At each location where the electron beam strikes the sample, an electron signal is used to produce contrast in the CRT image. The process of tracing or sweeping the electron beam across the sample ...

Scientists carefully positioned lasers to compress billions of electrons together, creating a beam five times more powerful ...

Scientists have created an ultrashort electron beam with five times more peak current than any other similar beam on Earth. "Not only can we create such a powerful electron beam, but we're also ...

The electron beam follows a vertical path through the microscope ... Detectors collect these X-rays, backscattered electrons, and secondary electrons and convert them into a signal that is sent to a ...

Delft, The Netherlands / Hsinchu, Taiwan -- Ocotober 13, 2008 -- MAPPER Lithography and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) signed an agreement, according to which MAPPER will ship its ...

The beam is then scanned across the sample ... atoms dominate the signal. Figure 4: Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) as a probe of local electronic structure and composition.

This type of collection seems counter-intuitive, because signal electrons must travel up the column at the same time the electron beam is moving down towards the specimen. The specimen itself is ...