Electron Microscopy

Lecturer(s)

H. Gross, F. Krumeich, K. Kunze, E. Müller Gubler, C. Solenthaler

Hour(s) of lecture(s), exercise(s) and credit points

2L
2E
4CP

Teaching goals

A comprehensive understanding of the interaction of electrons with condensed matter and details on the instrumentation and methods designed to use these probes in the structural and chemical analysis of various materials.

Summary and outline

This course provides a general introduction into electron microscopy of organic and inorganic materials. In the first part, the basics of transmission- and scanning electron microscopy are presented. The second part includes the most important aspects of specimen preparation, imaging and image processing. In the third part, recent applications in materials science, solid state physics, structural biology, structural geology and structural chemistry will be reported.

Literature

Williams, Carter: Transmission Electron Microscopy, Plenum Press, 1996

Hawkes, Valdrè: Biophysical Electron Microscopy, Academic Press, 1990

Frank: Electron Tomography, Plenum Press, 1992