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4D ELECTRON MICROSCOPY: IMAGING IN SPACE AND TIME
Author(s): Ahmed H. Zewail (Author), John M. Thomas (Author)
- Publisher: Imperial College Press
- Publication Date: January 30, 2010
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 341 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848164009
- ISBN-13: 9781848164000
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
This book, by leaders in femtosecond spectroscopy and solid-state chemistry, gives an exciting overview of the new field of time-resolved transmission electron microscopy ]] Despite the enormous challenges in this new field, this stimulating book from these authorities should be read by all graduate students about to choose a field of research. A bo -- Professor John Spence "Arizona State University, USA"
This is a unique and ground-breaking book. For the first time it includes the important time dimension in electron microscopy, revealing time-resolved electron micrographs and diffraction patterns on an almost unbelievably fast time scale. The book is written with great clarity and is lavishly illustrated with some stunning micrographs. -- Professor Colin Humphreys "Cambridge University, UK"
This is one of the most enlightening science textbooks I have ever read. The basic concepts behind 3D and 4D electron microscopy are presented in a concise and clear language, accompanied by figures of remarkable didactic content. This excellent textbook blends the qualities of an introductory with an in-depth account, and is bound to become a refe -- Professor Majed Chergui "EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland"
From the Back Cover
Whereas in all conventional EM methods, imaging, diffraction, and chemical analyses have been conducted in a static time-integrated manner, now it has become possible to unite the time domain with the spatial one, thereby creating four-dimensional (4D) electron microscopy. This advance is based on the fundamental concept of timed, coherent single-electron packets, or electron pulses, which are liberated with femtosecond durations. Structural phase transitions, mechanical deformations, and the embryonic stages of melting and crystallization are examples of phenomena that can now be imaged in unprecedented structural detail with high spatial resolution, and ten orders of magnitude as fast as hitherto.
No monograph in existence attempts to cover the revolutionary dimensions that EM in its various modes of operation nowadays makes possible. The authors of this book chart these developments, and also compare the merits of coherent electron waves with those of synchrotron radiation. They judge it prudent to recall some important basic procedural and theoretical aspects of imaging and diffraction so that the reader may better comprehend the significance of the new vistas and applications now afoot.
This book isnot a vade mecum numerous other texts are available for the practitioner for that purpose. It is instead an in-depth expose of the paradigm concepts and the developed techniques that can now be executed to gain new knowledge in the entire domain of biological and physical science, and in the four dimensions of space and time.
