Field-ion microscopy
Abstract
This short article discusses the elements of a basic field ion microscope (FIM), the physics of the processes of field ionization and field evaporation, the factors limiting atomic resolution, the principle features of an atom probe FIM and imaging atom probe mass spectroscopy.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- March 1982
- Bibcode:
- 1982fim..book.....S
- Keywords:
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- Electric Fields;
- Ion Microscopes;
- Ionization;
- Mass Spectroscopy;
- Atoms;
- Electron Tunneling;
- Evaporation;
- High Resolution;
- Liquid Helium;
- Atomic and Molecular Physics