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Progress In Design and Applications Of CCD Cameras For Electron Microscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2018

Kenneth H. Downing*
Affiliation:
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

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Over the last several years the long-awaited revolution in direct-digital readout systems has begun, with the introduction of efficient slow-scan CCD cameras. Earlier, the introduction of video cameras to electron microscopes had brought a quantum leap in the speed and efficiency of carrying out a host of operations. The high sensitivity of the video cameras provided the ability to see the image in much more detail and at a lower beam intensity than had been previously possible by viewing the fluorescent screen. The ability to assess, on line, characteristics such as specimen quality and image focus, even qualitatively, gave feedback to the operator that previously took hours to obtain. Due to the low resolution of these video systems, however, they were rarely useful for data recording.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1995

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