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Principles of Electron Optics, Volume 3

Fundamental Wave Optics

  • 2nd Edition - February 18, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Peter W. Hawkes, Erwin Kasper
  • Language: English

Principles of Electron Optic: Volume Three: Wave Optics, discusses this essential topic in microscopy to help readers understand the propagation of electrons from the source to… Read more

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Principles of Electron Optic: Volume Three: Wave Optics, discusses this essential topic in microscopy to help readers understand the propagation of electrons from the source to the specimen, and through the latter (and from it) to the image plane of the instrument. In addition, it also explains interference phenomena, notably holography, and informal coherence theory. This third volume accompanies volumes one and two that cover new content on holography and interference, improved and new modes of image formation, aberration corrected imaging, simulation, and measurement, 3D-reconstruction, and more.

The study of such beams forms the subject of electron optics, which divides naturally into geometrical optics where effects due to wavelength are neglected, with wave optics considered.

Key features

  • Includes authoritative coverage of the fundamental theory behind electron beams
  • Describes the interaction of electrons with solids and the information that can be obtained from electron-beam techniques
  • Addresses recent, relevant research topics, including new content on holography and interference, new modes of image formation, 3D reconstruction and aberration corrected imaging, simulation and measurement

Readership

materials scientists and engineers, electronic engineers, applied physicists, electron microscopists

Table of contents

54. Introduction

Part XI – Wave Mechanics

55. The Schrödinger Equation

56. The Relativistic Wave Equation

57. The Eikonal Approximation

58. Paraxial Wave Optics

59. The General Theory of Electron Diffraction and Interference

60. Elementary Diffraction Patterns

Part XII, Electron Interference and Electron Holography

61. General Introduction

62. Interferometry

63. Holography

Part XIII, Theory of Image Formation

64. General Introduction

65. Fundamentals of Transfer Theory

66. The Theory of Bright-field Imaging.

67. Image Formation in the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope

68. Statistical Parameter Estimation Theory

Part XIV – Electron–specimen Interactions

69. Electron Interactions in Thin Specimens

Part XV – Digital Image Processing

70. Introduction

71. Acquisition, Sampling and Coding

72. Enhancement

73. Linear Restoration

74. Nonlinear Restoration – the Phase Problem

75. Three-dimensional Reconstruction

76. Image Analysis

77. Microscope Parameter Measurement and Instrument Control

Part XVI – Coherence, Brightness and Spectral Functions

78. Coherence and the Brightness Functions

79. Wigner Optics

PART XVII – Vortex Studies, the Quantum Electron Microscope

80. Orbital Angular Momentum, Vortex Beams and the Quantum Electron Microscope

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 21, 2022
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Peter W. Hawkes

Peter Hawkes obtained his M.A. and Ph.D (and later, Sc.D.) from the University of Cambridge, where he subsequently held Fellowships of Peterhouse and of Churchill College. From 1959 – 1975, he worked in the electron microscope section of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, after which he joined the CNRS Laboratory of Electron Optics in Toulouse, of which he was Director in 1987. He was Founder-President of the European Microscopy Society and is a Fellow of the Microscopy and Optical Societies of America. He is a member of the editorial boards of several microscopy journals and serial editor of Advances in Electron Optics.
Affiliations and expertise
Founder-President of the European Microscopy Society and Fellow, Microscopy and Optical Societies of America; member of the editorial boards of several microscopy journals and Serial Editor, Advances in Electron Optics, France

EK

Erwin Kasper

Erwin Kasper studied physics at the Universities of Münster and Tübingen (Germany), where he obtained his PhD in 1965 and the habilitation to teach physics in 1969. After scientific spells in the University of Tucson, Arizona (1966) and in Munich (1970), he resumed his research and teaching in the Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tübingen, where he was later appointed professor. He lectured on general physics and especially on electron optics. The subject of his research was theoretical electron optics and related numerical methods on which he published numerous papers. After his retirement in 1997, he published a book on numerical field calculation (2001).
Affiliations and expertise
Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

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