EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE ULTIMATE EELS SPATIAL-RESOLUTION

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MORY, C [1 ]
KOHL, H [1 ]
TENCE, M [1 ]
COLLIEX, C [1 ]
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[1] TH DARMSTADT,INST ANGEW PHYS,W-6100 DARMSTADT,GERMANY
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10.1016/0304-3991(91)90017-Z
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The spatial resolution of an inelastic scattering process, such as a core excitation, govems the ultimate spatial resolution of an EELS (electron energy loss spectroscopy) measurement. An experimental study of the attainable resolution has been made through a detailed analysis of the structure of energy-filtered images on a characteristic edge (uranium O45), as compared to the simultaneously recorded annular dark field images. When it has been possible to select specimen areas with a suitable random distribution of point objects (subnanometer uranium clusters), an upper limit of the degradation of the resolution is of the order of 0.3-0.4 nm for a 100 eV loss.
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