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ETEM Issues and Opportunities for Dynamic In-situ Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Edward D. Boyes*
Affiliation:
DuPont Company, CR&D, Wilmington, DE, USA
Pratibha L. Gai
Affiliation:
DuPont Company, CR&D, Wilmington, DE, USA

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Many dynamic processes do not occur in nature, science or industry in a typical TEM high (and sometimes not so high) vacuum environment. Dynamic in-situ data related to the real world need to be obtained under Controlled conditions of gas/vapor/liquid environment and temperature. In the ETEM (Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope), the specimen - but nothing much else - is shared between the chemical reactor on the horizontal axis and the vertical microscope column (Fig.1). The original Philips CM30 column is highly modified with pressure limiting apertures around the beam and multiple stages of differential pumping (Fig.2).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2004

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