The Principles and Practice of Electron Microscopy - Softcover

Watt, Ian M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521389275 ISBN 13: 9780521389273

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Synopsis

This is first and foremost a book for the non-microscopist who, during the course of his work or studies, encounters the results of electron microscopy in technology, biology or medicine. However, it contains much that will interest the professional electron microscope user, not least the extensive bibliography and the detailed case histories. Carefully distilling the experience of twenty-five years, the author explains the operating principles and construction of the various members of the electron microscope family. An account is given of how specimens are prepared for examination and what the results look like. Appendices summarise the essential science and technology of vacuum systems, vacuum deposition of films, X-ray generation and analysis, and electron sources in microscopes. The text is very fully illustrated.

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Review

'... a tremendously readable account of modern electron microscopes and their capabilities, with excellent informative illustrations; its usefulness will not be confined to outsiders and newcomers.' Applied Optics

'... a useful addition to any general electron microscopy laboratory.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

'... a very useful handbook for anyone in solid state or materials science.' Philosophical Magazine

'... an exceptionally useful work ... there can be little doubt that the book will find its rightful place on the shelves of most students ands practitioners.' Micron and Microscopica Acta

'... a very readable book aimed at the novice with limited mathematical background, but it will also be useful to practitioners in one branch of electron microscopy who would like to know what other instruments and techniques can offer ... The text is easy to follow, the diagrams are simple, informative and clear, and the photographs are of high quality.' P. E. Champness Geological Magazine

' ... a most readable non-mathematical overview of the development of the various fields of electron microscopy. It is a volume well worth having on one's bookshelf.' Jaakko Keränen, Microscopy

'The principles and practice of electron microscopy provides a most readable non-mathematical overview of the development of the various fields of electron microscopy, suited also to a nonspecialist ... This book satisfies all the requirements for an introductory text. It is a volume well worth having on one's bookshelf.' Jaakko Keränen, Microscopy and Analysis

Book Description

The first edition of this indispensable guide to electron microscopy, written by an author with thirty years practical experience, proved to be invaluable to electron microscopists in many fields. This completely revised and up-to-date new edition contains expanded coverage of existing topics and much new material.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521389275
• ISBN 13: 9780521389273
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312