Imágenes sub-angstrom directas de una red cristalina

P D Nellist1, M F Chisholm, N Dellby

  • 1Nion Company, 1102 8th Street, Kirkland, WA 98033, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 18, 2004
PubMed
Resumen

La microscopía electrónica de transmisión de barrido corregida por aberración (STEM, por sus siglas en inglés) supera los límites de resolución anteriores. Esta nueva técnica permite obtener imágenes de columnas atómicas separadas por menos de 0,1 nanómetros, lo que permite un análisis detallado de los defectos.

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