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'High Resolution' Is Often Sought in SEM Imaging, But Establishing Visibility May Be the Challenge: Always Ask "What Might I Be Missing?"

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Author(s)

Dale E. Newbury

Abstract

The visibility of objects in scanning electron microscope (SEM) images is limited by random noise in the signal, and a relation can be established between the contrast produced by an object relative to local background and the instrument parameters: electron detector efficiency; beam current, and pixel dwell time.
Citation
Microscopy and Microanalysis

Keywords

contrast, scanning electron microscope, threshold equation, visibility

Citation

Newbury, D. (2018), 'High Resolution' Is Often Sought in SEM Imaging, But Establishing Visibility May Be the Challenge: Always Ask "What Might I Be Missing?", Microscopy and Microanalysis (Accessed April 25, 2024)
Created August 1, 2018, Updated November 7, 2022