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Transmission Electron Microscopy

Transmission electron microscopy is a very important tool in materials science for investigating the fine-scale structure of materials. This TLP serves as an introduction to the basic concepts and structure of the transmission electron microscope.

Aims
Before you start
Introduction
TEM structure
Illumination: Electron Source
Illumination: Condenser System
Image formation
Viewing images
Image resolution
Summary
Questions
Going further

Begin

Photo of TEM specimen holders

First created: November 2007. Updated and converted to HTML5 November 2020.