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Controlled Environment Transmission Electron Microscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

I. M. Robertson*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, 1304 W. Green St. Urbana IL 61801, ianr@uiuc.edu
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Abstract

The basic design features of a controlled environment transmission electron microscope and the details of the one at the University of Illinois are described. Examples of how this instrument has been used to determine fundamental mechanisms of hydrogen embrittlement in metals are presented.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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