Specimen Preparation for Transmission Electron Microscopy of Materials

1 The specimen: what we are trying to achieve -- 1.1 Thinking ahead -- 1.2 The ideal specimen -- 2 Initial preparation of sheet or disc -- 2.1 Cutting the slice -- 2.2 Preparing flat faces -- 2.3 Chemical thinning solutions -- 2.4 Making a disc -- 3 Final thinning -- 3.1 Electropolishing -- 3.2 Thinning a sheet: the window technique -- 3.3 Thinning a disc: the automatic jet polisher -- 3.4 Recipes for electropolishing -- 3.5 Ion beam thinning -- 3.6 Other final thinning techniques -- 3.7 Thinning specific regions of a sample -- 3.8 Thin foils from just beneath the surface -- 3.9 Cross-sections perpendicular to the original surface -- 4 Replicas -- 4.1 The role of the replica in modern microscopy -- 4.2 The extraction replica -- 5 Mounting and storing specimens -- 5.1 Grids -- 5.2 Disc specimens -- 5.3 Thinned foils -- 5.4 Support films -- 5.5 Specimen storage -- Appendix. Materials and suppliers -- References -- Index.

Biography

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Surrey.