Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Electron microscopy

Cutting the cost of high-resolution microscopy

Electron microscopy is a ubiquitous tool in the study of many materials, in particular those on the nanometre scale. A method of manipulating data from electron diffraction offers high-resolution imaging at an affordable price.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Figure 1: The differences between imaging and diffraction.

References

  1. Coene, W., Janssen, G., Op de Beeck, M. & Van Dyck, D. Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 3743–3746 (1992).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Lichte, H. Adv. Opt. Electron Microsc. 12, 25–91 (1991).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Milliane, R. P. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 7, 394–411 (1990).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Weierstall, U. et al. Ultramicroscopy 90, 171–195 (2002).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Wu, J. S., Weierstall, U., Spence, J. C. H. & Koch, C. T. Opt. Lett. 29, 2737–2739 (2004).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Wu, J. S. & Spence, J. C. H. Nature Mater. 4, 912–916 (2005)

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Van Aert, S., den Dekker, A. J. & Van Dyck, D. Micron 35, 425–429 (2004).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Dorset, D. L. Structural Electron Crystallography (Plenum, New York, 1995).

    Book  Google Scholar 

  9. Dorset, D. L., Rotha, W. J. & Gilmore, C. J. Acta Cryst. A 61, 516–527 (2005).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Haider, M., Uhlemann, S., Schwan, E., Kabius, B. & Urban, K. Nature 392, 768–769 (1998).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Kujawa, S., Freitag, B. & Hubert, D. Microsc. Today 13, 16–21 (2005).

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Koster, A., Zandbergen, H. Cutting the cost of high-resolution microscopy. Nature Mater 4, 885–886 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1546

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1546

Search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing