PERFORMANCE OF THE MULTIPLE EVENTS POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTOR USED IN THE TOMOGRAPHIC ATOM-PROBE

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作者
DECONIHOUT, B
BOSTEL, A
BOUET, M
SARRAU, JM
BAS, P
BLAVETTE, D
机构
[1] Laboratoire de Microscopie Ionique, URA CNRS 808, Université de Rouen, F-76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, Place Emile Blondel
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10.1016/0169-4332(94)00534-6
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
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070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The tomographic atom probe (TAP) is the first 3D atom probe based around the use of a parallel position encoding system. This contribution will be focused on the implementation and the study of the TAP position sensitive detector. In the first part, it will be shown why this detector necessarily has to be sensitive to simultaneous events and the detector principle will be described. Then performance and limitations of the TAP will be discussed and related to the detector performance itself. Critical points such as spatial resolution, mass resolution or detection efficiency will be quantified.
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页码:428 / 437
页数:10
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