scholarly journals Site-specific Lift Out Sample Preparation Technique for Atom Probe Analysis

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (S02) ◽  
pp. 1742-1743 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Lawrence ◽  
K Thompson ◽  
DJ Larson ◽  
B Gorman

Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 30 – August 3, 2005

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (S02) ◽  
pp. 1740-1741 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Lawrence ◽  
K Thompson ◽  
DJ Larson

Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, July 30 – August 3, 2006


2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1246-1247
Author(s):  
RL Martens ◽  
MG Thompson ◽  
GB Bersch ◽  
M Forseth ◽  
R Knutson

Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2008 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, August 3 – August 7, 2008


Author(s):  
Jayesh Bellare

Seeing is believing, but only after the sample preparation technique has received a systematic study and a full record is made of the treatment the sample gets.For microstructured liquids and suspensions, fast-freeze thermal fixation and cold-stage microscopy is perhaps the least artifact-laden technique. In the double-film specimen preparation technique, a layer of liquid sample is trapped between 100- and 400-mesh polymer (polyimide, PI) coated grids. Blotting against filter paper drains excess liquid and provides a thin specimen, which is fast-frozen by plunging into liquid nitrogen. This frozen sandwich (Fig. 1) is mounted in a cooling holder and viewed in TEM.Though extremely promising for visualization of liquid microstructures, this double-film technique suffers from a) ireproducibility and nonuniformity of sample thickness, b) low yield of imageable grid squares and c) nonuniform spatial distribution of particulates, which results in fewer being imaged.


1987 ◽  
Vol 48 (C6) ◽  
pp. C6-349-C6-354
Author(s):  
K. Hono ◽  
T. Sakurai ◽  
H. W. Pickering

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