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Spatially Resolved EELS on Carbon-Based Nanostructures

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Nanostructured Carbon for Advanced Applications

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Abstract

An electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) experiment measures the energy distribution of a monochromatic electron beam which has been scattered by a target. It therefore corresponds to a transfer of energy E from the primary beam of energy E0 into the probed sample. Such an inelastic event reflects the dynamic response of the specimen. Depending on the nature of the target (gas, surface, thin film) and on the primary energy (from a few eV up to the MeV range), the investigated excitation spectrum covers a wide energy range from the meV to the keV (i.e. from the IR to the X-ray photon domain).

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  1. Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Université Paris-Sud, Bldg 505, 91405, Orsay, France

    C. Colliex

  2. Japan Science and Technology Corporation, ICORP “Nanotubulite” project, Meijo University, Nagoya, 468-8502, Japan

    K. Suenaga

  3. Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, Bldg 510, 91405, Orsay, France

    M. Kociak, O. Stephan & S. Trasobares

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Colliex, C., Kociak, M., Stephan, O., Suenaga, K., Trasobares, S. (2001). Spatially Resolved EELS on Carbon-Based Nanostructures. In: Benedek, G., Milani, P., Ralchenko, V.G. (eds) Nanostructured Carbon for Advanced Applications. NATO Science Series, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0858-7_11

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