Journal of Electron Microscopy Advance Access originally published online on April 5, 2006
Journal of Electron Microscopy 2006 55(1):27-30; doi:10.1093/jmicro/dfl006
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Cross-sectional image obtained from spherical aberration-free three-dimensional image intensity distribution in transmission electron microscopy
Department of Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: taya{at}atom.mls.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
Using a three-dimensional image intensity distribution obtained by spherical aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy, we studied a cross-sectional image (x-z image) of a gold crystal observed along the z-axis. In this x-z image, the bending of the interference fringes was observed in the edge region. We demonstrated that the bending is caused by a relative phase shift between the electron waves induced by dynamical electron scattering. By comparing with simulated images, the relative phase shift of about
/4 was proved to correspond to a difference in thickness of
0.9 nm.
Keywords Cross-sectional image, transmission electron microscopy, three-dimensional image intensity distribution, three-dimensional Fourier filtering method, spherical aberration correction, dynamical electron scattering effect
Received 13 October 2005, accepted 9 March 2006