Unconventional Electron Microscopy for Molecular Structure Determination (Advances in structure research by diffraction methods) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3528081171 ISBN 13: 9783528081171

Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1979

Synopsis

Generally it is not sufficiently appreciated that electron microscopy is in fact a diffraction method. In essential aspects electron microscopes are more closely related to X-ray diffracto· meters than to light microscopes. In electron microscopes monochromatized radiation and coherent illumination (never used in light microscopy) correspond in X-ray diffractometers to the primary beam with a small divergence. Imaging ina general sense can take place in interference experiments between a primary beam and a scattered beam, or between diffe­ rent deflected scattered beams. This leads to the realization of an old dream in diffracto­ metry, namely to a general experimental solution of the "phase problem". The most im­ pressive analogy, however, concerns the potential of the electron microscope as a tool for structure determination (where the radiation wavelenght is smaller than the atomic distan­ ces). It was therefore considered timely to treat this topic in this series. It was a fortunate cioncidence that in 1976 a Workshop on "Unconventional Electron Microscope Methods for the Investigation of Molecular Structures" (sponsored by the European Molecular Biology Organisation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Max-Planck-Gesell­ schaft) took place, and that most speakers presenting introductory lectures agreed to publish their contributions in an expanded version in this volume. This volume is thus not a symposium report in the usual sense since it contains the majority of these introductory lectures only.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3528081171
• ISBN 13: 9783528081171
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Hoppe W., Mason R.