Principles of Electron Optics: Wave Optics

by Peter W. Hawkes, Erwin Kasper

Overview

The three volumes in the PRINCIPLES OF ELECTRON OPTICS Series constitute the first comprehensive treatment of electron optics in over forty years. While Volumes 1 and 2 are devoted to geometrical optics, Volume 3 is concerned with wave optics and effects due to wave length. Subjects covered include:

Derivation of the laws of electron propagation from SchrUdinger's equation

Image formation and the notion of resolution

The interaction between specimens and electrons

Image processing

Electron holography and interference

Coherence, brightness, and the spectral function

Together, these works comprise a unique and informative treatment of the subject. Volume 3, like its predecessors, will provide readers with both a textbook and an invaluable reference source.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080984162
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	12/02/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	752
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About the Author

Peter Hawkes obtained his M.A. and Ph.D (and later, Sc.D.) from the University of Cambridge, where he subsequently held Fellowships of Peterhouse and of Churchill College. From 1959 – 1975, he worked in the electron microscope section of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, after which he joined the CNRS Laboratory of Electron Optics in Toulouse, of which he was Director in 1987. He was Founder-President of the European Microscopy Society and is a Fellow of the Microscopy and Optical Societies of America. He is a member of the editorial boards of several microscopy journals and serial editor of Advances in Electron Optics.
Erwin Kasper studied physics at the Universities of Münster and Tübingen (Germany), where he obtained his PhD in 1965 and the habilitation to teach physics in 1969. After scientific spells in the University of Tucson, Arizona (1966) and in Munich (1970), he resumed his research and teaching in the Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tübingen, where he was later appointed professor. He lectured on general physics and especially on electron optics. The subject of his research was theoretical electron optics and related numerical methods on which he published numerous papers. After his retirement in 1997, he published a book on numerical field calculation (2001).

Table of Contents

Wave Mechanics: The Schrodinger Equation. The Relativistic Wave Equation. The Eikonal Approximation. Paraxial Wave Optics. The General Theory of Electron Diffraction and Inference. Elementary Diffraction Patterns. Electron Interference and Electron Holography: Principles of Interferometry. Principles of Holography. Theory of Image Formation: Fundamentals of Transfer Theory. The Theory of Bright-field Imaging. Image Formation in the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope. Electron Interactions in Thin Specimens: Electron Interactions in Amorphous Specimens. Electron Interactions in Crystalline Specimens. Digital Image Processing: Acquisition, Sampling and Coding. Enhancement. Linear Restoration.Nonlinear Restoration. Three-dimensional Reconstruction. Image Analysis. Instrument Control and Instrumental Image Manipulation. Coherence, Brightness and Spectral Functions: Coherence and the Brightness Functions. Instrumental Aspects of Coherence.Appendix. Notes and References. Index.

Editorial Reviews

This volume and the second (see following entry) are two of a three- part textbook and source-book (v.3 is not yet published). The fundamentals are set out in detail for students seeking to master basic ideas or to begin the analysis of some class of systems not yet explored. Principal electron optical components are likewise dealt with in great detail. Where optical elements that are not quite so common are concerned, readers are directed to original articles and reviews or specialist texts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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