdisziplinäre Ansätze werden beleuchtet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stokes, Debbie

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Experimentalphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Mikroskopie, Spektroskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Chapter 1 -A brief historical overview

1.1 Scanning electron microscopy

1.2 The development of imaging in a gas environment

Chapter 2 -Principles of SEM

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Electron sources

2.3 Electron optics

2.4 Signals and detection

2.5 Practical aspects of electron beam irradiation

2.6 the sem in operation

 

Chapter 3 -General principles of VP-ESEM: utilising a gas

3.1 Introduction

3.2 VP-ESEM instrumentation

3.3 Signal generation in a gas

3.4 Imaging with water vapour 

 

Chapter 4 -Imaging and analysis in the VP-ESEM: the influence of a gas

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Background to theoretical calculations 

4.3 Which gas?

4.4 Exploring the gas path length

4.5 How much gas?

4.6 X-ray microanalysis in the VP-ESEM

 

Chapter 5 -Imaging uncoated specimens in the VP-ESEM

 5.1 Introduction

5.2 Electronic structure

5.3 Factors affecting secondary electron emission

5.4 The influence of the specimen on the system

5.5 Time- and temperature-dependent effects

5.6 imaging soft materials

5.7 Effects of ions on imaging

5.8 Imaging with a gas: summary

 

Chapter 6 -A lab in a chamber – in situ methods in VP-ESEM and other applications

 6.1 Introduction

6.2 Nanocharacterisation of insulating materials

6.3 In situ experiments

6.4 Other applications

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Debbie Stokes, Academic Visitor, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK and Director of MicroSci; Obtained her degree in polymers from Bristol University in 1994.
In 1996 moved to Cavendish laboratory to do her Ph D on use of environmental SEM with Professor Athene Donald.
In 1999 became Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow and a Junior Research Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, becoming a Senior Research Fellow in 2002.
Currently working at the Cavendish Laboratory funded by her consultancy business MicroSci.