Principles and Practice of Variable Pressure
Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (VP-ESEM)
Published on 20. November 2008
234 pages
978-0-470-75874-8 (ISBN)
Description
* Offers a simple starting point to VPSEM, especially for newusers, technicians and students containing clear, conciseexplanations
* Crucially, the principles and applications outlined in thisbook are completely generic: i.e. applicable to all types of VPSEM,irrespective of manufacturer.
* Information presented will enable reader to turn principlesinto practice
* Published in association with the Royal Microscopical Society(RMS) -www.rms.org.uk
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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.
Content
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: utilisinga 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: theinfluence 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 theVP-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 methodsin VP-ESEM and other applications
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Nanocharacterisation of insulating materials
6.3 In situ experiments
6.4 Other applications
