Industrials Applications of Electron Microscopy

Zhigang Li9780824708283, 0824708288

This reference details the instrumentation and underlying principles for utilization of electron microscopy in industry; discusses safety, calibration, and troubleshooting techniques; and describes methods of sample preparation and image collection, interpretation, and analysis. Early chapters deal with applications of electron microscopy in the manufacturing, automotive, semiconductor, photographic film, pharmaceutical, chemical, mineral, forensic, glass, and pulp and paper industries. Later chapters cover commonly used industrial materials, such as pigments and ceramics, and final chapters describe transmission electron microscopy and related techniques and discuss emerging techniques such as electron energy loss spectroscopy and electron crystallography. Contributors are microscopy experts from major corporations and scientists from universities and major research centers. Zhigang is a research physicist affiliated with DuPont Central Research and Development.