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Lenses for Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis: Shadowgraph Method of Determining Focal Properties and Aberration

Rempfer1, Fyfield, Griffith

  • 1Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207

Microscopy and Microanalysis : the Official Journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada
|December 16, 1998
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