CHARACTERIZATION AND USE OF THE GATAN-666 PARALLEL-RECORDING ELECTRON ENERGY-LOSS SPECTROMETER

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作者
EGERTON, RF [1 ]
YANG, YY [1 ]
CHENG, SC [1 ]
机构
[1] SUNY STONY BROOK,DEPT MAT SCI,STONY BROOK,NY 11794
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/0304-3991(93)90098-I
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TH742 [显微镜];
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摘要
Measurements were made of the characteristics of the Gatan PEELS system, to evaluate how this parallel-recording spectrometer can be used to best advantage. An increase in sensitivity at higher signal level is attributable to the electronics and can be largely removed by a minor modification to the circuitry. The signal/noise ratio and DQE can be understood only if explicit allowance is made for the point-spread function of the detector. DQE is found to exceed 0.1 over a limited range of signal intensity. The stray-scattering background, response time of the detector and other spectrometer properties have also been measured.
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