Silver Filler Pre-embedding to Enhance Resolution and Contrast in Multidimensional SEM: A Nanoscale Imaging Study on Liver Tissue

Author(s):  
Gerald J. Shami ◽  
Delfine Cheng ◽  
Filip Braet
2019 ◽  
Vol 220 ◽  
pp. 01001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatoli Andreev ◽  
Andrey Savel’ev ◽  
Sergey Stremoukhov ◽  
Olga Shoutova

The process of high harmonic generation (HHG) has a wide area of different applications, in particular, in nanoscale imaging, study the nanoscale energy transport in complex molecules and solids, probe the charge and spin dynamics with the femtosecond time resolution, etc. Here we discuss a possible application of HHG effect related with the study of nuclear transition dynamics. We analyse the efficiency of excitation of the isomeric nuclear state 229mTh by the fifth harmonic of Ti: Sa laser generated in thorium by two-color femtosecond pulse consisting of the fundamental and thensecond harmonic of Ti: Sa laser (ω+2ω). It is shown that the rate of isomeric state excitation can be enhanced significantly with respect to other nucleus excitation processes in laser plasma or by an external coherent source at the resonance wavelength. This enhancement is due to the discussing process of “nonlinear laser nuclear excitation”.


Author(s):  
H.-J. Ou ◽  
J. M. Cowley

Using the dedicate VG-HB5 STEM microscope, the crystal structure of high Tc superconductor of YBa2Cu3O7-x has been studied via high resolution STEM (HRSTEM) imaging and nanobeam (∽3A) diffraction patterns. Figure 1(a) and 2(a) illustrate the HRSTEM image taken at 10' times magnification along [001] direction and [100] direction, respectively. In figure 1(a), a grain boundary with strong field contrast is seen between two crystal regions A and B. The grain boundary appears to be parallel to a (110) plane, although it is not possible to determine [100] and [001] axes as it is in other regions which contain twin planes [3]. Following the horizontal lattice lines, from left to right across the grain boundary, a lattice bending of ∽4° is noticed. Three extra lattice planes, indicated by arrows, were found to terminate at the grain boundary and form dislocations. It is believed that due to different chemical composition, such structure defects occur during crystal growth. No bending is observed along the vertical lattice lines.


2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A637-A637
Author(s):  
Y RINGEL ◽  
D DROSSMAN ◽  
T TURKINGTON ◽  
B BRADSHAW ◽  
R COLEMAN ◽  
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