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Preparation of TEM Specimens of Rubber Modified Polymeric Materials by Ultramicrotomy and OsO4 Staining

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2011

S. Yegnasubramanian
S. Yegnasubramanian*
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
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Abstract

This paper presents the specimen preparation approaches developed to image rubber(butadiene) - modified epoxy polymeric materials used in the microelectronics industry by TEM. The methodology is complicated by the fact that silica and calcium carbonate (>75 wt%) are used as filler materials while the rubber is used as a toughening agent in the samples investigated.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 199: Symposium W – Specimen Preparation for Transmission Electron Microscopy of Materials II , 1990 , 217
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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